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 The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0. According to its developers, the goal of the RC1 release is to determine whether the code 'measures up' to the standards for a 2.0 release, but also say the final 2.0 ...
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| Only the KDE Summer of Code admins still have a huge task before them -- making the final selection for KDE of the summer of code projects.
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| On April 1st and 2nd a delegation from Amarok visited OpenExpo in Berne , together with our FOSS homies from KDE and Kubuntu.
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My mother is an artist(A painter, see website). Since me and my brother have to administrate her computer, and she’s using Windows XP, we always have to deal with all kinds of problematic implications that come from this. Linux is a lot better suitable for remote administration
, and since she’s already using Thunderbird and Firefox, one should think that this isn’t such a hard switch. So we tried it, and we nearly got her go crazy. Because she was using Windows Explorer before to manage her pictures, she has accumulated a really strange structure for them: Hundrets of folders, each with between 5 and 50 pictures, and all in a flat tree, and all badly named. There is only one way of keeping at least a minimum level of overview in this mess: By recognizing the content of the folders using folder previews. Although this isn’t such a complicated thing, there seems to be no linux file manager that has this feature, until now. I’ve implemented this feature within the KDE preview generator, ...read more...
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| Software returning to the market with a new version, backed by an Indian firm. In addition, the source article claimed GoBE Software was closing a deal on buying the BeOS operating system from what can only be Access.
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| You know it’s spring when travels to Berne, Switzerland, hit you again. Regardless of the weather of course. Although this time, it did feel like spring over there and on the day I left for Oslo again, it was really warm, too warm actually for my thick woolen jacket. On the other hand, the jacket was more than needed on my walk from the bus stop to my apartment in Oslo. Ah well, back to the subject… After my disastrous train trip South, in Bern itself all went rather smoothly. The hotel was easy to find and I fell into the bed right away. On Wednesday morning, we quickly set up our booth at the OpenExpo and started the day with strong coffee and Gipfeli (a.k.a. Croissants in the rest of the world). There was some confusion with the original hall layout but after some reshuffling, everybody was happy. ![]( "Alexandra Leisse (troubalex): OpenExpo revisited") ...read more...
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| This Sunday I went to OLPC Pune meet to give a talk on activity development. The students seem be very enthusiastic. The talk lasted for around 2 hours. Photos can be found here. On the other side, I was looking for a photo catalogue software which can catalogue my photos on DVD or any other removable media, it should also allow me to search them based on EXIF data and tags and should show thumbnail(s) in the result.
I generally use digikam and gthumb too manage and view the photos. In digikam I never being properly able to catalogue photos on DVD (never tried on the last few updates) and gthumb is too slow in showing the thumbnail or full screen views for the large size photos I take. I prefer gthumb over over digikam to view the photos due to the simpler UI. Finally decided to write my own app for this, which will *not* have any editing features, Gimp is the tool I ...read more...
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| There are still five days left to submit a proposal for a presentation at Akademy 2009. The deadline is on Friday, April 10th. Akademy happens as part of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit this year. See more details about what we are looking for in the call for presentations. Akademy is the prime occasion for meeting the community, and present and discuss your ideas. Lots of great initiatives were kick-started at Akademy. Don't miss out on this opportunity and submit your proposal now! Personally I'm particularly interested three kinds of presentations: - First I would like to see presentations about the beauty of KDE. KDE 4 shines, and I would love to meet the people who make it shine at Akademy, and hear how they did it, and what we can expect in the future. That's not only limited to beautiful graphics. Elegant code, organic user interfaces, beautiful APIs, engines which enable a beautiful desktop, fluffy-bunny themed Chuck Norris, all this falls under this category.
- Second I would like to hear about projects ...read more...
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At last year's Akademy, we did some work on a layout for a Plasma interface for netbooks on the whiteboard and started putting together some code for it. It then went quiet and pretty much died: we focused 4.2 development on the idea of "traditional desktop usage parity", there were no SoC projects around the concept to help push it forward and nobody else in KDE really seemed to care enough about the concept of "things that aren't large screened, mouse driven devices" to give the effort any support.
