i'm sitting in a coffee shop in vancouver enjoying a warm coffee and their free wireless. the street outside is filled with people bustling through the fog. a rather typical fall day in this fair city.
last night i gave a presentation at the telus theatre at the british columbia institute of technology for the vancouver linux user's group on kde. somewhere between 50 and 60 people showed up, most of whom use linux as their primary desktop. virtually all of those people use KDE (i think there were 2 or 3 that used something else). so it was a friendly audience.
the projector didn't play nice, though. i've had more trouble with getting this toshiba laptop to work with projectors properly with suse 10. suse 9 was a dream and it worked perfectly. now, however, with the new x.org it doesn't like to display both on the external video and on the laptop's screen (console works perfectly however) and last night it couldn't give the projector anything to work with. i tried several resolutions, colour depths and sync rates. no luv.
so i installed vnc on the windows machine that was provided with the room, slapped the wireless card into the laptop and vnc'd into the laptop. the presentation went decently after that.
i showed a number of kde3 applications and capabilities, and talked about some of our concrete goals and directions for kde4.
this morning i committed a fix for transparency in kicker where it would go all screwy if you used either the numeric or text labels on the pager in transparent mode (though some also reported the problem in elegant mode). so if you were running into that problem, it's fixed for 3.5.1. would've been nice to get it done for 3.5.0 but it didn't quite make it. =(
i'm meeting up with an old friend in about 12 minutes that i haven't seen in a year or so. will be nice to see her again.
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8 comments:
awesome! remember we've talked about this issue and couldn't figure out what was happening. glad you found it!
rock on,
muesli
Maybe you know this effect:
I have kicker on the left border of the screen, and if I start a second kicker (running on a remote machine) also on the left border, as soon as the second kicker appears, both kickers start to wander across the whole desktop until they reach the right border and beyond. Not sure it's a bug, could also be a funny feature :-)
Alex
neundorf at kde.org
It was a lovely sunny day in Calgary today - it got up to 20°C :)
David James
Even if we were a room full of Gnome users (such as myself), I'd like to think we'd still be a friendly crowd. :) Thanks a lot for coming out to do the presentation! I enjoyed it. Too bad the pub was closed.... :(
Steve
blog dot stevenbrown dot ca
@Alex:
yes, i'm aware of that behaviour. and due to the way struts are managed, there's no way to fix that. you simply aren't allowed to have more than one set of panels on the same x display.
@Steve:
> Even if we were a room full of
> Gnome users (such as myself),
> I'd like to think we'd still be
> a friendly crowd.
the worst is when i end up in front of a crowd of windows or mac desktop users. they are so unexcited about the desktop that those presentations are often not overly enjoyable for me. even when the project works perfectly ;)
and yeah, a pub that closes at 10:00 is lame ;)
i wonder, what chip did your laptop use, nvidia?
and where you using nvidias closed source drivers?
allso, there is a rumour going around that linux did a full reboot. did that actualy happen?
> i wonder, what chip did your
> laptop use, nvidia?
no. ati. i'm using the radeon driver. used to work like a champ under suse pro 9 until i upgraded to suse 10.
> allso, there is a rumour going
> around that linux did a full
> reboot. did that actualy happen?
yeah, i did a reboot out of desperation. a sort of hail mary pass. no luv.
ah ok. someone seems to think it was a spontanious reboot or something...
still, a reboot would not do much good on the radeon driver now would it. i dont recall it using a kernel module like the nvidia one does. or maybe im just not up to speed on that driver :P
no biggie, just checking the background of some rumour...
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