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@lanseo - what are you talking about?

Commented Apr 8, 2013 on Pingz - Super simple network connection internet availability monitor plasmoid thing at Marty's typepad

@Miler - akonadi-facebook is currently outdated and unmaintaned; it was merged into kdepim-runtime some time ago and all the development continues there. Notifications are currently only downloaded, but nothing is happening with them (I'm working on this right now). Calendar events are broken in akonadi-facebook, this was fixed in kdepim-runtime and for birthdays, you need to add Birthdays resource in Akonadi. Hope that helps :)

Commented Mar 25, 2013 on Late GSoC Wrap-up: Social Feed at Marty's typepad

No idea about Windows. Use KDE! ;)

Commented Mar 12, 2013 on So you want to keep the URL of downloaded file eh? at Marty's typepad

Linux/KDE only, sorry ;)

Commented Mar 12, 2013 on So you want to keep the URL of downloaded file eh? at Marty's typepad

@Eric - good question, thanks! There's no need to access any Akonadi APIs if you want to go the qml-plasmoid-way (and actually even qwidget-app-way). There is a qml plugin, which talks to Akonadi via EntityTreeModel, which is basically the same as any other model in Qt world. So if you can work with model-view architecture, you can do whatever UI you want :)

Commented Feb 6, 2013 on Status of social networks integration in Plasma Workspaces (also call for developers) at Marty's typepad

Status of social networks integration in Plasma Workspaces (also call for developers)

Last year in the summer I've started a project to truly integrate social networks into our Plasma Workspaces. Truly integrating means having all the data available in our system and allowing any application to take advantage of these data, either just for custom displaying or acting on them somehow. This solution has several parts - auth mechanism, communication with the service, data storage and data presentation. The current auth mechanism is custom written for each social network, but fully separated and replacable. They are very simple in terms of UI and provide just that - authentication with the web service... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Marty's typepad

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@Koldo Lopez - you have to install ktp-call-ui in order to be able to make calls. Also you're better off using forum.kde.org, we have our own section there ;)

Commented Dec 21, 2012 on KDE Telepathy 0.5 released at Marty's typepad

@KRF - thanks! Will check it out in some spare time :)

Commented Dec 19, 2012 on Pingz - Super simple network connection internet availability monitor plasmoid thing at Marty's typepad

KTp Presence Plasmoid is now Plasma themeable

Thanks to our Google Code-In student, Peter Amidon, our little presence plasmoid in the-just-released v0.5.2 can now haz proper monochrome icons. The plasmoid is looking for icons in "icons/presence-applet" and names matching the oxygen scheme with "-plasma" suffix, here's the list: "user-online-plasma" "user-busy-plasma" "user-away-plasma" "user-away-extended-plasma" "user-invisible-plasma" "user-offline-plasma" So, Plasma theme creators, get at it! Continue reading

Posted Dec 18, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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Pingz - Super simple network connection internet availability monitor plasmoid thing

I am on a train right now that provides free wi-fi. But you know how these networks work - one second you're chatting with your friend, next second you lose connection. Getting mad enough about not knowing if I have internet or not, I wrote a super simple Plasma applet to monitor the network connection. This is a bit different from the network manager icon, which shows you that you are connected to the wi-fi, but that does not mean the wi-fi router has access to the internet. So this monitors the internet availability directly by sending ping packets to... Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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@Roman F - Hey, that might very well be a bug :) There are two notifications - when you receive a message without opened window ("new incoming chat") and when you receive new message ("incoming message"). Although thinking about it, it is probably a design decision - most people don't want to be notified about every message they get while chatting. Anyways, would it be possible to file a bug at bugs.kde.org? You'll also get input from more developers, including the component maintainer (which I'm not). And we always forget things not in our bugtracker :) Thanks a lot.

Commented Nov 29, 2012 on KDE Telepathy 0.5 released at Marty's typepad

Kubuntu, MacBook EFI and Nvidia

So I was installing the newest release of Kubuntu even before it was officially announced and hit a hard wall with it. Took me about four days to figure it out and fix it properly, so here I'm sharing it, hoping someone will find it useful when in similar troubles. tl;dr version at the end. Somehow it turned into a full fledged story.. :D A bit of background first. On my MacBook Pro 7,1 (mid-2011) I first installed Kubuntu 11.04. As was the custom/ritual for the past few years, with every new release of the distro I was using (starting... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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@David - Yes, this is the result of recent merge of akonadi-social-utils into kdepimlibs, akonadi-facebook needs updating (haven't had time for that yet) and you should be using kdepimlibs master now. I might fix the social-utils repo so it will still work with that, but I won't keep this around for long ;)

Commented Oct 9, 2012 on Late GSoC Wrap-up: Social Feed at Marty's typepad

@Björn - Ah yes, the latest master of social-utils has a compile problem; I was working on getting it merged with kdepimlibs and just forgot all about that repo after that. So now you should be using kdepimlibs master, but I understand that not everyone wants to do that, so I might as well just fix the standalone lib. I'll have a look later, thanks for pointing it out!

