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 Being lazy here, but I suspect this will be quicker than trying to work it out myself :-) I'm using dfaures's excellent scripts as detailed on techbase to build and run trunk in a local directory while still having a stable 4.1 desktop from packages. It works wonderfully, execpt I can't seem to solve 2 issues.
1) When building kdeedu with the experimental Marble Python support turned on it tries to install marble.so to /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyKDE4/, which I obviously don't want. I've tried exporting PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_DIR as something local but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Does anyone know what variable I do need to set? This isn't a major issue now as it's now able to be turned off.
2) When trying to run the trunk startkde in Xephyr it fails, with the following being the apparently pertinant part of the log:
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /media/laptop/Programming/KDE/inst/kde4trunk/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
kdeinit4: Launched KLauncher, pid = 24785 result = 0
klauncher(24785) kdemain: Waiting for already running klauncher to exit.
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huzzah! I finally fixed all of plasma-overlay’s known bugs, and made the config ui actually work :) it only took a couple of days to round up the last few things, surprisingly. now I finally have the option to write code that is *not* bugfixes for my damn soc project. I think it’s about time I did some fun little plasmoids instead of working on big crazy things. yes, we’re in feature freeze, but I’ve been bugfixing for 4 damn months :P I need a break. I have a ton of ideas for small, (hopefully) simple plasmoids and I want to try them out. I also thought it’d be fun to try and do them in ecmascript (or javascript or qtscript or whatever you call it) to see just how hard it is to do this. :) so, join me as we dive into plasmaland and try to create a brand new widget fropm scratch without any of that silly crashy c++ :) right now I have no idea how to do this; I knlow plenty about plasma ...read more...
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So as Nikolaj has been blogging about his cool new features that he has in store for Amarok 2.1, I feel obligated to reply. Can't let him steal all the thunder and PR!
Amarok 2 introduced many new features, and undoubtedly one of the most controversial ones was the context view. All of a sudden this large area was smack dab in the middle of Amarok, sticking its nose where some users didn't think it belonged. Mostly, this was because it was not always as easy or efficient to display data the data that users wanted, or it was clunky and hard to use. As the context view evolved alongside libplasma, some of the constructs that were used became outdated as well. All in all, the CV was not, in my opinion, living up to its potential and was very much one of the weaker spots of Amarok 2.0.
What is to be done? Improve it, of course! Or, in this case, rethink the basic foundation of how the user interacts with the ...read more...
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Of course there is better documentation available for IPS. I griped first, then did some more creating searching. The documentation is well hidden: this (OSOL 2008.11 IPS developer page) doesn't help much beyond saying "you need a manifest," but this (software porter's guide to IPS) has an actual example of manifest files and how to set things up for importing SysV packages.
So, having read all that, my perl script to massage our SysV specfiles into an IPS manifest (taking into account the way we talk about licenses, the dependencies and the way de set up versioning) was only 156 lines long, and it only took two totally botched IPS repositories to get me to the point that I could# pkg install FOSSqt
So there you have it: IPS packages for an old version of Qt in a repo you can't get at because it's in a VM on my local network. Nyah, nyah.
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I committed the last of the changes for panel hiding for 4.2 this morning. Here's the current status of things:
- General hiding:
- unhides triggered only where the panel is, not along whole screen edges, making non-full-width panels behave a bit nicer
- unhides on drag enter, hides again on drag leave. I actually ended up implementing the first half of the XDnd protocol (X11 doesn't actually do drag and drop natively!) by hand using xlib calls to make this work. Every time I touch xlib I am reminded how much a I love Qt and KDE libs for making it possible to never touch xlib for anything sane. (Unfortunately, desktop shells involve all sorts of insanity. ;)
- Auto hiding: when the mouse leaves the panel, the panel hide; when it hits the screen edge it unhides. General features/improvements:
- will not hide if a popup is shown, hides when the popup goes away if the mouse is not in the panel
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| Quassel is an IRC client and service written in Qt. It can be used as a regular IRC client, or as a distributed client subscribed to a “core” IRC service running on a local or external server. This is similar to screening text-based chats on a dedicated server. The purpose of the review was to determine if Quassel is a suitable Qt4 replacement for Konversation as the default IRC client in Kubuntu Jaunty. Previously, Kubuntu shipped Konversation (KDE3) as the default IRC client. Kubuntu Jaunty will be 100% KDE4. We need a replacement IRC client since Konversation and the Kopete IRC plugin are not expected to be ported by then. Kubuntu uses IRC as a main communication method for user support. As such, we require an IRC client which is easy to set up and use. Using Quassel to connect to IRC to get user support was the primary use case for the review: - Start Quassel
- Connect to irc.freenode.net
- Join #kubuntu
- (Optional) Change your nick
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| It is not just a comment , it is a Truth. It becomes difficult when someone tries to translate technical documents as we don’t have proper words in our own language to describe all these technical/buzz words. Few days back I suddenly got a mail from Jaganadh G telling that he started translated my small python book in Malayalam. You can see his ongoing work here. I am very sure that this is going to help many people to understand things easily as they will be reading in their mother toung.
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| Well, I've been extremely busy on the weather plasmoid and finally, '1.0' is ready for use. It's now moved to kdereview so that any final bugs can be shaken out. This should arrive in extragear as soon as the review is completed. You'll notice some differences: * New! Five day view. Special thanks to Marco Mart and Lee Olson also the wind icon.
* Dock applet to plasma panel thanks to Marco Martin for this.
* Tooltip support that displays the icon, place, condition and current temperature.
* Rearranged configuration dialog thanks to Davide Bettio for this.
* All the conversion combo boxes now work it you can mix and match any combinations.
* Clickable credits where present (depends on data source) this will take you to the original data from the source's website.
* Popup tooltips when you hover over the 5 day icons to show you what the condition will be.
* Clickable watches/warning links where present (depends on data source).
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| Today I got down and installed Ubuntu 8.10 on this new X300, and things went rather smoothly. I chose to use the ext3 filesystem on the flash disk, and not to create a swap partition (and opted to buy 4GB RAM for it). In terms of things that work, the list is rather good. The wireless worked out of the box, sleep works, sound works, both batteries are detected, the graphics card works (with 3D acceleration) and general ACPI stuff works. However, I have noticed a few problems. First off (and this is really frustrating) - you can’t use the touchpad with the buttons from the TrackPoint (and vice versa). This means you can’t middle-click and drag using the touchpad. It’s frustrating because on my T43p you can, and I got into the habit of doing this because I find the buttons above are more conveniently located than the buttons beneath. Secondly, it seems that display brightness adjustment sort of works, but keeps tripping over itself. For example, right now my screen is on 75% brightness but I can’t adjust ...read more...
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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.
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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.
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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. =)
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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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