OK, I have used Limewire in the past and I like it a lot, but the CPU load makes me cry. If you share a lot of files, the CPU load becomes unbearable and slows down your system. I have looked at gtk-gnutella, I have toyed with Phex (another Java client), I have compiled gnut and so on. But only recently I found the right app for my KDE desktop: QTELLA.
size below 200 k nice interface
(like limewire but prettier -> KDE2 conforming) Screenshots here!
Has all the features one would need. Of course it is a lot faster than Limewire.
Finally one thin I would like to see: A pure and true gnutella server daemon. No GUI. No nothing. Even gnut requires logging in. So how can I start a gnutella client by ssh? How do I control it ? Not possible, the program clkoses as soon as I drop the ssh connection. Now that would be a nice feature in a gnutella client.
Yes, KDE2 plays flash files with either the nspluginviewer(default) and fthe flash plugin or with reaKtivate, the wine derived activeX pluzgin viewer (alpha, untested, not included in standard release).
In recent years, science fiction and fantasy (especially childrens' books such as Harry Potter) have failed to come up with anything truly original. No authors have come up with anything which approaches the originality or the epic grandeur shown by Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Please turn your attention to Greg Egan. The best current SF writer if you ask me. Cooool ideas, great science, nice plots. Excellent reading for those who like hard SF. The author is an Australian programmer, he has a cool web site with many of his works available online: http://www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/
SF of the finest class. Sense of Wonder included.
Re:Sharing user's home directories
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KDE 2.2 Released
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At least on my KDE the thing is called
KDEHOME without space.
Not quite clear what is missing...
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KDE 2.2 Released
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Have you looked at kpager? Isn't that what you want?
Of course. Even up by pressing the up arrow for a a while.
(nice if you are deep do2n in/usr/*/*/*/*)
Saving individual windows settings....
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KDE 2.2 Tagged
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It is quite easy with kwin:
RMB on title bar, Save Settings. This saves geometry settings. AS for starting on a certain desktop, well most users would be confused if the app they just started appears on a different desktop, so apps always start on the desktop where you clicked.
Also session management restores all apps on the right desktop.
Have a look at kstart, you can customize the start behaviour of all applications with this command line tool.
e.g.:
kstart --desktop 4 --ontop xosview
Speed: Just improved by 30% !!
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KDE 2.2 Tagged
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I guess you mean startup speed, because normal speed was already quite OK.
KDE-2.2 is quite a lot (noticably) faster than KDE-2.1.1. Especially file management is a lot faster now, but also configuration dialogs and so on. Not as fast as Win95, but fast enough to feel snappy (on my P-ii-300).
If you are interested in startup speed, check out the objprelink hack for C++ projects, that was just recently done for KDE. It improves startup times of KDE apps by 30-50 % and might also be of use for OpenOffice, Mozilla and other large C++ applications. Of course it is just a hack until real (stable) prelinking in gcc is available.
Note: This has not been included to KDE-2.2 by default, because it arrived during the feature freeze. Hopefully your packager will use this or just follow the step-by-step instructions yourself. It is easy and works like advertised.:-)
Have fun KDE folks!
Then follow instructions for 3D acceleration. Maybe 20 minutes max to get it running at full speed with the installed X. If you need every frame, upgrade to X-4.1 (rpms available).
I still remember installing utah-glx to play quake3 as root and quake2 I only played in svgalib 320x200:-) --
I have to confess, I am an great KDE fan (since KDE1Beta2).
This release is sooo good, that Windows XP pales in comparison. Stable, only very occasional glitches.
I can't wait for the final, but READ the Changelog (of 3!!!! months). It is incredible:
BTW, this is the SHORT Changelog, for the complete thing read the link at the bottom!!!!!!
Incremental Changelog
The following are the major improvements, enhancements and fixes since the KDE 2.1 release earlier this year:
KDE has added a new plugin-based printing framework, which features:
support for CUPS, lpr and rlpr, though support for other printing systems can be easily added;
a Control Center module for managing printers (add/remove/enable/disable/configure), print servers (currently only CUPS), and print jobs (cancel/hold/move);
a configurable filter mechanism (for setting number of pages per sheet, etc.);
a print job viewer for the KDE panel's system tray; and
support for configurable "pseudo-printers", such as fax machines, email, etc.;
Konqueror, the KDE file manager and web browser, sports a number of new features:
HTML and JavaScript handling has been improved and made faster;
Ability to stop animated images;
New file previews, including PDF, PostScript, and sound files;
New "Send File" and "Send Link" options in the Filemenu;
Added a number of new plugins:
A web archiver for downloading and saving an entire web page, including images, in an archive for offline viewing;
Babelfish translation of web pages;
A directory filter for displaying only specified mimetypes (such as images);
A quick User Agent changer to get Konqueror to work with websites that discriminate based on the browser you are using;
An HTML validator using W3C to validate the XML/HTML of a webpage (useful for web developers); and
A DOM tree-viewer for viewing the DOM structure of a web page (useful for web developers);
New configuration for user-defined CSS stylesheets;
Saving toolbar layout in the profile;
A new "Most Often Visited" URL in the Go menu; and
Many other enhancements, usability improvements and bug fixes.
KDevelop, the KDE IDE, offers a number of new features:
Enhanced user interface with an MDI structure, which supports multiple views of the same file;
Added new templates for implementing a KDE/Qt style library and Control Center modules;
Updated the kde-common/admin copy (admin.tar.gz); and
Extended the user manual to reflect the new GUI layout and added a chapter for using Qt Designer with KDevelop projects;
KMail, the KDE mail client, has a number of improvements:
Added support for IMAP mail servers;
Added support for SSL and TSL for POP3 mail servers;
Added configuration of SASL and APOP authentication;
Made mail-sending non-blocking;
Improved performance for very large folders;
Added message scoring;
Improved the filter dialog and implemented automatic filter creation;
Implemented quoting only selected parts of an email on a reply;
Implemented forwarding emails as attachments; and
Added support for multiple PGP (encryption) identities;
New Control Center modules:
Listing USB information (attached devices);
Configuring window manager decoration;
Configuring application startup notification;
Configuring user-defined CSS stylesheets;
Configuring automatic audio-CD ripping (MP3, Ogg Vorbis); and
Configuring key bindings;
Added Kandy, a synchronization tool for mobile phones and the KDE address book, and improved KPilot address book synchronization;
KOrganizer, the KDE personal organizer, has a number of improvements:
Added a "What's Next" view;
Added a journal feature;
Switched to using the industry-standard iCalendar as the default file format;
Added remote calendar support; and
Added ability to send events using KMail, the KDE mail client;
Noatun, the KDE multimedia player, sports a number of new features:
Improved the plugin architecture and added a number of new plugins:
An Alarm plugin for playing music at a specified time;
A Blurscope plugin which creates an SDL-based blurred monoscope;
A Luckytag plugin for guessing titles based on filenames;
A Noatun Madness plugin, which moves the Noatun window in sync with the music being played;
A Synaescope plugin, based on Synaesthesia, which provides an impressive SDL-based visualization; and
A Tyler plugin, which is similar to XMMS's Infinity;
Added support for pre-amplification; and
Added support for hardware mixers;
Added a Personalization wizard (KPersonalizer) to configure the desktop settings easily;
Added KDict, a powerful graphical dictionary client;
Added KDE-wide scanning support with the application Kooka;
Replaced the default editor KWrite with the more advanced editor Kate, which provides split views and basic project management;
The window manager now supports Xinerama (multi-headed displays);
Improved the file dialog, including mimetype-based file previews;
Improved the configurability of the KDE panel;
Added IPv6 and socks support to the core libraries;
Improved application startup:
applications are now placed on the desktop from which they were launched; and
startup notification can be configured with a new Control Center module, with options including a busy cursor next to the application's icon;
Improved icons and added new 64x64 icons;
New window manager decoration styles (quartz, IceWM themes, MWM, Web);
Improved the help system, which is now XML-based;
Added support for the Meta and AltGr keys for shortcuts; and
Made many other usability improvements.
WARNING: Also I have studied the German law, trademarks are not my specialty and I give no guarantees about the content of this post. (IANAL yet, too)
There are some mistakes in the descripition of the German Law system you made.
Abmahnung is just "cease and desist". Quite okay if you ask me. They can normally only be send out by the holder of the right that was violated (the trademark). But the BGB knows the so-called GoA - Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag. It allows you to act on behalf of someone if it is clearly in their interest. In this case I can see problems for the lawyers if they did not contact Adobe first, because their actions have cost Adobe a lot of PR, not exactly in the interest of Adobe.