A few weeks back we ended up talking about the state of this interface and I note that, with all honesty, I really don't have the resources to push it forward while keeping libplasma, plasma-desktop, the Plasma plugins, my other responsibilities in the KDE codebase and KDE e.V. all moving as well. Bille suggested I appoint a lieutenant or two to take it on and be the obsessive-compulsive maintainers of it. Knowing a great idea when I hear one, Artur and Marco were quickly deputized.
The topic came up ...read more...
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I’m the type of guy who goes distro-shopping every now and then, but usually ends up with the distro I came from. I’ve been using kubuntu since hoary (5.04) and have been quite pleased. However, last year with KDE 4, I’ve grown a bit frustrated with kubuntu. Packaging has certainly been improved over the course of last year, but still there are quite some little problems I encounter now and then and somehow it’s starting to feel more and more draining on my systems resources. Plus I’m starting to dislike the 6 month release cycle, and rather always stay up to date.
I’ve tried a number of different distros but I’ve never really encountered my ‘dream distro’. There were always some things I didn’t like: slow package manager, hard to use package manager, capable of breaking my system package manager, bloat, wrong choice of packages, broken multimedia stack, too different from debian without good documentation so I couldn’t get used to it… you get the idea…
And then, two days ago I suddenly came across ...read more...
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Well, Monday, actually. But today we happen to be off on #kde-bugs and having fun triaging. Our stats from Saturday:
We've gone through 150 bugs or so
lyteyn is one of our brand new people, and several other newbies have poked in and helped or asked for help (they should all come back today ;)
We have 8 people who have signed in.
So happy birthday us! We're still going on for Sunday, so drop by.And have some virtual cake.
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Wow, three blogs in a row about that weather wallpaper. I suppose that this is better than me going for a few months without blogging at all, though. :P
So, what's new on the weather wallpaper front? I ported the wallpaper over to KDE 4.3 so that I could take advantage of several improvements that Aaron made to the Plasma::Wallpaper API. The benefits are mainly less code duplication. (Read more here)
I also implemented a fade transition for when the weather/wallpaper gets updated. It looks pretty nice. :-) (Yes, the code was shamelessly stolen from the default wallpaper. :P)
I've also released this wallpaper on KDE-look and have made K/Ubuntu packages for all of you running KDE 4.2 here.
You'll need kdebase-workspace-wallpapers and kdewallpapers installed for full effect. I know that KPackageKit and GDebi-KDE should resolve the dependencies when installing a debian package not downloaded via apt, but I know dpkg won't resolve the dependencies automagically.
The only issues left are the "second location configuration" bug and the NOAA limitation. ...read more...
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| This weekend has brought me to the wonderful city of Berlin (wonderful in terms of having the baroque alternative charm that makes Kreuzberg so special). I'm here for the Akonadi meeting, which is all about personal information store for the Free Desktop. Together with about 15 other people, the time from Friday until Sunday we're trying to advance Akonadi to the next level. I'm mainly here because I was brave (stupid!?) enough to start writing an email plasmoid after being infected by Till (who also turns older today) with the Akonadi virus. During development of Lion Mail, I've gotten a pretty good idea of what Akonadi does really well (make it easy to use PIM data in your application), and what's lacking at this point (searching and sorting being my main wishes). Yesterday, I presented Lion Mail to the PIM crowd, showed some new concepts I'm trying to implement using it, and also showing some of the Social Desktop Plasma stuff I've been working on in the last weeks. Immediately after my demo, the discussion how ...read more...
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On my running system, from a fresh log in, KDE reveals 1268876 K memory usage in GNOME vs. 1279348 K memory usage in KDE 4. That is a change of 10472 K. Granted, this is not a huge difference.
This was taken from an article which I won't bother linking to. It doesn't need anymore traffic. I just thought I point something out as it's Saturday, I'm bored and I had a long day in the lab yesterday and need to vent and for some reason the previous quote from an article which shall remain nameless just annoyed me.
