Posts in Lateral Opinion about kde

This is the first article in what will hopefully will become a series explaining how a little creativity can enrich the KDE desktop experience, maybe using a not-very-popular feature. ...

2008-06-16 22:27:06

Kid, wanna try a WM?

Reading a post on planetkde, I saw an apparently out-of-nowhere reference to blackboxqt... ...

2008-02-18 10:06:34

There have been a few posts on planet KDE about text-based presentation tools ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) and while their solutions are all probably better than mine, I have to say I did something in the area about a year ago. ...

2007-12-28 12:46:19

Thinking in 800x480: Web browsing

I am still anxiously waiting for my Asus eee (still a week to go or so), and I was thinking about web browsing in the 7 " , 800x480 screen. ...

2007-10-02 14:11:35

Everything is still around

For a project I am doing for one of my customers, I needed a mailing list archive. I looked, and it seems the nicer one is Lurker . ...

2007-09-14 18:35:12

New library: ChipScene

This is the real outcome of my PyWeek failure: a neat library. ...

2007-08-08 09:05:17

Me and FLOSS in the late '90s

I have no idea how, but I ran into this in Linuxtoday : KDE Programming Tutorial 0.2 (Dec 22nd 1998, 00:09:36 ) Roberto Alsina announced that he uploaded to ftp.kde.org the version 0.2 of his excellent programming tutorial. It is also available here . Hopefully, this must-have material will be soon included in the kdesdk package and in CVS. ...

2007-08-06 09:57:47

A bit sad about this

It seems that during the big SVN conversion some data were lost in commits. ...

2007-08-02 10:24:22

KDE 4.0 beta1 released!

Which is usually the point where I switch to new versions... ...

2007-07-21 10:23:42

Please, KDE marketing guys, start showboating!

I am no longer on planetKDE so this will probably not be read by many in the KDE community but... ...

2007-07-17 12:15:45

Way too excited about the Asus eee

Really. I can imagine having one of these as my main computer (with external HD and monitor). ...

2007-06-04 08:45:21

Weirdest KDE appearance in the news yet is....

... asking the president of Kazakhstan how to patch it under FreeBSD (which I must confess I have no idea, unless you answer " using patch " ?). ...

2007-05-16 11:37:53

A KDE hack: Faster mail searches in kmail, using mairix

Kmail searches slowly. ...

2007-05-11 12:01:45

New Bartleblog Feature: Menu Editor

Took a while to implement, but BartleBlog finally got a functional menu editor: ...

2007-05-10 14:07:26

Today's first hour of hacking...

... has been all about UI. ...

2007-05-09 15:06:20

Today's two hours of hacking

- Done with the main blog config dialog. ...

2007-05-08 21:05:03

Making your QTextBrowser show remote images

It's remarkably easy to turn your QTextBrowser into a limited web browser, at least good enough to show images from the web. ...

2007-05-07 18:52:23

Neat KDE style: Domino

Today I was fiddling with my desktop and decided to check what KDE styles were available in Arch Linux . ...

2007-05-05 18:29:56

Giving BartleBlog the push it needs

I found a couple of hours to hack, and decided to spend them on BartleBlog. ...

2007-05-01 19:39:22

What I am plotting...

...nothing. ...

2007-04-27 13:30:44

BOP: Ball Oriented programming

Some of you may be familiar with weird programming languages. Some of you may even know about bidimensional languages. Some of you may have seen Flip , where computation is performed by balls bouncing off things. ...

2007-04-24 21:31:24

Two neat projects I didn't knew existed

- MonkeyStudio is a rather neat Qt4 IDE. ...

2007-04-14 23:37:24

New project: Tobogan

As a result of my playing with mootools and creating powerpoint-style slideshows on webpages from restructured text, I am pretty much decided about turning this into a standalone, real application. ...

2007-04-12 17:35:52

New BartleBlog Feature: marketspeak!