The 4600,- DM are probably derived from the "Streitwert" the estimated contested sum that would be fought about in court. Proabably the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark was considered to be worth millions so the legal fees are calculated from there after the German "BRAGO" - BundesRechtsanwaltsGebührenOrdnung - (try babel on that one) a state imposed billing statute for lawyers.
There have been decisions in the past, that sending out multiple form letters to trademark violators does not entitle you to full compensation with BRAGO fees for every case.
Finally the German legal system does give you the right to claim your own legal fees from the losing party before court. (Therefore the BRAGo, can't get more than that from your opponent). This is nice, because poor people can sue before the courts -- unlike in the US of A.
AA still had many glitches (remeber it is NEW), most of them disappeared in the past two months.
And to change your homepage, go to the page you want as homepage and go to Window -> Save View Profile -> Web Browsing. Voila, You can even create new view profiles.:-)
It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL....
Understood?
And even the QT_Embedded version is you guessed it GPL. Like Linux. Like many cool things you like. It is free software and open source, comprende?
The only thing that is not free software or open ource is the MS Windows version (even though you can since today use it for free for hobby projects). But who cares about Windows?
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Fixed in KDE-2.2: You can set a font size now.
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Galeon At A Glance
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And well, check it out, it has become much better in the last 3 month. A lot faster and many more pages work in the alphas. The beta will come out next week or so.
And calling other peoples gift crap makes you seem like a complete fucker. Maybe you shoudl use windows and see how much bill cares if you say "it's crap" --
Unfortunately newbies tend to tear them off and get confused.
So they are not used everywhere in KDE. KDE-2.2beta1 has a Start menue that you can tear off though if you need it on the screen at all times. --
What so special and so much BETTER about Konqueror?
1. It relies only on GPL/LGPL and BSD style software unlike other software that grants special powers to AOL.
2. It is more modular than anything. You have TWO html renderers, the excellent khtml and you guessed it kmozilla, which was only done to show that it can be done. khtml is simply better.
3. Konqueror is very small, it is just a container for all ind of plugins, or kparts as they are called. There exist generic kparts (nspluginviewer) and specialized ones (kdvi). Oh, if you have kword installed, you even open.doc files in konqueror.
4. Konqueror makes no difference between all the different protocols. smb networking, ftp, even pop, smtp and ldap can be browsed.
Did I mention audio cd- grabbing (audiocd:/)? Automatic conversion to MP3 and OGG included? Or floppy:/ ? No mounting, just a wrapper around the mtools.
5. Did I mention that it starts up in less then 2 seconds? (KDE-2.2beta1 on AMD Athlon 600, KDE loaded) New windows appear in under one second and are responding.
6. Numerous plugins exist: Web page archiving, Translation, HTML validation, Image retrieval via neural net... Netscape plugins (realplayer and flash) as well as Java and so on work fine.
8. The previews are really nice: Automatic previews for postscript, images, pdf, text, html and brand new, audio lprevlistening (just rest the mouse over an MP3 to hear it).
...
So before you think that galeon is modular, have a look at konqueror. This thing is the best. --
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Galeon At A Glance
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Well you can't be using current CVS. because at least the lists.debian.org works just fine here. Maybe a temporary bug biting you? Also the font setting with AA has always worked here.
Upgrade to X-4.1 and qt-2.3.1 tro get even prettier faster AA fonts.
The other two matters you mentioned (https proxy and several characters setes on one page) really are matters, but they are not what I would call grave.
The developers ALWAYS use the latest and greatest odd little library. The program has not worked on SuSE forever.
I am not surprised that they chose gnome-1.4 which has been available for 6 weeks as a base for a finance app, that would happily work as a gtk app (like gimp).
Slashdot Mirror
QTELLA.
size below 200 k nice interface (like limewire but prettier -> KDE2 conforming)
Screenshots here!
Has all the features one would need. Of course it is a lot faster than Limewire.
Finally one thin I would like to see: A pure and true gnutella server daemon. No GUI. No nothing. Even gnut requires logging in. So how can I start a gnutella client by ssh? How do I control it ? Not possible, the program clkoses as soon as I drop the ssh connection. Now that would be a nice feature in a gnutella client.
