Tag Archives: KDE

Bubblemon in 4.3!

Posted on April 7, 2009 by T. Fischer

A few hours ago I moved Bubblemon out of kdereview and into kdeplasma-addons.

Keep an eye out when 4.3 ships. You’ll like it :)

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Plasma speaks!

Posted on March 23, 2009 by T. Fischer

Last night I committed a quick patch to Plasma’s plasmaclock library that almost all plasma clocks use. It changes the configuration interface a little bit to add one neat feature: speaking the time.

Now, you can configure any plasma clock …

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The Future of Glovebox

Posted on March 17, 2009 by T. Fischer

The middle of last year, I started working on Glovebox, a rather ambitious project for a car computer environment.

One of the biggest choices I made was to write my own set of UI libraries on top of Qt to …

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KPackageKit 0.4.0 Released!

Posted on February 19, 2009 by T. Fischer

3 days ago, Daniel announced the release of KPackageKit 0.4.0. Outside of the lone message on packagekit-devel, I haven’t seen much hooplah, so here I am writing up a news release for the planet. Our last release was way …

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So, yes, perhaps I was an idiot

Posted on February 15, 2009 by T. Fischer

So in my last post, I said this in reference to bubblemon:

While writing this, I found a few possible bugs in plasma. I say possible, because I’ve been known to be an idiot sometimes

Turns out using setAspectRatioMode(Plasma::Square) fixes it:

You’d …

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Hello, planet!

Posted on February 13, 2009 by T. Fischer

So, uh, hi there. I’m new to the planet.

To get things started, I’m Trever, a 20 year old CS student from the good ‘ole US of A, which may or may not be true depending on your opinion of …

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Python Plasmoid on TechBase

Posted on January 31, 2009 by T. Fischer

Most of this weekend I spend digging through some of the lightest documentation around, trying to figure out how to make a simple plasmoid in python. Took me over two days, but I finally got it done. I even …

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KPackageKit Progress

Posted on January 11, 2009 by T. Fischer

Over the past week or so, Daniel and I have been hacking on improving KPackageKit. Our original goal was to get it into the 4.2 release. Doing this depended on getting PolicyKit-KDE into base before release time, but that …

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Winter Break

Posted on December 15, 2008 by T. Fischer

Whew, end of the fall semester. It seemed to fly by rather quickly. So anyways, I’m finally at home and able to do some full-time KDE hacking. I originally came home wednesday night, and found that Kuiper (my firewall …

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Messing around with KNotify

Posted on November 2, 2008 by T. Fischer

As part of KPackageKit, there are two important programs. The first is the kpackagekit executable, which actually shows the main add/remove/update selection Ui. The second is kpackagekit-smart-icon, which shows the transaction list in your system tray.

The current SVN has …

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