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 Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting that much in the last period, but surely I’m not dead and always working. So, since time is always against us, I will post a catchup of things that matter/could matter to you. - I moved Policykit-KDE to extragear/base. It will be in trunk from 4.3 on, though all distributions that want/need to package it can find it there. I can also set up a set of releases (just like I did with PowerDevil for KDE 4.1) if there is enough demand, so please let me know. - Chakra got released. It is such a satisfaction, after months of work, to get such a great feedback. Thanks to everyone for their support. - I moved my first steps with the Wicd solid engine. Now it does something - not that much, and not connecting - though it is definitely starting to work. A big thanks to Wicd developers for being very responsive and helpful, you guys rock. Ah, the code is in playground. - If you can make some noise for Alessandro ...read more...
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Back in part 1 I showed a few of the things that will make it into Amarok 2 at some point ( likely for 2.1.0 ).
Today I want to show you another thing that I only recently started working on. Its another somewhat controversial part of Amarok 2, namely the playlist.
Since we first started showing screenshots of where Amarok 2 development was heading, some people have been unhappy with our idea of a new and improved playlist ( and have been extremely vocal about their displeasure ). We have tried reassuring them that the playlist would, in time, come to encompass many of the things from Amarok 2 that they were missing as well as a whole lot more, but it is always hard to communicate such ideas with no screenshots to back them up.
So, since I just today got something running that finally demonstrates some of these ideas, I rush to blog it!  Please note ...read more...
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| KDE Forum Klassroom Kourse 1 is in progress! This kourse is being led by msoeken & the topic for this is “Fixing KSnapshot bugs”.
The Kourse started with 5 bugs as aim. Students would be required to fix them and will be guided by msoeken while doing so.
But thanks to the KSnapshot developers, three of those bugs were found fixed already! Beta 2 indeed has many bugfixes. 
msoeken came up with 4 wishlist bugs he had in “stock”, just in case if they are needed. So presently, Kourse 1 has 6 open challenges for it’s participants and the kourse is in progression. We have 5 students participating, among which, 2 of them found us on IRC and were willing to contribute. Since now there is a significant amount of work for the participants, the kourse may extend for a few days.
After the patches would be checked and found effective, msoeken would do what is planned.  So stay tuned! ...read more...
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| I thought it'd be a tolerably good idea to celebrate boxing day with installing OpenSUSE 11.1. After all, given that this laptop is a Thinkpad X61t with built-in tablet, installing a new version of any distribution tends to be interesting. And indeed, I ran into two glitches: at first, OpenSUSE 11.1 refused to install my chosen grub configuration. Putting grub on the mbr fixed that, but it was quite a bit of a bother since my laptop didn't boot except from the external cd drive. But it was also my own fault for accidentally pressing the wrong key in the dialog that asked me whether I wanted to revisit my grub options or install anyway. The tablet was a bit harder to get working, although the fix is simple and detailed in this bug report -- simply use ttyS4 instead of ttyS0, which used to be the right port to use for a tablet pc. And you know what? The touch screen of this laptop works, too, now! Only I have to use a nail, not my fingers. I ...read more...
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| According to these blog posts from SUSE/Novell KDE developers that include bootcharts showing KDE startup, recent performance improvements in fontconfig and KDE/Qt have a noticeable effect on startup times.
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Dear KDE,
As you know we at KDEGames are always working hard and late in order to bring some joy and happiness into your every day life. We also know that the best gift is the one you make yourself. And it is with this very thoughts in mind that we bring you the following:
KDEGames media team holiday greeting card paper craft :D (we know it's long)
(Once finished the card will look something like this (Not this ugly of course :P ))
Instructions:
- Download the following two PDF files: Outer side, Inner side
- Follow easy instructions on the first page to make the card.
Tell us your thought, and comments. Since it's the very first product of this sort from us, there probably are some *bugs* there ;) So if you found one go ahead and file a bug report :D
Happy New Year KDE!
