{"id":1310,"date":"2006-10-18T23:20:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-stuff\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:20:58","slug":"new-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"New stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beryl<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\tThe last days, I’ve been playing around with some new software that has emerged lately:<\/p>\n

\t\tI’ve acquainted myself with the new Qt4 API be means of PyQt4, nothing serious yet, only
\nthe
\n\t\thaving a look already<\/em>. Hopefully Python bindings for kde4 will be done soon, can’t
\nwait to port
\n\t\tguidance<\/a> to all the new goodness.<\/p>\n

\t\tEarlier last week, I’ve upgraded my workstation at home and my laptop to Edgy, the upgrade
\non the workstation
\n\t\t went very smooth, upgrading the laptop was a PITA, mostly due to ATi drivers and the
\ninvolved packaging
\n\t\t scripts. Oh well. It’s done, and in the process, I’ve created a bunch of packages for those
\nwho want to run
\n\t\tKubuntu Edgy Eft on the T60, grab them<\/a> while
\n\t\tthey’re hot, there’s evil proprietary driver packages, and a patch that adds the necessary
\nbits to a 2.6.18
\n\t\tkernel tree (ipw3945 + ieee80211). The kernel package should save you the hassle of patching
\nand compiling all
\n\t\tthe stuff yourself.<\/p>\n

\t\tAfter I learnt that the other<\/em> proprietary driver I’m using is a security problem,
\nI’ve upgraded my
\n\t\tworkstation to the latest nvidia beta driver and luckily didn’t experience any regression.
\nHaving that done
\n\t\tanyway, I looked for beryl packages, installed those, enabled AIGLX<\/a> and was surprised that things went quite
\nsmoothly. Then I
\n\t\tlearnt that replacing a window manager isn’t something you should to on a daily basis, you
\nloose a
\n\t\tlot<\/em> of useful shortcuts. Oh well, it’s nice enough that I played a bit with it,
\nrecorded a crappy movie<\/a> with my digicam and
\nwent back to kwin.
\n\t\t:-)<\/b><\/p>\n

\t\tPlayed a bit Nexuiz<\/a> then, impressed by the
\nquality of nowadays’
\n \t\tLinux Gaming Experience..\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOn the KDE and Public Relation side of things, I’ve given two presentations recently, one at
\nthe Linuxbijeenkomst<\/a> in Tiel\/NL (
\nKDE4 –
\n\t\tFuture of the Free Desktop<\/a>) and the other one at LinuxWorldExpo in Utrecht (10 Years of
\nKDE<\/a>). After
\n\t\tthe KDE 3.5.5 release, I did an interview<\/a>
\n\t\tfor Newsforge \/ Linux.com.<\/p>\n

\t\tNext month, I’ll be attending the Ubuntu Dev Summit in Mountainview \/ California at the
\nGoogle Head Quarters –
\n\t\tif the German authorities manage to get my passport ready in time, that is. Looking forward
\nto it.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last days, I’ve been playing around with some new software that has emerged lately: I’ve acquainted myself with the new Qt4 API be means of PyQt4, nothing serious yet, only the having a look already. Hopefully Python bindings for kde4 will be done soon, can’t wait to port guidance to all the new goodness.… Continue reading New stuff.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}