Yes, KDE2 plays flash files with either the nspluginviewer(default) and fthe flash plugin or with reaKtivate, the wine derived activeX pluzgin viewer (alpha, untested, not included in standard release).
Please turn your attention to Greg Egan. The best current SF writer if you ask me. Cooool ideas, great science, nice plots. Excellent reading for those who like hard SF. The author is an Australian programmer, he has a cool web site with many of his works available online:
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/
SF of the finest class. Sense of Wonder included.
At least on my KDE the thing is called
KDEHOME without space.
Have you looked at kpager? Isn't that what you want?
is done by the distributors. Debian for example splits the kdenetwork in the different applications.(AFAIK)
There is even a script in the kdesdk to package single apps. Aa long as the distributors don't do it, there is nothing KDE can do about it.
Of course. Even up by pressing the up arrow for a a while. /usr/*/*/*/*)
(nice if you are deep do2n in
It is quite easy with kwin:
RMB on title bar, Save Settings. This saves geometry settings. AS for starting on a certain desktop, well most users would be confused if the app they just started appears on a different desktop, so apps always start on the desktop where you clicked.
Also session management restores all apps on the right desktop.
Have a look at kstart, you can customize the start behaviour of all applications with this command line tool.
e.g.:
kstart --desktop 4 --ontop xosview
KDE-2.2 is quite a lot (noticably) faster than KDE-2.1.1. Especially file management is a lot faster now, but also configuration dialogs and so on. Not as fast as Win95, but fast enough to feel snappy (on my P-ii-300).
If you are interested in startup speed, check out the objprelink hack for C++ projects, that was just recently done for KDE. It improves startup times of KDE apps by 30-50 % and might also be of use for OpenOffice, Mozilla and other large C++ applications. Of course it is just a hack until real (stable) prelinking in gcc is available. Note: This has not been included to KDE-2.2 by default, because it arrived during the feature freeze. Hopefully your packager will use this or just follow the step-by-step instructions yourself. It is easy and works like advertised. :-)
Have fun KDE folks!
QUOTE:
- lends itself perfectly for even better font smoothing (like the ClearType smoothing in, sorry I have to say, Windows XP)
Or like the sub pixel aliassing done by Xfree86 with Xft. Same thing(?) even better results. Less catchy name. Markteting got you.
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Then follow instructions for 3D acceleration. Maybe 20 minutes max to get it running at full speed with the installed X. If you need every frame, upgrade to X-4.1 (rpms available).
:-)
I still remember installing utah-glx to play quake3 as root and quake2 I only played in svgalib 320x200
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You are a liar. I run Kde-2.2b1 on my PIII-350 with 196 MB ram just fine. No tweaks, standard SuSE-7.2 system, AtiRagePro graphics card.
If you experience slowness it must be something in front of your screen that slows everything down.
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KDE-1.1.2 comes with a nice HTML-3.2 browser that should be light enough. Actually gtkhtml contains the same code.
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This release is sooo good, that Windows XP pales in comparison. Stable, only very occasional glitches.
I can't wait for the final, but READ the Changelog (of 3!!!! months). It is incredible:
BTW, this is the SHORT Changelog, for the complete thing read the link at the bottom!!!!!!
For a much more complete list, please read the official ChangeLog here: http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_1to2_--
WARNING: Also I have studied the German law, trademarks are not my specialty and I give no guarantees about the content of this post. (IANAL yet, too)
There are some mistakes in the descripition of the German Law system you made.
Abmahnung is just "cease and desist". Quite okay if you ask me. They can normally only be send out by the holder of the right that was violated (the trademark). But the BGB knows the so-called GoA - Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag. It allows you to act on behalf of someone if it is clearly in their interest. In this case I can see problems for the lawyers if they did not contact Adobe first, because their actions have cost Adobe a lot of PR, not exactly in the interest of Adobe.
The 4600,- DM are probably derived from the "Streitwert" the estimated contested sum that would be fought about in court. Proabably the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark was considered to be worth millions so the legal fees are calculated from there after the German "BRAGO" - BundesRechtsanwaltsGebührenOrdnung - (try babel on that one) a state imposed billing statute for lawyers.
There have been decisions in the past, that sending out multiple form letters to trademark violators does not entitle you to full compensation with BRAGO fees for every case.