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| So over the last few days the fan on my T43p has been playing up, and as I’ve had it for about 3.5 years now, I decided it’s probably time to get a new one. After a quick trip down Tottenham Court Road today, I managed to find a reseller selling the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 which I’ve been pining for ever since its release, and after some bartering managed to get hold of one along with an additional 3-cell battery to replace the CD/DVD drive with. First impressions of the machine are really positive. The machine weighs less than my X40 did and the screen is much nicer. It’s nowhere near as good as the FlexView UXGA screen on my T43p, but I can’t get everything! Black colours aren’t great and the viewing angle vertically isn’t that good, but for a portable laptop it does the job just fine. The keyboard is really nice - it gives a decent amount of tactile feedback (it’s better than the one on my T43p I think), and the addition of a touchpad is ...read more...
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| By Susan Linton on December 23, 2008 Share Comments At a time when new and buggy features cloud basic computer functions, it's refreshing to see a new release of a distro like Slackware that stays true to its ...
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I want to write today about what I have been doing lately.
After finishing my job related with public administrations' migration to free software in Extremadura and Malaga, Andalucia, Spain, I began to work again in November with my Canary Islands teammates (Grupo CPD) in ModularIT. This is a project we released under GPLv3 a few monthes ago that was ready to use but not to contribute to. In practice, as it happens too often, projects are published as free software but, since they don't have the proper design and a right tool, it is not possible for developers to work on it, so nobody use them.
This was exactly what it happened to us. We made a big effort then but another extra effort was needed. It is not enough to public the software and wait for the community to use it. You also need to take care of a few other things. We decided not just to offer a new 100% percent community project, but also to release a new ...read more...
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| This is the first time I've actually gotten around to posting anything on the internet. I've been working on Amarok since we started on the 2.0 adventure, and have stuck my nose in most of Amarok since then. I'm hoping to write a series of posts about some of the cool things in Amarok 2, and some of the cooler things to come. Today I'm going to preview 2.0.1, because as we said earlier, 2.0 was just a beginning, and the evolution is already going full speed. Amarok's code was in a feature freeze for a while before 2.0 was released. There were all sorts of changes in the code, and all sorts of annoying bugs that needed to be fixed. Fixing bugs is no where near as fun as adding new features, and we needed to stop adding features to let the code settle down. This left Amarok 2 missing some very useful features that Amarok 1.4 had. The good news is, many of these features have returned in 2.0.1 2.0.1 brings back searching in the playlist, as ...read more...
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| If you show some friends an ancient trick to multiply two numbers in your head within seconds, typically you would either get a dismissal ("Fast? A calculator or Google is faster!") or an excitement ("How useful!"). Each response is justified. In our daily activities, we seldom face the situation that force us to only multiply two numbers and right at that moment you don't have a calculator (or Google) at your disposal. However, knowing such an art can help you to improve your overall math skill, cast away the unnecessary fear, build your passion for math, and makes you ready for the next level. As Louis Pasteur once expressed, "In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind". The same goes for some of the graphics examples I have written for that Labs Graphics Dojo corner, and also what I have shown in my Developer Days talk. The most common comment is "Blazing-fast? Just use OpenGL!" That is very true, and I could not agree more. However, googling for 27 , ...read more...
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| I made a small KDE 4.2 counter. The small icons in the counter indicate (left to right) a great interface, security (good ol’ *nix), ease of usage, customizability and support that KDE offers. 
This one is just a static image. Click on the image to view the counter on my webserver.
You can download the counter from here. Please note that the counter would suit on pages with white background only. As I made it in a bit of a hurry, the oxygen tooltip was not given a transparent background. I’m pretty much excited about KDE 4.2, though beta 2 has been more than satisfactory Spread the word:    ...read more...
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| Management Science , Vol. 52, No. 7. , pp. 1031-1042. gconaldi Abstract In stark contrast with the fully participative "bazaar" imagery of open source software development, some recent empirical research has ...
