Christmas present

Posted by ruphy at 6:28 on the 24 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic,Random fun.

I love this community! I love everyone of you reading this guys! =)

Just to let you know I’m preparing a Christmas present… be sure to check planetkde in two days! =)
I had hoped for having the new krunner as present, but unfortunately I won’t make it for Christmas. I will try to finish it before the KDE 4.0 tagging though, I’m full of energies now, so I can probably make it, but won’t promise for now. Root for me! ;-)
Now I think I will just get back to mails, I’ve 1328 unread and 18 in the composer queue… whoa. :D
Btw, eros, email me if you read this!

p.s. much of this post is for you GNUton, as you liked so much the other one. :-)

p.p.s. I love you guys! Really!

p.p.p.s. Disclaimer: all of the above love must be intended in a very manly and opensource way. ;-)

p.p.p.p.s. Do you like the little modifications I did to the blog’s skin/layout?

About the upcoming 4.0 release

Posted by ruphy at 1:32 on the 22 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic,KDE.

Although I’m skeptical that all of the problems with the release candidate can be fixed in only one month, a rough first release seems a small price to pay for the significant long-term advantages offered by the transition.

Definitely well said Ryan Paul! =)

P.S. Getting a bit annoyed from these ADs, hope they do not get too much in the way. Please tell me if they do.

Delaying

Posted by ruphy at 7:22 on the 7 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic,Random rants,Real life.

Too bad KDE 4.0 won’t be released the 11th of december, would have been the perfect present for my birthday (which is the 11th infact). Well, I think I can live without it. :\

I’m off for a couple of days… I’ll be back on monday… as Josef knows I *need* a break, haven’t done one since June. Need to get energies back, I’ve no more of them since a while.

David, please prepare me the SVGs for krunner for monday, so we can stunn everyone when I’ll be back with some more coolness branded KDE!

Seb, let’s do a stable release of tripod with all the needed features (users: hints are welcome) and then begin to port to KDE 4, rock along and move forward!

Franz, thanks a lot for the help with the CSS for this blog.

Many guys who wrote me an e-mail and wait for an answer, I need to answer tons of mails, I’ve already got a pile of 20 drafts in my kmail… sorry, but I really had no time these days (been ill) and generally I have been fucking tired… will answer them as I get back, trying to be as quick as possible.

These includes some answer to some mailing lists (e.g. Plasma::Package stuff, sorry Paolo! Oxy meeting, sorry Nuno!, etc…). I fucking really need a secretary.

Many americans KDE contributors, see you in Mountain View, just booked the flight.

Sebas, be sure to coordinate with me so we can seat near in the flight from Amsterdam. =)

Whoever I forgot to include in this list, sorry, I didn’t mean to. I can say I’m tired, if that’s acceptable for you.

All the others readers, there’s somehting I want to show you and something I’m really excited about, hope to show you monday or the days just after. It all depends on several factors, including how much I will be able to break in this couple of days and regain new energies to spend.

Ok, enough for now. Need to get up very early tomorrow, or I should say today instead, given the current time the clock wants to show me.
Ending here my first real post with KBlogger (yay KBlogger! first post after having playied with it and had it around since some months). I’m so fucking tired and demotivated (no, not because of KBlogger)…

See you soon guys, and anyone reading here.
Love to everyone, you do rock!

Oxygen cursors, another time, another try

Posted by ruphy at 19:32 on the 23 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.

UPDATE:
I just want to remember to all the commenters that, because the cursors are SVG, keeping the design all the colors can be changed in seconds, with awesome results, and this operation is also automated by the fanthastic perl script done by David Faure just for me. :D
I will ship for sure a yellow theme other than the white one, for accessibility (Olaf made me promise this at aKademy) and maybe also a dark one, for similar purposes. I will make all the other colors (plus nice combinations of them) available on my homepage (currently under maintainance), maybe also some variants to the theme. =)

Hello,

this is a very quick post to show the further improvements I’ve achieved on the Oxygen cursor theme.

(more…)

Fix planet-planet (!) and Skema 0.1 released!

Posted by ruphy at 23:06 on the 19 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Random fun,Util things or HOWTOs.

Will write a short second post today as there’s something which really annoys me, the cursor will come just later.
There’s a bug on planet planet that makes me sometimes flood planetkde…. it’s the second time in 3 posts… Please fix it!!!!!!
I apologize with all the guys which I flooded the reading to.

In this post I’d also like to point out to you about an extremely valuable tool, written by one of my KDE co-hacker and good friend Paolo Capriotti.

(more…)

Ladies and Gentlemans, we have a default wallpaper!

Posted by ruphy at 21:56 on the of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.

After a week of pondering and discussing we’ve finally chosen which will be the default wallpaper!

And the winner is…

(more…)

Unveiling the winners of the Oxygen contest for wallpapers

Posted by ruphy at 21:42 on the 17 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.

Hello.

With the announcement of the Oxygen Wallpaper Contest in August, we, the Oxygen Team, intended to have the KDE community give the brand new KDE 4 desktop its face – and the response was overwhelming! Artists and KDE enthusiasts submitted around 2000 high quality pictures, most of them being fantastic wallpapers.

The jury, composed of David Vignoni, Nuno Pinheiro, Kenneth Wimer and myself, had a hard time digging through that stack of contributions due to the sheer size and finally pick the ones which will to be shipped as KDE 4.0 wallpapers.

