Search Results: "warp"

2 August 2006

Isaac Clerencia: Beach, driving license exam, books, Akademy

So I was having these great holidays in the beach with some friends, getting a tan, swimming in the sea, chasing some fish wearing really-big-nose water goggles, drinking beer by the seaside, … but I had to come back to Zaragoza to take my driving license exam. I’ve gone to the driving school today to ask what time was the exam taking place exactly, and I’ve been told that the exam has been moved to Monday (can this happen in any other European country besides Spain?). As I only have holidays this week, I can’t attend my exam next Monday, and thus, the whole thing sucks, specially the getting-back-from-holidays-sooner bit. To keep my karma up and given the fact that I’d some free time to spare as I no longer needed to study for the exam, I’ve visited some bookshops and purchased some books (namely, The Ages of Lulu, Fahrenheit 451, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Notes from a Small Island), and then I’ve gone to the park and read for a while (actually, I’ve finished reading Wilt, by Tom Sharpe, which I started reading yesterday in my way back from the beach). I’ve thought about blogging about the books I read, although I’m not sure if I’ll manage to do it. In the end, it has been a nice day and I’ve come home quite relaxed again. With regard to free software stuff, Wesnoth 1.2 is going to be released really soon now, as well as KOffice 1.5.2, I’ve already registered for Akademy 2006 in Dublin, I created my first attempt of flake plugin some days ago, …

Isaac Clerencia: [Book] Brand new friend, Mike Gayle

I was waiting for my flight to Mexico in Barajas and suddenly realized that I still needed a book to try to make a bit more pleasant the 13-hour flight I was about to take. I was looking for a “light” one, something funny and quickly readable. After looking for a while, I chose Brand new friend, by Mike Gayle. Mike Gayle writes a kind of chick lit for males (actually for both genders, I would say). In this book, a guy (Rob) is asked by his long-term girlfriend to leave London to live with her in Manchester. Besides having to move, that also means leaving behind his best friend. At this point the book shows how difficult can be to find new friends once you’re past your “university years”. Rob tries to meet new people quite unsuccessfully for a long time, but he eventually finds a friend, who happens to be a “she”. From then on, the book revolves around the question: “Can a man and a woman just be ‘best friends’”? The book fulfilled my expectations (which were low ;) ), it was funny and I had already finished reading it when we were flying over New Orleans. Definitely not a life changing book, but a compelling read nonetheless.

Isaac Clerencia: My life as of late

Woah, tons of time without blogging again, and too much stuff to write about, I’ll be brief :) Last month has been great :) , I visited London for three days with some workmates, then I attended DebConf6 in Mexico, and the two weeks I’ve been in Zaragoza (my home city) since I was back from there have been also great, enjoying a lot with friends. For Battle for Wesnoth fans, we’re heading towards 1.2 now, which will be our second stable release ever, and should be out in mid-July. Be sure to help us trying out our latest development release, reporting bugs and so. Today I’ve made a donation to the Swedish Pirate Party, I really expect they can get themselves in the Swedish parliament, and then I should consider moving to Sweden :)

Isaac Clerencia: Love- -, friends++, FLOSS++

So that’s all, my three-year relationship with my wonderful (ex)girlfriend finished as fast as it started and a bit more painfully ;)
To be fair, it has been really great, which just makes the whole issue a bit worse just now, but at least I don’t have the feeling of “having lost my time”, which is a really good thing. I’m kind of devastated now, but discovering that you have tons of great (old and new) friends ready to help you through it and that FLOSS development still inspires you, makes things look really brighter. In addition, I’m going to finally get rid of long-time procastinated items in my todo list, like getting my driving license and improving my spoken English. PS. Wesnoth 1.1.2 is out!
PS2. Oh, I’ve just known about ETA cease-fire, now that’s good news, well, not for all.

Isaac Clerencia: Kind of busy lately

My last blog post was over two months ago. I guess that’s enough to get an idea about how busy I’ve been lately (or for how long can I procastinate blogging ;) ). In my free software life, there has been a new Wesnoth release, 1.1, the first post-1.0 one, and 1.1.1 is really near and has plenty of new features/graphics. Besides Wesnoth, I’ve built KOffice 1.5-beta packages something like a hundred times in the last two weeks, the first fifty were targeted for Sarge, in order to get klik bundles that could be shipped in the OpenDocument Fellowship CD that was going to be distributed somewhere. The next fifty ones to get a nice KOffice 1.5-beta for current unstable/experimental users. I’ve also sponsored adept and katapult uploads to Debian, and they’re already in at last. KDE in Debian also has KDNSSD enabled now, using avahi as backend. In real life, besides working, I’ve moved to a new home, in fact I’m living on my own home for the first time. And the best news, I’m living with my girlfriend :) . In these two months we’ve already bought a Playstation 2, a DVD/DivX player and a bike-in-a-bag. After struggling with several companies we already have DSL (4Mb, weeeee!) and I’ve already ordered a Mac Mini to have a nice Debian server. We’re also waiting for a Lego Mindstorms RIS 2.0 :) PS. I already have a flight for Debconf6! See you in MEX :)

Isaac Clerencia: eBox platform is out!

So, at last, after lots of months of frenzy development, eBox Platform is out, released under the GPL. Basically eBox platform includes a framework to create modules which control system services and lots of already available modules to setup network configuration, firewall,
NTP, DHCP, proxy cache, Jabber, file sharing, mail, … and more! Of course, using Debian as base distribution :) And yup, it has been developed by my company. We really expect somebody find it useful and step into eBox development. For a quick run, you can consider trying the eBox Live CD (btw, mirrors are welcome).
:) Update: For those interested, eBox is written in Perl, using Mason to write the HTML templates, thanks to Rhonda for talking me about Mason for the first time

8 July 2006

Enrico Zini: Debtags smart search

I did more thinking and prototyping to the debtags smart search ideas. The result is an interactive search session with quite some smartness inside. It shows two groups of tags to choose from. The first group of tags has tags related to the keyword search. The second group has tags that, if choosen, operate a substantial trimming of the result set. We're not yet reading for uploading the new library stack to Debian. If you want to play from subversion repositories, see this mail. I can however show an example interactive session needs to be shared. Notice how I get to a high quality solution in just 2 iterations: 
$ tools/debtags smartsearch image editor
Tag selection:
1) hardware::camera (44/18710)
2) works-with::image:raster (335/18710)
3) hardware::storage:dvd (27/18710)
4) special::meta (86/18710)
5) devel::debian (55/18710)
6) works-with::archive:iso9660 (44/18710)
7) use::typesetting (61/18710)
8) special::not-yet-tagged (5745/18710)
9) devel::library (3727/18710)
10) role::sw:utility (2707/18710)
11) interface::x11 (2434/18710)
12) interface::commandline (2137/18710)
13) x11::application (2040/18710)
14) role::content:data (1573/18710)
18710 packages selected so far.
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): +2 -9 +11
Tag selection:
1) interface::x11 (wanted)
2) works-with::image:raster (wanted)
3) devel::library (unwanted)
4) hardware::camera (10/113)
5) special::meta (1/113)
6) use::typesetting (1/113)
7) works-with::video (8/113)
8) made-of::lang:c++ (2/113)
9) suite::gnome (9/113)
10) uitoolkit::athena (9/113)
11) uitoolkit::gtk (50/113)
12) role::sw:application (41/113)
13) use::viewing (39/113)
14) role::sw:utility (33/113)
15) use::editing (30/113)
16) uitoolkit::qt (23/113)
17) suite::kde (18/113)
113 packages selected so far.
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): +15
Tag selection:
1) interface::x11 (wanted)
2) use::editing (wanted)
3) works-with::image:raster (wanted)
4) devel::library (unwanted)
5) hardware::camera (1/30)
6) special::meta (1/30)
7) works-with::video (3/30)
8) made-of::lang:c++ (1/30)
9) suite::gnome (2/30)
10) uitoolkit::athena (4/30)
11) x11::application (24/30)
12) role::sw:application (15/30)
13) uitoolkit::gtk (11/30)
14) uitoolkit::qt (7/30)
15) suite::gimp (6/30)
16) suite::kde (6/30)
17) x11::application (24/30)
18) role::content:data (5/30)
30 packages selected so far.
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): d
gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
babygimp - An icon editor in Perl-Tk
cinepaint - motion picture image painting and retouching tool
cinepaint-data - data files for CinePaint
digikamimageplugins - image editor plugins for digikam and showfoto
kiconedit - an icon editor for KDE
kchart - a chart drawing program for the KDE Office Suite
gimp-data-extras - An extra set of brushes, palettes, and gradients for The GIMP
scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing
xpaint - simple paint program for X
puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system
gimp-data - Data files for The GIMP
gimp-python - Python support and plugins for The GIMP
gimp-gap - The GIMP Animation Package
gimp-texturize - generates large textures from a small sample
gnome-iconedit - A small tool to create icons for the gnome-desktop
gpaint - GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME
gsumi - pressure sensitive "ink" drawing
gtkmorph - Digital image warp and morph (gtk)
gtkmorph-example - digital image warp and morph, examples
xmorph - digital image warp and morph (x11)
imaptool - A tool for creating client-side image maps
junior-art - Debian Jr. Art
kcoloredit - a color palette editor and color picker for KDE
kolourpaint - a simple paint program for KDE
kimagemapeditor - HTML image map editor for KDE
pixmap - A pixmap editor
saods9 - image display tool for astronomy
sppc - Simple Panel Plot Composer
tkpaint - Versatile bitmap/pixmap editing tool
This other section is worth seeing as well: it shows the relevant tags computed for various keyword searches (I cut out the part which is always the same): 
$ tools/debtags smartsearch kernel image
1) admin::boot (132/18710)
2) use::driver (108/18710)
3) admin::kernel (252/18710)
4) protocol::dhcp (24/18710)
5) role::sw:source (79/18710)
6) admin::hardware (161/18710)
7) devel::debian (55/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): k audio editor
1) sound::midi (33/18710)
2) works-with::music-notation (25/18710)
3) works-with::audio:wav (51/18710)
4) works-with::video:oggtheora (5/18710)
5) field::arts (21/18710)
6) sound::mixer (65/18710)
7) sound::recorder (10/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): k package manager
1) x11::window-manager (79/18710)
2) suite::xfce (34/18710)
3) x11::display-manager (10/18710)
4) x11::theme (82/18710)
5) works-with::software:package (110/18710)
6) suite::kde (503/18710)
7) made-of::data:icons (43/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): k debian package
1) suite::debian (282/18710)
2) devel::packaging (75/18710)
3) devel::debian (55/18710)
4) works-with::software:package (110/18710)
5) use::dialing (47/18710)
6) admin::user-management (114/18710)
7) hardware::modem (87/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): k linux kernel
1) admin::kernel (252/18710)
2) role::sw:source (79/18710)
3) use::driver (108/18710)
4) interface::svga (31/18710)
5) hardware::usb (32/18710)
6) admin::filesystem (151/18710)
7) hardware::camera (44/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): k gps
1) field::geography (57/18710)
2) hardware::emulation (98/18710)
3) works-with::image:vector (107/18710)
4) devel::ide (41/18710)
5) works-with::software:running (93/18710)
6) made-of::lang:ada (26/18710)
7) x11::application (2040/18710)
Your choice (+#, -#, =#, K word, View, Done, Quit, ?): q
This thing is getting smart. Can't wait for this to get seriously picked up by some GUI (think adept!).

