the meeting on sunday with the superkaramba team went quite well. the developers will continue working on a new release to coincide with KDE 3.5 and will be moving superkaramba development into KDE's svn repository. for KDE 4, as we rework kicker and kdesktop, support for karamba themes will be integral and become an extension to applets as we know them today, really.there is a vibrant community around karamba today, in part because it lets you make really cool looking things and in part because it's relatively easy to make a karamba theme. i want to make it even easier leveraging KJSEmbed. with KJSEmbed and perhaps some HTML, it should be possible to create a nice looking applet that can appear on the desktop, on a panel or float above your windows. language bindings to languages such as javascript also help limit the portability problem: no compiled binaries, no large runtimes needed.
also, i must have missed this, but according to K3B's website they were given a number of drives by LaCie who will be shipping K3B on their support CD's that come with new hardware. wow! that's awesome. way to go guys!
reading about a really cool project involving autonomous, swarming flying robots that run linux (it sounds so sci-fi, doesn't it?) i saw this picture:
hey! that computer is running KDE! =)
a movie was being filmed on my block this week. they were here shooting "on location" for 3 days. lots of very large trucks with lots of equipment, cable snaking along the sidewalks, street parking shut down for a three block radius ... crazy. it's apparently written by the same guy who wrote Stealing Harvard, but since it's a Canadian production, you probably won't see it. =)
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Just don't give the autonomous flying robots guns and I think we'll be OK. ;)
Hi, Aaron. I know a while back you were hoping that there would be some really interesting ideas as to what one could do with the desktop.
http://www.symphonyos.com/
I think these guys are on to something. I don't agree with everything they're doing and I'm not saying that KDE should head in this direction. But imagine if everything their doing could be easily implemented within KDE4.
Mind you, I'm looking for something more in the vein of C++. I still find superkaramba and karamba to be too slow.
I think what's interesting is how they're leveraging Gecko.
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