Perhaps I woke up cranky. *ahem* You see boys and girls, whenever we make comparisons it is important to take into consideration, or provide for your audience so they they may take into consideration, extra information which may be pertinent. For argument's sake, let us call this extra information context.
For example, when making comparison between the size of an Amarok installer, and an iTunes installer on the OS X operating system one might mention the size of both ...read more...
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| Any discussion about GNOME vs. KDE is sure to end in tears. It's basically impossible to discuss which of these two Free desktop environments is better than the other, mostly because they cater to different types of people, with different needs and expectatotions.
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| I've just committed all of KDE 4.2.2 to Fink Unstable. There's still a lot of rough edges, but it's definitely at least beta quality, and a lot of apps work great. It includes a number of fixes, including updated scripts to register all of the desktop files properly with ksycocoa on post-install, case-sensitive filesystem fixes, and a number of other packaging fixes. I've also finished packaging all of the "core" KDE distribution. I've got Amarok working in my experimental tree, I just need to do a little more testing before I can release it (It's based on a snapshot of what will become Amarok 2.1.0, since 2.0.x has some build issues on Mac OS X that are difficult to resolve). Also, the KOffice folks just put out a release candidate that I'm working on finishing up packaging on. Hopefully I will have that out soon. As always, please let me know if you run into issues. I've test-built on 10.5/i386 and 10.4/ppc so I'm ...read more...
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Continuing with the spamming of nearly all communication channel that are available to me (no I am not going out in the street to shoot that information). With the soon to come release of KOffice 2.0, we have the need to start organizing the user community. We have started to fill some content to userbase, including experimenting with editing the handbooks on a wiki, starting with kword's manual (we need help for this, so if you are bored, and want to contribute something, well come and help with that effort). And today, the admin have open a KOffice sub-forum on KDE's forum !
So if you have a question about KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kexi, Kivio, Krita, Karbon, KChart and KFormula go ask to KOffice forum.
So if you know the answer to a question about KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kexi, Kivio, Krita, Karbon, KChart and KFormula go follow KOffice forum and hope someone will ask a question you can answer. ...read more...
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| Are you a student at University? Have you used KDE, GNOME, or some open source desktop technology in a student or research project? Are you interested in sharing your work with the open source community? Consider turning that term paper into a technical paper and submit it to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit! So much open source work done by University students never reaches the open source projects they focus on. The GCDS is a great opportunity for students to publish their work to the open source community and also meet all of the super star developers responsible for those great desktop technologies. The Call for Presentations ends April 10th so get your submissions in to akademy-talks at kde dot org soon! You simply need to provide an abstract and an intent to submit a technical paper by this date. Full-text of accepted papers are due June 8.
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| This week, at work, we released the 1.0 stable version of the Hyves Desktop, with source available (for almost everything but the photo uploader and editor plugin, more's the pity), and also the iPhone app, a java phone app and a firefox toolbar. It's nice to work for a company that actually ships! KOffice 2.0 RC1 got tagged. There's a nasty file handling bug in Krita that we haven't been able to pin down, so we might need another RC, though. Or it might be an lcms issue. But getting here has been an enormous relief. KOffice 2.0 won't replace KOffice 1.6 or OpenOffice as a stable workhorse, but it is a release that really allows us to build on. Update: : yes, it is an lcms issue -- 1.17 got a security patch last week which broke Krita. 1.18 is fine. And then there's KDE 4.2.2 -- I'm using it with Qt 4.5, and it's pretty stable, except for some KRunner quirkiness, where urls get autocompleted but without hits, so ...read more...
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| We're really in a KDE/GNOME mood today, it would seem. The KDE team has released the second maintenance release for the KDE 4.2 series, KDE 4.2.2 . The three biggest improvements in this release are stability fixes in KRunner, performance enhancements in KMail, and bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML.
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We have a number of new Plasma components lining up to make it into 4.3. Not least among them is a geolocation DataEngine, making it absolutely trivial for anything Plasma to get at the information either via a GPS device or by looking up the location of your network address if you are online. Along with a handful of new widgets, some I've already written about recently, we also have no less than six new wallpaper plugins that may make it into 4.3!
