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 whee! :) I got home friday afternoon and my laptop was here waiting for me. it’s a dell xps m1330, and so far I’m fairly happy with it. I installed arch on it last night, and now I begin the long process of installing software and tweaking settings and so on… :) the hardware is almost all intel. the screen brightness fn-keys work even from a terminal, and the bios lets me choose default levels for AC and battery. there are two audio-out jacks as well as mic in at the front; I assume one of the two is better quality, but they sound the same to me. there are only two usb ports, but they’re on either side of the laptop so at least I can still choose what side to put things on. there’s a capslock led. there’s a slot-load dvd drive (why don’t all laptops have that?) and a fingerprint reader (maybe I’ll try to get that working sometime) and a webcam and it’s shiny. :) the keyboard is standard size, unfortunately, which means it’s ...read more...
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| Well, we are going to reach the final step in the evolution of Lancelot for KDE 4.1 very soon. Will it be called 1.1 or something else, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the fact that Lancelot is more stable than ever, and even has a new feature. Changelog since 1.0 - Feature update: “Reset the [application] browser to show Favourites on menu open” option, which is the default behaviour from now on.
- Installation fixed. Thanks to the bug or whatever in the new cmake 2.6, there were problems installing Lancelot - no binaries were installed in most cases. It even got a /quick fix/ in the FAQ section of the L’s website. Now, that is a thing of the past thanks to the Than Ngo who sent me a patch that mysteriously and miraculously fixes this problem.
- Crashes… no more. The 1.0 was stable enough in my opinion, so most of you haven’t had any problems with it. But then, there are those of you who were less fortunate. And those of you who had the 1.0.1 installed ...read more...
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| This post is my triumphant return first to getting another blog post up (though the hiatus was not that long) and more importantly for the triumphant return of #kde-www. So listen closely yee wayfarer of the interwebs for this journey will be long an perilous (not really). read more
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| In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser , some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
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| Well, it's been a week where I lost my wallet, hacked too much Java, learned some things about SQL associations, ate squid and watched a Swedish swimware company meeting; it's been a good SQO-OSS week. It's soon time to fly back to Amsterdam, and when I get there I'll update the public-facing Alitheia installation for KDE, because it's gotten a lot better. And best of all, KDE4 on Solaris has been really stable all week, with only an isolated Konqueror crash due to KJS things. So Greece has done us good.
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| You’re going to think that I’m some kind of web shortcut maniac, but I really think I’m not. I’m using http://packages.larrythecow.org a lot, and only today did I think about creating a konqueror web shortcut to get there faster. I’ve called it ‘gt’ (for gentoo, yes, i’m that lazy), and the magic url thinguy is http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=search&s={@}
Now I can type “gt:kdebase-meta” in konquy or alt-f2 and feel ashamed in front of my debian friends whom I’ve been laughing at so much in the past because debian is so slow to catch up with kde releases. Today, several weeks after KDE 4.1 has been released, and 10 days after KDE 4.1.1 has been released, there is still no official ebuilds for the kde 4.1 branch. I know there are overlays, there are some heated bug-reports, blogs and even some unofficial status page about it, but still, kde 4.1 is not in gentoo, and it makes me feel really sad. Yes, I know, it’s free software and I can do it myself. And then?
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| I started tv.dgplug.org a year back when I first saw http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ for inkscape tutorials. In the last one year I tried to maintain it by hand written htmls (desgin was done by nomind). But found it too difficult to maintain, also people were asking for rss feeds. Also I had to provide .flv files so that people can watch the videos online. Again maintaining files in two different format was painful and .flv is not a free format. Finally I decided to move to wordpress and only ogg files will be provided from now on.
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Project Neon (i.e. me, me and me :P) recently introduced the all fancy kdeplasma-addons package to kde-nightly on Kubuntu...
followed by kdeutils...
followed by sleep...
followed by kdepim (including -dbg package, for the upcoming KMail BugDay)...
followed by a screenshot:
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Scary, huh? On a side note, hello Planet, this is my first post that will actually get syndacated. I excuse for giving you updates on what I work on just now, though I’m really dumb about RSS feeds, so credits to Riddell for 1) adding me to the planet 2) showing me how to filter RSS by categories : Anyway, some of you might know what PowerDevil is, some might not; well, for you who fear this is yet another attempt of threatening your lives, PowerDevil is a power manager for KDE4, and it won’t kill you. Credits to sandsmark for this beautiful name  Being serious for a moment, PowerDevil takes a pretty different approach than all other KDE-based powermanagers until now. PowerDevil is lightweight, and I mean for real, and it’s fully integrated in your KDE Desktop. This is because PowerDevil it’s not the usual application you see in the tray, but just a KDED module, aka a daemon. Right, everything happens in background and you don’t have to care. And, ...read more...
