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If you're in Oslo on the 30th of January then you're cordially invited to the KDE 4.2 release party at Bugges Cafe at 20:00.
Location info:
http://www.bugges.net/ombugges.html
If you haven't met the Qt trolls before, then this is your big chance! :)
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One one of the neat perks of Nokia aquiring Trolltech was that we all got cool new phones. Most chose the neato n95, which is effectively a camera with calling functionality. It takes great quality pictures, and thanks to its internal GPS, is able to geo-tag the photos with the coordinates of where it was taken. The question then of course is what will you do with all these photos and their metadata? A couple of KDE apps make it possible to view a selected photo on a map, but I wanted more. Enter Trippy!
Trippy uses Marble and Exiv2 to grab the GPS coordinates and timestamps from photos, and then pinpoint them on a map, drawing lines to "connect" the photos. The currently selected photo/route shows up as a red dot/line. The result is minimalistic application that focuses on just loading a directory of photos, and getting an overview of your journey and easily viewing the memories from it.
Currently it's hosted on Github:
http://github.com/jesper/trippy/tree/master
Usecase? Here's how my summer vacation looked:
Enjoy, and don't hesitate to fork on Github! ;)
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Wooo! Jet lag finally wore off, so I think it's about time to post some pictures from the great meeting I attended with the Japan KDE users group. After a treacherous journey riddled with re-routed flights and delays, I ended up going from a 15 hour landing-to-meeting buffer, down to 4. Luckily, I still made it in time to meet Daisuke and the others.
First we had a fun little history lesson, where the first president of the group re-told some adventures they had in the early days.
Followed by some nice presentations describing new stuff in KDE 4.x and even one on Qt 4.4 relating to KDE by yours truly. After it was all said and done, it was time to go out and have some fun.
We went to a traditional Japanese restaurant (name evades me), where we the interior/service matched the amazing cuisine. I love this place.
A curious topic during the dinner was about how long the group has been around. The JKUG has been around since at least 1999, making it almost a decade old - impressive! Are there any others out there that can claim the title of longest running active KUG, or do they have it?
Thanks JKUG guys! Hope to see you again some time!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot - I have to go to Belgium in August to repay eean for a lost bet we made in Austin.
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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.
I simply downloaded the latest KDE4 RC kubuntu live CD, and followed the instructions from the EeeUser wiki on how to make a "live" usb stick. A slight adjustment to the bios/boot order, installing the libgl1-mesa-dri package, and a short while later I was pleasantly surprised by the following:
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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
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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.
Finally, I made a custom icon (added a question mark to the default piece icon ;)) for Fifteen Puzzle in the applet browser:
Have fun! ;)
