We’re going to have lunch together to celebrate the release of KDE 4.6 😀
Come and join us! It’s going to be fun for sure 😉
Date/Time: 29th of January at 2:00pm
Place: Fass C/Rodríguez Marín 84. Mapa
(paralela al Paseo de la Castellana, a la altura del Santiago Bernabéu)
<Metro> Concha Espina
If you’re coming, please add your name to http://community.kde.org/Promo/ReleaseParties/4.6#Madrid
PS: Thanks a lot for this poster, Eugene and Nuno 😀
I’ve received some emails and some positive feedback about one wallpaper I used for a couple of screenshot’s I’ve used in the past, including also information requests about where that very same wallpaper could be found. I’m happy people liked my choice.
The wallpaper is question is the following, which can be found at gnome-look [dot] org:
Green Snake HD - by Kmurat @ gnome-art.org
It is clear to me at this stage that Artwork has good demand and it’s a ‘value +’ recognized by many users. Understanding this, I’ve decided two things:
* GNOME:Ayatana will have a small Artwork Package by the Community, I’m currently contacting Kmurat to check if he can change the licence on this artwork piece (with over 20.000 downloads on gnome-art) so I can use it for distribution. Currently it’s licensed as CC BY-NC-ND, in which the NC can be probably a problem. Let’s wait a couple of days and see… Either way for those who asked for the source of this wallpaper, click on the image above.
* I will create a small package with wallpapers from the community and make it available (for GNOME, KDE, etc) users.
My intentions are to include a set of wallpapers (4/3, 16/9 and 16/10) of around 5/7 wallpapers from several artists and community contributors. The first person I’ve contacted regarding this was Javier Llorente, a openSUSE Artwork Team and KDE contributor, which donated and pointed some artwork. I’ve also sent a small email to María ‘Tatica’ Leandro, a contributor of Fedora Design Team from South America asking if she had something that she could share with us for this community package (I did loved some of her submissions into Fedora Art). Additionally, I’m also going to nag Sirko Kemter (gnokii) for a contribution…
Once this is assembled (already have 5 wallpapers) I’m going to package it, run a sanity check and prepare it for distribution…
UPDATE: María ‘Tatica’ Leandro has answered positive to my email requesting for a donation, Sirko Kemter also answered positive.
Have you ever tried WebYaST ? No ? Then it is time for. 🙂
We have noticed that WebYaST is not really known in the OpenSuSE community. One reason for is that WebYaST is not really user friendly regarding the installation.
So we have investigate here some effort. Lets see….
Installation
The simplest way is the one-click installation which is already installed on your OpenSuSE 11.3.
Just use a web browser (like firefox) with the url:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Web/openSUSE_11.3/webyast.ymp
The browser will ask you to start the installation via the one-click installation. Start the installation and go through the installation workflow.
Starting and managing WebYaST
WebYaST is a web application which runs on two http servers on your system. For starting and managing these servers Thomas Goettlicher has written a nice Qt-applet which can be started e.g. in KDE:
After starting the WebYaST applet the WebYaST icon appears on the right edge of the frame :
WebYaST is disabled
WebYaST enabled
With the right mouse click you can manage WebYaST:
With this applet you can start WebYaST in your browser too. After accepting the GPG-key please login with your “root” account.
And that’s WebYaST:
That’s all.
(Yes, I know that sentence is written almost in every post here. Even in posts where problems just starting after the sentence has been read. :-))
But I think that should be really all. If not, please use bugzilla and blame us !
Have fun !
(Yes, I know that’s the second sentence which should be in every blog :-))
Dear readers, we sometimes have to use non-free software. This post will learn you how to get the latest flash player supporting natively your favorite openSUSE Linux 64 bits distribution.
Keep in mind that it is preview software, actually pre-release code quality, and with it you will not receive any security updates. Keep an eyes on it, and refresh it manually if newer version are published
So why to try that software ? My answer is simple : it’s a native 64bits plug-in. So it’s interaction with your native 64bits browser, should give you a better stability. My experience using it in the last 4 months is pretty good, no Firefox crash due to flash. (Several pro week or day with the 32bits 10.0 version)
First things to do, remove all actual 32bits flash installed.
zypper rm flash-player pullin-flash-player
Go the main project page Square
Read the informations, and the Adobe License you implicitly accept by using this software.
Then Download the tar.gz
cd /tmp wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
tar -xvzf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz sudo chown root:root libflashplayer.so sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
Close any firefox or konqueror running, and restart them
under firefox, launch the about:plugins uri
and you should see
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.3 d162
Have a nice surfing session, if you like flash website .
Sometimes we need some of those applications running under our favorite OS. If you can stick with marble.
