Roar of the Jespersaur

...you might be a criminal. A seemingly innocent Kleenex box:

Flip over, and laugh as you read the directions:

Can anyone tell me why?

Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays before the new year passes as well :)

After reading the post on planetkde about KDE4 running smoothly on an aged machine, I was tempted to try it myself. Although the EeePC is far from old, its CPU/memory and graphics card are relatively low end.

It's pretty amazing how quickly some things can get spotted/fixed in the open software world. I'm out of the country for a day, and I get the following in my inbox:

Notice the date/times. A major bug in the fifteen puzzles applet was spotted by Dario, and later fixed by Jonas - all in less than 24 hours! Imagine that happening in the proprietary software world.

Hooray for open source, and hooray for contributors! :D

I updated Fifteen Puzzle to use the prettier icon I mentioned in the previous post. Due to a stupid error (read, double check your SVG dimensions ;)), the icon works at an acceptable speed now :)

I Also added a configuration dialog, and the ability to select a custom image to slice up and make a new puzzle out of.

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.