There’s this really beautiful font i just love! Its Linux Libertine and has more than thousands of characters!

Since i’m studying japanese i’ve been visiting alot the wikipedia’s hiragana page ! and with their default font, for some particular characters, i was seeing alot of squares!

So after a while i figured out that it was the limitations on the font, and since konqueror really allows to overwrite the pages default font, i created a konqueror.css file with:

* {
font-family:"Linux Libertine"
}
and in konqi’s configuration’s Stylesheet i set it to use this.

restart konqi and all is bliss!

this seems to work for now:

for file in *zip; do extdir=`basename “$file” .zip`; unzip -d “$extdir” “$file”; done

it will extract all the .zip files into a new directory based on the file’s name.

ex:

for emacs goodies1.zip

it will create a directory called “emacs goodies1″ and place all the files there.

them proceed to the next .zip file

Quick, unsafe but effective way to allow a certain user to use your running xserver (xorg).

xhost +local:username

well.. that’s it really. That user can now open any application that needs a display window.

eish, i’ll try to revive this blog so let’s start this new posting season with a some useful posts!

Wish me good luck!

Wait.. i mean Summer of Code is on!

with this timeline should it be called Spring of Code? my exams end on the 15th July.. yet the SoC starts May 26, have a midterm on July 14 and end in August 18. not much for a summer work is it?

Anyway, wish all those that get accepted good luck!

if you have a different “season-line” and want ideas look at: techbase.kde.org

Ryan C. Gordon updated is .plan and called for translations of MojoSetup. MojoSetup is to be the rewriting and replacement of Loki_setup.
Here’s the Announcement of MojoSetup and the future homepage with a link to the zlib alike license.

The announcement is a real treat to read because it talks about the bad decisions a project can make. Then there are the (future) features: uses Lua for the scripting (i love Lua although i suck at it..), has a nice GUI/lib separation and definition (via plugins, which means that can be a QT interface for it.. ), started from the begining with support for utf-8 and i18n, a rollback option and uses cmake instead of the usual autotools. He also talks about the reason why the zlib license was choosen.

Meanwhile i’ve finished translating it, and emailed him with notice.

Now.. about launchpad. I already knew that launchpad.net/ was nicier interface for bug tracking and all, but i didn’t knew it used rosetta for the translations. Anyway here’s a small feature list:

* Code: it uses Bazaar for the VCS (version control system) and hosting. (python)

* Bug: Own bug tracker.

* Blueprint: discussion/brainstorming/feature request?

* Answers: it’s like a forum mixed with mailing list and some sort of feature request. Answers.

* transalation:

Ok, i left this one to the end because there are some issues with it. Like the rest of the platform it’s closed source. It’s free as in beer.
If an application has some independence from LP (LaunchPad) there’s no way feed upstream the translations submitted in Rosetta (LP codename for the translation module) which has huge implications. It has some bugs with the “Untranslated” and “Need review” (the first one shows the second one’s number. I intend to submit a bug report using LP itself). Also, it only supports ISO 639 (two letters per identifier: en, pt, fr.. etc. Now.. we all know there’s a bit of friction between pt_PT and pt_BR .. )

But because of its nature, it’s so easy to just start translating some sentences. Which in turn, gives the translation, probably, a chaotic state. I agree that using the .po files and KBabel is a bit of work but thats a double edge sword: for one, it doesn’t make it easy to get fresh blood working within a comunity, but for other, a person that starts and translates with KBabel won’t be disappearing after two or three sentences translated. At least that’s what happened to me: first i read the guide lines, i filled up the form, sent it via snail-mail to the USA, to the Free Software Foundation, learnt some basic KBabel shortcuts and finally started translating (nano v2.0.6/7).

I guess it’s up to the project maintainer to choose. Choose also to use a closed source platform.

Impressions

I was impressed with the LP layout so i asked What is behind launchpad? is it MoinMoin?
Also i enjoyed from the usage of already translated expressions, and with a click each, alot of sentences were skipped.

Take the tour and check it out.

With a short glimpse i noted something strange and then i realised that KCalc is a great example of a Grid Illusion.

(click to enlarge)

I just couldn’t believe this was easy as following this recipe: Konqueror Services Menus
I wanted to be able to edit any file without having an editor associated to that all kind of files. So here’s the result:

File: editallfiles.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=all/allfiles
Actions=editAllFiles
Encoding=UTF-8
X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel

[Desktop Action editAllFiles]
Name=Edit with emacs
Icon=emacs
Exec=emacs %u


I’ve placed this file inside ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicesmenus/
and konqueror immediately used it. Now every time i right click on a file there is a entry called “Edit with emacs” after the emacs icon.
Now i can open any file even if there isn’t a application associated to it or if it already has one, the file is run by that application.

Note: the X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel is to put the entry right on the first menu, otherwise it appears as subsection of the main entry “Actions”.

I just can’t believe how easy this is and how i’ve been delaying this for ages! Isn’t KDE great?

This is the first version of KDE 4 series’.
I can’t wait to use it! I have been following closely the betas and the releases, and the progress is astonishing! Not only on the development front but as well on the documentation, translation, promotion, usability and accessibility teams, the artists ( like oxygen and kde-look.org), the patrons and the supporters and of course the testers and the users. Well done to all. The KDE community really deserves the praise!

Get KDE 4.0 while is hot!

Also don’t forget to party while at it! The will be a 3 day release event on Google Campus in Mountain View, California, United States of America and release parties all over the world!

In Portugal the event is scheduled to be in Aveiro, on the 15 of February. Join us

Emacs‘ splash screen is enable by default, even if it’s started with a argument, like opening a file. So the solution was always in the splash screen but you’ll find out how to remove the splash screen using the essencial dot emacs file

--no-splash
Do not display a splash screen on startup. You can also achieve this effect by setting the variable inhibit-splash-screen to non-nil in you personal init file (but not in site-start.el)

file: ~/.emacs
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)

* setq is the same as set but quotes automatically the first argument. see more detailed in the manual setq
* t is for `true’ (and nil is for `false’)

Using other emacs config files

I’ve tried to set it on default.el and it didn’t use it. To find the directories which belong to the loading path, try on the minibuffer:
“M-x describe-variable RETURN” and then type “load-path“
A shorter way is by hitting “C-h v RETURN” and type the variable name (“load-path“).
Both will print out the value and it’s description.

Note: RETURN is the RETURN key, ofc

Emacs 23

As of emacs 23, the splash screen fills the lower splited buffer. which is less tolerable, for i have to hit C-x 1 or middle clicking on the bar that separates the split.

Only when i actually read the splash i did notice the little option for never showing again that splash along with the “Dismiss” checkbox.