KDE

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Keep on hacking and thank you all for your contributions to KDE this year. 2007 ought to be great

Now go and party till dawn!

Quick check: Someone working on an "Apple PhotoBooth"-like KDE application? Does something similar even exist already?

In case I missed something, drop me a note please!

Cheers,
muesli

...the first piece of opensource, I've ever written. Back at the age of 15, pretty much exactly 10 years ago. Funnily back then nobody really seemed to care or know what opensource is. Neither did anyone really realize the power behind. Except a few developers, of course. Nice to see how things have changed in retrospect. Let's just imagine what could be done in another decade. I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks to google for caching it. I wouldn't have a backup otherwise, I reckon.
COMUnit at Google Groups.

Kudos to the Fink Project!



I installed most of KDE and a fresh svn-version of amaroK on my iBook today. Worked pretty much without a problem. I just needed taglib and the gstreamer packages from fink's experimental repository (thanks RangerRick) and a small patch for amaroK.

Hooray!
...muesli

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."

Now guess who said that originally?

Linus Torvalds? Wrong.
Richard Stallman? Wrong.
Muesli? No-ho.

Bill Gates? Just kidding. Oh no, wait. He did. He really did.
Maybe he was developing an opensource OS named Billux back then? Just guessing, though.

...muesli

Just stumbled over the amaroK Desktop Script on kde-apps.org. Nicely done, cool script

If you're curious: since I didn't have the pyqt/pykde stuff installed on my Debian desktop yet, I had to run "su -c apt-get install pyqt-tools python-kde3 python2.3-kde3" to get this stuff installed. Easy job.

So, now there's always a cool blended coverart of the currently playing album on my desktop. Sweet

...muesli

Recently I installed new CVS checkouts of kdelibs and -base on my system and played with the "new" Kicker. Kudos to Aaron for all the changes, fixes and new features.

Now, I just added the Storage Media Applet to my Kicker and noticed a few things:

1. It rocks I got used to mount / unmount / eject my CDs, iPod and Cam with it. Two clicks instead of a few keystrokes in Konsole. And it even shows the current mount-status, hooray!

2. Ejecting audio discs doesn't seem to work. It tells you, that the current disc couldn't be mounted - which is correct, but shouldn't matter at all

3. After I mounted a disc I clicked "Open in New Window", which opens a Konqui-window pointed to "media:/hdc". That's fine so far. I got into trouble once I tried opening a big mpeg-movie with xine: KIO started copying the file to my kdecache prior opening it, which took ages. It would be better if KIO detects, that the disc already is mounted and opens xine with the real url (the mounted location) of the file.

Nuf' ranting. CVS head feels stable and great atm

Now start drinking your favourite kind of alcohol, the new year's coming
...muesli

Here's some stuff I just installed recently and I'm rather happy with:

1. My new mouse cursors:
Pinux Theme.

2. kio-locate:
A KIO accessing the locate database.

3. Active Heart style:
This and Lipstik are my favorite styles currently.

Have fun,
muesli