jainbasil en línea
Posts tagged KDE
Configure GTalk in kopete
May 3rd
Now I feel it was a wise decision to switch onto kopete for my regular chats…! Rather, this change-over is the result of my passion for KDE. I just admire KDE these days. I have seen my sister using her Mac Book and I was a great fan of the ” looks ” of Mac; this was before the release of KDE 4. Now I talk to my sister with pride ” I am a KDE user …! ”
I truly believe that even a dull looking wallpaper will kill the freshness of a user. And KDE is really great even in this small aspect too. This made me to switch over to KDE completely ( I’m using KDE 4.2.2 in my Fedora 10 ). Yet another feature which pulled me towards KDE was Get New Stuff. It is possible for a user to install all sort of themes, scripts or each and everything you need to customize your KDE desktop in a single button. This is really a cool feature which helps me to install new themes, widgets and all stuffs.
Now, to the point. I configured GTalk in kopete ( It’s really a simple job, but, I’d like to share this with you..!)
Kopete..!
Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use. (don’t get panic, I took this explanation from kopete’s official site !!). In short, kopete can handle all your instant messaging systems. Currently, I am using Yahoo and GTalk in kopete.
Now, configuring Yahoo is not at all a tedious job since it is given already in the drop down list of kopete. In case of Google Talk, while creating an account, select Jabber from the list.
Username : Enter your email Id (i.e. username@gmail.com )
Now, In the Connection Tab, check the option “Use protocol encryption (SSL) ” and also ” Override default server information”. Checking the later will enable the server line edit where we should enter “talk.google.com”
GTalk configuration in Kopete
Done………! This will enable GTalk in Kopete. This instant messenger is highly themable, so just pull your chatting into its maximum height and enjoy…!
Stepping into KDE through KStars
Mar 23rd
It’s with immense pleasure, I am posting this one. I stepped into development for KDE by fixing bugs in KStars.Earlier, my domain for development was very narrow and it was exposed to the KDE world when i met (in chat…i hope we will met in person soon) the current maintainer of KStars, Akarsh Simha.
Discussions with Akarsh gave pushed in lot of ideas into me regarding the development for Kstars. We discussed a lot on Community Integration of Kstars, which is a proposed project for Google Summer of Code, 2009. The results of our discussion were exciting.Thus i committed my first bug fix from bugs.kde.org. It was actually a wish, which said that If there is no proper font found, KStars should not render greek letters, and it should paint the letter name in plain text. In the current situation, there is no such difficulties since, every Gnu/Linux Distro ships at least one font ( DejaVu is a free font which can handle Greek Unicode) which can handle Greek Unicode characters.I discussed with Akarsh and we arriced at a conclusion that to provide an option(Check Box) in the Advanced Tab of Configure KStars dialog so that user can explicitly enable the support for Greek Letters in Plain Text too and also to check this in Startup Wizard.
But discussions in IRC on this subject made me not to implement that since most of the developers there were of the opinion that this is hinder the usability of the Application.Then, i committed the next Bug Fix, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181602 , which said that the Comet Names range display does not work. This was a minor bug, as both the maximum and minimum value of the QObject was set to zero. Hence, my work was to set a maximum value for kcfg_MaxRadCometName to a value of 500 AU. This was again lowered to 100 AU by Akarsh before checking in since comets more than 100 AU will be faint.
This was the very first work which i did for KStars and KDE too.
Recent Comments