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| When importing a Subversion repository into Git with git-svn, if you want Git to use the commit author's name and E-mail instead of Subversion username you are required to create a file (Called the "authors file" in the git-svn manual) with the author's details. This is all good for the most part, except you are required to enter details for everyone that has made a commit and for a large public project that can be quite a few people. To make matters worse Subversion doesn't store that information itself, so you are required to find it elsewhere. Luckily Git provides some services that allow you to change commits in a live repository fairly easily. Below is a small script I wrote that allows you to change only the details of a few select commit authors from a Subversion import, leaving all others as their old usernames. The file that stores the author details is compatible with the git-svn authors file. Warning: Running this script on a public repository will cause it to become incompatible ...read more...
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| By Federico Kereki on September 11, 2008 Share Comments Loosely speaking, in software terms, a wrapper is something that provides an alternate interface to another object.
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 My wife bought me a PS3 as an early Christmas present (and so I could possibly bring it on the boat for the next underway). So far though the experience has been underwhelming. The on screen keyboard is annoying to use, even accounting for the fact that it uses a controller. It at least uses the normal QWERTY layout instead of just putting the letters in order but you have to select that mode manually, otherwise it gives you 10 digits as if I was trying to send a text message to someone. What’s next, limiting games to 320×240 resolution because people have PSPs and DS? I don’t see why they intentionally limit the number of input buttons just because that’s what people have to deal with on a cell phone. Eventually I got the internet access to work, at which time it needed an update. After about seriously 20 minutes of downloading over a cable modem it finally was able to start the 5 minute process of actually ...read more...
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| Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use.
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whee! it’s been a bit more than a week, but yesterday i handed in my first assignments. far too much of my time this week was spent on those. iirc i did math all weekend :P and now i have new assignments, oh joy! somewhere i have a list of thoughts about the n810 that i’ve been meaning to blog. let’s see how long it takes me to get around to that. i don’t like how little computer time i’ve been getting; school is too darn busy. anyways, good news: first, my group for cmpt 275 seems prettty awesome. not a lot of experience, but lots of enthusiasm, everyone seems smart and has their own strengths. :) second, my laptop may arrive tomorrow :D yay! i’ve burnt an archlinux cd, and started learning how to install it… that should be fun. :) third, i managed to repair my backup and got some files off it. yayy! i have my calendar back at the very least… basket files are there but i haven’t got basket installed… i think some ...read more...
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| KDE.News congratulates the CERN LHC project on its first day of operation. " Today was Big Bang Day at CERN as the world's largest science experiment was turned on.
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So, after receiving my new laptop and reading Ruud’s Blog post (seems like planetkde somehow lost it, anybody knows what happened?) I’ve decided to install only KDE4 on it. Partly because I won’t use the linux installation that much and partly because its new hardware thats capable of using all the new bling - yes I like bling sometimes. As always building trunk was no problem at all - thanks to kdesvn-build. Most of the time was spent to find the needed/optional dependencies and install them. Altogether it seems KDE4 is going its way, there have certainly been quite some improvements, despite all the nay-sayers. OTOH I’m still missing the kde3-way of switching windows with kwin, particularly the border around the window thats selected in the list. I doubt I’ll have the time to that myself. Also I just noticed that konsole doesn’t have any menu accelerators and one can’t activate the menu via alt (going to file a bugreport later). I also think it has far too many shortcuts set by ...read more...
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| SUSE 's 10.0 release announcmeent has barely hit all four corners of the globe, but development for 10.1 is already underway, and alpha 1 is now available .
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Towards the end of the week, the pace of a sprint slows down. I spent some time chewing on race conditions -- it's really nice to have some sharp analytical minds from KDAB available then, but even they are dulled after sunshine and beer -- and finally spotted the actual problem: using the wrong database table entirely. Dull like a wax spoon, that is.
Anyway, progress has been really good. For some things that Paul has been blogging about like the Mean Developer Engagement we're over the first hurdles (parallelism, synchronization, database structure) and now working on implementing this in Alitheia. That means that we'll be able to get fully automated green blob diagrams and MDE graphs, for instance. That might make them more boring, but at the same time you may be able to track the activity of a project and notice disruptions in the personal involvement of people more easily.
Tomorrow's plan is "sit in a meeting all day" but I really hope to still get some more hacking in. Adjusting a ...read more...
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| The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2008-7739 . Amarok is a multimedia player with: - fresh playlist concept, very fast to use, with drag and drop - plays all formats supported by the ...
