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Stories and comments across the archive that link to kdelook.org.

Stories · 5

  1. Eyes on Karamba

    Tech · Kde · · posted by Hemos · from the bad-puns-ahoy dept. · 146 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "dot.kde.org posted an interview with Hans Karlsson, the author of the now pretty popular KDE clone of Samurize, Karamba, which is responsible for the recent craze at kdelook.org. An interesting interview well worth a read which shows that even today most open source programs still start as tiny hobby projects after all."

  2. Eyes on Karamba

    Tech · Kde · · posted by Hemos · from the bad-puns-ahoy dept. · 146 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "dot.kde.org posted an interview with Hans Karlsson, the author of the now pretty popular KDE clone of Samurize, Karamba, which is responsible for the recent craze at kdelook.org. An interesting interview well worth a read which shows that even today most open source programs still start as tiny hobby projects after all."

  3. Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization?

    Ask · Mozilla · · posted by Cliff · from the bringing-in-the-400-lb-lizard dept. · 435 comments
    jdclucidly asks: "I am a network administrator for a small non-profit (about 50 employees). I would like to roll Mozilla 1.2.1 out to all of our desktops. We don't have a single ghost image because the computers on site are too varied. Yes, I did my Googling. The source for the installer is just huge and mind boggling. Is there something like a Mozilla Administration Kit that will generate custom Mozilla installers? If not, would people on Slashdot be interested in starting a new project to make such a kit?" If you were going to deploy a "branded" version of Mozilla, company-wide, how would you do it, especially if you had to worry about a mixed OS environment?

    "Here's what I want to do:

    • Install everything but Quality Feedback Agent
    • Set Mozilla as the default browser
    • Disable 'Open Unrequested Windows' (kill pop-ups)
    • Install Elveraldo's Crystal-Classic theme as default
    • Set Google as the default search engine
    • Set 'Georgia' as the default Serif font for Western and Unicode
    • Enable HTTP Pipelining
    • Enable FIPS internal cryptography
    • Set toolbar to 'Pictures only'
    • Set Home Page to my organization's intranet site
    • Set start page to 'Blank page'
    • Disable 'Hide the tab bar'
    • Enable Middle-click for new tab
    • Enable control+enter for new tab
    • Default downloads to 'open a progress dialog'
    • Disable Javascript and Plugins for Mail & News
    • Enable quicklaunch
    • Create an additional shortcut on the desktop and in quicklaunch that uses chrome/icons/mailnew.ico as it's source and points to 'mozilla.exe -mail'
    As you can imagine, doing this on 50 computers (and making sure I got each of these) would be quite tedious. Are, there others out there that want to do the same thing. I checked the Mozilla newgroups. I checked the CCK Project page at Mozilla.org -- it appears to be pretty inactive. I checked out the Netscape 7 CCK, which is pretty robust but doesn't do everything I want and it's proprietary -- plus, I don't want all the NS7 proprietary crap on my network.

    I installed Mozilla on my machine using the stub installer and had it save all of the .XPI components to a folder. I went in and extracted the .XPI's and examined them. It seems possible to do these things but not without learning XUL, JavaScript, XML and Mozilla.org's own stuffings -- not to mention setting up a Visual C++/Cygwin compiling farm for every next Mozilla release. Can I:
    • Directly modify the defaults/prefs/all.js file to incorporate my preference defaults above and then recompress the .XPI?
    • Add to the installer Crystal-Classic.jar somehow? Where are those changes made?
    • Make the installer NOT allow the user to change any of this?
    • Make the installer create the above mentioned shortcut?"

  4. An Alternative Look for KDE

    Developers · Kde · · posted by timothy · from the tweaking-away dept. · 50 comments
    An anonymous reader writes: "I'm a huge OS X/Gnome fan, but still highly respect the KDE project. I still try and keep up with it's developments and recently came across this posting on KDELook which proposed a totally new GUI design for KDE, which I think could be quite easily adopted in other environments as well. A rolling Slashdot discussion I think would help keep the open-source innovation going. Thoughts?" Update: 11/27 20:12 GMT by T : Amended to give credit where due, which in this case is to the anonymous submitter :)

  5. An Alternative Look for KDE

    Developers · Kde · · posted by timothy · from the tweaking-away dept. · 50 comments
    An anonymous reader writes: "I'm a huge OS X/Gnome fan, but still highly respect the KDE project. I still try and keep up with it's developments and recently came across this posting on KDELook which proposed a totally new GUI design for KDE, which I think could be quite easily adopted in other environments as well. A rolling Slashdot discussion I think would help keep the open-source innovation going. Thoughts?" Update: 11/27 20:12 GMT by T : Amended to give credit where due, which in this case is to the anonymous submitter :)