siraj 

Top Level Transparent windows on Mac

Saturday, 20 September 2008
video Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMrAx4AYqk We all know making the top level window transparent is easy on X11 with XCompsite stuff. and I thought I could get away with some simple flag or a function call on mac to do the same. Read More

Fun with WebKit

Friday, 1 August 2008
At my new workplace Collabora , I got the chance to play around with Webkit during the last few months. and one of the tasks we looked at was to improve and speedup webkit on QGraphicsView, And then produce useful ways to interact with Web contents, So yesterday, I was checking how responsive it would be to add live reflections of a webpage. Read More

Richard Stallman now in Sri Lanka

Thursday, 17 January 2008
View Album Finally RMS is here in Sri Lanka, just came back from his first speech which was held at our University in Kandy. looks. if you happen to be a sri lankan or in SL reading, this u can see him again at SLIIT (http://www. Read More

QtWidgets as OpenGL Texture

Thursday, 10 January 2008
Qt is getting better by the second. The new QWidget::render API call is so cool that u can do so many thing you like with it, I just changed few lines of the Video demo to render a QCalendarWidget as a Texture on a cube. Read More

Video Textures with Qt 4

Monday, 7 January 2008
link to vid : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8237332295074818880 This Friday night, I wanted to do some thing wacky,and it was then, that some one passed me a link on youtube demonstrating Surface PC from Micrsoft, it was playing video and at same time moving in 3D. Read More

Raptor Menu flip Effect

Thursday, 16 August 2007
Finally it was the day for playing with the QTransformations and QGV. and the result is kinda nice, but not perfect still . in the coming day's i'll probably make it more functional and put the 3D flipping effect in to more practical use. Read More

True Transparency For Raptor

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Few hours ago Fished adding transparency support to the canvas view I'm using . to it to work it needs kwin to run with composition turned on or some thing like compiz running . Read More

Raptor Grid View

Sunday, 29 July 2007
video preview : http://upload.ruphy.org/raptorgirdview.mpeg Finally after few hours of work. got grid view working, sad thing is i'm not using Plasma gridlayout but when it's ready I'll switch back. but it works and dose the trick for now. Read More

SliderView Raptor

Thursday, 26 July 2007
last several months have been a hard run, having exams one after the other, but I was able to commit several line now and then for raptor project, this is just one widget that we will use with raptor http://upload. Read More

Simpicity of KBFX

Friday, 19 January 2007
two days after the release of kbfx silk in which we try to simplify the backends and front ends, we got a nice comment on kde-look. actually this was really unexpected. Read More

KBFX: Lets Evolve

Monday, 15 January 2007
Yes..the moment we release KBFX slik is down to hours. and we are working on the release and .getting the packages ready for you to download and install . and to give you a hands on experience of some things KDE4 plasma can bring you. Read More

Plasmic-Raptor Kicksoff

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Project Plasmic-Raptor: Unified effort to build a appilcations and utility menu for KDE4. This project brings together all the people who are working on Menus for KDE. We are designing so that we can integrate the efforts from cools kickoff and ALI menu concept as well and Some things from KBFX. Read More

KBFX Becomes a Utility Menu ::Preview for 0.4.9.5

Sunday, 6 August 2006
Hi. After few months of coding finally this sunday I have some thing to write about. in the new version of kbfx "Code named kbfxPlasma-kde3" but don't confuse this with KDE4/Plasma I have a good reason to call this plasma ( look here >>> http://www. Read More

Transparent, Super smooth Qt4Clock :: Experiment

Tuesday, 4 April 2006
Link to My Home page for More screenshots After seeing cairo clock.. I wanted to simulate the same thing using Qt4 .. just to show how simple it is to do it with new Qt 4. Read More

Kbfx 0.4.9 Preview.

Monday, 20 March 2006
Overview As we know it's been some time since we released a stable version of kbfx. Lot of work has been going on behind the stage..I think users who came to kbfx. Read More

A themeable msn client ?

Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Last month nookie was on irc and we were talking about the msn clients out there. all of them functioned really well except for the look and feel of it. gaim is good but it looks as ugly as gnome it self. Read More