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 It’s taken me the better part of a month to get home, settle in and upload my photos from Akademy to the cloud. Granted, I don’t have many photos since there were enough paparazzi at the event *glares at Bart and Sebas*.  The Grote Markt in Mechelen (HDR). The HDR which I’ve posted here proves that you can indeed create impressive shots only using free software, as long as you have a little perseverance and know how. Maybe Uga’s blogs will get there eventually :). The rest of the images are on flickr.
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Some people fall in love and find QuickSand
(Coming soon. :) )
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| So the recent Hurricane Hanna that passed by forced our ship to get underway last week and I got to spend almost a week deployed. Yay. I’m back for now but we’ve been super-busy since then trying to make up for lost time. I managed to find time to go ahead and move the asciiquarium screensaver into kdeartwork, which should be a part of KDE 4.2. KDE trunk is looking better and better with each passing day which is nice. I’m tempted to run out and buy an ATI card at this point if only for the better hardware support in Linux. It seems that everytime I build a computer I inadvertently pick the worst-supported graphics card somehow. :-/ Anyways, I’m too tired to remember what else I was going to post so I’m just going to go to bed. :P
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| CVS is a tool to record, manage and distribute different versions of files. In other words, CVS is a version control system.
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| Today I have been travelling back to the UK from Milan. I'll blog about the better aspects of the conference tomorrow. Meanwhile... Thanks to everyone who left comments on my last blog bost or dropped me an email. I have now responded to everyone (I hope) via the blog or email. Rather than email you all individually, if you want the fullsize version of the graph, you can fetch it here.. Enjoy.
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A couple of weeks ago, I merged the development branch for XSL-T into our main line, heading for Qt 4.5. The idea is that Qt will carry an XSL-T 2.0 implementation with as usual being cross-platform, having solid documentation, and easy of use. Using it is should straightforward. Either on the command line: xmlpatterns yourStylesheet.xsl yourInputDocument -param myParam=myValue Or using the C++ API[1]: QXmlQuery myQuery(QXmlQuery::XSLT20);
myQuery.bindVariable(\"myParam\", QVariant(\"myValue\");
myQuery.setQuery(\"http://example.com/myStylesheet.xsl\");
QFile out(\"outFile.xml\");
out.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
myQuery.evaluateTo(&out); See the documentation for the QXmlQuery class on the overloads available for setQuery() and evaluateTo(), for instance. However, due to the beast XSL-T 2.0 is — I agree that it’s larger than XQuery — we’ve decided to do this according to the “release early release often” approach. The first, in Qt 4.5, will carry a subset, and subsequently be complemented in Qt 4.6. The current status is documented in the main page for the QtXmlPatterns module, which can be viewed in the documentation snapshot. Therefore, while the current implementation probably falls short on more ...read more...
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| CVS is a tool to record, manage and distribute different versions of files. In other words, CVS is a version control system.
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 Zonker has posted on openSUSE News and his own blog our decision that openSUSE 11.1 will be the last release to include the KDE 3.5 desktop. This is a compromise how to handle the KDE4 transition after long discussions with many users. Beyond, openSUSE 11.2 will contain only one KDE desktop - likely version 4.3.
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| Until now I've always been using my own built Qt packages when building KDE packages for maemo.
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| Until now I've always been using my own built Qt packages when building KDE packages for maemo. Initially because the Qt packages in extras-devel where missing some vital parts for KDE (mainly SSL support I think) but after that because I just had them installed, and it worked. But now I wanted to change this, and use the extras-devel provided Qt, as in theory that shouldn't matter, after all they are build from the same sources, with nearly identical configuration. As it turned out, this was actually quite a bit harder than I thought it would be. As turns out, the current Qt packages are built with vfp support (which is a good thing, as it should make floating point computations quite a bit faster), but the default qemu version being used in scratchbox does not support vfp. Fortunately scratchbox also includes a newer 'cvs-m' version of qemu, that does support vfp, so I though I'd just use that instead. However that provided another unpleasant surprise, namely cmake doesn't work (correctly) in that version of qemu. I'm ...read more...
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| So earlier I blogged about Gregorio's work. Here I thought I'd take a minute to present something similar that I do.... How can we measure how close-knit a community is? Graph theory can provide us with some interesting approaches. By analysing logs we can see who commits to what parts of the repository. Let's represent those people as nodes in a graph. If two people commit to the same artefact we shall draw an edge between them. Every time the same two people commit to a shared artefact we increase the weight of their shared edge by 1. Once you have the complete graph you can do all manner of analysis; this I shall stash for another day. Anyhow, I have produced just such a graph for Amarok. And here it is (in this graph, the higher the weight, the shorter the edge): 
Closeness Graph For Amarok Markey and a few others are so close to the middle that you cannot see them for the "black". There are ways of ...read more...
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