KDE – Page 4 – Kasperian Moving Parts

Good Morning, Vietnam^WPlanetKDE!

Wednesday August 8, 2007

Greetings and salutations. And thanks to Chris for adding me to the planet. =:) As an aside, there must be a cooler way of introducing oneself to an aggregator, but having wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to think of one (and not having actually come up with anything clevererer), I’ll relegate myself to looking like a doofus and stick a big “Hi, my name is” adhesive tag on my forehead…. Hi. My name is Jason ‘vanRijn’ Kasper. The Kasper part comes from a rich Austrian heritage that I have documented somewhere in a closet. The Jason part my parents decided to slap on me for no good reason, other than that they must have foreseen the Friday the Read more…

KDE, KPilot

KPilot KDE3, meet KPilot KDE4

Tuesday July 24, 2007

KPilot KDE3, meet KPilot KDE4 Originally uploaded by vanRijn Finally got some time to work on KPilot in trunk late last night. I guess the key thing is… when not sure what to do, just do something. I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed as of late with all that is broken and not working and different and changed, etc., with KPilot in trunk, and have been a bit paralyzed by it all. Of course, having to wait a full 8-hours (I kid you not) for qt-copy, kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase, and then kdepim to compile and install on my blazing-fast T42 Thinkpad is beyond frustrating too. But anyway, I have started looking at the UI for the time being. I’ll work Read more…

Google, KDE, KPilot

KPilot SOC Progress, OpenSync, and Espresso

Sunday June 24, 2007

Our little KPilot Summer of Code project that Bertjan and I are co-laboring on is going fairly well. We’re working through finalizing the Use Case, with me helping out with some word-smithing and architectural review (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/base/design/ ). Bertjan has started doing Class and Sequence diagrams for the main and alternate flows (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/base/design/bouml-design/ ). We’re pretty much on-track according to our schedule (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/base/design/SOC2007-schedule.ods?view=log ) And Bertjan has set up some info on his blog (http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/), and has done some level of progress-updates as well ( http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/node/4). Also, I had a very interesting conversation with the inimitable JPR on Friday about a little bit of this and a little bit of that… and we chatted a bit about KPilot and OpenSync and Read more…

Google, KDE, KPilot

Google Summer of Code and KPilot

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Coming to a town near you!!! Well, okay, not quite, but we’re making progress. Here’s a tentative schedule: SOC Schedule for Bertjan, Kpilot, 2007 From To Focus May 28: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments Week 01 May 28, 2007 Jun 2, 2007 Write Use Case documentation of all conduit flows Week 02 Jun 4, 2007 Jun 9, 2007 Review and revise Use Case documentation with mentor Week 03 Jun 11, 2007 Jun 16, 2007 Create Sequence and Class Diagrams from Use Case documentation for all conduit flows. Week 04 Jun 18, 2007 Jun 23, 2007 Review and revise Sequence and Class Diagrams with mentor. All flows Read more…

KDE, KPilot

Syncing Exchange Calendar 1-way Into Korganizer/Kontact

Tuesday April 17, 2007

I’ve alluded to this before, but never really posted properly about it. Warning: this is very geeky… My current employer uses Exchange as its mail/contact/calendaring solution. I have no say in the matter, so hush. =;) But this poses some challenges to those of us insisting on using Free Software at work (like me). Evolution has a connector for this, but I much-prefer KDE solutions, so I stick with Kontact and Korganizer, and of course KPilot to sync my calendars with my palm. To further complicate things, nobody in KDE PIM has the time/resources to make Kontact play nicely with Exchange as a calendar back end. So, what I must have is the ability to keep my private and work Read more…

Google, KDE, KPilot

Google SOC, KDE, KPilot, and Me

Thursday April 12, 2007

Woohoo!! It’s official!! This year, KDE is once again participating in Google’s Summer Of Code (SOC), and we have 40 projects that have been approved by Google! Thankfully, KDE PIM has more than a couple of approved projects (which is really good news!!). Also, I will be a mentor this year (first time, yay!) for a much-needed KPilot SOC project which will go a long way towards making KPilot maintainable, stable, and more consistent (read: better, faster, easier to follow, and less bugs)! I will be working with Bertjan on the project and am looking forward to getting some more momentum behind KPilot (only the best Palm-synching solution in existence today….).

KDE

Konsole and Artwiz Fonts

Thursday February 1, 2007

For whatever reason, I cannot get my fonts in konsole (SUSE 10.2) to not look like crap. Before I grew attached to KDE and konsole, I used blackbox and Eterm (for like 5+years???). And Eterm did a fantastic job of using the classic (and really good) artwiz fonts like smoothansi, fkp, snap, mints, edges, anorexia. Konsole, apparently, cannot use the fonts that I’d used (and kept) for years with Eterm. So I stumbled upon this sourceforge project which has resurrected the glorious artwiz fonts and allows them to be used in KDE/GTK applications once more (including konsole). All hail Artwiz!! (where did you go, Artwiz!?!) All hail Oliwier Ptak!!!

Desktop, KDE

The Most Perfect Desktop OS

Thursday January 25, 2007

OpenSUSE 10.2. KDE + Beryl. Hands down. Blows everything else I’ve ever seen away, including OS X. Wow, seriously.

Google, KDE

All Your Email Are Belong To Gmail

Wednesday December 27, 2006

As written about previously, I’ve decided to let Google’s Apps For Your Domain handle all of the e-mail for my domain. What this means is that for all incoming and outgoing e-mail I’ll have them saved permanently (as permanently as 2 gigs of space allows at least) stored in GMail for my domain users and also stored on my web hosts’s IMAP server. Cool beans, yes. But what about the e-mail that I’ve been keeping on my IMAP server for the last 8+ years, eh? It sure would be nice to get all that e-mail into GMail as well so that I can take advantage of GMail’s searching. Well, along comes some spectactular 5+year-old(?) technology by Mark Lyons called GMail Read more…

Google, KDE, Life in General

Using GMail Hosted With Your Hosted-Elsewhere Website

Sunday December 3, 2006

I fought this stupid thing for a good few days with no luck (and loss of sleep, etc.) and I finally found the solution. I’m using Google’s Apps For Your Domains as the e-mail server for my domain. First, there’s the 2 gigs of storage per user. Also, it’s a nice solution for long-term backup and storage. And I’m most interested in using GMail’s spam filters and spam training, since that’s one thing that is VERY non-simple (non-possible, honestly) with every web hosting solution I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately, GMail doesn’t allow an IMAP interface (yet, hopefully?? come ON gmail guys!!!). I check my e-mail from multiple machines and POP3 is very unsuited for this purpose (even with the recent:username@ hack Read more…