Hey everyone!
Perhaps you don’t know me, but I’m KGet-Developer for ~6 Month now. I also wanted to blog for a long time now, but didn’t find time. Now we have holidays in Germany and I can start 
Today I want to tell you a bit about Development-Progress in KGet:
Urs and Nookie have worked together on a Webinterface. It’s pretty nice imo and there were already some Screenshots of it @ jarzebski.pl.
In the meantime, Javier has made a lot of improvements to the TransferHistory, which was introduced directly after the 4.0.0-release. Before we only had a XML-Backend for it, but now you can choose between XML and SQLite (which is the default one). Also you can switch from a KCategorizedView (the one which is used in Dolphin and Systemsettings) to a normal QTreeWidget, in both variants you can choose between ordering by Host, Size and Date. This is still work in progress, but it’s already working very well here.
In January I also joined the Development-Team of a new Package-Manager-Frontend for Archlinux. It’s called Shaman (previously QtPacman).
The development is pretty fast (all this is work of 2 Month). The main development happens in the KDEMod-Forums: http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=502
With Dario (the other Shaman-Developer) I also started a new Project to edit Archlinux-Configuration-Files, called Arxin. No screenshot from this here, cause it’s a little bit … ähh .. ugly at the moment…
This was my first Blogentry I every wrote, hope you enjoyed reading and please let me know your opinion about it 
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it’s great to see a summary of all the stuff that flashes by on #kget…
very nice improvements, keep up the good work!
Comment by Ant Bryan March 24, 2008 @ 8:33 pmShaman, huh… Sounds good, even though commandline pacman is good enough for me. Arxin sounds even better, not having to find & edit the files is a good thing
Keep up the good work on KGet, it’s a great app!
Comment by jospoortvliet March 24, 2008 @ 8:41 pmHey thank you
@jos: Yes, we want to make it possible to set up your system without nano/vim/emacs
Anyway, if u have some config-files, you would like to see supported, list them here: http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=611&p=2
Lukas
Comment by boom1992 March 24, 2008 @ 8:51 pmShaman rocks! Keep up the good work.
P.S. Please make it not run as root by default. Sudo is our friend.
Comment by AurGlass March 24, 2008 @ 9:39 pmThanks
Yes, we’re working on that, but it’s not easy at all…
Lukas
Comment by boom1992 March 24, 2008 @ 9:41 pmI plead ignorance with this question: Coming from the gnome/windows side of things, what is so awesome about KGet? What can it do for me to make my life easier? And how does having a web interface for it make it even more awesome? I don’t dispute the fact that it is awesome, I just don’t know how to use it, what it’s paradigm is, or much else about it. I certainly am curious though. Links to info, screencasts, and raw info appreciated!
P.S. - I’ve been looking at KDE for several months now, but I never really *got it*, KDE 4 looks amazing, but it also seems to me that there are KDE ways of doing things which I just don’t quite understand (KIO, etc.) Please help!
Comment by MikeMLP March 24, 2008 @ 10:01 pmHey!
Webinterface: That’s pretty cool for advanced-users, they can control kget over the internet…
And I think KGet is cool, because:
1) It’s easy to use
2) It’s nice
3) It supports much ways to download things
KIO: As user, you don’t have to know it, it’s only for Programmers, which can download things inside a program with it…
Hope that helps you and you understand kde…
Lukas
Comment by boom1992 March 24, 2008 @ 10:36 pmLooks very nice, but for the 2nd screenshot (TransferHistory), why not just make a toolbar (with text) of the buttons/search field? Would look much better IMHO.
Comment by Martin Stubenschrott March 24, 2008 @ 10:53 pmOk I will forward that to Javier
Thanks
Lukas
Comment by boom1992 March 24, 2008 @ 11:17 pmi want to say, thank you from the heart, from a user with very bad internet connexion, where a download manager is a real must have product.
Comment by mimoune djouallah March 24, 2008 @ 11:35 pmHey Lukas! Glad you started your blog, thanks for mentioning me
Comment by Dario March 25, 2008 @ 1:42 amCheers