This week's show will look like this:
- Hello, viewers!
- Week in review: KOffice beta, Amarok release candidate, bugs.kde.org improves and developer activity recap.
- The Headline: Entrepreneurial opportunities and the Free Software desktop: where is all the diversity?
- Feature of the Week: New MSN bling and graceful interfaces in Kopete
- Town Hall: Bring your questions to #aseigo on irc.freenode.net! I'll have my sack of answers at the ready.
- Developer Corner: Writing a Plasmoid in JavaScript.
An ogv will be available via bittorrent after the show so you can download it for offline viewing, in addition to the usual online clip at UStream.
As for why the bump up by an hour this week: There is a winter fair at the P-man's school on Saturday, and we'll be there for much of day. So I'll be broadcasting at 16:00 UTC instead. Apologies for the inconvenience, I hope you can still make it! We'll be back to the regular time next week.
Update: Due to
20 comments:
I really want to take part in the question/answer session, but unfortunately the time zones do not allow it (2 o clock in the night when it happens).
And I'm sure there's a lot of other people also where this is the case, so how about taking a few minutes off the regular town hall part, and use them to answer some questions posed offline before the actual cast? For example, you could have people unable to watch live ask you through the comments section of a certain blogpost, and before going live scan through and pick a few questions to answer.
OK, stupid question, but I couldn't find it:
Where can i download the Episode 1?
DanielW > Here you'll find ustream and bittorrent links : http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-took-my-curtain-call.html
Damn, I might not be able to attend this time :(. But we'll see....
thx for the whole effort and the ogv (the flv replay killed my X four times)!
btw great idea, great show! (and flash sucks as usual)
I've got a question, and I don't know if I'll be able to attend live. Goes like this,
"In KDE 3 times, you often mentioned Kiosk which could lock down selected KDE capabilities and helped a great deal with the acceptance of KDE for large roll-outs. What has happened to this technology in KDE 4, and does KDE 4 still sport the same kind of controllability for schools, kiosk systems etc.?
i'm also interested in what became of the great kde3 technologies i do not hear much about in recent times, like KIO, KParts, etc.
are they still contemporary and actively used or just supported for backwards compatibility?
i'm - amongst other reasons - asking this because for instance kubuntu dropped a lot of the kioslaves i got used to in their default install. are there "good reasons" for doing so?
I'm not totally sure if I could attend live, so here is my question:
Can you explain in a nutshell the ZUI? There is a explanation in Plasma's FAQ, but is a bit brief. :)
To a newcomer it seems a way to create new activities, change between them, and move widgets from one place to another. But something similar is also possible with windows, but it works in a different way, with menus instead of zooming (although zooming is possible with one of KWin's effect). Why is zooming so important?
Thanks a lot!
I haven't tried KDE 4.2 yet so I don't know if it's fixed there. The thing is that there are no short cuts. In KDE 3.5 you could press on the mute button on the keyboard and it muted, but on 4.1 that won't work. Is there any effort made to make these short cuts so that you don't have to config them all by yourself?
Second (more to the general people on the blog): Which KDE distro works best? I'm currently using OpenSUSE 11.0 with KDE 4.1 factory rep enabled so I get about 200-400 MB of updates daily. I was thinking of trying Mandriva and I tried the live CD and was going to shut it down, it made this terribly loud screeching noise for about 30 seconds which freaked me out.
Hi. For the town hall question, kde 4.1 seems to be really power hungry. My laptop runs for about 3 hrs on kde3.5 but only runs for 1hr 50min or so on kde 4.1. Is there any plan to address the power consumption issues on 4.3 or maybe 4.2 even?
Partha,
I haven't done any empirical testing however I haven't noticed any difference between KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.1. If you are using the new version of Kubuntu there are a number of runaway processes that might be the cause, console-kit-dae is a regular culprit for me (I can't remember seeing it in the last week so maybe that has been addressed) although a really nasty one is flash but of course the flash process is usually displayed as part of another process such a firefox-bin or even *wrap*. I guess the best thing to do is monitor what is eating up your CPU by monitoring 'top' through the CLI but beware krunner hogs 20% or so of the CPU for me when one presses ctrl and esc although that can be ignored for general usage as it doesn't register when viewed through 'top'.
My town hall question is about file management. In the early stages of KDE4 development there was word that when one hovered over an icon and the highlighted area appeared around the icon in question there was going to be sub-icons displayed on the highlighted area that were the equivalent of the right click menu but more discoverable as they were self evident. At the moment there is only the plus symbol used to make icon selections but are there going to be any more added as it was a nice touch. I believe the initial criticism was due to the test case mini icons being useless (you remember rotate, resize etc) however isn't now the time to add usefull ones?
Aaron,
Could you please include any screenshots you make in the torrent, and links to them from somewhere in UStream? I couldn't watch the last show on time, so when I downloaded it, you were mentioning screenshots that were on irc, but I couldn't find them so there wasn't much use of the show since I couldn't see what you were talking about...
Thanks!
> are they still contemporary and actively used or just supported for backwards compatibility?
I know KIO is at least (nepomuk:// slave). KParts are still used too (Viewer Plasmoid), though they could be used more (yes, you may need to extend it, you did it before).
Why does KDE4 also have multiple applications for same function, by default. I am not against multiple applications but why does it get installed by default. I have never gotten an answer for this.
Thanks,
Venky80
> Why does KDE4 also have multiple applications for same function, by default.
Could you name some examples?
Question for today's video cast: I have not been able to find any reference in KDE4 to being able to use the extra keys on the laptop such as volume up/down and mute. Is there any plans to include these "ACPI" in upcoming KDE4 release?
@Partha:
In 4.1, the two most serious power drainers (according to the wake-up rates reported by powertop) are KWin and KNotify4. Both of these have been fixed in 4.2 so that they don't unnecessarily cause wake-ups anymore. In compositing mode ("Enable desktop effects"), my Intel graphics driver in kernel 2.6.27 is the last cause of unnecessary wake-ups, and with composite disabled, KDE 4.2 should be on par with 3.5 regarding wake-ups.
Maybe there are further opportunities to suck power though? I could imagine that increased CPU usage could also lead to shorter battery times :P
@Halim I.:
Whether the (ACPI) volume keys are recognized by the system depends on your distribution (or its configuration of X), that's not KDE's responsibility. KDE's responsibility, though, is to assign the key events to the mute/volume-up/volume-down actions of KMix. I'm not sure if that is done currently, but I think it is.
@Jakob Petsovits: Sorry for not being clearer earlier. My understanding was that this in KDE3 was handled by kmilo, and that kmilo could not be ported to KDE4 due to completely different way this is handled, and that instead the functionality from kmilo would be integrated "elsewhere". Not correct?
@Halim I.:
To be honest, I never really grasped what kmilo is all about, and I certainly haven't tracked how it evolved in KDE 4.
Still, looking this up in KMix's code [1], it's clear that a) this functionality is currently provided by KMix, and KMix alone, and b) that application just hooks up the volume keys (Qt::Key_VolumeUp, Qt::Key_VolumeDown, Qt::Key_VolumeMute) to the corresponding actions. Whether these keys exist depends on the distro - for example, they didn't work in Kubuntu Hardy but Intrepid hooked up the ACPI events with the appropriate X key events, and now this stuff works.
[1] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/kmix.cpp?revision=877015&view=markup
Aaron,
the Ustream approach only allows people who is living very much the same/similar timezone with you
seems like many people missed it due to one reason or another.
hope that there's a better way .
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