27 June 2006

Pierre Habouzit: pbuilder custom configurations

I've noticed many times that people don't really use pbuilder with all the power and flexibility it allows. A lot of people don't want to mess up with the configuration files or write their own hooks, whereas it's quite simple, and powerful. Here are the dotfiles I use with my pbuilder install: The features those files provides are: There is nothing very new here, but it's a complete setup that some recent/lazy pbuilder users may find useful (it should not need any big modification to be used on anyone's computer). Also note that the linked files are the one I really use, and that it's meant to evolve with time.

25 May 2006

Wouter Verhelst: Edge flipping.

So, in my previous blog post, I mentioned that Enlightenment, bug-ridden as it is, is the only application I've seen thus far that implements edge flipping the right way. Since it's been a long time since I last used the only windowmanager that actually implements it the right way, I've been able to give it quite some thought by now. Here's my take at it: The central thing to remember is that the edge flipping interface will trigger accidentally. No matter how well you implement your interface, sometimes a user will accidentally move his or her mouse, or he/she will want to click somethin near the edge of the screen and touch it. Therefore, there are two things an implementer should do:
  1. Make every effort to avoid accidental edge flipping where possible, and
  2. Make it as easy as possible for the user to correct an accidental triggering of the interface.
The best way is to make sure your interface has the following characteristics: Getting the above two right will ensure that accidental edge flipping is reduced to a minimum. This is the first step, and one that only Enlightenment and IceWM got right. The final step, however, is something that IceWM does not get right; and this is what makes Enlightenment's edge flipping implementation such a natural thing to do: Some people will find that last point evil, I'm sure. I'll admit it took me a while to get accustomed to it as well. But it's the only natural thing to do. You should think of your virtual workspaces as one large desktop; if you're using four workspaces next to eachother, that means one large desktop four workspaces wide. When you move the mouse one quarter to the left, it's normal that it ends up about the same place on that same desktop. In other words, warp the mouse. Additionally, the mouse warping will have the effect that it makes recovery from accidental edge flipping easy and fast. If the mouse stays where it was after edge flipping (as in the case of brightside and IceWM), then if I accidentally hit my mouse, by the time I've moved my arm towards the mouse and started moving it back, I've moved away three workspaces from where I was already (because of the second bullet point in this post). If, however, the mouse does warp to the opposite side of the screen (i.e., the side where it was coming from), then going back to where you were is just a matter of moving the mouse a few millimeters in the opposite direction. Very easy to accomplish, that... Oh, and finally, you also shouldn't segfault at random. Again something that brightside did not get right when I used it—did I mention that brightside is crap? Well, I did now. Hopefully it's changed for the better in the mean time. Back in my Enlightenment days, I used workspaces a lot, because Enlightenment made it so natural with its excellent edge flipping implementation, and with the help of the pagers which would always, at any time, give me a snapshot of all my workspaces, helping me to remember where this or that application was running. IceWM doesn't replace that, but it sure gets close.

8 May 2006

Alexander Schmehl: [OSDL-DAM-II] Small timewarp...

Greeting from OSDLs Desctops Architects Meeting II in Mainz, where I'm honoured to represent the Debian Project. Not much to say till now; we just started with an introduction round... but after 40 short introductions of people, I already forgot the first ones. Personal note: I used to be stationed here in Mainz during my military service so many years ago... Actually: I used the same train station this morning than I did during those days. I nearly went the wrong way to my old barracks... but it was some kind of strange, unfamiliar. E.G. they started to dig an old roman theatre when I was the last time there, now they are nearly finished. Looks impressive... I never saw the beatifull side of Mainz (which might be related to the problem, that I always hated to be here during those days). Oh, break. I need to go; will blog more interesting stuff later. Oh, BTW: One bigger point of discuss here are standards, especially LSB and freedesktop.org and what people expect from their next releases. I have just a very general knowledge of them and feel some kind of week about that topic... What do we expect from them?

19 March 2006

Clint Adams: This report is flawed, but it sure is fun

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1 March 2006

Clint Adams: SSSS

In the sack: Lemon Wet: Citrus overload. The Colon Blow of Citrusland. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Dry down: Nothing? Could it be nothing? It's nothing. The touch: Very slightly and pleasantly oily. The feel: The false Capped are doing the Tripod Timewarp again and there is some clutching at Toys R Us. The magic of our lives: A good start. Final verdict: Repeatable.

