Thursday, April 2. 2009Qt Firefox
Due to the KDE Dot interview about Qt Firefox I (as a Kubuntu guy) felt pretty challenged....
me@apoc { ~/moz }$ ls -lah | grep deb That's all for now   Thursday, April 2. 2009DBug
What is better than Akademy?
... inGardenWithCoffeeHaXX0ring(tm)  Nowadays everyone is obsessed with debugging, including me, this obsession leads to the urge of having debug packages for each any everything. So, while half the KDE crew was listening to talks due to leak of power supply I was working on debug packages for Project Neon (i.e. kde-nightly and amarok-nightly) and I think the Neon PPA doubled its size. Now you can install amarok-nightly-dbg which is pulling in a complete debug stack for amarok-nightly. In addition to that you also get a new script called amarok-nightly-debug which wraps around amarok-nightly-vars and gdb. Basically the same applies for kde-nightly, but kde-nightly-dbg will only pull in the necessary dbg packages rather than the complete stack (just like kde-nightly). There is no wrapper script yet, but kcrash takes care of almost everything anyway  If you have time, please take the dbg packages for a testcrash and complain if it fails to crash ... err... to trace the crash And tomorrow I'll tell you about a script I created months ago and used it yesterday for the first time.   Thursday, April 2. 2009Dragons, DVDs and New Device Notifiers
Some days Dragon Master Ian aka eean asked me to have a look at integrating Dragon Player into the New Device Notifier thingy. While I was pretty sure it's not meant for actual use yet (didn't seem like it afterwards either
) I jumped into it and came up with dragonplayer-opendvd.desktop.The magic behind that stuff is that one actually can define very clearly when the desktop file should apply (using information provided by Solid). X-KDE-Solid-Predicate=[[ StorageVolume.ignored == false AND OpticalDisc.availableContent == 'Data|VideoDvd' ] OR [ StorageVolume.ignored == false AND OpticalDisc.availableContent == 'Data|VideoDvd' ]]Meaning unless the volume is set to be ignored somewhere from something and if it is an optical disc providing video dvd data this cool application can launch it. The line above might seem a bit strange ... actually it is ... apparently whatever is parsing that desktop file (some solid dataengine I guess) doesn't like 2 ANDs or no AND or no OR => simply put: x = ? AND y = ? OR x = ? AND z = ? No more and no less than that Also I think the new device notifier needs some changes to increase understandibility: The usual action is 'Open with ApplicationName' (e.g. Open with Dolphin), in my opinion an approach like in KickOff would be much better => use the generic name and only provide the application name as minor information. As a new user I might not know what Dolphin or Dragon Player is and what it does (ok, for Dragon it's pretty obvious so using 'Open with File Manager' and 'Open with Video Player' seems much more reasonable to me.Anyway, get the new dragonplayer and check out the new device notifier integration BTW: kde-nightly is pretty broken apparently  Thursday, April 2. 2009A breath of fresh air for Konsole Oxygen thingy of the day: Konsole Color SchemeI'd still like to get some feedback on the color composition so give it a try. Currently only Nightrose (aka Lydia) tested it, and usually her display's colors are way off .Lydia also states that it rocks with irssi, but who uses that thing anyway? Grab it today and get your Konsole a breath of fresh air. BTW: apparently it takes some time to get used to it, but once you did, it is quite awesome to work with this color scheme  Thursday, April 2. 2009Le KDE sprechen ?????
Kubuntu users now also can get a localized KDE
Just install you language's package, e.g. kde-l10n-de for german, then do the following:  Kickoff -> System Settings -> Regional & Language there you can select Country/Region which should auto-adjust a couple of stuff to your local preferences (for example the date formatting) in addition to that it should also select the installed language. If this fails for whatever reason, use the "Add Language" drop-down menu instead. Beside l10n, we also uploaded a couple of extragear packages like KTorrent, Skanlite and KFax. Pimp my Konqueror Installing konqueror-plugin-searchbar-kde4 will add the world famous google searchbar to your konqueror again Also checkout the other konqueror-plugin-* packages, maybe you want to install some of them.  Thursday, April 2. 2009KDE 4.1.0 + Kubuntu Ninjas Finally KDE 4.1.0 got released *hoooray*.... since I am sure there are going to be plenty blog posts about the beauty of and awesomeness of 4.1 I want to move the spotlight a bit (as if I ever had it put right The Kubuntu Ninjas While I was doing the rc1 packages on my own I noticed that this is just too much work for one mind to deal with and it is impossible to prepare the Hardy backports (which are more important on a short-term base) as well, within the given amount of time. As a result of this some guy stated on ubuntuforums.org that apparently Kubuntu's QA is pretty bad. Reasonable assumption considering we didn't get KDEPim built in time and thus caused some problems for early upgraders. As a result of this we know have certified Package Ninjas(tm) for KDE releases. Using super nifty infrastructure we managed to provide a pretty flawless transition to KDE 4.1.0 on Hardy and almost the very same for Intrepid. Note the word 'pretty' in that sentence . There were some minor quirks which have to be worked out in future release preparation, but I am confident we are on the right way.So who are these guys providing Kubuntu users with the awesomest KDE 4 packages ever?
And now... for the spotlight... KDE 4.1.0 is so awesome, I just love folderview, Plasma is the most beautiful piece of software I have ever seen.  Thursday, April 2. 2009KWin and the capseo thingy
Since some people already asked what to do with the mysterious .cps files:
KWin in KDE 4 offers the possibility to record one's desktop. The resulting files have a .cps suffix (cps = capseo = video codec created by the same developer as the underlying library [called captury] of the recording feature). I actually know no player which supports native playback of capseo, which is why you most likely want to convert it. Here comes the trick part, the website moved from captury, to captury, to captury (yes this is just for giving google some context On the most current location of the website you can find: This binary is on Kubuntu part of the capseo package, and probably something similar on other distributions.cpsrecode -i screen-capture.cps -o - \ Have fun.  Thursday, April 2. 2009Fire has three needs: ignition, fuel, and OXYGEN Light years ago work on an Oxygen theme for Firefox started. Meanwhile the maintainer changed, a new major version of Firefox got released and people noticed how ugly Firefox can be without gtk-qt-engine To fight this ugliness, I stopped sleeping for 2 days and uploaded the Oxygen theme for Firefox, version 1.0, a couple of weeks ago. Even though it didn't quite make it through the public nomination process yet, I am quite certain that it works like a charm so grab the first release and don't forget to give a review to get it out of that awful sandbox/experimental area. Grab it ---> HERE <--- F.A.Q.:
 Thursday, April 2. 2009Project Neon - Ask Harald (FAQ)
Note to me, myself and I: FAQs should be listed somewhere to save me the daily headache....
Is amarok-nightly for openSUSE published yet? No, I'll try to get a repository outside of my personal home one and build for openSUSE 11.0, after a couple of tests amarok-nightly for openSUSE can go live. Why is there no amarok-nightly for openSUSE 11.0 to be tested? Because I am preparing for exams, so I have no time for build-dependency magic, and because I will only build for openSUSE 11.0 once the above stated reason is sorted out. However, apparently the 10.3 packages work just fine on 11.0 as well (hooray for good packagin Why is amarok-nightly for openSUSE not built nightly? No neon package gets built nightly as long as it is being tested. Nightly builds will start once openSUSE packages are published in an own repository. Does kde-nightly for Kubuntu include debug symbols? No, neither does amarok-nightly. The packages are built with debugging enabled, a packaging script however strips them for some reason I forgot. In fact I tried adding -dbg packages earlier on, but that didn't work for some strange reason. The good news however is: I will digg into this soonish. After all a good description on how to reproduce is almost as good as a good backtrace Can we get a foobar package for kde-nightly? Feel free to drop ideas at the mailing list, but keep in mind that the build resources on Launchpad are pretty limited, so kdepim or koffice are probably not going to get in... at least for now. In general the current amount of packages is not going to grow a lot - I might only add kdeplasmoids some time soon, but that's about it. Do you plan to integrate more applications into kde-nightly? See above. How do I compile stuff against kde-nightly? This is a bit tricky - you can take a look at the neonmake script in amarok-nightly-tools to get an idea. I will include some proper buildscripts later on for use with kde-nightly and amarok-nightly. Why is there no kde-nightly for openSUSE? The openSUSE KDE guys do a great job on maintaining their own KDE snapshot packages. So launching a kde-nightly stack would be rather pointless, right? Duplicated effort and all..  Thursday, April 2. 2009Project Neon - KDE Nightly Builds ..it's that time again, when I announce something new, which isn't new at all due to testing Since amarok-nightly is a huge success .... Project Neon now also includes kde-nightly builds for Kubuntu! Currently available are kdebase, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, kdenetwork and kdesdk Now my dear Kubuntu users, you can: develop, debug, fix, test, promote and break your system Have fun, and in case something goes wrong: blame KRF in #amarok.neon. Misc:
 Thursday, April 2. 2009Something I always wanted to blog about...
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