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KonfigTracker – Database initialization completed.

GSoC 2010 coding period started on May 24th and this is going to be the first update on KonfigTracker. I’ve completed the work on repository initialization part of konfigtracker, and is available in Pardus svn. How does this work? KonfigTracker has git working in its backend as the database. So, initialization part will check for [...]

GSoC Fever – Trying out KDirWatch

The major part of my google summer of code 2010 project deals with constantly watching a specific directory ($HOME/.kde4/share/config/) for changes. For the past one hour, I was busy trying out something on this area, using KDirWatch class in KDE4. Using a very simple python script shown below, I was able to detect the changes [...]

KonfigTracker – Basic Ideas/Feature list

KonfigTracker (not the official name) is a Snapshot and monitoring tool for KDE4 Settings. This is supposed to be the graphical user interface in which users can simply backup and restore KDE applications’ configuration files. This will help users who accidentally lose or corrupt their configuration files which cause several native KDE technologies and applications [...]