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| For all those who don’t know already, we have the channel #kde-forum (Network: irc.freenode.net) set up. What is the purpose of this channel?
#kde-forum is not for technical support related to KDE and it’s applications (#kde is for that purpose).
#kde-forum is a team channel for Forum Staff and it’s members (as well as non members). What can I ask/discuss there?
Any forum related queries are welcome. You can discuss about all activities going on at the forums, Klassrooms and kourses (though the best place for kourse discussions would be at the kourse discussions area within the Klassroom forum), forum design as well as forum teams. You can definitely discuss registration problems, MyBB bugs (KDE Forum is powered by MyBB boards), forum/subforum requests, as well as user specific issues. So all those who participate (and also those who don’t ) at KDE Forums are welcome to join us there.
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It's not like Saint Nick is going to bring me coal (besides, I'm Dutch: Sinterklaas was nearly three weeks ago). Instead, packaging efforts have been carrying on. I've advanced to KDEpim by now, which means that I have completed [ade]'s Simplistic Desktop - konsole, konqueror and kmail - once more. What this means is that we have a KDE4 desktop that hooks in to the existing libraries on the system, in order to reduce code duplication, reduce security issues (e.g. no private Kerberos, just use the one on the system; no private libgcrypt), and make things generally easier to ship.
When I say these are "available" that means "you can build them yourself by following the techbase instructions and by reading commit logs and telepathically re-creating the patch for FAAD2 that was lost"; the binary packages are, of course, on the workstation under my desk and aren't being served up anywhere, yet. But rest assured that the bits are there.
As an illustration of what this means for package counts, there are 53 packages ...read more...
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I've been taking a few days off, sort of, around the holidays here. The P-man is visiting his mom and I have a house guest, so it's a nice time to do so. Of course, I'm still checking my mail, closing bugs and making commits (just fixed a crasher in folderview, actually) ... but I'm only spending a few hours a day on KDE around the Christmas holiday time this year. That means my blog is not getting updated. =)
I've been brought out of blog hibernation a few days early because I keep getting asked about Mark Shuttleworth's post on notifications and figured I should get something out in a mildly timely fashion.
Before I do that, however, happy holidays to everyone out there. I hope you are finding some time with loved ones or even just some quiet contemplative time if this time of year is special for you. Happy new years as well. =)
That out of the way .. I do have to say that it's a little embarrassing that ...read more...
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The Chackra project is cool.
They're the guys behind KDEmod, a modular set of KDE packages for Arch linux. For those who don't know Arch, the highlights:
- KISS (simplicity and flat config files over graphical point-and-click)
- Vanilla packages (as little deviations from upstream as possible)
- Rolling release schedule (no fixed releases - if a new app comes out, it gets packaged, tested, and put in the repositories. Releases are just snapshots, done when a new kernel becomes available)
- binary packages by default but excellent automatic source building system (ABS)
The KDEmod packages have always been great. Not just because they were modular, but during the KDE 3.5.x series the developers added interesting patches. Apparently, with KDEmod 4.1.x completely vanilla, they turned their attention to writing their own stuff. Meet Chackra, a livecd based on arch & KDEmod. Comes with an installer (which looks incredibly cool) and after using it you have a fully vanilla arch installation. Finally, they also work on package management tools, hardware ...read more...
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| David Palacio has made a live CD with the current snapshot packaging of KDE 4.2. The distribution is being made only using the BitTorrent protocol, using the tracker services of LinuxTracker. And do not worry, it is being well seeded! And remember this is only made with the purpose of take a look to current status of upcoming KDE 4.2. Enjoy!
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| The Ubuntu Development Summit happened at Google the other week. Large numbers of people got together to spend a week discussing the next six months in Ubuntu.