So the new googleearth 6.0 version hit the street. And if like me you want to give it a try, there’s some tricks to make it installing under your 64bits opensuse factory.
My first attempt just result in a nice crash …
h GoogleEarthLinux6.0.bin Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.0.1735.............................................................. I/O error : No such file or directory setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty ^ setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found ^ *** glibc detected *** setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: free(): invalid pointer: 0xbabababa *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(+0x6df6b)[0xf6c64f6b] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0xd9)[0xf6c69ab9] setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2[0x8074214] /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2(+0x5131b)[0xf768531b] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-08091000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 1752187 /tmp/selfgz99614152/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk2 ...
So I found that can be helpful, during the transition phase to have a package for openSUSE.
Here’s the recipe.
1: get the binary
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
2: extract it to a temp directory
sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin --target GoogleEarthFixed
3: replace the defective gtk2 setup thing
mv ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk2
4: Launch the installer
4a : as root for system wide install
su -l ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.sh
4b : as normal user to have it installed inside your own home
./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.sh
5: Cleaning !
If you don’t need anymore.
rm -Rf ./GoogleEarthFixed rm ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
I would thanks people posting this comment
The method should also work for the older 5.2 version
Last month I went to the Ovi and KDE sprint, Qt Developer Days 2010 -both in Münich- and the openSUSE Conference 2010 in Nüremberg. It was a busy Oktober. (pictures below!)
The Ovi and KDE sprint took place at Nokia’s Münich office, where we discussed why integration between KDE and Ovi would be beneficial for both (better user experience, exposure to a large userbase). There I had the pleasure to meet lots of KDE people; Leinir, Frank Karlitschek, Chani, Myriam Schweingruber, Sascha Peilicke, Sivan Greenberg, Mark Kretschmann, Rune Jensen, Arjen Hiemstra, Jonathan, Dinesh, Krzysiek, Knut Yrvin…
After the Ovi sprint, the Qt Developer Days 2010 began. The training sessions took place the first day. Even though some exercises were skipped, I liked it. Days 2 and 3 were focused on showing how cool Qt is. I never thought QML could be that easy, powerful and straightforward. Besides all of the presentations, we also had dinner with the Trolls, played the “fact or crap” game and tried some Meego-powered devices. So yepp, I enjoyed it and I’m looking forward for the 2011 edition 🙂
BTW, /me was wearing an openSUSE t-shirt which made Martin Mohring approach me and talk to me. That way I met him.
As I said, I also attended the openSUSE Conference 2010. Dan’s connecting flight was the same as mine (what a coincidence) so we took the Zürich-Nüremberg flight together. The same day we had dinner at Barfüsser with other people who had arrived earlier. Raymond Wooninck (tittiatcoke) drove 400 km in total to join us for the dinner only! Perhaps next time he can stay for a bit longer.
I stayed at the conference hotel. Having the conference and the hotel at the same place was a great idea. The location itself wasn’t that good since it was in the outskirts of Nüremberg but hey you can’t have everything. The very first day I met more fellow contributors… many interesting conversation took place in the hallways, between talks which made me skip some presentations. Besides that, there were some interesting talks taking place at the same time, so I had to choose between one or the other. Frank and I organised a workshop, “the Open-PC case” which went well. There were many attendees interested in getting an Open-PC. I also had the chance to meet and talk with many people: Adrian Schröter and I talked about obs, Nuno Pinheiro showed me some of his Inkscape techinques, I talked with Bruno Friedmann about many things -KDE/Factory too, of course-, I discussed artwork stuff with Gnokii (S. Kemter), Nuno Pinheiro, Robert Lihm and Kai-Uwe Behrmann, testing Factory with Bernhard Wiedeman, how to improve the documentation’s visibility with the Documentation team (Frank, Thomas, Katja, Jürgen) KDE stuff with the KDE people (there were lots of them at the conference),… speaking of KDE stuff, Thomas Thym brought some KDE merchandising to sell. 🙂
BTW, Gnokii’s Movie Night was nice. I really liked the free movies he played; not just software has to be made free!
This time I didn’t have time to go for a stroll in the city. From what I saw (little), Nüremberg seems to be a quiet and nice place.
I have to say that it was a great experience, I really enjoyed it and that I’m looking forward for next year’s openSUSE Conference. So yes, it was a big success 😀
Thanks to all the people who made these events possible!
