Thursday, April 2. 2009Sometimes I am feeling loved
... definitely not today.
I can't do anything in the Ubuntu wiki (bug report) ... yeah Konqueror is only default browser on Kubuntu, why would we do QA for it I just learned that when you install the java plugin it will pull in firefox, which will pull in ubufox, which will pull in synaptic, which will pull in half the main archive. And why do you think is that? Depends: libasound2, libx11-6, libxext6, libxi6, libxp6, libxtst6, sun-java6-bin (= 6-07-4ubuntu2), firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | mozilla-firefox | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | epiphany-gecko | epiphany-webkit | epiphany-browser | galeon | midbrowser | xulrunnerNotice anything? Now I am feeling rather stupid because I actually started work on ubuntu-kde-default-settings making KDE 4 apps look like native Ubuntu/GNOME ones, too bad I don't feel like continuing it     Thursday, April 2. 2009Introducing the Apachelogger Software Store
Project Neon (i.e. me, me and me
 ) 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:   Thursday, April 2. 2009QA, PowerDevil, KDESVN-kde4, Quassel, Java
Kubuntu got its very own bug team!
 The bug tracker changes list also got updated to aggregate all KDE 4 packages (well, at least I hope we catched all). But! Be aware that Jonathan is pretty much flooding the list (I didn't read mails for 2 days and got 360 unread bug mails...). Anyway. I am currently thinking about getting powerdevil (that power manager thingy) in the Intrepid pockets. Problem is: currently it only ships with one profile, which actually screws more stuff up than it could possibly improve :S You can find Intrepid and Hardy packages in the experimental archive (I'd like to remind, that this repository is dangerous, so you should either remove it from your sources.list once you got the desired package(s), or download/install the packages manually). If anyone tries it - I would like some feedback kdesvn-kde4 is also available in this repository. It's a SVN snapshot from yesterday, seems to be working quite well though. If you choose to test it, please also install the -dbg package and give feedback at it's kde-apps page. Intrepid's quassel(-core) package got a make over and is now creating a fancy log file + it doesn't die on upgrades + configurable loglevel/port in /etc/default/quasselcore. kubuntu-restricted-extras doesn't depend on sun-java6-plugin anymore (we switched to -jre)... a workaround in kubuntu-default-settings is making it actually work without doing anything. Snapshot of the day:   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. 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...
THANK YOU!
 Friday, February 6. 2009I am disappearing
Due to new employment (Zivildienst) I'll be unable to continue my work on the various projects I am a proud contributor of. Well, until mid-October at least.
I'll most likely not be able to follow mailing lists, nor will I be online on IRC when I am not really available. If you want to reach me, you better drop me a mail personally... the inbox is pretty much everything I kind of read. Should you be lucky enough to actually get a hold of me: don't expect me to do or say anything useful By 2010 I should be able to attend conventions and fairs again, so you can worship me live and in action So long... Thursday, January 15. 2009Monthly changing wallpapers? ... aye!
While KDE 4 is shipping with awesome default wallpapers, I still find myself at times facing the problem that they become boring after some weeks. At the same time being developer and all it is difficult to keep up with latest wallpaper trends, also partly due to the fact that I simply can't watch kde-look for hot new stuff. So I said to myself (due to continuing lack of people to drop my ideas at
) maybe having the wallpaper switch monthly via a remote resource would make sense. Well, that is how I came up with Kubuntu Wallpaper of the Month (kubuntu-wotm). Now, while this would be a nice feature for Plasma itself, due to me being a self-centered distro developer (and not being qualified for Plasma hacking anyway) I decided that doing it via a package makes more sense for the time being (+ it has the advantage that our update-notifier queries the repos anyway).Don't let me bore you though. Bottom line is: we need a team of people with taste for good wallpapers and the time to select a good one every month, to get monthly new wallpapers for Kubuntu. If you are constantly looking for hot new wallpapers anyway, joining the team and helping people like me, who are totally incapable of finding good wallpapers at all, would probably improve your karma quite a bit Please poke me on IRC, leave a comment, or drop a mail to apachelogger@kubuntu.org ... Since we just talked about this a bit on IRC: I could also imagine that we make a collection of wotm wallpapers available in the official Kubuntu archives (e.g. wallpapers of the last 12 months). That way you can also have a nice collection of wallies for slideshowing, updating everytime you upgrade to a new Kubuntu release
Wednesday, January 7. 2009choqoK - twittering fun
I am glad to announce that choqok my most favorite Twitter client (well only for a week or so
is now available for Kubuntu Jaunty as well as Intrepid-backports (a.k.a. unsupported updates).I must admit choqoK looks very promising and can probably also become a very awesome non-twitter micro-blogging client. I guess the lead developer could use some help, so if you get a minute or two: check it out and maybe come up with some feedback or even a patch or a piece of translation or a handbook...  Have fun with 0.2 meanwhile. Wednesday, December 31. 2008Project Neon: KDE Nightly Edu++ GGadgets++
If I had more time for blogging I would do more blogging... but I don't have
Quick update: Newly available in Project Neon's kde-nightly is kdeedu (i.e. kde-nightly-kdeedu). Newly available in the kdebase build is support for Google Gadgets (using GGL SVN from yesterday). Upcoming is Quassel (which got KDE integration) as well as the return of MSN in Kopete. 
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