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| The Ubuntu Development Summit happened at Google the other week. Large numbers of people got together to spend a week discussing the next six months in Ubuntu. Lots of specs got written and you can find the Kubuntu Jaunty specs here. One of the most notable changes is the plan to change to using Package Kit, it's always a shame to move on from the hard work that has gone in before, but it makes the most sense for us to use a framework and apps that can be shared amongst many other distros. Hugs to Peter for work much appreciated. I'd like to see KDE 3 libs off the CD for Jaunty, and if possible Qt 3 too. With Akonadi bringing in mysqld we'll need all the space we can find. One of the last hangers on to Qt 3 is OpenOffice, anyone feel like reviving OpenOffice KDE project for Oxygen and Qt 4 support? Mysql is going to be a hassle, as I say it takes up a lot of ...read more...
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We just released the third beta of Eigen 2. Like the rest of the KDE community we are in heavy bug-fixing and polishing mode and this new beta gets us quite close to what we'll soon be calling a release candidate. This is really a result of Eigen's increasing number of users: useful bug reports have been flowing in continuously in the past 3 weeks.
Documentation-wise, here is a FAQ section on vectorization.
Also, we now have a Eigen users forum and I must say that the guys at forum.kde.org, especially Neverendingo, are very helpful.
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| Early holiday gift. KDE 4.2 Beta 2 (via Kubuntu packaging ninjas) on a 46″ Samsung 550. Oh yeah. (Sorry, my photography isn’t the best :)
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| Consider, if you will, the following:
[ 26%] Building CXX object kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/xmlgui/kxmlguiversionhandler.o
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Linking CXX shared library ../lib/libkdeui.dylib
Undefined symbols:
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KUniqueApplication::start(QFlags)in kuniqueapplication.o
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ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lib/libkdeui.5.1.0.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Above is a linking error I received during the KDE 4.1 betas on OS X. It is also, as it turns out, the linking error which people are getting when they try to compile kde 4.2 beta 2 on OS X. Back in my younger, more formidable years, I was actually able to not only identify the problem but also propose a solution. Then all of a sudden the problem disappeared and I didn't need to worry about it ...read more...
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| So I returned a few days ago from our latest deployment. As far as SSBN patrols go it was pretty successful. Anyways, since there’s no better way to celebrate a return to port than spending time with family, I’ve been doing a lot of that. My wife is pregnant with our second kid so we went out to get her a recliner since the littlest one has been hurting her back. Another good way to celebrate return to port is to start fixing bugs! In that spirit I fixed bug 178425 in kdelibs yesterday. Hopefully the File Open/File Save standard dialogs will sort more intelligently for you now. I also did the normal upgrades and cursory review of the last couple of weeks of messages that I missed. I noticed that Paul Adams had a post up about code contributions to KDE. It looks just how I’d expect for myself: 
In other news someone was nice enough to mail my wife some KDE swag and a cheer-up note for the holidays, which ...read more...
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| We now have badgets for KDE Developers that go with your profile information next to your posts. 
So if you want to be added to the Developers group, visit Group Memberships in your UserCP and select to join the Developers usergroup, explaining your role in KDE Development in the Reason area.
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| Since the Konqueror team is working hard on squashing bugs, I decided to switch back from Firefox to Konqueror now that things are working again. I really did not like some aspects of firefox, like the integration with the other components. PDF's should just open in Okular and all the other stuff surrounding downloading and opening stuff Firefox can not open, seems broken to me. But one aspect of Firefox is good: the plugins. There are plenty. One of them Foxmarks really rocks, you can have the same bookmarks on all your different computers you use. I wanted the same for Konqueror and as Konqi also support plugins, I decided to write one this weekend. It is a simple plugin, it just copies the bookmark file to a location. And 'a location' can be anything of course. In my case 'fish://some.remote.server/home/toma'. If you add a new bookmark it automatically copies it over and when you launch Konqi it checks if the remote location has a newer file. With those two options, it just means you automatically have the same bookmarks ...read more...
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| Today I fixed a bug that has been open for more than 4 years . This feels good. However, there is a reason why it took so long: kdialog contains a member winId() as you can see here , but this is not documented ...
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