Some of you may remember gromit, a simple X11 application that let you draw
squiggles over the screen -- useful for teaching, screencasting, etc. It had
some performance problems and our port had bitrotted sufficiently that it's
now in the attic [1]. AFAIK the only alternative we have in ports is
compiz's annotate tool, but that's not very useful if you don't want to use
compiz.

Attached is a port of x11/gromit-mpx which is a new program based on the
same ideas as gromit (see [2] for a random YouTube demo). It's simple to use
and, if you use a compositing window manager, has good performance.

gromit-mpx also requires two new ports: devel/libappindicator and
devel/libindicator. Brian Callahan had previously added these two libraries
to openbsd-wip: I've updated these to new ports conventions, moved them over
to gtk+3 and, at Brian's request, taken on maintainership. Any mistakes are
mine, not Brian's!


Laurie

[1] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/x11/gromit/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmbxI0KvhI&feature=youtu.be&t=39

Attachment: gromit-mpx.tgz
Description: application/tar-gz

Attachment: libappindicator.tgz
Description: application/tar-gz

Attachment: libindicator.tgz
Description: application/tar-gz

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