Commented Oct 9, 2012 on GSoC: Social Feed - all out on git! at Marty's typepad

@Gugelplus Apesta - You're right. We will think of a new name. @Thomas Pfeiffer - True, I'm just not sure if the live streaming is also available in html5, let us know when we'll be on air ;) @Mschlander - Good points! Thanks :) Apparently (and awkwardly) we all completely forgot Yakuake, which is also a 3rd party KDE app. Interestingly none of us had thought about it even if it is one of the most used apps by us.

Commented Sep 27, 2012 on Announcing KDE TeaTime - weekly KDE video podcast at Marty's typepad

@Mary Tee - Awesome, thanks a lot! Also thanks for letting us know about SMLR, looking forward to get home and watch/listen to you guys :)

Commented Sep 26, 2012 on Announcing KDE TeaTime - weekly KDE video podcast at Marty's typepad

Announcing KDE TeaTime - weekly KDE video podcast

KDE TeaTime (KTT) is a new video podcast ran by a bunch of KDE developers who at some point decided to make their private ramblings and discussions in the open just like the software they develop. The content of KTT is going to be different each time but always related to KDE. Each time we set a main topic and we'll be discussing live about all things around it, so you can expect rants, personal feelings, ideas not published anywhere and general crapiness :) Please note that our expressed opinions are not always necessarily the opinions of the KDE community... Continue reading

Posted Sep 25, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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Strangely the QJSON does not fail here, even though it should. What system are you using? Btw. feel free to ping me (mck182) at #kde-devel irc channel any time, I'll be happy to solve all the build failures.

Commented Sep 18, 2012 on Late GSoC Wrap-up: Social Feed at Marty's typepad

@schumski - The first one should be fixed (though there might be more like this), the second one is old akonadi-social-utils, please update that and reinstall, then try again (update all the repos while at it).

Commented Sep 17, 2012 on Late GSoC Wrap-up: Social Feed at Marty's typepad

@jerf - thanks! The first thing - it is most certainly technically possible, I even had a patch. But the situation is not as easy as it might look like, for example what you do if the window is behind another window and you click the icon? Should it come on top or hide? If hide, then it's not that user friendly. If show above others, then it's not easy to do without abusing kwin, which we were strongly advised against. Then again - windows should be closed by the proper controls, not by clicking a systray icon. However most of the apps don't follow this, so we'd be in trouble with that. I'll start a discussion about this on plasma mailing list (which also works as kde-workspace mailing list) and whatever the outcome will be, we'll follow that. The other thing - if you're using the 'normal' list style, you can see that only if you right-click the contact and the corresponding menu items are either disabled or enabled. The full list then shows this info on hover. I think we can do better though. Adding it to the tooltip might be handy and/or changing the presence icon to a camera icon could be also very nice. I'll see what we can do about this, thanks for the report :)

Commented Sep 16, 2012 on KDE Telepathy 0.5 released at Marty's typepad

Qt Backpropagation Neural Network

When doing some cleanup today I stumbled upon a little university project I wrote sometime ago. It's a basic implementation of backpropagation neural network written in Qt and I thought someone might find this handy, so I decided to share it. The original design was done by Chesnokov Yuriy in his C++ implementation over at CodeProject.com. The network can contain arbitrary number of layers and each layer can have arbitrary number of neurons. However the implementation uses only feed-forward each-to-each connection between the neurons. The example UI is probably confusing and not intuitive at all, but it was done only... Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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Late GSoC Wrap-up: Social Feed

This year's Google Summer of Code is over and here's the status of the Social Feed project. Let me repeat what the Social Feed is actually all about. It's a project aiming at aggregating your social media content into one single feed of posts, using Akonadi in the backend and Plasma applet on the frontend (but it can be anything that can work on top of Akonadi, even full fledged app or some HTML5 craziness). Here's how the plasmoid currently looks: It started as a testing plasmoid (and sort-of still is; serves mainly for me learning QML), but as I... Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2012 at Marty's typepad

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@Jackdean666 - Akonadi uses MySQL in the backend and unecrypted afaik, but for the data retrieval/user auth it uses HTTPS of course.

Commented Sep 7, 2012 on GSoC: Social Feed - all out on git! at Marty's typepad

@Jackdean666 - Yup, it does. It was one of our primary goals :)

Commented Sep 7, 2012 on KDE Telepathy 0.5 released at Marty's typepad

@Gunnicom - Yeah, that was one of the features that had to be cut from the release as there wasn't enough time :/ But it will be possible in the future, the log formats stays the same, so all we need is some nice UI and we're done :) @Eduardo - The complexity is usually solved by packaging, where there should/could be one simple metapackage that will install you all that is needed (I know there is one for Fedora, if there isn't for your distro, bug the packagers! Or tell us, we might bug them for you). The essential features - what are those? We know we miss metacontacts, but that has taken a serious leap forward thanks to Aleix Pol, who stormed this front. We want to get it right and not ship with some half-baked stuff, that we'll have to change in the future again. So we're rather waiting for proper KDE-wide metacontacts support. As for the rest - we'll always be glad to help, so should you have any problems, head over to the forums.kde.org, file bugs at bugs.kde.org or join #kde-telepathy on freenode and just shout out ;)

Commented Aug 30, 2012 on KDE Telepathy 0.5 released at Marty's typepad