Now, I don't know if this is useful, but I do think it's way neat. Inspired by S5_, rst2s5_, and mootools_ I took an hour (or two) and hacked this neat little slide tool. The goals differ from S5 in that I intend to write a frontend, so that you have a sort of very-poor-man's powerpoint, but also in that the output should be simple to embed in other pages so that I can eventually make this a part of bartleblog. Check it out (click to go to next slide, move mouse to the top of the slideshow for controls): .. raw:: html <div class="sl_presentation"> <script type="text/javascript"> new Asset.css('http://lateral.blogsite.org/static/css/slides.css'); slides=[ 'slide0', 'it-s-nerd-oriented', 'it-does-things-simply', 'it-s-very-easy-to-extend', 'and-it-has-kickass-features' ]; var current=-1; var numPages=5; var topMargin=25; var delay=1500; function slide_out() { if ( current > -1 && current < numPages ) { var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({ duration: delay, transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut }); eff1.start({'top': [500]/*, 'height': [0]*/ } ); } } function slide_in() { if ( current > -1 && current < numPages ) { var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({ duration: delay, transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut }); eff1.start({'top': [topMargin]/*, 'height': [450] */} ); } } function next() { slide_out(); current=current+1; slide_in(); }; function prev() { slide_out(); current=current-1; slide_in(); } function controls_in() { var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{ duration: 100 }); eff.start(0); } function controls_out() { var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{ duration: 100 }); eff.start(-100); } </script> <div id="controlBox" class="sl_control" onMouseOver="controls_in(); " > <span id="prev" onClick="if (current > 0 ) {prev();}"><< </span> <span id="next" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}"> >></span> </div> <div class="sl_cover" onMouseOver="controls_out();" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}"></div> <div id="header" class="sl_header"> </div> <div id="footer" class="sl_footer"> Why use BartleBlog </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="slide0"> <h1>Why use BartleBlog</h1> <h2 id="if-you-are-a-nerd">(If you are a nerd)</h2> <table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="docinfo-name" /> <col class="docinfo-content" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th> <td>Roberto Alsina <<a class="reference" href="mailto:ralsina@kde.org">ralsina@kde.org</a>></td></tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-nerd-oriented"> <h1><a id="it-s-nerd-oriented" name="it-s-nerd-oriented">It's nerd-oriented</a></h1> <p>It's trivial to display source code, with proper syntax highlighting.</p> <div class="code-block"><pre><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">base64</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">myFirstFunction</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b64decode</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'YnllIHdvcmxkIQ=='</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> <p>Even for things like shell sessions. Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd feature I deem cool.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-does-things-simply"> <h1><a id="it-does-things-simply" name="it-does-things-simply">It does things simply</a></h1> <p>Wanna show a flickr photo?</p> <div class="code-block"><pre><span class="p">..</span> <span class="nt">flickr:</span>: myPhotoTitle </pre></div> <p>How about using openomy.com to share your files? And whatever else you can think of, it probably <strong>can</strong> be done.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend"> <h1><a id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend" name="it-s-very-easy-to-extend">It's very easy to extend</a></h1> <p>Really. It's simple python code.</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines.</li> <li>The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103.</li> <li>The module to do calendars has 72.</li> </ul> <p>If there is a python module or web service to do what you want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="and-it-has-kickass-features"> <h1><a id="and-it-has-kickass-features" name="and-it-has-kickass-features">And it has kickass features</a></h1> <p>Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one! Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup! Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual code, but the hard part is done!</p> <p>Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's <em>somewhat niche</em> ;-))</p> <p>Now, who else has that kind of thing?</p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> next(); </script></div> There may be an artifact when you slide out the syntax-highlighted boxes, but I have no idea how to fix it. Also, I have not tested it at all in IE, so if it fails there, don't worry, that's to be expected! Next time I speak in public, I may use this :-) And, as a teaser... this is the source for the presentation you just saw: .. code-block:: rst Why use BartleBlog ================== (If you are a nerd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :author: Roberto Alsina <ralsina@kde.org> It's nerd-oriented ------------------ It's trivial to display source code, with proper syntax highlighting. .. code-block:: python from base64 import * def myFirstFunction(): print b64decode ('YnllIHdvcmxkIQ==') Even for things like shell sessions. Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd feature I deem cool. It does things simply --------------------- Wanna show a flickr photo? .. code-block:: rst .. flickr:: myPhotoTitle How about using openomy.com to share your files? And whatever else you can think of, it probably **can** be done. It's very easy to extend ------------------------ Really. It's simple python code. * The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines. * The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103. * The module to do calendars has 72. If there is a python module or web service to do what you want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple. And it has kickass features --------------------------- Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one! Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup! Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual code, but the hard part is done! Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's *somewhat niche* ;-)) Now, who else has that kind of thing? .. _mootools: http://www.mootools.net .. _s5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ .. _rst2s5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/slide-shows.html ...

