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 Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Nov 2005 17:51 UTC, submitted by AdriAn Avila Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false.
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| "Red: Thanks, Ken. The energy in this place is truly amazing! These two industry giants intend to settle the score once and for all, and only one can hold the title of Universal Linux Window Manager.
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 Hi everyone,
we've noticed that there are just few people who are using our knowledge base/help feature. Many don't even know that we have implemented this feature. A short reminder: every application on openDesktop.org network e.g. kde-apps.org or KDE-look.org can have its own small user generated FAQ. If you have a question or a problem with an application you can post your question together with a description and up to three screenshots. Other can help you with the problem via comments or share tips. And if you found the solutions you can add the answer to your question and mark the problem as solved. The owner of the application has full edit and delete right to the FAQ entries for his application.
Over the time, we hope to build a small user FAQ for every application.
We thought that a lot of people don't associate a knowledge base with our “help” feature. So we decided to rename the ...read more...
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| Topics: Personal, FOSS, KDE Another month has passed without a blog post. My new year’s resolution is an epic fail. Luckily, the rest of my life didn’t follow suit. Since I’m trying not to beat around the bush, I’ll get straight to the point. This post will be all about Yakuake, specifically the cool new features you’ll be seeing in the next release. First up is moving/rearranging tabs using drag and drop. Click and hold on a tab with the left mouse button (or right mouse button, if you’ve reversed them) and drag and drop to the desired location. Drop indicators will appear on the tab bar, indicating where you’re allowed to drop a tab. People using tabs in Konsole might be familiar with this behavior. 
You can now prevent tabs (formally called “Sessions” in Yakuake) from being closed. You can do this through the tab’s context menu (right-click on the tab name) and setting the “Prevent Closing” option. If you try to close that tab, you will ...read more...
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| I've seen superlative after superlative concerning the release of Firefox 3.0 , and in all honesty, it is making my stomach ache.
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| There will be some new weather providers coming soon. I am currently working on adding a Netherlands source (current conditions only provided free). Someone is working on a German source and I plan on adding 7 day forecast info to the NOAA provider hopefully soon. Just be aware, I do read what's out there from googleland and yes we do need more weather providers for you folks complaining 
As for using Marble, I'd like to, as NOAA provides .kml files which would make radar display very nice to have. But I'm only one person you know, help me out and things happen faster! Thanks to aseigo, we have Solid Network awareness support for the dataengine. Thanks to Petri Damst
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| Userbase is the wiki for application user information. It fills in a vital gap of information between traditional documentation and the usually too technical developer chatter. For at least KOffice it’s still in need of help, though. We want more tutorials for starters.
People like Anne Wilson have put a tremendous amount of work into userbase and I’m especially happy with the work on KWord she did. Userbase is for and by users, though. So we need help. Tutorials are in my experience the best way to get a new user starting with the application, get them over the initial threshhold if you may. Its also the easiest way to teach that new useful feature you like to others that may want to use it too. Spread the joy kind of way.
With the Release Candidate of KOffice2.0 out I want to call users everywhere to install the packages from their distro and play around with it. When they find something that they think is a “gotcha”, write about it. Put up ...read more...
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| My mobile phone recently stopped working, I handed it in for repair under warrenty. They fixed it, and flashed it with new firmware, removing all my settings and most importantly, my phone book. So, dear all of you, please send me a text message with your name if you think you should be in my phone book. And if anyone has any good backup strategies for phonebook and such of a nokia E71 for linux users, please use the comment field, preferably some thing nice clickyclicky thing that uses Qt4 or kdelibs of KDE 4
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| One of the most anticipated presentations at this year's KDE World Summit, better known as aKademy , was Zack Rusin's intriguing 'Beauty and Magic for KDE developers'. Zack is a long-time KDE developer who has recently been hired to work full time at Trolltech.
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| I've read various stories about how people are having problems with the KDE4 compositing effects.
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When desktop effects are enabled, extenders "roll up" and "roll back out" instead of just suddenly appearing and disappearing. This goes along with the idea of "organic interfaces" where things shouldn't exhibit magical behaviors: if you saw someone disappear into thing air in front of you .. well .. they'd either be an illusionist playing games with you or else Bilbo Baggins mucking about with his magic ring. It certainly wouldn't feel "normal" though, because that's not how thing behave according to our accumulated sensory experiences.
It doesn't work with QWidget based popups yet though there's no reason it couldn't; Plasma::Dialog just doesn't have the logic for it yet. That means that things like kickoff or the device notifie still behave a bit magically.