And so, after this long and tedious time of waiting for all of you we’re finally announcing the big winners of this fantastic contest! =)

NOTICE:
Some people in the comments had some worries, and thought it may look suspicious seeing that some of the winning wallpapers are infact being done by some members of the jury. To them I want to answer the following things, which I’ve already answered in a comment replying to Tina:
We voted in a way so that we didn’t know who was the author of a certain wallpaper, the votes were secret, and we couldn’t vote for our wallpaper (the vote was the medium value of the other votes). The credit file was not associated at all with wallpapers.
So nothing to worry about, we’ve studied a voting system, we voted, and we took up the results *always* trying to make them in the most impartial way possible.
That’s exactly because we knew some of our wallpapers were in the competition. =)

(more…)

Oxygen Wallpapers Contest: first winner

Posted by ruphy at 9:04 on the 16 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.

Mesdames and Messieurs, time has come to finally unveil the winners of the contest! This is one, the first unveiled, of the winning wallpapers! We reached a number of 15 total winners!

(more…)

Back

Posted by ruphy at 23:51 on the 15 of November, 2007 — Categories: Random fun,Real life.

Hello.

A lot of time passed since my last blog post. And a lot of time has passed with me continously telling to myself to really take a moment or two from the busy workflow of life, and get the time to write on the blog again… the thing is that the period lasts since a lot of time, pretty much since when I misteriously disappeared.

At the time, from the moment when I re-appeared on IRC, every day I said to myself that I really had to write what happened in those two “misterious” weeks (was it two weeks?) to me, why I disappeared so misteriously and what the heck did I do. I wanted to do a full explanation, writing a good post. This was also to explain to the many people who worried during that period (sorry Eugene!) and for who, when I came back, asked me what happened during that time. Exactly the same guys which I’ve answered with these words: «Sorry, can’t explain now, but I’ll write a post on the blog in the next days explaining in detail what happened!».

So, after this episode I realized that I am a liar. ;-)

Because, at the end of each week, the weekend comed, and I each time Sunday night arrived without me having done anything, lacking time for various reason.

Yeah, school began again, and this one (3rd year of high school) is one of the most difficult years, for what concerns the high schools.

In the meantime I lost almost all the interest I had in doing that, and forgot many details. I will write a couple of lines if you really want to know, or I will explain directly to you on IRC or Jabber. Nothing so terrifically interesting though, trust me. ;-)

However, altough I’ve not updated the blog, this doesn’t mean I’ve been dormient. The good thing infact is that I did a lot of work for KDE, some of which very exciting, while some other not, but still a lot of things.

So, I will start with a blogging marathone, and I’ll try to keep up with a one-post-per-day rythm. I’ll start with a big fish, but won’t reveal anything for now. Check the post which is coming out in a couple of minutes… ;-)

Gah, I wanted to write a really short post but as always I end up writing too much…. :\

I leave you with this candy for today, screenshot directly from my desktop:
-Click to show image-

P.S. I want to let you know that I’m going to put some Google Adwords on this blog. However, I won’t keep all the revenues for personal incomings, or this kind of stuff, but I will split the earnings in two parts. I will give 50% of what I earn to Paleo, the guy who is hosting this site (as well as many others, like amarok.kde.org) just for his passion and his admiration versus KDE. He does not receive any financial help, and he provide an extremely valuable service. He is also always online to provide help or any other things we, the hosted, need.

And for that service which he provides for free to the whole comunity, I think he deserves all my respect, and that’s just a way to tell him “thanks a lot dude!”. I will keep the restant 50% for helping myself partecipating in KDE events, covering travel expenses, and all this kind of stuff. You know, I’m just a 16-years-old student, and I’ve got kind of a limited budget… I’ve payed all by myself the past two Akademies, and I’m running a bit out of money. I will try to be as transparent as possible on that, and publicly tell when I will use that money.

This is just for clarification if some people might get this wrong, maybe thinking that I’m trying to monetize their effort, or monetizing KDE. =)

P.P.S. Between the new coming things include an update in the skin of the blog, cursors, and other stuff!

P.P.P.S. Hope this post doesn’t contain too many errors, I’ve not even reread it! ;-)

KDE 4 merchandise: some buttons

Posted by ruphy at 3:05 on the 11 of August, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen,Random fun.

You probably thought I’ve been dormient in this period, and you’re wrong.
While I’m *hard* working on the krunner refactoring (and I hope to blog on it soon, and no, I won’t give any preview in the meantime) tonight I haven’t been feeling like code, and I did those KDE 4 buttons for you.
Don’t feel offended if your favourite k4 technology isn’t there, I just did the first who came in my mind….. hope you will still like them.
Feel free to reuse them as you like: they’re not licensed under the usual cc by-sa 3.0 license, so just pick your favorite one and use it in forums, blogs, homepages….
If you redistribute them an attribution+incoming link is welcome, in case you just use them for signatures or for the website “emblems” collection, and this kind of stuff, I autorize you to just use it, don’t care too much. =)
Here they are, have fun!

KDE 4.0 button Oxygen button Phonon button Plasma button Strigi button

Damn, it’s very late, I think I should go to sleep now…. see you all

(Update: tiredness is not an excuse for not closing HTML tags)

« Older PostsNewer Posts »