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KDE 4 just got its first plasma game (I think)...
Introducing the most complex game ever:
The fifteen pieces puzzle!
Hours upon hours of fun can be had arranging the blocks!
Note: I had a really nice block icon, but for some reason the animations become dead slow if the applet becomes scaled in any way. I'll just draw gradients on the fly for now, apparently that's faster for some reason.
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Was this the year of the Linux desktop? Dell, OLPC, Walmart, Chumby, and now this? (not to mention the slew of mobile Linux devices)
Today I got a friendly little package from Taiwan... Inside, I found the smallest laptop I've ever seen before. The Asus EeePC, preloaded with Linux (Xandros/Debian Etch) and KDE/IceWM.
Less than 1kg, solid state drive, and pretty good performance (900mhz/intel graphics) means that this little puppy will be my new carry-around laptop :)
Best part: *everything* works in Linux out of the box. Perfect suspend/resume, integrated webcam, and wireless support. Yay! Now I know how Mac users have felt for the last few years ;)
Of course, the community that has already begun sprouting up doesn't hurt either ;)
The keyboard will take some getting used to, but otherwise so far I'm very happy with it :)
Hooray for Linux, and hooray for companies finally starting to get it!
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To commemorate Girish's last day at Trolltech and to hopefully find some KDE 4 bugs, a motley group of hackers gathered for some pizza, movies, and coding on various things...
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Left to right: Andreas (Maelcum), Simon (Tronical), Thiago, Myself, Kavindra, Girish, Thomas(Z), and Carlos. Not pictured is Veronica who was the photographer.
Farewell Girish and good luck in India!
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I finally managed to get the last detail (touch screen, thanks to tslib!) sorted out, so without further ado... Qt 4.3.2 running on the Chumby! :)
If the flash player doesn't show up in your browser click here to go directly to Youtube.
I'm going to clean up the process and post instructions once I find some time... And yes, I still need to get a better camera ;)
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A strange package arrived today...within it dwelled a cryptic cotton sack labelled Chumby:
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What could be inside? I wonder...
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My long awaited Chumby of course!
The packaging and manual were really neat, and setup was a breeze. Simply plug it in, and follow the on screen instructions. Extra props go to the calibration tool (was almost fun ;)), and the ultra simple wifi setup.
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How do you know you're a geek?
You get an SMS from a friend at 6pm asking to do something fun, and you end up organizing a hacking night! About 2 hours later we had 8 people with their laptops in a meeting room, and some pizza en route :)
Ordered left to right is: Veronica, Carlos, Chuck, Simon (Tronical), Thiago , and Thomas (ThomasZ), (Andreas is afk)
Unfortunately we didn't really manage to do anything productive, though most of us managed to sync, compile, and play with some of the new KDE 4 stuff.
My current desktop:
