It's X.org election time!
.Some community members have asked a (rather large) number of questions, I have consolidated the answers I received in this wiki page. So far only three candidates replied, so for me at least the top three candidates are clear - it's better to vote for persons that do have an opinion and voice it, than for persons who prefer to stay quiet
.So go to members.x.org and vote!
GSoC: Mentors wanted! - Elegant display settings for presentations
I recently mentored some students during the Google Code In project. Now the preparations for Google Summer of Code have begun. Unfortunately I am not a hacker, I am a promo guy and I can't mentor here. Nevertheless I have some ideas for GSoC and I hope to scratch somebodies itch so she or he will mentor that idea. Idea 1: (More elegant) Display settings for presentations
Application/component: Plasma
Brief explanation: The handling of multiple screens has continuously improved during the last releases. The handling of a stationary setting of two screens seems to be rather good. When it comes to presentation-mode with a projector I would be delighted to see even more elegance (simplicity).
Expected results: When doing presentations there is in general only one question to decide. The presentation mode:
- The same picture of both screens or
- The notes on the notebook, the presentation on the projector.
To 2: Autodetect the max. resolution of each of the two displays and set those different resolutions. The panel, all the widgets and all the open windows should stay on the notebook screen. The projector screen shows only the wallpaper. It does not matter if the projector “screen” is located above or on the right or wherever of the notebook screen.
It would be very useful to link that dialog to the keyboard shortcut (e.g. Fn+F7) or to start it automatically when a projector is attached. (At the moment I have to start krandrtray from krunner first or have the symbol in the taskbar all the time. I am not sure if a new users could work that out in a couple of seconds.)
Save the display/plasma settings (esp. widget positions etc.) to restore them when the projector is detached. (Perhaps that could be solved with activities.)
Extra points: It is possible to save the standard settings. In a second step different screen setting profiles could be saved and loaded (like in powerdevil). Presentation-mode 1 and 2 could be such profiles and a user could modify them (e.g. projector on top or right) if it is necessary.
So what do you think. Is that scratching your itch? Can you imagine how cool this would be to have? At least for me as a presenter that would really rock.
LA σε λέει (openSUSE Marketing Hackfest)
Είμαι τόσο ενθουσιασμένος και δεν μπορώ να το κρύψω a.k.a I'm so excited and I just can't hide it που λέει και το Disco-άσμα. Σε μερικές ώρες πετάω για Ρώμη και από εκεί για Λος Άντζελες όπου και πάω για να παραστώ στο Marketing Hackfest όπου και είμαι καλεσμένος για δουλέψω μαζί με την υπόλοιπη ομάδα marketing της κοινότητας openSUSE για την προώθηση της έκδοσης 11.4 που κυκλοφορεί σε μερικές μέρες και όχι μόνο.
Αυτή η συνάντηση είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντική για την κοινότητα openSUSE μιας και είναι το πρώτο Marketing Hackfest που διοργανώνετε και μάλιστα γίνετε ακόμα σημαντικότερη δεδομένου ότι βρισκόμαστε μια ανάσα πριν την δημιουργία του openSUSE Foundation. Σχεδόν όλες οι σημαντικές προσωπικότητες της κοινότητας θα βρίσκονται εκεί, αρχής γενόμενης της παρουσίας και συμμετοχής του Άλαν Κλάρκ, προέδρου του Δ.Σ του openSUSE.
Ένας από τους λόγους που είμαι τόσο ενθουσιασμένος είναι ότι όπως όλα δείχνουν θα μάθω πάρα πολλά πράγματα γύρο από πάρα πολλά πράγματα. Επίσης θα γνωρίσω επιτέλους όλους αυτούς τους ανθρώπους με τους οποίους μιλάω και δουλεύω καθημερινά.
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Bolton Linux is proud to announce our 7th convert joins the openSUSE community.
Очередной открытый Bugs-Day
В связи с этим в Воскресенье, 20 февраля, объявляется открытый Bugs-Day, где каждый желающий получит возможность принять участие в тестировании openSUSE 11.4 на наличие ошибок.
Что нужно для того, чтобы принять участие:
- Регистрация в bugzilla.novell.com
- Установленный дистрибутив openSUSE 11.4 RC1 или openSUSE Factory
- IRC клиент для взаимодействия с другими участниками на канале #opensuse-testing
- Хорошее настроение :)
Порядок работы:
- Поиск в Bugzilla ошибок, открытых в устаревших версиях (11.4 MS 1-5 или 11.4 Factory)
- Попробуйте воспроизвести проблему на 11.4 RC1
- Если неполадка все еще остается, обновите статус ошибки для текущей версии
- Если вы уверены, что проблема была устранена, установите статус ошибки в RESOLVED+FIXED
- Если вы чувствуете, что проблема была устранена, установите статус в RESOLVED+NORESPONSE
Streamline
Bolton Linux Hits 5 Sales
1 was sold at Sheffield Computer Market on the 6th February 2011, where a lot of Interest was generated.
1 was sold to my father which he has used to promote amongst his colleagues at work on Tuesday 8th February 2011.
You know its strange how both of his colleagues suffered computer failure at exactly the same time - coincidence or what without even testing openSUSE!!
2 were sold over the counter at Leeds Computer Market on Sunday 13th February 2011.
Today Tuesday 15th February 2011 we sold our first internet order via credit card payment, goods will be shipped out tomorrow and should be delivered to the customer on Thursday or Friday.
Banshee Supporting GNOME on Ubuntu
Background
The Banshee maintainers and community have been proud to support GNOME by sending 100% of our FOSS Amazon MP3 store's affiliate revenue to the Foundation. We're already on pace to contribute at the same level as a small company on the Advisory Board, $10,000 USD per year, and revenue is increasing every month.
Canonical's Proposals
After choosing Banshee as the next default player in Ubuntu, Canonical approached us, concerned with how our Amazon store would affect their Ubuntu One store. They proposed two options:
- Canonical disables the Amazon store by default (you could enable it in a few easy steps) but leaves the affiliate code alone (100% still to GNOME), or
- Canonical leaves the Amazon store enabled, but changes the affiliate code and takes a 75% cut.
Our Response
We are pleased that Canonical is willing to leave the affiliate code unaltered.
As maintainers of the Banshee project, we have opted unanimously to decline Canonical's revenue sharing proposal, so that our users who choose the Amazon store will continue supporting GNOME to the fullest extent. The GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors supports this decision.
The Banshee Maintainer Team
Aaron Bockover, Alexander Kojevnikov, Bertrand Lorentz, Gabriel Burt
Porting LibreOffice to Android - My New Crazy Project
Реализация простейшего socks-proxy на openSUSE 11.3
Самым простым решением на мой взгляд было настроить squid через Yast2, что и было сделано буквально в пять клтков. Всё бы ничего, веб-страницы заработали, но вот p2p программы, типо ICQ, Skype, Torrent-клиентов работать не пожелали. Было решено также поднять socks proxy.
В репозиториях я быстро нашел прокси сервер Dante и начал разбираться с настройками.
Все настройки хранятся в файле /etc/sockd.conf, который по доброй Unix традиции содержит подробные инструкции в виде комментариев. Ниже приведу откомментированный рабочий файл настройки, реализующий простейший прокси сервер, раздающий интернет одному клиенту без каких-либо ограничений и не требующий авторизации:
logoutput: /var/log/socks/socks.log # указываем файл для хранения логов