They range from the trivial-but-was-in-KDE3 pattern based wallpaper plugin to Jonathan's weather wallpaper which automatically changes the wallpaper to reflect the weather. It of course uses the weather DataEngine, allowing Jonathan to concentrate on the business of making a neat wallpaper concept come to life.
To support his efforts, I added DataEngine support to the Wallpaper class so that using DataEngines is as easy from a Wallpaper as it is from a Plasmoid. Feeling I was on a Wallpaper role, I made a few other additions to the Wallpaper support:
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A friendly reminder: you have just under 24 hours to get your applications updated (if you are a student...you've already submitted it, right?) or to get students to update their applications (if you are a mentor). Applications that arrive before the deadline will not be penalized (and applications that arrive afterwards won't be accepted at all) so it's not too late to get your SoC on...
Continue reading "GSoC 2009: Last chance for student applications"
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| It was 2 years ago when we started working in KDE 4 packages, and exactly 20 months ago when we started uploading KDE 4.0.0 beta 1 to experimental. Finally, we are working in packages that are targeted to unstable o/. As announced in the users mailing list, we will be uploading KDE 4.2.2 to unstable in the next days, so look carefully at what you update :) We have worked very hard in providing a smooth upgrade, but given the change is so big, some new (little!) problems will be discovered. One of the most problematic points is we were using .kde4 to store user data and settings of KDE 4 and now it is time to switch back to the default .kde. There are several possible migration cases here and for allow users select the case they prefer, a migration wizard tool named Kaboom has been created inside the Debian KDE team. Be aware that there will be some inconsistencies in unstable ...read more...
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Finally, Jason’s Sky Calendar tool gets some (not all) labels! KStars 1.5.0 was released without these labels in place, so a user running the Sky Calendar would just see a whole bunch of coloured lines, making no sense; but that’s no longer the case. Here’s a screenshot of what the Sky Calendar looks like now:  I also changed the font from Courier New to Monospace, because I didn’t like the former much. There are quite a few problems with the Sky Calendar left as yet - for instance, it breaks down at high latitudes - or outputs far too many labels. Besides, some lines (particularly the ones at the corners) are not labelled because the labelling condition isn’t foolproof. Any help with improving this tool is most welcome     ![]( "Akarsh Simha (kstar): Sky Calendar labelled at last!") ...read more...
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KDE Brainstorm is great, when I was a little bored of fixing bugs and started feeling tired of the same code all the time, seeing peoples ideas once again brought me back to the coding mood. What they suggested this time was a menu where you can drag an archive file, and have “Extract here” pop up in the menu at the destination where the file is dropped. Looking at dolphin/libkonq code I saw that there was a TODO for actually bringing this kind of functionality back (remember dropping an image file on the desktop and getting “set as wallpaper”?) So I dived in and started hacking on a new plugin architecture for adding this kind of popups. At this point the code has not been polished and is not ready for commiting yet, but it will be in a few days I think. Screenshot: 
For anyone that want to extend their application with an item like this, now is the time to act to get it ready ...read more...
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During the last weekend I wanted to have some fun with QJson. So I came out with this idea: retrieve from last.fm the tour dates of my favourite artists and display the locations using Marble.
After some hacking I created this small application: rockmarble…
If you have a last.fm account rockmarble will import your favourite artist list. [...]
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So after I used my ub3r 1337 haxX0rz skillz to code eyecandy that will make everybody's Plasma crash even if they aren't using it, I decided to code something a tad bit more important.
I plan to make this code available to the masses infect all of y'all's computers soon, but here's a screenshot:
It basically detects whether a Democrat or Republican is in office, and displays that wallpaper even if a Democrat isn't if office. It displays that picture all the time, because that's just how I roll. This will become the default wallpaper plugin for KDE 4.3, and for every KDE 4.x release that Obama's in office. (Which will probably be forever)
Actually to tell you the truth, I'm a just bit late with April fools. (Plus I don't really care much for either Republicans or Democrats to tell you the truth :P) I wish my President, President Obama, ...read more...
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