I'm pretty sure that when we do extend it to all "things that come out of an edge docked panel" that we'll need to make it configurable (though it turns off automatically when animations are cut in plasma as a whole or when there is no compositer around) since some people will likely absolutely ...read more...
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| Well not that big of a decision, but I have started today to work on the small icons for kmix (bit tired of the timevault pixel pushing). I ah been putting this ones off my to do list cause they are way more difficult than what they seam to be. 22x22 icons are a pain to make even more than 16x16.....
So I have a design I'm mostly happy with for the master Chanel but I cant make up my mind on what works best of a series of versions made, so what do you think 1 2 3 or 4.... how does it look in your screen?
 My personal preference goes for 2 but... Not sure.... so I thought what a good opportunity to listen "read" our users. |
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Image by Benjamin Kirschner, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
When the FSFE launched their fellowship back in 2005, I joined to be a fellow almost immediately. I have always been a strong supporter of Free Software and the FSFE is doing a great job in Europe with far less money than the FSF, who is working mainly in the US. This is not an easy task, with so many different countries and legal systems and languages, but they have managed to build up a great network.
I sometimes meet people who ask about what the FSFE is doing precisely and I wonder if they have been living under a rock: preventing software patents, advising the EU in various society issues, building up the Freedom ...read more...
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Sat. March 28th LinuxInfoTag took place in Augsburg (in the south of Germany). Round 250 interested people were visiting the booths of KDE, Debian, and many many more Open Source Projects and could discuss with members of the communities or listen to 20 talks. This was not only my first official event promoting KDE I also had the chance to do my first talk introducing KDE 4.2. (Talking about first times: this is my first post on planet.kde.org (thanks to Jonathan Riddell): Hello Planet!)
It was a great pleasure and honor to present KDE 4.2 together with Lydia, Eckhart and Frederik! Thanks for the fun and thanks to everyone who contributed to KDE (otherwise I had nothing to present).
Apart from a small number of comments the ...read more...
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Something in KDE r. r951943 confuses svnsync. Both in subversion 1.5.5 and 1.6.0, so there's something very odd going on with libneon's replay.c. I (or Martin) still need to file a bug report about it, but more important for me was figuring out how to get around the sync problem. And I did, although it took a few days of downloading and experimenting. The error message is: svnsync: Got unexpected element svn::close-directory
Here's what I did:
- rsync to a new repo from KDE's rsync server repeatedly until the rsync'ed repository seemed pretty stable. I think that next time it'd be convenient to schedule the last rsync at 4am GMT so that the flux in the KDE repo is low.
- rsync one more time, noting any revs/ or revprops/ files that are changed.
- Use svn info to see if the rsync'ed repo is now consistent -- if it's not, it will typically print something like svn: No such revision 954115.
- Using creativity, think up which revs/ or revprops/ files are missing up to the revision reported by svn ...read more...
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| I'm trying to write an Android game, but I've been rather addicted to playing KNetWalk, which is slowing me down somewhat. I'm getting fast at KNetWalk though - I just did the Very Hard level in 59 seconds without any penalties. I think I might give up now, although I reckon I could probably do it in 50 seconds if I was very lucky.
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Today we released Eigen 2.0.1 with a nice amount of fixes. Speaking of which, Eigen will see much more usage in KDE 4.3.
First, Gael ported Step to use Eigen, making it easier to build by removing the dependency on GMM++.
Then, I just submitted the Mandelbrot Plasma Wallpaper plugin to kdereview. This allows you to navigate through the Mandelbrot set as a 'live' wallpaper, and you can also 'lock' the view so it behaves like a plain wallpaper. It uses Eigen to emit SIMD instructions in a portable way -- or none at all if they are not available. On the x86 platform where SSE2 may or may not be available, we compile both paths and choose between them at runtime using the excellent Solid library. Perhaps the best part is that the source code is only 840 lines of C++, and the stripped binary size is only 68 kB on x86, all ...read more...
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| Oxygen Rocks! (Judging by the poll I have down there), but most of all cause of the people we have on board.
Some months ago the people from the KDE on windows project asked-me for a logo, and I tried several versions and in all of them I failed miserably.
But cause Oxygen is not, a "one men show", Martin Zilz aka Mofux tried to do is thing and... Boy! does he rocks! Enjoy the great stuf he does......
