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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. so basically what I have done is add some basic icons zooming and rotate the QGV around Y axis which make the view flip like magic. video is here : http://upload.ruphy.org/raptor3dflip.ogg Read More

I started Jambi package to Mandriva at Akademy this year, but process was complex since we're dealing with buildsystem changes, Java new packages, Qt4 layout changing, so lots of barriers to get the task done. My personal effort on this is have next Mandriva releases be ready for developers in all cases, to use best available Qt and KDE technologies as possible, improving our situation from the past. Then, yesterday i had all things in really good shape, and finally a good initial package could be produced. I tested many environments. gcj/ecj was having some compile issues, but java 1.6 sun and the best, java 1.7 icedtea worked as a breeze. Linking against system Qt 4.3.1 was not a problem at all. Great that both i586 and x86_64 arches are compiled fine as well ( thanks for David Walluck tips ). So the major trouble in my special case is the install process, as Jambi not provide a proper install script, and even a proper layout to install. I decided make launcher and designer-jambi scripts to lauch on doc and devel package respectively, and separate Jambi jar and libraries in different packages, and most of files fall down on same qt4 dir on Mandriva. We fall down with this result: Read More

Just three words: I hate it. The deadline was 9th of august, just one feature to finish and what happened? It's late. No feature, no release. That's why I hate feature driven development. I want bloody deadlines!

Thanks to Chris Lee for adding me to the Planet! First, an introduction. Hello, I'm Shawn Starr, I've been busily working on the weather engine for Plasma. The plan is to begin working on an applet as soon as some javascript bindings for the dataengine are ready to use. Read More

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 . here is a ogg video http://upload.ruphy.org/raptortrans2.ogg showing the widget in grid mode And a screenshot to make it complete.

It seems to be an undisputed fact, that Afghanistan in 2007 no longer exports much raw opium at all. "Good", you'll probably say. "That is because the Western troops now have chased the Taliban back into the mountains. The fight to bring democracy and Western culture to this backward country finally seems to show promising results." Read More

I'm quite excited by the things that the Semantic web will make possible, and one very interesting project is DBpedia, which aims to extract structured data from Wikipedia, link it with other datasets and put everything in an RDF triple store that you can either download or query via a 'SPARQL endpoint' on the web. I've been trying out using ActiveRDF to make DBpedia queries and showing the results in a Korundum KDE4 app. Read More

This week was so filled with events and news that it easily qualifies for the most exciting openSUSE week yet: On Monday the rush until feature and version freeze of openSUSE 10.3 started in the evening. The Final Draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles was posted. At the same day the LinuxWorldExpo San Francisco started with not only openSUSE being present but also the announcements that both Lenovo and Dell will start to pre-load SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and offer support. Finally was announced that AMD has become a sponsor of the openSUSE project by providing hardware for the openSUSE Build Service. The Build Service itself got a new distro download and package search front-end with 1-Click Installation. On Thursday the openSUSE project turned two. The birthday wishes keep arriving and show that openSUSE News gets more known quickly. To celebrate we had also the Release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 which among other stuff has a new greeter (web mockup) to explain and link to the project better. The 'People of openSUSE' series started, with already three interviews being published. The news that SCO got a big kick after all the years also made people happy. And still running the whole week-end, the first openSUSE Bug Slashing. Dunno how we can top this week. Maybe with a great openSUSE 10.3 release which allows us to push PCLinuxOS from rank #1 of the DistroWatch charts. :-) Read More

KDE 4 will have more semantic technologies than any KDE version before it. As an average user you may be baffled by the use of funny terms all the time. 'What are semantic technologies?', you are thinking. Many people that have seen what Nepomuk will do in KDE 4 will think that semantics is all about tagging and rating of files. This is the visible part the current state of the Nepomuk-KDE work Sebastian Trueg is doing. 'So what's the big deal?' you will think next, because to be honest, tagging and rating are not all that special. Nice, sure, but not mind blowing. Read More

A few days ago Aaron Seigo blogged about the Strigi vs Tracker vs other search engines. I agree with Aaron that we are wasting a lot of efforts by duplicating code with very similar features. Not only that, but we spend time discussing with each other trying to come up with ways to get some overlap and share some code. It's not easy and can be really frustrating. As free software developers, we all put in a huge commitment by coding in our free time to make the world a better place with our code. At least that's my motivation. So let us try to maximize the effect of our efforts. Read More