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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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| Thread beginning with comment 356001 To view parent comment, click here . To read all comments associated with this story, please click here .
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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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| Huzza! The KDevelop Hack Sprint 09 is now official. Thanks to the huge engagement of Alexander Dymo we will meet from the 19th to 26th April 2009. The meeting will take place at Alexander’s university, the national university of shipbuilding in Odessa, Ukraine. Thanks to the people there responsible for making this sprint possible by providing us with the premises, internet, power etc. Since this is my very first Hack Sprint and considering that I only recently started contributing to KDE in general and KDevelop in particular I am very excited. The topics I will plan to hack on include (all related to PHP language support plugin): - add auto completion after
require(_once) and include(_once), just like it works for #include in CPP - add auto completion of PHP statements (think
echo, exit, require(_once, include(_once) etc. pp.) - add auto completion for build-in PHP keywords
- fix auto completion of interfaces / classes after the keywords
implements and extends (working on that right now) - fix KDevplatform and the Generic Plugin Manager ...read more...
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...i got my University Engineering diploma. I wonder what's the reason for taking so much for printing a paper :D
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| Long time no post… While doing some cleanup in my home folder, I found some few applications I have started but never finished. So I decided to put all of them online so that people can check and (maybe) use the code for something more productive than being forgotten in the middle of many other disorganized files. The programs are very simple (don’t expect any Ooohhh application there) but as I had fun doing them I hope you enjoy. Check them out!
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Hello! Recently I’ve added a few things to klipper and I thought some of you might be interested to know about them. As for me I’d like you to test this and to report me any bugs you might find Basically I’ve added two things. First: now when you copy some file path to Klipper, it can automatically determine a list of apps that can handle this filetype. Here are some examples of action menus it will produce:  Klipper action menus So, now user has no need to add a lot of custom actions for a basic file types Second, i’ve added a dialog which allows you to edit action properties or to add a new action. It looks like this:  "Action Properties" dialog This dialog pops up when you click on “Add Action” or ...read more...
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| Google's open source Chrome web browser manages each tab in a separate process in order to improve the program's robustness and security.
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| If you’ve checked out the Qt solution for the Animation API, then you’ve probably found the game called Sub-Attaq. This game was an idea I had when I started working on the Kinetic project. The idea came from a game I played 6-7 years ago but i don’t remember its name anymore. For those who don’t know, it’s a simple 2D game where you control a boat and you can drop bombs on submarines. Anyway, the goal of this game was first to play with it, and at the end to get a high score rank for the office (competition is always good). Oops, I forgot the obvious reason : testing our API for animations. So I started writing a basic game but I was busy with 4.5.0… so I let this game as it was, just some basic game logic and couple of animations. But some months ago, a new state machine framework popped in the Kinetic repository. I have to admit that Kent convinced me when he introduced me the framework and I had participated in some API ...read more...
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So after I implemented tooltip support in QuickLaunch I started to look around for some more Plasma related things to hack on. That's when I happened upon this, which is how I stumbled upon this
I thought to myself, "That would be really neat!" So a few days ago I made a simple wallpaper plugin that would paint a specified picture to the containment background. Once that was working I raided the weather plasmoid of its configuration code and choice parts of its backend and ported it to work in a Plasma Wallpaper plugin. The result? A Plasma Wallpaper plugin that changes the wallpaper depending on the weather at a set location is. To retrieve the weather it uses the weather dataengine introduced in KDE 4.2, as seen in the Weather plasmoid and the LCD Weather Station plasmoid. Dataengines for the win!
Code is available from trunk/playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/weather. It should build with KDE 4.2 and KDE 4.3. Here's a small build tutorial:
- svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/weather
- mkdir build
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Portable meta-information has been discussed twice recently:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3923
http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/portable-meta-information/
I also have something to say that doesn't fit into one comment, so i post it :)
My thought is realistic:
1. Will nepomuk really be more usable with portable/distributed stored meta information.
I don't know much of nepomuk's server implementations, afaik it seems use a central database to index/store these informations, so i've a question to ask : when user move his file to another local folder, will the file's meta infomation get lost , updated later(next time to index) or updated instantly (use inotify )? The first result(lost) is totally un acceptable, the second is ok, but nepomuk's value/power will be limited, the third is good, just stick to central storage.
2. How to implement it.
someone has suggested to use side-car file, other suggested xattr.
There is a seems better way to implement it : file forks/resource forks (not process fork),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(filesystem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
It's invented by Apple , store text file's encoding, app's ...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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| We've recently extended our Marble Wiki to include more documentation about how you can participate in Marble development. Here are a few possible jobs for a start: - If you are an artist or interested in historical world maps you can help us to improve our "Historic Maps" library: Magnus Valle ("wiscados" on #kde-edu) has done some great work in this area (resulting in the Historic Map that comes with Marble 0.7). Find out here how you are able to take part in this.
- For source code aficionados we have lots and lots of JuniorJobs for Marble. You can have a look at our How to become a Marble Developer page to find out how to tackle those.
- If you're a student and you are still looking for a Google Summer of Code 2009 topic, then you can either look at the KDE ideas page or you look at Wikipedia's fine article about ...read more...
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| At our KDE 4.2 release party, many of you voiced desire to have more frequent NYC meetings to talk about all things KDE. So, what dates work for those of you still interested?
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Today I’m annoucing a new KDE-users ( and also coders and documentation writers) group. Since my university killed the OSS movement inside it 1 year ago, like a phoenix it’s comming from the ashes. 