2007-04-02 12:42:56

Son of bartleblog VIII: Some Qt love

Now that the backend is still iffy but generates a blog, I finally started showing some love to the UI. ...

2007-03-30 08:41:52

Son of Bartlebog VII: the nuclear test site

A lot of new features going on, like openomy based file uploading and links that work like simple rst directives: ...

2007-03-29 18:43:28

Son of Bartleblog VI: The flickr directive

I added a Restructured Text directive that takes as argument the title of one of your (my) flickr pictures, like this: ...

2007-03-28 17:28:48

Son of bartleblog 5: Menus

Added a Yahoo! Ui menubar generator. It turns this: ...

2007-03-27 12:49:20

Son of Bartleblog IV

Another morning, another feature: archive ...

2007-03-26 18:28:32

Son of Bartleblog III

A couple more hours of hacking, and the templates are all new, and more functional then ever. ...

2007-03-25 12:53:36

Son of Bartlebog II

After a few more hours hacking, it's got the following working: ...

2007-03-24 09:16:00

A little project, son of BartleBlog

I have been posting this blog using PyDS for over 4 years now. Sadly, the PyDS author seems to have abandoned it. Which is sad, because it's nifty software. ...

2007-03-22 19:53:52

History of KDE: A generous offer...

Back in october of 1996, when everyone was saving for the flying car we would buy in 5 years, and KDE was starting, slowly, to take shape in the minds of a few.... there was a generous offer... ...

2006-06-25 14:23:12

Exhausted by a match. And I was just watching.

I wrote in my first post about the world cup this: We have a probable superstar, but he's too young and a little injured. We have a terrible goalie, an aging defense, a lot of above average forwards... I say semis, or quarters. If we get any further, it will be in the Italy way, not the Mexico way. ...

2006-05-27 17:22:24

A question for KDE devs...

... if I want to store a password in kdewallet, from a non-kde app, how can I do it? ...

2006-05-16 10:34:56

Roadmap for Qt/IUP

I have been contacted by a few people about Qt/IUP. Here's my current state of mind... ...

2006-05-03 11:49:36

Rethinking my fax solution

I decided to redo most of it, because I think I figured out a better way. ...

2006-04-24 20:25:52

Further IUP/Qt advances: Canvas

I keep working on it, which is nice. I have finished the skeleton of the implementation of a Qt driver for the CD canvas. ...

2006-04-22 16:07:44

Now I remember why I don't like C++

I have refactored IUP/Qt into a lovely object hierarchy. And I now remember why I dislike C++. ...

2006-04-21 15:12:16

IUP/Qt preview

Ok, here is version 0.0.1 of my Qt4 backend for IUP . It's not very good, but a bunch of things work. A whole bunch more do not, of course. ...

2006-04-19 13:00:00

IUP/Qt is advancing

I have callbacks (some), geometry management, LED files loading (resource files) and it seems no hard parts are left. ...

2006-04-19 01:48:00

IUP/Qt shows a window

Of course you know that means nothing, but yes, after a few hours of hacking, I got enough of a Qt backend for IUP so a window can be displayed. ...

2006-04-18 02:41:20

My first adventure in D-Land

Yesterday (or rather, like 10 hours ago?) I posted about my quest for a specific language, and mentioned one of the candidates, called D which I had found appealing. ...

2006-04-11 00:50:24

A match made in heaven

So, RH pays 350 millions for JBoss. ...

2006-04-02 22:33:52

What I learned moving my blog

1 - PyDS is good enough to let you change how you host your site and keep it just working. ...

2006-01-11 12:36:32

2006 resolution

I will make some of my work public. ...

2005-12-16 14:27:28

Bound by Smoke I

This is what I understood of Smoke so far. I may be way off, since it is C++ sorcery of a higher level than I'm used to, but I really think I am getting the hang of it (and a bunch of thanks to Richard Dale and Ashley Winters who are the ones that made me understand so far. Any mistakes a re my fault, any good thing is theirs ;-). ...

2005-12-12 19:47:28

Ok, so, I am a lazy guy

I just realized I have not learned a whole new real language in almost 5 years. ...

2005-12-12 12:30:08

PlanetKDE, point me in some direction, please!

I have been trying to figure out how to use libsmoke from kdebindings for a few hours. ...

2005-10-17 17:30:56

A real programming challenge.

A long time ago, I wrote a piece about how I didn't like kcalc. It contained a very lame pyqt script showing a (IMHO) nicer calculator. Strangely, that lead to two very cool implementations of the concept! ...

2005-08-02 19:17:36

Deployments and stuff

Have been reading the planets lately (I mean planetkde.org and planet.gnome.org, not astrology) and run into posts by Aaron Seigo and Luis Villa which are, let's say, interesting. ...

2005-07-29 11:11:12

The ethics of advertising

Just finished reading an article at Timothy Butler's site (see here ) and it was a weird feeling. ...

2005-07-26 11:04:48

The evil of sliding

I am not too active in the public speaking business anymore (not that I ever charged for speaking, either ;-). ...

2005-07-18 10:41:20

Some more about the docs

Answer to comments on my previous docs item. First of all, chillout people. This is just the blog of a retired guy. It's not exactly Infoworld, ok? ...

2005-07-17 14:10:24

Making docs more useful

There are some problems with some of the KDE apps docs. The biggest are: ...

2005-06-05 12:02:24

Innovative apps and features in KDE

I will be speaking about this subject in 48 hours. ...

2005-05-14 16:22:40

Data aware widgets in KDE

Well, reading in planetkde about how nice data aware widgets would be, I have to say this: ...

2005-05-13 18:13:36

Pissed off at SSH

Ok, not really, since SSH has made my life much simpler than it would be otherwise, but really, it has some usability issues. ...

2005-05-13 10:34:56

KDE at Software Libre2005

I will be speaking at the Software Libre 2005 event, June 7 at 2PM, at the Sheraton Retiro, Buenos Aires. ...

2005-03-17 23:59:12

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

2005-03-15 23:59:12

Source-based distributions, the good side.

I am no fan of source-based distributions. I think that for most practical purposes, a distribution where installing KDE takes over a day (I own a lowly Duron as my fast computer) is useless. ...

2005-03-12 23:59:12

Developer-centric and proud of it

Ok, as everyone and its goat in the free software/open source/pet-keeping communities already has read, Eugenia [1] has been up to her old antics. ...

2005-03-07 23:59:12

Ok, so not everyone read my calculator rant

First of all, a note: I intend all this post as encouragement to Emiliano, the author of Kalcoolus. ...

2004-12-22 18:58:24

Games using PyQt

As some may remember, a long time ago I started writing a Bejeweled! lookalike using PyQt. ...

2004-11-26 14:21:04

I remember worse!

Funny article at GlitchNYC about looking at KDE 2.0 today. ...

2004-11-25 10:24:16

Interview at KDE Hispano

Late, but linked: I was interviewed by one of the nice guys at KDE hispano, something like Tink´s old interviews. In spanish. ...

2004-11-15 02:20:00

On speaking and slides

As I mentioned before, I was at the 3rd CafeLUG event on friday and saturday. ...

2004-11-10 15:16:32

What linux needs on the desktop is...

... oh, screw it, why not say what it doesn't need? It's better for my blood pressure. ...

2004-10-27 23:18:40

konqueror/embedded hacking continues

I have roughly 95% of it building with kdelibs 3.3.1, with the patches comitted up to now. ...

2004-10-26 02:47:44

Konq-embed hacking progress

Ok, I have done a little about that. ...

2004-10-22 14:31:44

Some KDE-related hacking

Since porting HTML display engines from one place to another is all the rage these days, I did a little hacking on one of the oldest forms of the art: ...

2004-10-15 11:11:12

Now, this is news to me.

Tavia seems to be another KDE web browser. ...

2004-10-13 16:03:28

Adventures in Hi-Fi

As I blogged earlier I am writing a game (and yes, it's pretty much playable already). ...

