Riccardo Iaconelli » Screencasts http://blog.ruphy.org The blog of a proud Free Software hacker and vector graphics artist Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:36:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Say hello to the new splashscreen! http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/32 http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/32#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:31:33 +0000 ruphy http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/32 “Hello new splashscreen”.

No, seriously now, here it is:



And here the video for those like lubos who hate flash (or who don’t have it installed), encoded the usual way.

Hope you like it. Happy new year everyone, may 2008 bring the best things to you! =)

For KDE, it will surely be a great one, the launch of KDE 4, the start of a new era, and then… but, hey! will say more of this yaddayadda in the next post… ;-)

Ah, and see you next year¹! :P

P.S. I’ll commit this into SVN in a second…

UPDATE: as nobody seems to read my answers, I’m pasting here my comment #7, which was intended as a reply for the first ones, but nobody seems to really have seen it.

Something better will be done for 4.1, I promise, it’s just that I couldn’t do anything else (and really, anything else) for 4.0 except than re-adapt the existing code for the old splashscreen to the new artwork: we’re in feature freeze now…

This is really, really the best thing we could have ever come up with, because of the limitations in ksplashx. It’s not the best thing ever, but I still think the final result *is* nice, after all.

I would like to add that I *will* add a progressbar, like in the mockup Nuno did

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¹ Sorry, but I can say that only once in a year, can’t loose the opportunity ;-)

]]> http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/32/feed 38 A New Plasma Clock http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/18 http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/18#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:37:17 +0000 ruphy http://blog.ruphy.org/?p=18 After the so much loved analog clock and the relative screencast I did some time ago to present to the world the first plasmoid ever, it’s time for a little replica.
The new clock I made is more modern and fresh, and it’s digital. It’s made to look like the big informations that you can find in the train stations, the ones who flip down to change what is written on them.

Working both in Plasma and in Oxgen is really worthwhile to create these nice stuff. ;-)
So, here it borns this clock. And this is just the beginning, because both me and Nuno have a continuous flow of ideas of new features and cool effects we can implement into it, at the point that Nuno yesterday said that “this is going to be the best plasmoid ever”. And I really hope so. ;-)
For the pretty pictures, viva Nuno!
I made a little screencast, so you can see how nicely it animates. Unfortunately it has been a bit fucked up with the colors, so here’s a screenshot to see how it really looks:

The digital plasma clock
IMPORTANT NOTE: In the screencast I’m showing hours and seconds, instead of hours and minutes: the seconds are displayed in the screencast just to make you see the animation better.
Seconds will be added, as the code that makes the animation is pretty fast, but we still haven’t deicided where; they can be little and near the minutes, or simply a ‘:’ flashing.

Have fun! =)

]]> http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/18/feed 19 Plasma icons! http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/11 http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/11#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:39:58 +0000 ruphy http://blog.ruphy.org/?p=11 Hello folks! =)
I’m really glad to announce that finally I finished implementing the icons for Plasma.
I initially got inspired by one of the David’s mockups: he was showing it to me to see if I could implement something similar: he knew I was already working on icons for Plasma.
What he showed me was essentially this flash animation that shows the concept live, and this other PDF that actually explains in detail what the animation does. (I really suggest looking at them, they’ll make you do a big ‘WOW’)
I immediately loved his idea, and I told him that I would immediately begin to implement it. This morning, I proudly showed the results of my work to Nuno, and he refined the look of those Plasma icons. And a screenshot is a must.

A screenshot of a Plasma icon
So, this is basically how it looks right now. The icon in the top-left corner actually represents one of those “quick actions” you can read about in the PDF and look at in both the animation and in the screencast. Because, obviously, I made a screencast! =)

Download the screencast (6.1 Mb)

I would like also to thank Siraj Razick very much for the initial code and efforts he put in the icons.

Take care, and see you in the next post! =)

P.S. Today I’m going to go on holiday for a few days, so if you don’t see your comment approved for some time, you know why. Sorry, I have to keep this “each user must have at least one approved comment” restriction because else the blog would become full of spam (I’m already handling a lot of it). Your comment hasn’t been lost, just.. will take some more time to appear! =)

UPDATE: added an antispam filter. For this reason now all the comments are immediately accepted by default.

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