More complete version for the oxy cursors

Posted by ruphy at 2:49 on the 28 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic, Goodies, KDE, Oxygen, Random fun.

Given that I had to do it for the release-team mailing list[¹] I’m going to link the more complete version of the cursor theme here too.
This is much more complete not yet perfect, but much better. I just noticed the watch has a small glitch when rotating, but it’s a minor thing (which I’m fixing right now). Here you can download the white version, the yellow version and the green version. Yes, this one is for you Sebas. =)

Don’t worry, I will make a proper release with a proper announcement with all the colors linked and all this stuff when it will be the right time… this is meant to be a 5 minutes post, already lost too much time on endless mail (and IRC) discussions in these days.

If you’re interested, Harald ‘apachelogger’ Sitter made a screencast showcasting the cursors in all of their beauty (unlike the pic showing a naked Zack :P).



And here is the original video, of a much greater quality, mp4 format (HE-AAC/H.264). Use youtube only if you really cannot play this, this is so much better. :-)

See you soon!


¹ They seem to think that a cursor theme might break something, or they have other points which I still haven’t understood… but I don’t want to polemize… anyway, I seem to need to convince them to include the theme in 4.0.

Merry Christmas

Posted by ruphy at 7:26 on the 26 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic, Goodies, KDE, Oxygen, Random fun.

Hello!

I’d just like to wish you everything you wish yourself for Christmas! :D

And to give you the promised present…

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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?

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.

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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)

Oxygen Contest for wallpapers!

Posted by ruphy at 0:35 on the 2 of August, 2007 — Categories: Oxygen, Random fun.

This time it’s up to you show how good you are!

We’re making a contest to completely renew the set of default wallpapers shipping with KDE 4.
Rules are very simple, submissions are accepted until 00:00 (CET) of the 20th August 2007, resolution should be big enough to fit well into bigger screens and images must be released under a free license (that we will decide with you later).
Remember that we welcome ANY type of art, vectors, photos, pixel art, 3D stuff, pizzas…. and you’re free to choose whatever color or style or message you prefer, the requirement is just that the final work looks good (especially remember that it will be used as a wallpaper).
Basically everything else you need to know is already written on the contest website (done by me), which you can find at http://pd.ruphy.org.

NOTE:
For those who do or do not partecipate in the contest, please spread this link [http://pd.ruphy.org] and this announcement as much as you can! News sites, your blog, everything is good, with your help, we will make the best set of wallpapers ever, and we’ll ship it with KDE 4!

Get pretty pictures, spread the link, have fun, and viva Oxygen!

Welcome the new president of KDE

Posted by ruphy at 12:35 on the 22 of July, 2007 — Categories: Random fun.

Here he is:

Aaron Seigo

And our new president drying his underwears on the fire at aKademy 2007 ;-)

Aaron seigo drying his underwears on the fire

Anyway, apart from this joke, Aaron knows I fully estimate him, he is a good friend and we hacked toghether since the beginning of KDE 4.
So good luck dude for this new important role, and continue rocking! =)

KDE Italia

Posted by ruphy at 21:53 on the 4 of July, 2007 — Categories: KDE Italia, Random fun.

Because of the huge work-marathone and the enormous and continuous flow of ideas that is going on here I just find time for a very quick post. Basically I’m posting this photo since I’m actually involved into a new emerging community with lots of energies and lots of ideas, but that had suffered from internal problems more or less one month ago. Fortunately everything has been resolved, and now it’s one of the best and most sane community I know in the world of open source. Let’s hope it will always remain that. Good luck KDE Italia!

The KDE Italia group at aKademy 2007

Download in:

Hello, this is me.

Posted by ruphy at 23:32 on the 28 of June, 2007 — Categories: Random fun.

Ok, it’s already time for this year akademy.
While I’m about to leave, I had the idea of posting a couple of photos of myself. That’s basically because I already promised to meet with a lot of people, and I met most of them just online; so they don’t know my face and I don’t know theirs… This could obviously result in hard times in recognizing us. ;-)
Another reason is that in the comment sections of my blog many people already got astonished that I’m only 16, and don’t believe, so I’m going to prove that…. :P

So here there are a pair of photos of mine, taken into the garden of my house (click to enlarge):

Riccardo Iaconelli, ruphy, me
Riccardo Iaconelli, ruphy, me

(No, I’m not photogenic at all ;-) )

See (and recognize) you at akademy, have a nice time! =)

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