2004-09-10 14:01:52

Shopping for a notebook

Ok, I want to retire my notebook . It's about to turn 10 years old, which is about 270 in notebook years, so it's time. ...

2004-09-03 18:49:52

Back in the saddle

Should start posting stuff again now. Wait, this is a post! Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy! ...

2004-06-17 14:57:20

Would a sock suck if a sock could suck?

Clee: it's really quite simple, IMVHO. ...

2004-06-08 11:47:28

Planet KDE suggestion

Boudewijn Rempt's blog is at the link, it has a RSS feed, and he's hacking Krita. ...

2004-06-07 17:13:52

Good news, Bad news

Good news: It seems I have been accepted to teach a PyQt tutorial at akademy . ...

2004-06-04 21:51:12

Late congress report

Last week, I gave a conference [1] about KDE in the first free software congress of Argentina. ...

2004-06-03 10:22:08

There goes Captain Beto, through space!

Here is a new realtime PyQt tutorial. For those who have not seen the first one, here's the main idea: ...

2004-05-27 11:13:20

Silly description of internal state

As mentioned before I am speaking about KDE today in a congress. ...

2004-05-26 20:36:32

What is flexibility

Ok, a rant. ...

2004-05-21 23:12:16

New Stylesheet

Ok, so I touched it a little. ...

2004-05-19 17:26:40

The Roberto KDE Show

I will be speaking at the Primer Congreso Nacional de Software Libre on May 27th, at 15:00. ...

2004-05-11 19:24:00

Kill Bill Vol. 2

As I mentioned, I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2. ...

2004-05-10 15:46:24

Checking old stuff

I looked at my old stories, and found some rather new comments :-) ...

2004-04-13 19:13:20

Back in the mines

So, I'm back after a 9-day trip to the beach... relaxed, strong, happy... and TV-less since it seems to have burned something inside when I turned it on yesterday. ...

2004-03-23 16:48:16

Dcoppython

In a whim, I checked out kdebindings/dcoppython from KDE's CVS. ...

2004-02-29 18:58:24

Connect KDE applications using DCOP

Good article at IBM Developerworks. ...

2004-02-23 18:56:16

Now THAT is a stupid argument

I am reading comments about ars technica's KDE 3.2 review in /., osnews, etc. ...

2004-02-07 22:31:44

More fun with Ilan. (don 't read if you have flaming issues)

Warning: flamable. ...

2004-02-04 14:36:00

Just in case you thought I was a little rough...

Ilan, darling, you are paranoid. What you did is a patch. When you modify a few strings (my guess is about 25 of them), that's not a software project. ...

2004-02-04 14:29:36

So morons can use KDE, too.

Mind you, when I say morons, I don't mean the following: ...

2004-02-03 13:02:08

Cleaning the attic III: Cooperative MT Qt apps using GNU pth

This is something I wrote in March of 2000, about how to write a cooperatively multithreading app using Qt and GNU Pth. ...

2004-01-04 15:18:40

Now, that´s cool

A gtk engine that draws using the current Qt style. ...

2003-12-20 13:07:28

Well ordered toolkits

I think some months of formal math training would do wonders for the average guy. ...

2003-12-18 12:25:52

Quickie look at KDE 3.2 Beta 2 (3.1.94)

Just installed it a couple of days ago, so I wrote a little about it. ...

2003-12-15 15:11:12

The case against cooperation

I often see and read about cooperation in free software. I read about how multiple competing projects are counterproductive, about how cooperation would make things go faster... ...

2003-12-11 19:38:56

Listen to me!

Ok, noone will bother, but you can listen to me speaking about KDE in a Linux event last year, in Ogg Format, in spanish. ...

2003-11-04 20:06:40

Confused by QMimeSourceFactory

Ok, here it goes. If you are not fluent in Qt programming the following entry will make no sense whatsoever :-) ...

2003-10-26 17:25:36

KRsN teaser number 4

Ok, so teaser number 3 was a long time ago ;-) ...

2003-10-23 18:13:36

Nice side effect

Looks like the kind fellows at kde-redhat.sf.net have a working PyKDE, and I got it while I was upgrading. ...

2003-09-24 15:08:00

Writing YAT

Yet Another Tutorial. This time, it should be about writing apps for KDE that rely on DBs to handle their data. ...

