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Hey!
Again it’s been a long time since my last blog post. The main reason for this was me being busy with a lot of stuff…

First of all, let’s talk about KGet…
There has been a whole bunch of work on it in the last months, including the merge of Matthias’ great work during SoC, a kget-krunner (thanks to
Tomas Van Verrewegen), a lot of feature development and even more bugfixing…

Get it, test it and, most importantly: report bugs!

The other project I’m currently busy with is Shaman2. Dario wrote a long blog post about it already, so I won’t say too much. Just one thing: It’s awesome…
Expect it to be rockin out quite soon…

I hope I’ll have some more time to keep you updated in the future…

So far,

Lukas

Hey!
Last weekend I was attending the Nepomuk-Meeting held in Freiburg, so I decided that it’s time for another blogpost, the first since a long time already .

So what has happened?
I was really busy recently with some real life stuff and wasn’t coding very much… but now I’m back!

Just in time for the meeting I finished the animations in our custom view, now every view-mode is nicely animated… I still need to figure out how to do screencasts, once I have there will be a video I hope…

Now to the recent part: We’ve been working on integrating Nepomuk into Raptor, specifically as database for the applications on your system. Now we save the last launched date and the times your application was launched… in the future applications will be ordered by launch-times.

I think that’s enough about coding for now, let’s move on to the meeting.
The meeting has been a great success, I met a lot of interesting and nice people. As Tom already mentioned we were out in the evenings (yeah 4 am is actually true ).

Lukas

PS: Hope you didn’t miss Sebastian’s great blog-post about the meeting. He’s also done great work on organizing it, thanks!

No, we’re not!
We’re back working on the thing that was rumoured to be dead, Raptor! After some months of idling because all people had different other stuff to do, we finally got back to work!
I’m taking over the job to inform you about that, Alessandro refused to do that: after his last blog post about Raptor, the project died again.

So here we go with a current Screenshot:

It’s still work in progress, but what you see is your new view. It’s completely based on a QGraphicsWidget, aka painting on it. Currently the new view is pretty basic: no hover animation, no partial item showing, but it’s getting there.

So far…

Lukas

Hey!
Just to keep you informed, we just released Alpha2 of our LiveCD based on ArchLinux and KDEmod…
You can find the release-announcement here.

Lukas

Hey!
Long time no blogpost, but I thought it’s time to come back now . First I want to thank everyone for the great feedback on the first Alpha of our Chakra-LiveCD. The next testing version is coming really soon…

Now back to the work I’ve done recently:
The KConfigEditor-Port is doing great! Alessandro already blogged about it some time ago, now I want to inform you about updates. Since he’s still busy with studying, I have ported the PropertyEditor to Qt’s famous Model/View framework . It’s not finished yet, but already doing great! Here a screenshot:

Another thing I’ve done was integrating Marble into Tribe, our shiny installer! With the help of SaroEngels and tackat you can select the timezone on a globe now. Credits also go to funkyou for the shitload of work he’s done on getting all the coordinates for those timezones!

So far…

Lukas

Hey!
Probably some of you know on what the small Development-Team of KDEmod has worked on for over a half year now already! We wanted to keep this under the radar for now, but now as we have our first public release out, we can break the silence.

We’ve created a LiveCD based on ArchLinux and KDEmod. Additionally we added some tools for easier administration of the installed system.
Chakra includes a nice Installer and even has proprietary graphics drivers installed per default. (There’s also a boot option to only use free drivers btw…)

You can read the release-announcement here. But to remind you, this is an alpha release! So don’t consider it to be 100% stable (but we’ve done our best to make it as stable as possible) and report any bugs and gliches at our Bugtracker.

We hope you enjoy this! You can download it here.

Hey everyone!

It’s actually a lot of time since I wrote my last blog-entry here. Well what have I done?

I worked on a lot of things, which are mostly not ready yet…

One of the Projects is Shaman2, this is the current state of it:

Not much changed, but we have done a lot of things in the core-library… current I’m working on scripting support

KGet has been enhanced by some minor features, including Enabling/Disabling of Plugins and Hiding/Showing of columns in the TransfersView…

Another Project I am working on is Raptor. Alessandro has blogged about that already, but snce we are all kind of busy with other Projects and getting some things into KDE 4.2, Raptor is idling for some time now already…

So far…

Lukas