In portuguese ‘blue’ has a completely different meaning from English, it means ‘Nice’ and ‘Cool’, So, with no more round ups, I present you the new KDE-Users, Coders, Artists and Documentation Team from Bahia, Brazil, ‘Live Blue’. Initially it has 9 members from more than one university, and 2 projects. Armina ( a code-visualization tool ) and Rocs ( that one day I will finish it… ) The logo was made by Alexandre Freitas, ( xandolino at gmail.com ), and I encorage everyone to send him a ‘thanks’ and a ‘come on, and meet the artists team’, this is not his first job for kde-related stuff, but mostly I poke him to help me with graphics ;D Cyao people, tomorrow is calling me to bed. ...read more...
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On Saying "No"
When someone sends in a patch that they feel should be applied, it's always a difficult decision when the patch really shouldn't go in. After all, someone has probably put a good amount of effort into it: they've thought about the problem, come to a conclusion, plunged into the source code, altered it, tested it (well, hopefully :), then sent the diff in to be reviewed and commented on by their peers.
So when a patch just doesn't make the grade .. what do you? I hate saying "No." It's a lot less fun than saying "Yes." because "Yes" makes the person right in front of you happy. Unfortunately, when you are looking after a project (and everyone involved with a project ought to be striving to do that) there is more than just the person in front of you. No matter how loud they are, no matter how much hyperbole they throw at you, no matter how right they think they are .. they are not the only concern.
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Since using twitter, I've noticed a lot of people use services such as tiny.url or tr.im in order to shorten URLs. There's a problem with this though: I now have no idea what website I'm about to visit. If someone I trust has posted the link I'm reasonably likely to click on it, but for other people I tend to avoid these shortened links because I have no idea in advance what they are.
What is really needed is for the shortener service to show you what site you're about to visit first, so you can make a more informed decision about whether to visit the site or not. Hmm, maybe I should be sending this as a feature request to those sites instead of randomly blogging about it...
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I recently purchased a small pasta machine. I don't really know what the proper term for it is. I hesitate to call it a "pasta maker" because you still have to the bulk of the work yourself: making the dough, turning the handle, moving the handle between the different rolling and cutting mechanisms, feeding the dough through, etc. It uses no electricity and attaches to the counter or table top with a little vice. This really appeals to my "no school like the old school" side.
It's amazing how a little bit of flour, an egg and a bit of water can, in 5-10 minutes time, produce enough pasta (and then some!) for four people. Add some sauce, toppings and settle in beside a main course or a salad and voila .. great meal. The taste and texture of the pasta is unachievable with dry pasta or even the "fresh" pasta I can get from the grocery stores here. So instead of pulling out some dry pasta from a box (which takes about 10 seconds), I'm spending a whole ...read more...
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| Well I went and ported kfile_torrent to be a Strigi analyzer so that the .torrent info metadata is available in KDE 4 now. Unfortunately although KFileMetaInfo has apparently been ported to use Strigi no metadata shows up for me in Dolphin. Maybe it will when I enable Nepomuk perhaps, kind of unfortunate that a feature more or less from KDE 2 is still unavailable though :-/ In other news I’ve been trying to find a good reason to play the PS3 that our family got last fall. Most of the games I’ve tried so far have not warranted the annoying aspects of a super-whamodyne system. For instance, the last game I tried was Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, which was very well reviewed. But, I didn’t find it very entertaining. Once the game came in the mail (from GameFly, since I refuse to end up with another $60 stinker), I tried it out. It told me it had a required update to install (for the PS3 itself). Awesome. So about 10-15 minutes later, I end ...read more...
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| Google's annual Summer of Code program, which pays small grants to students who make substantial contributions to open source software projects during their Summer break from school, has officially launched.
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I was wondering how hard would it be to create a web-browser that is, like Google’s Chrome, separated in different processes for different tabs. You know, the whole “security problems and crashing are restrained to single tab” thing. As it turned out, it is not all that difficult. Create the main window, start the WebKit (QWebView) in another program, then X-Embed the later in the former, and communicate via D-Bus. (I got the idea to do this from Embed Window plasmoid  ) If the child crashes, only one tab is gone. If the main application crashes, tabs become independent windows. I’m not sure whether I’ll continue to work on this, but if I find the time, you could see a Rekonq-based (http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/) browser that is similar to Chrome someday.  ...read more...
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 Yesterday, Marcel has moved digiKam 0.11 source code from a development branch to trunk in KDE subversion repository. 0.11 include now the famous Batch Queue Manager, and will be ready to test in production soon... read more
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I'm not a designer, but I tried my best to reflect my idea of how a Music Player for KDE could look like. Of course it isn't suppose to look so primitive, but, then again, I'm not a designer.
This is the initial mockup (I hope to publish one article with all windows and sections soon). Hope you like it:
Thanks for your attention :-)
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| OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS). During a 3 month collaboration, students work together with an experienced usability mentor and key developers of the project to improve the user experience of a FLOSS application. The next Season of Usability student projects will start in May 2009. FLOSS Projects who would like to benefit from a usability student are encouraged to fill in our Call for Projects: » Season of Usability 2009 - Call for Projects (available until April 15th) For more information see the 2009 Season of Usability Call for Projects
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| Yesterday Sebas blogged about his desire for a small plasmoid that would allow him to suspend his computer when the screen is locked. Since I already wanted an excuse to play around with a Python plasmoid, I decided this would be a cool little applet to code. Turns out that there is a (pending) freedesktop.org interface to power management and PowerDevil implements the important parts of this. 
I started out with the great Python+Plasma tutorial and the second one on using the Plasma::Widgets that we know and love from C++. Couple that with the python bindings for dbus, and you’ve got yourself a little applet that suspends your computer at the press of a button. You can find the applet on kde-look, and it should be present in GHNS as well. (working on this point… for some reason it’s not showing up for me).
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