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bart coppens's picture

Some DCOP fun

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Sometimes KDE makes me want to cry out of frustration (like tonight, because of Qt using select(2) instead of poll(2), breaking my akregator), but sometimes it just fills me with so much joy that I could also cry =) Like just now, when someone came in #koffice to ask if he could somehow print his presentation notes that he put in KPresenter. Unfortunately, I did not know how to do that (quite likely it's just not possible), but it took me just a few minutes tinkering around with DCOP (yes, people still use KDE3.5 technology for work Eye-wink) to make a tiny script that just prints out all your notes!

Of course, the person already copypasted all his notes manually, but for posterity I hereby present my small shellscript: kpresenternotes. Have fun with it (or not Sticking out tongue).

Example output:
$ ./kspreadnotes.sh
The notes of page 0 are:
Ladielala
Notes for slide 1
The notes of page 1 are:
Having some notes fun on slide 2
Done

boemann's picture

Going to Milan for a breath of Oxygen

On Friday I'll fly to Milan for the upcoming Oxygen coding sprint. The objective is to get the Oxygen style into shape so it can be imported into kdebase. There is a lot of work for us to do, but Nuno and David are there for the artistic side and Riccardo (ruphy) and I will be coding on the spot. In addition Thomas will try to be online as much as possible from his home.

Ruphy have been kind enough to offer his house for a place to work and there is a nice cheap hotel down the corner where we'll spend the 3 nights. Apart from the excitement of getting Oxygen style ready, I'm also looking forward to some nice Italian food and icecream

We'll be sure to blog during the event

bille's picture

Don't believe the FUD

With apologies to Public Enemy, but KDE has now got recognition of its usability, in that KDE 3 officially meets ISO 9241. We might not be the best at marketing it, but more and more people are finding out for themselves about KDE's goodness by picking it up themselves.

While I'm skeptical generally of the application of broad certifications and kitemarks to software, it should help us get more users among those large organisations who do need the "boxes to be checked".

Usability in KDE continues to progress through a mixture of expert advice, as was used in producing the 'Kickoff' menu for openSUSE 10.2, and grassroots participation in usability improvements. I'm enjoying watching and being a part of the process.

zander's picture

qotd

After a discussion followed by someone renaming a class in subversion;

10:54 < b> ok this discussion has lasted long enough -do as you think best
10:55 < Thomas> yeah, I'm going to paint my next bikeshed purple with yellow spots of varying diameters Eye-wink
10:55 < i> Thomas: OMG! Pics!
10:55 < Thomas> LOL!

torsten rahn's picture

Windows to the world

Great news for all people who like the Marble Desktop Globe: Google Summer of Code '07 has started and our vivid KDE community managed to get 40 students accepted - three of them will work on Marble! I've got to admit that I was pretty overwhelmed by the interest people showed in Marble: lots of students have submitted applications that dealt with Marble. Most of the submissions were great so it was pretty hard for sure to choose among them.

I hope that in the future we'll be able to get also those people involved whose ideas weren't accepted this time (especially the geocaching idea and the Marble Almanac). Right now I'm happy that now that Inge Wallin of KOffice fame has joined forces we'll have at least five people working on this tiny little project. For GSoC '07 topics will cover KML and GPS support as well as flat 2D projection.

In other news there have been lots of Marble packages for Linux -- thanks to Steffen "Whitey" Joeris, Beineri, Chitlesh Goorah and lots of others. However I'd like to point out that Christian Ehrlicher managed to create a Marble install package for Windows which is ready for download (keep in mind that Marble is still in early beta stage, so bugs certainly do exist). Now even if you are forced to use Windows there is no excuse anymore not to try Marble Eye-wink I hope people don't mind if I post a screenshot:



alexander neundorf's picture

Moving (temporarily) to Albany/New York... any KDE developers there ?

Some of you may already know it, but I thought I should announce it here: next Thursday I'll be going to Albany/New York for around 6 months. There I'll have a job for this time at Kitware, you know, the guys who are (among others) writing the best buildsystem in the world ! Eye-wink

cornelius schumacher's picture

A Summer of Code project for a C++ enthusiast

I just added a proposal for an interesting project to KDE's Summer of Code Ideas page. It's about kxml_compiler, a tool to automatically generate C++ code for parsing XML data from XML schemas. There is some existing code, but it only barely works. Improving this code to become useful for a wide range of schemas and applications would be a great project. The proposed XML based KOrganier holiday description format provides a nice benchmark for this. The code is used in KDE, but it's pretty much self-contained, so working on it will mainly require solid C++ knowledge. kxml_compiler is part of the Kode suite.

For a student who likes a challenge and enjoys the mind-boggling experience of writing code that writes code, kxml_compiler would be a great project. Don't hesitate, apply now!

thiago's picture

Summer of Code closing in 5 days

Yesterday I blogged there were 4 days left. Today there are 5 days left: Google extended the deadline to March 26th.

So you now have the weekend to finish your proposal. But I still would like to see submissions earlier than that.

boemann's picture

kcurve1

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cristian tibirna's picture

GSoC v3 is on!

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