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At least, not on my Android phone. I've just released Check Redirect on the Android Market (for free, of course), which intercepts view intentions on links, and if the link is a tiny url of some sort (the list of intercepted hosts is configurable) it pops up a dialog letting you know where the link redirects to, and asks if you wish to follow the link.
And when I'm using Linux instead of my phone, I found an extension for firefox which does a similar thing. I can't remember what it was called though.
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- Feeling sick
- No drinking water at home
- Need to fix a new house
- Need to find a packers and movers to move to new house
- Have to find a way to stay connected in the new house
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| The eternal battle for the Linux desktop: Which GUI reigns supreme, GNOME or KDE? It really pisses me off when a writer comes up with an idea before I do.
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Since my last post the wallpaper plugin has moved to kdeartwork, so if you're running KDE 4.3 from trunk that's where you'll find it these days.
I just thought I'd give everybody an update on the Weather Wallpaper's status for KDE 4.3. :)
Definite progress is being made, but it still has a ways to go before the new features are ready.
This weekend I implemented user-definable wallpapers, though it doesn't save or load any of these custom associations yet so everything gets lost rather easily. Actually, I implemented that plus a whole advanced settings dialog so that graphics junkies can fine-tune the wallpaper to the level that they could with the default "Image" wallpaper plugin.
Here's a screenshot, which shows fairly well what doesn't work too:
The top bit of the Advanced Settings dialog is where you choose the weather condition and choose a wallpaper for said weather condition. For the sake of ...read more...
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| Preamble: Haven’t blogged for a *long* time now. I was a bit disappointed because many people don’t take the issues about google monopolizing the web and accumulating information very serious. So I got either not or misread with my long thought about critics for GSoC. But then maybe this is the wrong attitude for open source projects which are there to be creative and not really critical… I’ll post about my thoughts later, for those who are interested in general discussion (uuhhh this smells like the p* word (yes politics ;-)) I also have a imho very good idea in peto to deal with GSoC bad side effects especially… So I have tried KDE 4 since the first alphas for 4.0 in a Debian lenny build environment and have often tried to use it for every day work. During the last year I have become so frustrated (although I am a bit of a dev with KBlog for KDE as well), that I have switched to Gnome. Gnome is very good at not being frustrating  ...read more...
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ENG: Continuing the efforts to make a great and userful ( not only for documentation writting ) opensource community in brazil, the C.A ( Academic Center ) of my university is promoting withthe help of a great colleage of mine, Andr
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Howdy, quick updates: Moved Solid-Wicd to KDEBase, post coming soon Released polkit-qt 0.9.2, here. Pick it up as soon as you can, K3B is already depending on it, and you want to have a taste of how KCMs can behave greatly with polkit Laters.       |
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| The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available . This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, X.org server 1.6, and kernel 2.6.29. This RC2 version proposes also nearly all of the 2009 Spring design.
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Of all the application of KOffice 2.0, the one most ready is trully Karbon. It's also the one for which the progress since 1.6 is trully the most visible, and in 2.0, karbon is mostly a path editor (which is no doubt the central feature of a vector graphics application), and it's already working quiet well, definitively worth a try.
For a few monthes, I have already been using it, when I have to produce figures for my phd. And while I usually feel more confortable drawing with a pixel application (in other word Krita), I decided to make something more artistic with karbon, here is the result:
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| Historically, the GGZ approach to consistent multiplayer games on the desktop was to offload all the non-game specific tasks like login, chat and game start into special applications called core clients. After a while, this turned out to be a terrific idea but it contradicted the behaviour of most players. Their usual workflow is to start the game first and then switch to online mode rather than the other way around. For some time now, all the necessary components to allow this alternative path have been available for Gtk+ game integration, but no such widget framework has existed for KDE. (In all fairness, the first game ever with embedded core client support was Widelands which uses SDL.) This is now changing: With the introduction of the classes GameCoreClient and KGGZCoreLayer, games can easily integrate either an off-the-shelf multiplayer control panel with a list of players and running games, or pieces thereof through the lower-level EmbeddedCoreClient class. Both widgets and standard actions like connect to game as spectator or launch new game are supported by ...read more...
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The last version of the Korgac icon was not making most people happy for it had a Warning feeling to it, the "!" was not working dough it seamed like a good idea wen I was making it. The bell was the way to go, but I had some bad experiences making realistic bells in the past. So the idea pooped out in my head to make the bell in a more figurative way using the usual information signs we use in Oxygen icon set...  Btw I hope all of you have a very happy Easter, with lots and lots of chocolate |
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