https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/kde/ Recent content in Kde on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:46:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/code-reading-and-bug-fixing-101/ Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:46:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/code-reading-and-bug-fixing-101/ Summer is here, and Google Summer of Code is on its way. The biggest hurdle new contributors often face (after compiling trunk ;)) is to get their head around the project they would like to work on, understanding how it works, where the parts fit in, and how to fix bugs or make improvements. Speaking from my experience, it took me the better part of a month to understand how KWin worked before I could actually hack on it for Season on KDE. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/why-you-should-be-at-confkdein/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:32:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/why-you-should-be-at-confkdein/ conf.kde.in is happening in Bangalore from 9th-13th March. This is a golden opportunity for students to have fun and learn some really interesting things that no college or class can teach. It is also a chance to form friendships that last forever. If you don’t like long posts: here is the gist. Short term benefits – a great time and a cool t-shirt. Long term benefits – create something awesome, lots of friends and an impressive CV that recruiters will notice. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/qhttpserver-web-apps-in-qt/ Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:46:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/qhttpserver-web-apps-in-qt/ Qt is a great GUI toolkit, but it is also an entire C++ standard library waiting to be used for other tasks. In addition the network module is really powerful. I’ve been playing around with node.js for a while now, and realized that Qt’s default asynchronous nature maps over perfectly to create a event-based web server. To make things better, Ryan Dahl’s small and fast http-parser is freely available. So I just combined the two, and here is QHttpServer. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/spreading-kde-love-in-india/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:39:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2011/spreading-kde-love-in-india/ The first ever KDE conference in India takes place this March. On March 9th, 2011, gearheads will descend to the RV College of Engineering for conf.kde.in. If you are interested in using or contributing to KDE, we look forward to meeting you there. There have been KDE contributors in India since the late 90s, but in recent years we have reached a more sizeable number. Contributors usually hang out on #kde-in, the KDE India IRC channel. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/introducing-mugshot_15/ Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:48:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/introducing-mugshot_15/ There is a certain fun in hacks, little projects you do on a whim and finish in a few days. And then you go and buy a domain for it and launch it. That's Mugshot. Mugshot is a web service which offers face-detection. It uses the libface library which was implemented mainly as a Google Summer of Code project for KDE. So one day I was thinking that services like Facebook and Flickr allow you to upload images and then tag them. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/upnp-mediaserver-kio-slave-is-out/ Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:13:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/upnp-mediaserver-kio-slave-is-out/ I’ve released the first version of the UPnP MediaServer KIO slave which allows KDE applications to seamlessly browse UPnP devices on the network, and access their files. An outcome of my Google Summer of Code, this is the first step towards getting UPnP Collection support into Amarok. For now, the slave is meant for application developers since dolphin & co. in KDE 4.5 do not directly know how to launch it. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/hackfest-2010/ Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:01:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/hackfest-2010/ The usual convention in open source is that new developers get into a project by themselves. They follow online documentation and get into IRC channels and find their way around by themselves. Its not often that we get the chance to meet new guys and teach them the ‘tricks of the trade’. But that is exactly what happened at Hackfest @ Shaastra 2010 Hackfest got together mentors from various projects to introduce students to contributing to open source projects. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/final-evaluations-results-processed-for/ Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:41:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/final-evaluations-results-processed-for/ Hi Nikhil Marathe, We have processed the evaluation for your project named Amarok and KDE UPnP Integration with KDE. Congratulations, from our data it seems that you have successfully passed the Final Evaluations. Please contact your mentor to discuss >the results of your evaluation and to plan your goals and development plan for the rest of the program Greetings, The Google Open Source Programs Team Yay! Posted via email from nikhil's posterous https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/whats-up-doc/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:27:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/whats-up-doc/ Pardon me for the excessively cliche title, I was short on time :P Its been a week now since college began, and already I feel the extreme busy-ness that occurs trying to squeeze every activity into 24 hours. The vacations were comparatively totally empty. The UPnP collection support in Amarok is concluding pretty well. Today I committed the fix that considerably shortens the amount of data transfer required over the network for subsequent queries once the local cache is relatively filled. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/upnp-searching/ Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:40:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/upnp-searching/ I’ve been pretty quite about GSoC progress. But I had a great time at aKademy and forgot all about blog posts. So the current status is thus. If programming was just about getting things done, I am done! But its not, which means although everything I was supposed to do is done in a big picture way, the next few weeks will see bug fixes, optimization and ensuring that certain things can be done faster, more accurately or in a more user-friendly manner. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-56/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:26:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-56/ Day 5 of Akademy was spent hacking too. Then I had a great meal at Plevna), Tamperelainen, which was mashed potatoes + lingonberry jam + Tampere’s famous blood sausages. Well it lived up to its expectations, the sausages were definitely good, but different. It was kind of like sabudana vada. Unfortunately Germany lost :( The final will still be a good watch though. Once again, I would like to raise my fictional hat to COSS and all the volunteers for the excellent organisation of this year’s Akademy. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-34/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:49:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-34/ Akademy just keeps getting better and better, and this year's location couldn't have been more perfect. The Demola office, if it could be called that, is the perfect hackspace. Lots of tables strewn over the place, no partitions, sofas to relax on and even a retro arcade game! Yesterday and today and the rest of the week will be hackdays and BoFs, so there isn't really much to report. But at the end of today I just took a random walk across Tampere, and its a beautiful city as you can see. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-2/ Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:25:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-2/ Today was the day of fluffy, hands down! Frederik Gladhorn gave a super lightning talk introducing his quite serious pet project Other than this I attended Lubos' performance talk, and Milian and Aleix's great KDevelop feature promo. I mean if Ctrl+Space can give a complete program, why am I even learning C++? :) In addition Casper gave a very nice talk about getting KDE to work on windows, and hats of to the KDE-Windows team for there efforts. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-1/ Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:38:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/akademy-day-1/ Into the sea of existing akademy posts enters another one. Technically its my second day in Finland. I arrived on the 2nd with Pradeepto from mumbai. We met seele and Justin at Schiphol itself, while blauzahl and Mek were on the same flight! If that wasn’t enough, the bus from Helsinki to Tampere found aseigo and Hans Chen on it too, making it the Akademy bus. The Student House TOAS city is an awesome place to live in, with rooms just like in college, a bit better :) https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/notification-madness/ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/notification-madness/ Planet, my slave went awry :( I terminated the processes, but is there a way to kill all the notifications at once. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-4-experimenting-with/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:11:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-4-experimenting-with/ I didn't write a post last week, and it looks really bad in my form completion :) but I didn't have any user visible updates at all. This week is much better. First the visual then the text. That's cover art fetched from the UPnP device when the Content Directory has it available! Other updates include smoother full and incremental scanning of the Collection. This is one area which needs a lot more improvement. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-2-experimenting-with/ Sat, 29 May 2010 15:26:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-2-experimenting-with/ Another week is already gone, and although it didn't see much progress feature wise, I've been working a lot on the project. Three days were spent on a nasty little hard to produce bug, one that would only occur 4 levels deep into the Content Directory, and not always in that case either. Finally with a lot of debug statements, many hours talking to Tuomo Penttinen of HUpnp we fixed a little bug in his library. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-1-kioslave-is-shaping-up/ Fri, 21 May 2010 15:00:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/gsoc-week-1-kioslave-is-shaping-up/ (This post was published on Friday, but I put in a wrong tag and I didn't get aggregated, so, republished) Although I've been hacking on my GSoC project for quite a while, doing little experiments and getting my mind around various factors involved, this week was my first official coding period, since that was what I had in my timeline. The first piece to implement is the kioslave to browse UPnP MediaServers. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/success-google-summer-of-code/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:46:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/success-google-summer-of-code/ Well after all the micro-blogging at night and the IRC chat, and writing an exam, here is a really good post! The proposal is Amarok and KDE UPnP Integration. I'll be working with mentor Bart Cerneels. This news was awesome! Last year I didn't get in for kwin-tiling, but I participated in Season of KDE and did a few other contributions all year and it paid off. This year I started of quite early and worked hard on the proposal. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/kwin-tiling-is-merged/ Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/kwin-tiling-is-merged/ I'm glad to announce that yesterday the kwin-tiling branch was merged into kwin trunk by commit 1118677!. It will be available in KDE SC 4.5. Please keep in mind that it is an experimental feature with rough edges. Bug fixes are already on the way, but some things, like session saving and so on are absent. Please do add feature requests and bugs to the KDE bug tracker. This screencast should show off a few things.