2003-09-20 23:16:32

QSQLite

Since KRecipes seems to be using QSQLite without much trouble , it seems the nice guys who adopted it have fixed it enough to work. So, I just sent a proposal to kde-core-devel to include it somewhere visible, and thus encourage people to use DBs in their apps. Let's see how it turns out. ...

2003-03-24 21:28:48

KRsN now available

Sadly, not a really usable version, but I got sidetracked by PyKDE and KFTE first. KRsN really needs just a couple of days loving. So, if you REALLY REALLY want to try it, get >PyQt for Qt 3.1 working, and then head for KRsN's sourceforge page, and get it via CVS ...

2003-03-22 11:37:52

Some programming

I just committed changes that make KFTE work on KDE 3.1 For anyone who likes FTE , a traditional programmer's editor from OS/2 (and DOS, and Mac, and X, and linux console, and pretty much everywhere :-), this version provides a pure Qt and a KDE version. ...

2003-03-17 19:29:20

Ok, I better keep on hacking!

So, I mentined KRsN on a couple of public places. I even said stuff about it being available by the weekend. So I better get my hands dirty now! ;-) ...

2003-03-16 18:54:08

PyKDE

Well, just uploaded my hacked KDE 3.1 version of PyKDE to ftp://upload.kde.org/incoming/unstable/KDE3.x so it should propagate to the KDE mirrors soon. It seems to work well, even if it doesn't expose ALL the KDE 3.1 API, and it should be useful as a stopgap until the authors release the real thing. ...

2003-03-14 20:48:16

Hey, google finds stuff!

Not only can you now reach this humble weblog through ggl:lateral+opinion (if you are using KDE, of course), but a look at my referrers show that the follwing google searches have gotten the searcher here: ...

2003-03-14 20:33:20

PyKDE

Well, just because I want to use KHTML in KRsN, I got the latest PyKDE. It says it is for KDE up to 3.0.3 ... ...

2003-03-08 23:29:20

What I am writing

Well, if you are one of the 6 who actually checked the link in the previous entry, you will know I am writing a news aggregator ;-) ...

2003-03-01 22:14:40

D-BUS: a systemwide bus / IPC system

The link goes to a message by Havoc Pennington describing D-BUS, a IPC technology being developed for use in Red Hat, and perhaps as a future (think 18 months) replacement for DCOP and maybe Bonobo's IPC mechanism. ...

2003-03-01 01:41:36

Simple KDE Trick #1

This is the first article in what will hopefully will become a series explaining how a little creativity can enrich the KDE desktop experience, maybe using a not-very-popular feature. ...

2003-03-01 00:41:52

KDE 3.1 vs. GNOME 2.2: How GNOME became LAME

Prepare for a flamefest of moderate proportions, courtesy of LinuxWorld. ...

2003-02-28 16:10:56

IBM, Adobe and Windows love Qt but Mozilla Bails

Weird article in dot.kde.org. ...

2003-02-28 15:47:28

In the beginning

Well, I have been wanting to have a weblog for a while, specially since I got a permanent Internet connection at home. ...

2001-04-09 21:28:30

Advogato post for 2001-04-09 21:28:30

Man, I'm in such a coding high, I feel like I've been smoking funny stuff. KFTE now has the rudiments of a DCOP interface, and I decided this stuff is so cool, all apps should be extendable through external DCOP scripts. ...

2001-03-26 14:15:58

Advogato post for 2001-03-26 14:15:58

Well, 6 months without posting an entry. I must confess I was pretty pissed at some people around here at the time (note to self: maybe putting my real email address here is not such a good idea. Some people are really scary). ...

2000-09-07 16:45:29

Advogato post for 2000-09-07 16:45:29

Uraeus , my friend, I will only tell you two things: ...

2000-09-07 15:47:02

Advogato post for 2000-09-07 15:47:02

Nice: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2281/1/ I still say "I'll believe it when I see it", but at least I have SOME hopes of seing it. ...

