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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

Hey!

Now, as we are short before the Shaman1-Release, Dario and me really began to work on Shaman2. The library was worked out in the last weeks already, but at that point, there were no plugins, which used and tested it… that’s solved by now…

What you are seeing here is the PackagesView-Plugin which I worked on the last days The displayed content comes from the Alpm-Plugin which is done by Dario and mostly a Backport from Shaman1. I’m pretty excited about the current state of it, Plugins are sooo coooool

Also we decided to twitter =):

This is Dario’s account, this is the one of sandsmark (our hoster) and this is my own one

Lukas

After just some days from Beta 3, we’re proud to bring you Shaman RC 1. We tried to make this release as bug free as possible, and we’re willing to release Gold in a short time.
Don’t get fooled by the relatively short commit log: there’s more than meets the eye compared to Beta3. All KDE4.1 users will be surely happy to see the huge progress the KRunner and the Plasmoid made. There were also some nice GUI improvements, and we finally fixed the odd sorting by size bug.
Also, we’re string freezed from now on, so please, contribute and translate!

Here comes the whole changelog:

Core:
- Better Thread handling when reloading packages view
- Corrected include guards
- Removed introspection in DBus system due to some custom code needed

GUI:
- Faster startup and no freezes thanks to better Thread Handling
- Avoid Horizontal stretching in Queue Dialog
- Port Messages to Utf8 where possible.
- Fixed sorting by size bug

KRunner:
- Fixed and stabilized for new Plasma API. The Runner now works in KDE4.1

Plasmoid:
- Added Autocompletion for Packages

Also I started working on Shaman2 We have the PluginLoading and the library nearly finished… also we’re working on some Plugins now, you can find us at playground/sysadmin/shaman.

Well, Real Life kinda sucked yesterday, I need to recover from it, but I feel better every hour I come away from it. Thanks to all friends in the world and in my town, who helped me a lot…

Lukas

PS: I will try to set up a longer article about Shaman2 and how to write Plugins in the next week…

Hey!

Today only a small update from me:

We released Shaman Beta3 today, you can find the announcement here. There are already 64Bit-Packages in our KDEMod4-Repository, 32Bit-Packages will follow, when funkyou comes back.

Also there has been a lot of interest in KGet’s Nepomuk-Integration the last day(s). I don’t think that the User-Visible-Part will go into 4.1 (cause we’re in String-Freeze, and some functionality is still missing). But I will enable the non User-Visible-Part for sure, that means: We’re saving the following Properties to Nepomuk:

*Original URL

*File-Size

and we add a Tag called “Downloads”

Lukas

Hey!

It has been a long time since the last Statusupdate from me. Sorry for that ;(

In this time happened very much:

In Arxin we have now scripted Plugins, thanks to Kross and the help of Sebastian Sauer.

Both Locale- and Hardware-Plugins are scripted in Python. Here the obligatory Screenshot:

In Shaman we completed the Plasmoid to release it with Shaman 1.0. This and the Shaman-Runner are both depending on KDE 4.1 since there were major API-Changes and both Dario and me are using it as working System. Expect Beta3 soon

Also we began with the first Development steps of Shaman2. That means: API- and Library-Building, nothing to see yet

And now the best (or “Da bomb” like Dario and me are saying ): Shaman2 will be developed in KDE’s playground with the target Extragear. We are pretty amazed about that =)

As our Main-Backend will be PackageKit we got in contact with some Developers of QPackageKit/KPackageKit with the result, that both Frontends will use libqpackagetkit. This means good code sharing and a nice Qt-Styled-API for PackageKit.

In KGet I’ve worked on the Nepomuk-Integration, which is already in SVN, but waits for a fix in Nepomuk itself to get enabled.

Also I began hacking on Raptormenu. My pet-project inside of it is the Tom-Editor, here a Screenshot:

(yes, I know, the default text rocks =))

So much for now I hope to see you soon again

Lukas

Update:

Liquidat asked what exactly the KGet-Nepomuk-Intergration does:

It saves File-Properties, which we already know to it and you can rate or tag the specific File inside the Context-Menu: