OLS Day 0

On Monday, I drove to Guelph to hang out with some friends and then take the VIA Train to Ottawa. We arrived around 5pm today.

About the only thing done that was productive today was order a Pizza and sync rawhide and pray wireless will work tomorrow morning.

I wish Other KDE people where here

[ Insert I'm Going to OLS! banner here ]

Pictures to come ...

Syndicated 2008-07-23 04:19:40 from spstarr's blog

Plasma Weather Meeting and things to come...

Our famous Oxygen folks have brought a taste of things to come for the weather plasmoid. This mockup is a work in progress.

Credit goes to Pinheiro and Lee Olson from Oxygen for getting things started!

I would like to propose a meeting for next week to discuss some changes for the mockup, and other features we may need. Feedback welcome on the date and time.

This is scheduled for KDE 4.2 timeframe.

And...

and wish I could

Syndicated 2008-07-10 15:30:30 from spstarr's blog

A lament for the system tray

O woe is me, your poor systray,
I work so hard to show you statuses,
and even then I get no respect.
I make your panel shine with glee,
O please say a prayer for me.

O woe is me,
I am the systray,
just don't make me display things in disarray.

Syndicated 2008-07-03 03:58:55 from spstarr's blog

Fedora Elections and Weather Applet

Just as everyone else SHOULD be doing....

(thanks to whoever drew the artwork)

Go HERE to vote if you're a member of Fedora

With the election going on, I believe we'll have a great board elected to continue the progress Fedora is making. So do your part and VOTE NOW!

On the KDE side of things...

I spoke to one of our famous artists Pinheiro for a mockup of the Weather plasmoid. I'm sure he'll have some interesting ideas to cook up. It looks like I won't be able to get this thing in for KDE 4.1 (sigh). With no artwork (and I'm a terrible artist), it's best to leave this in playground.

I plan on working on some other ions (data source engines) for other Free weather data sources soon if their licenses allow me to do so.

Calling other artists, anyone in the mood to write SVG weather icons? kthxbye

Syndicated 2008-06-18 17:21:42 from spstarr's blog

The Fedora 9 Release party and KDE

Well, a few days ago, I attended the release party for Fedora 9. There was a lot of people who showed up a few Red Hat folks who work on Fedora and packages. There were also a few users who showed up to try Fedora out for the first time. It was a big success! Thanks to all who came out

When I arrived, I was asked to demonstrate KDE for the audience. Seeing that I don't have KDE 4.0.x and that I'm using trunk ('4.1') I showed them some features in 4.1 giving them notice of the bugs they were about to encounter. All and all, the demonstration went ok otherwise.

I have to say though, we have a lot of work to do for KDE 4.x to catch up with the GNOME folks as they have more things integrated together. Hopefully by a later KDE 4.x, we'll have more integration. We took a big risk in KDE 4.x but even though all the current pain, it will be for the better in the long run.

I'd like to also dispel FUD that I still keep hearing about KDE and Fedora. As you know, historically Red Hat/Fedora have been a GNOME shop, this remains true today, however, with Fedora 9, there is full KDE participation now. We have a KDE SIG group that maintains and charts KDE's course within Fedora. There is still some work to do to building more bridges, but I am glad to see Fedora reaching out to KDE as they have now.

Special thanks and greetings to: Andrew Overholt, Behdad Esfahbod and Brian Pepple for making the party a success! See you for Fedora 10

The LinuxCaffe. Stop by for drink and food and geek fun!

Fedora people chatting and hacking

The bar area, feel free to pickup a Fedora DVD

Syndicated 2008-05-18 17:51:53 from spstarr's blog