Akademy finished, it was great.
Next week is feature freeze in Ubuntu land, so we are working hard on filling the distros with the necessary features, if not always beastie-free.
We got a new Adept in thanks to the excellent mornfall, so now people can install and upgrade and manage their packages again. Some bits were missing though so I implemented an equivalent of adept_batch for installing packages from a command line with a GUI (used by Amarok's codec installer for example).
I also implemented a notifier to tell you when there are updates
This includes a feature called upgrade hooks used when package updates have actions which should happen after the update.
It also keeps an eye on Apport, the Ubuntu crash handler. Today I turned off drkonqi in KDE apps in favour of Apport as an experiment with our Bugs team to see if they can handle forwarding bugs upstream as necessary. Unlike drkonqi, Apport uploads to Launchpad which magically fills in the backtrace and does some duplicate testing.
KPassivePopup could do with some love though, it's ugly and covers the systray icons.
Google Summer of Code Ended. I had three students and they all passed, but there's plenty more work to do. Umbrello got lovely new GraphicsView bling. The printing dialogue now exists but applications are yet to be talking to it. Hopefully the students will hang around and continue to work on the projects.
It you want to get a feel of Akademy I took some short video interviews up on KDE://Radio, now including this example of near native Flemmish.
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KPassivePopup
Knotify is one option however I think it would be most prudent to speak to Dmitry Suzdalev as he has already wrote a Notify Plasmoid so that these things fit in with your plasma styling rather than having an ugly pop-up that doesn't conform to any styling.
He hasn't updated his blog in a while but I can't say first hand if that means development stopped or just blogging stopped. Still contact details are in there so it may be worth a shot.
Are the Kubuntu Python apps going to conform to KDE styling in KDE4 now or are they going to remain static like in KDE3. It's just that everything in 'Plastic' was huge and I liked a theme that had regular sized buttons/tabs etc but when I changed it Adept kept the ugly default styling.
KDE4 power
Why dont you use Knotify for those notifications? The KDE4 has great loogin knotify plasmoid what I use. It looks great and sits well on the desktop or panel. Does Kubuntu really need to reinvent the wheel
So there's the vice-president
So there's the vice-president of the e.V. showing the world how serious the KDE project is about world domination... Luckily, the others in the board are more serious, like Aaron and Sebas.
(always wondered how Ade could get away with these things - he can be so serious and responsible, yet behave like a total idiot at other times - still seems like a coherent, non-multiple-personality-disorder-person. How does he pull it off? I'd love to learn that trick...)
btw nice work on Kubuntu,
btw nice work on Kubuntu, I've got it running on my shiney new Acer Aspire One, works great!
Kubuntu on the Aspire One
Jos, how are you liking Kubuntu on the Aspire One? Are you using KDE 3 or 4 and does everything work ok?
The wife is getting back from vacation tomorrow and there is a nice new Aspire One waiting for her with the default software still on it. It's an impressive little package.
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Simon
following the how-to,
following the how-to, wireless is fine as well.
I like Kubuntu on the Aspire
I like Kubuntu on the Aspire One a lot... Haven't used wireless, yet, though. Sound works out-of-the-box, KDE4 is perfectly fine. I currently run 8.04.1 with KDE 4.1 packages.
My current dilemma:
just bought a wireless router so I've got to get wireless running. According to tha intarwebz, it's gonna be a bit of a hassle. So I'm thinking about upgrading to interprid of whatever the new Kubuntu release is called, hoping to not have to install the wireless stuff myself