30 December 2005

Adeodato Sim : Guadalajara

A couple weeks ago, Debconf-ES II was held in Guadalajara. It was terrific: meeting again some people whom I already knew, many of which are more than fellow developers; meeting for the first time some others who I hadn’t; and, of course (and finally!), Mao. There was also a KDE talk, telling a bit the story of the Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers. I enjoyed it a lot; among other things: As always, eternal gratitude to the people that worked their asses off to make this event possible. Even if not tons of work got done during that weekend, it was surely a big dose of energy for all of us! NP: Astrud, Masaje

30 November 2005

Mike Hommey: pbuilder and ccache

Isaac, there is actually a cleaner way to do the same as your hook. Just add the following to your .pbuilderrc file :
export CCACHE_DIR="/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache"
export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$ PATH " EXTRAPACKAGES=ccache
BINDMOUNTS="$ CCACHE_DIR "
That will need bug #341453 to be fixed first, though, but if you set both BUILDUSERID and BUILDUSERNAME it will work out of the box (with the default configuration, PATH is not preserved because of the bug). Note that you can also set HOOKDIR instead of using the --hookdir command line argument, thus not needing your wrapper.

20 November 2005

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: 20 years of MS Windows. 20 years of computers in my life.

One day like today, 20th November, 1985, Microsoft released its shiny new Windows 1.0 which was the first attempt to implement a graphical multi-task OS in a PC. Do you know how much it cost then? $100 for a license, more or less the same than a Windows XP license costs nowadays.

Microsoft logos. Old and new It is funny to see how things have evolved since then. Being 6 at that time, and PCs not being very common those days at home, I started using a computer at an age of 8 or so. It was an Amstrad PCW 8512, a TV box sized computer which integrated a green screen monitor, two "3" floppy bays and a 9-pin dot matrix printer. It was powered by a 8bit Z80 processor, running at 4MHz and had 512KB of RAM and no ROM at all. Main software was LocoScript, a powerful word processor. It could be controlled by drop down menus at a top toolbar, and initial screen was a file manager, in which you could manage those text files in the floppy you booted from or a floppy in the other bay. It had even support for some kind of multiuser support, as you could declare in each floppy up to 7 user areas, with area 0 being a common root. Also, it had support for limbo a place for deleted files. Although LocoScript didn't need a separate OS to work, CPW 8512 could also run CP/M OS, which added programming capabilities (Maillard BASIC) and support for spreadsheets and databases, along with some games as Batman. After using this system for a long time, my first PC was a 486, running the new Windows 3.1 and later 3.11 for Workgroups version. I even installed there a Windows 95 when it was released, and managed to create a partition in the only 170MB HDD it had to install a test copy of IBM's OS/2 Warp that came in a CD bundled with PC World magazine. Some time later my parents bought a Pentium 166MMX running Windows 95. I was 18 by then, it was 1997, Internet was starting to be widely spread and used, and after a couple of months at University I was installing my first Linux copy, which was a RedHat based version. During next three years I installed different distributions, as they were released with newer software and you could get them in a CD with a magazine. Installing Debian Slink and having an Internet connection available at my Student's Residence at the same time made me be able to participate in mailing lists, send bug reports and download upgrades. I discovered a new dimension in using Linux: collaboration.

21 October 2005

Isaac Clerencia: XOrg 6.9RC1, trying Composite again

XOrg 6.9 RC1 was released some days ago, and yesterday David Nusinow uploaded it to Debian experimental. XOrg 6.9 RC1 features EXA, a new 2d acceleration architecture for X11, developed by Trolltech KDE hacker Zack Rusin, that should improve Composite performance a lot. I tried again xcompmgr, kompmgr and transset and they behaved a bit better than they did the last time I tried, but it’s still not acceptable for permanent desktop usage. I’m really looking forward to the next XOrg releases :)

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