Finally the German legal system does give you the right to claim your own legal fees from the losing party before court. (Therefore the BRAGo, can't get more than that from your opponent). This is nice, because poor people can sue before the courts -- unlike in the US of A.
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Kate is the new KDE-2.2 editor (replaces kwrite).
It is the KDE Advanced Text Editor. Syntax Highlighting, tabbed view, undo, blablabla. REally quite nice.
Not as good as gvim. I am still waiting for kvim to become ready.:wq
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Listen to you, maybe it is time to rename
- X11 Windows to X11 fenestra
- Abiword,kword should be called differently
- open office shoud be called open bureau
GNU is not allowed either. Contains Unix (tm). And it even uses it recursively, your honor! Unlimited damages are appropriate!
:-)
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USe KDE-2.2, qt-2.3.1 and Xfree4.1
:-)
AA still had many glitches (remeber it is NEW), most of them disappeared in the past two months.
And to change your homepage, go to the page you want as homepage and go to Window -> Save View Profile -> Web Browsing. Voila, You can even create new view profiles.
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You don't need KDE to make use of all the goodness in khtml.
Do you know about netraider and konq_embedded?
If not check them out, just the essential Konqueror:
http://www.konqueror.org/embedded.html
This is not really a fork, just a compilation option BTW!
Download here: http://devel-home.kde.org/~hausmann/snapshots/
Size of the (HTML+Javascript) browser: 1,4 MB !!!! Cool huh?
Another derived project is netraider: http://mandragon.org/raider/
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It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL It is GPL ....
Understood?
And even the QT_Embedded version is you guessed it GPL. Like Linux. Like many cool things you like. It is free software and open source, comprende?
The only thing that is not free software or open ource is the MS Windows version (even though you can since today use it for free for hobby projects). But who cares about Windows?
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And well, check it out, it has become much better in the last 3 month. A lot faster and many more pages work in the alphas. The beta will come out next week or so.
And calling other peoples gift crap makes you seem like a complete fucker. Maybe you shoudl use windows and see how much bill cares if you say "it's crap"
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Unfortunately newbies tend to tear them off and get confused.
So they are not used everywhere in KDE. KDE-2.2beta1 has a Start menue that you can tear off though if you need it on the screen at all times.
--
What so special and so much BETTER about Konqueror?
.doc files in konqueror.
1. It relies only on GPL/LGPL and BSD style software unlike other software that grants special powers to AOL.
2. It is more modular than anything. You have TWO html renderers, the excellent khtml and you guessed it kmozilla, which was only done to show that it can be done. khtml is simply better.
3. Konqueror is very small, it is just a container for all ind of plugins, or kparts as they are called. There exist generic kparts (nspluginviewer) and specialized ones (kdvi). Oh, if you have kword installed, you even open
4. Konqueror makes no difference between all the different protocols. smb networking, ftp, even pop, smtp and ldap can be browsed.
Did I mention audio cd- grabbing (audiocd:/)? Automatic conversion to MP3 and OGG included? Or floppy:/ ? No mounting, just a wrapper around the mtools.
5. Did I mention that it starts up in less then 2 seconds? (KDE-2.2beta1 on AMD Athlon 600, KDE loaded) New windows appear in under one second and are responding.
6. Numerous plugins exist: Web page archiving, Translation, HTML validation, Image retrieval via neural net... Netscape plugins (realplayer and flash) as well as Java and so on work fine.
8. The previews are really nice: Automatic previews for postscript, images, pdf, text, html and brand new, audio lprevlistening (just rest the mouse over an MP3 to hear it).
...
So before you think that galeon is modular, have a look at konqueror. This thing is the best.
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Well you can't be using current CVS. because at least the lists.debian.org works just fine here. Maybe a temporary bug biting you? Also the font setting with AA has always worked here.
Upgrade to X-4.1 and qt-2.3.1 tro get even prettier faster AA fonts.
The other two matters you mentioned (https proxy and several characters setes on one page) really are matters, but they are not what I would call grave.
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The developers ALWAYS use the latest and greatest odd little library. The program has not worked on SuSE forever.
I am not surprised that they chose gnome-1.4 which has been available for 6 weeks as a base for a finance app, that would happily work as a gtk app (like gimp).
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