Gabriel Burt
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Canonical's New Plan for Banshee
This is an update to my previous post. Canonical asked the Banshee maintainers to join a conference call about an hour ago. They announced their new plan, calling past proposals mistakes:
- Banshee's Amazon store will remain enabled, with Canonical taking a 75% cut of all affiliate revenue; 25% on Ubuntu will now go to the GNOME Foundation.
- The Ubuntu One store for Banshee will remain enabled by default, but now Canonical will donate 25% of its revenue to GNOME. They will now do the same for Rhythmbox.
Valery Gornih
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Выход новой версии opensuse
У меня две хороших новости.
Одна — скоро выходит новая версия любимой операционной системы, Opensuse 11.4. Я так нечасто бываю на официальном сайте, что (о стыд!) подумал, что можно уже загружать. Ну, а осталось ждать всего две недели. Я доволен и текущей версией, но всегда ожидаешь нового, неизведанного. Так что уже скоро!
Второе — обновился WordPress до версии 3.1. Это не всем будет интересно, но вордпресс стал так часто обновляться! Раньше месяца четыре было без обновлений (когда я только его установил), а теперь каждый месяц почти обновления выходят. Ну и ладно, главное — чтобы хорошо работало
Удачи всем линуксоидам, линуксоюзерам и блоггерам!
Thomas Thym
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ungethymGSoC idea 3: Store annotations within PDF
As I mentioned in my previous post I can't mentor GSoC students myself and therefore are looking for a developer to jump in for me.GSoC idea 3: Store annotations in PDF file
Application/component: Okular/Poppler
Brief explanation:
It is possible to store annotations with Okular. They are saved in separat files. One of the most wanted bugs is 151614 (123 comments, 739 votes). It would be awsome to have that feature in our wonderful Okular.
Expected results:
- Store annotations in the PDF file.
- If that is not enough apped support to modify the PDF (insert, delete pages etc.)
In my next life I will become a developer and the I could mentor that project myself. Until this happens I am really hoping someone else steps up.
Thomas Thym
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GSoC idea 2: Improved (more elegant) keygeneration in KMail/Kleopatra
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GSoC idea 2: Improved (more elegant) keygeneration in KMail/Kleopatra
Application/component: KDEPIM/KMail and Kleopatra
Brief explanation:
Signing and encrypting emails is very old, however only a minority is using it. One reason might be, that it is not easy enough for regular users to use it. The importance for private and business users is still high. Private companies started to sell proprietary, secure e-mail services (e.g. in Germany DE-Mail and e-brief). There are good key creation, signing and other key management functions present in KDE software. The goal of this proposal is to make it easy and fast to work with signed and encrypted emails.
Expected results:
- Analyze and optimize the key creation, signing etc processes, make it dumb easy to create and use a key/signature. One way could be to add a button “Generate Key” (next to “Change”) in the KMail – Identity settings – Cryptographie; start the key creation wizard from Kleopatra and take the name and email address from that identity (at the moment you have to enter them manually). The user just has to enter the passphrase and is done. Offer a button “Save private key and revoke key on usb” or something like this and “send public key to server” / “Make key public”. Add the key creation (or import possibilities) into the identity / account creation wizard of KMail. Add the possibility to create revoke keys within the gui (when sending the key to the server, there is an information message yet.)
- Guide the user through the whole process of signing and encrypting/decrypting emails. Offer possibilities to learn about the topic in an easy and fast way (offline help, online help / wiki, videos, tutorials etc). Show how they use the keys, how they get their keys signed, how they sign other keys etc.
- Integrate other free/open services like CAcert.
Matthias Hopf
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It's X.org election time!
As all members of X.org should have noted in the meantime, it's election time again! After some efforts we actually do have more candidates than seats for the board of directors 
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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
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So go to members.x.org and vote!
.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!
Thomas Thym
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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.
Kostas Koudaras
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MemberLA 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.
Μείνετε συντονισμένοι...
Stuart Tanner
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Bolton Linux is proud to announce our 7th convert joins the openSUSE community.
Today we converted our 7th Member of the Public since the start of February to join the openSUSE community. congratulations Michael in Wiltshire, you made the right choice.
Anton Cherkasov
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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
Такой порядок действий для каждой найденной ошибки, для координации пользуйтесь IRC-каналом #opensuse-testing сети FreeNode.
Мотивация:
Куда же без неё :) Десять самых активных участников получат благодарность от сообщества в виде фирменных футболок и других хороших вещей. Ну и не забываем главного - Have a lot of Fun!
Stuart Tanner
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Streamline
Today I completed the application form for Streamline credit card processing. I delivered the package to the post office and sent it back, so 2 weeks from Tomorrow I should have my credit card machine. I just hope it arrives before the 6th of March. Keep your fingers crossed.