2000-09-06 17:19:31

Advogato post for 2000-09-06 17:19:31

mazeone : If I give a copy of whatever to Joe, he is now in compliance, because accepting the copy is legal (he is not forced to assure MY compliance), and the copy contains only GPLd code. You could argue that I would be breaking the license one last time, but what's another stripe on the tiger? ;-) brother : It's not a matter of black helicopters, at all. It's a matter of having a package (kdelibs) that Debian already said has no licensing problems, and still it never gets into Debian, after many many months. Why should I believe KDE will change their minds? After all, again, it was not licensing that kept kdelibs out! In fact, I still have not seen any rational explanation on why kdelibs was removed in the first place, except that they were wrong about the license of something in it (gettext). They were wrong. They knew it. Did they put it back? Of course not. ...

2000-09-06 13:21:54

Advogato post for 2000-09-06 13:21:54

Joey, if Debian includes KDE now, I will be happy to apologize. BTW: Debian can just get a copy, you are excepted by section 4, which RMS told me is the one about forfeiting rights. You will be in compliance, and you can keep on redistributing it, so Debian still has no excuse. Go ahead, MAKE ME APOLOGIZE, that's what I want most than anything. Tladuca: what you see here is just rage and frustration. Because that's about all I have left in me regarding RMS, the FSF, etc. If it bothers you, too bad, really. I'm gonna keep on coding, but I now know that whatever we do we will never get the respect of the FSF, or RMS, because they seem to just dislike us for politics, because I refuse to believe this hackneyed forgiveness thing is serious, since it's trivial to fix (even if you take the most hardcore position on it). Too bad for them. I don't care anymore. ...

2000-09-05 20:31:43

Advogato post for 2000-09-05 20:31:43

Ok, I swear this is my last entry of today. So that people can understand why RMS pisses me off so much: for YEARS he has been saying that the problem with KDE was that the QPL and the GPL were incompatible, and that if they were not incompatible, there would be no problem. ...

2000-09-05 17:46:55

Advogato post for 2000-09-05 17:46:55

To those saying "oh, no, Debian was just waiting for the licensing problems to clear up", read and cry: ...

2000-08-16 18:23:31

Advogato post for 2000-08-16 18:23:31

Oh, joy, I'm coding :-) I'm doing a bunch of things, trying to decide on a largish project to tackle (that is not as scary as porting KRN to KDE2). One of the things is a KDE style, I call Note, although it could be called flat . ...

2000-08-09 19:58:29

Advogato post for 2000-08-09 19:58:29

Ok, so there goes the idea of speedy reporting ;-) I did present my thing after the previous post, and I did it in front of a whole lot of people. It went well, even if a bit faster than I expected. The Q & A part was nice, and only one question contained the word license ;-) ...

2000-08-04 05:34:39

Advogato post for 2000-08-04 05:34:39

It's 2:30 AM, and instead of being arriving at rosario for the 1ra Jornada Linux, I am here in my office polishing the slides. I am either too responsible, or the exact opposite :-) ...

2000-07-31 16:38:18

Advogato post for 2000-07-31 16:38:18

Well, KDE Beta 3 is working quite nicely, and I'm now finally confident that I can actually code for it. So, it's time to go crazy, get a computer, and redo KRN. ...

2000-02-27 03:07:01

Advogato post for 2000-02-27 03:07:01

The new dock-based, MT KRN is advancing well, although the amount of things broken in it is a bit scary. Of course the code to do all the things 0.6.11 did is still there (and anyway, that's what CVS exists for ;-) but it is totally divorced from the UI. On other issues, I got over slashdot today, after a long while. After I thought the site had reached the bottom, they get a shovel and dig deeper :-P ...

2000-02-25 01:57:44

Advogato post for 2000-02-25 01:57:44

KRN is now multithreaded! Ok, not really, in at least two ways. One way in which KRN is not multithreaded, is in that it is done using GNU Pth, which is not "real" multithreading, but cooperative userspace multithreading. Of course that if I had to make KRN reentrant and threadsafe, it would not be multithreaded in any way. ...

2000-01-17 17:19:57

Advogato post for 2000-01-17 17:19:57

Well, this is the first entry. I have wanted to keep a diary on a semi-public place for a while, I guess this is as good a moment to start as ny other. I am a KDE developer, my most widely known program being KRN. After a long hiatus I restarted development a couple of months ago, after I decided the current state was a bit embarrasing. ...

kde

Articles tagged kde

Posts tagged kde