Some pics:
Last night I was trying to beauty up my Kraft Homepage a bit and while doing that I realised that half of the allowed transfer volume that is coming with the cheap hosting contract is already eaten up for November. Investigating how that could have happened I found out that Kraft was mentioned in a very nice blog called 10 obscure Linux office applications you need to try. It introduces some interesting apps out of the whole mass of all FOSS apps in that specific area. Kraft is mentioned there, which is of course nice, the author seems to like Kraft. I am, however, not really sure why the word obscure is in the headline of the blog, do you know 😉 ?
But the other nine applications are also really interesting, such as goldendict, which combines multiple dictionaries on the desktop or TOra which is a cool database GUI. We do not have them in Factory nor
Contrib.
The next openSUSE release 11.4 is slowly but surely coming up and I think it makes sense to add cool software now. Maybe the listed apps in the blog are ideas to spice up our distro a bit with good software? I volunteer to take care of Kraft 😉
The openSUSE Conference went really well last week. There was an amazing range of material and the audience’s participation in every talk I attended showed that the openSUSE project has moved past the show-and-tell presentations of a company and its customers to a community using the event to share knowledge between its members and develop. As part of the openSUSE Boosters team, I was in it up to my neck. On Wednesday I started with a talk on image building for application authors which was well attended but I think I should tweak towards users’ needs as there weren’t many app authors present. I gave a talk about the upcoming KDE features that will be in openSUSE 11.4 on Thursday, because openSUSE 11.3 had KDE 4.4 but due to the 3 month difference in both projects’ release cycles, openSUSE 11.4 will have the KDE 4.6 releases of platform, workspaces and apps. That equals a lot of changes, so I summarized them for people who don’t read Planet KDE as avidly as I do. The Lizard Lounge event in the SUSE building on Thursday night gave everyone a chance to catch their breath drinking limited edition Old Toad SUSE beer.
On Friday I gave a spontaneous BoF on KWin’s current and upcoming features. Can you name the four ways to show your desktop in 4.5? I only had 3 until a member of the audience pointed out a 4th. And yesterday I supported Chani’s workshop on developing for Plasma using Javascript and QML, which piqued the audience’s interest by showing how KDE’s high-level services like the Plasma applets framework and the KConfig configuration storage library add value to the glamour of QML and QGraphicsView. To enable all of the audience to participate, I’d prepared another live image, this time an SDK based on KDE trunk, Qt 4.7 and latest Qt Designer 2.0.1 with all the headers and developer docu on board. This paid off, as unlike at Akademy, most people didn’t have developer builds ready to go on their laptops. Within minutes we had copies booting from everyone’s USB sticks and people were working through the included git repository of tutorials prepared by Chani, making flags change colour on click and saving applet state using only a schema file and a Qt Designer config UI.
Unfortunately the talks weren’t recorded live, but a number of people who were in other tracks at the time have already asked me about the KDE talk so I’ll record it again and upload it for you, and Chani and I will polish the Plasma material and get it online at some point.
So having talked myself hoarse, I’m taking this week off to hack on upstream KDE code and get my plans there nailed down before the upcoming soft feature freeze. In the past I tend to notice the freezes once they are past (whoops!) meaning that my openSUSE work was doomed to sit in a branch until it could be integrated next release. I hope to get some Network Management features in now and work on polish across the desktop while I’m not handling bug reports, righting wrongs on the lists and fixing build failures. See you in a week.
Next week is openSUSE Conference week! I’m using both my openSUSE and KDE blogs to remind everyone that we’re having a pre-conference meetup at 6pm for the KDE team before the real conference begins at Barfüßer in the Nuernberg old town. Remember a morning of keynotes is only fun if you have a thumping hangover from microbrewed beer (and if you’re a keynote speaker, from local schapps too)! If you are attending the conference or if you are just a friend of KDE in the area, please join in.
If you add your name to the wiki I’ll have an idea how big a table we need, I’ve provisionally got space for 20.
Paying attention at the back there? Sit up straight and listen!
It’s time for the openSUSE KDE Team meeting today at 1600UTC in #opensuse-kde. Because we’re *that tight* with those lovely guys and gals at Qt Development Frameworks we’ve got a place at Qt Developer Days 2010 in Munich on Oct 11-13 worth $$$ to give away to a deserving community member. If you want to find out about the latest developments in Qt, learn its inner workings in mind-expandingly good seminars and network with other Qt users, then come back and bring some Qt goodness to openSUSE, come along to the meeting. Even if you didn’t get into Qt development yet, the introductory tutorials will inspire you to learn at Qt Quick speed, so don’t be shy.
Note: you have to make your own way to Munich and organise your own place to stay. If you live in Punta Arenas, Chile this one probably isn’t for you.
If you can’t make it to the meeting, mail me with why you should be the one to attend at wstephenson@suse.de. But hurry, we have to decide by tomorrow!
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