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maemo sdk seems to come with a cdbs, debhelper and dpkg-dev too old to make it easy to build several debian unstable packages like kde4.
maemo seems to come with glibc2.5 and debian/armel kde4 packages depends on 2.7 or greater.
trying to build a newer dpkg in maemo environment requires several perl modules not available - and when buildling those, a circular build dependency is quickly reached.

So - dear lazyweb, what does smart man do now?

Så er vi et stykke over halvvejs i Akademy. Så kan man jo overveje at gøre lidt status:

• Det er snart tid til at shippe kdebindings-modulet i debian. Det begynder at være færdigpakket. Det tog lidt tid at sætte sig ind i debians politikker for ruby, dotnet og python. Php-qt udskydes ind til videre. Dels fordi konceptet er mærkeligt, dels fordi der vist er enkelte licensmeæssige udfordringer.
• Nokia har bestukket 100 deltagere, deriblandt mig, med en n810. Det ligner et interessant stykke legetøj
• “The pub” i Walem serverer god mad, men en gang i mellem har de ikke alle varer til det man bestiller
• Akonadi virker som et mere og mere interessant projekt jo mere man hører om det
• Hvis jeg en dag skulle blive webudvikler, så er det helt klart Wt jeg vil bruge
• Det var en god ide at medbringe regnjakke. Tak mor.
• Og så er der lige lidt build-system der skal fixes.
• Da Ole Tange kom forbi faldt vi over en “usb plugfest” som handlede om at se om en mængde tilfældige usb-enheder virkede. Der var success på bluetoothenheder, på hukommelseskort og meget andet. Et par “præsenationspege/skifteenheder” virkede. De er bare normale keyboards med to-tre knapper. Page up, Page down, og måske en knap der giver “B”. Desværre understøtter okular og kpresenter i præsentationsmode ikke “B”, men i evince blankes skærmen.

Og vigtigst af alt, har jeg fået sat ansigter på mange af de mennesker jeg ellers kommunikerer med over det dersens internets.

Og så bør jeg nok lige droppe et link til frisoftware.dk

I ended up skipping the akademy keysigning, although I was signed up and looking forward to it.

I think the organizers should have kicked people that didn’t bring their own copy of the list instead of providing spare copies and trying to naively verify them.

If anyone on akademy is up for a key signature, please locate me and bring a snippet of paper with your key fingerprint and your full name. I’m hard to overlook.

Havde egentlig planlagt at berette i morges, men kom bort fra det.

Det i går nævnte bryggeribesøg var mere middag + masser af god belgisk øl sponsoreret af Nokia, tidligere kendt som Trolltech.

Ellers er jeg

• blevet lidt klogere på akonadi
• ved at være færdig med at pakke kdebindings
• blevet udsat for nogle af planerne for plasma i KDE4.2, blandt andet med plasma-dimser oven på screensaver
• overlevet frokost som var brød med tandmargarine og skinke

Og jeg har netop været på “the pub” i Walen og spist bøf med kartoffelmos. Og jeg har fået hilst og sat ansigter på mange kde-mennesker.

Nå. Så er man nået til første morgen på akademy. Lidt kaffe er kommet indenbords og papirstynde brødskiver har gjort det ud for morgenmad.
Et par ting at bemærke om stedet

• Det ligner at belgiske studerende ikke bruger strøm - her er i hvert fald meget få stikkontakter
• Det trådløse netværk både på universitet og på vandrehjemmet virker uden problemer
• Kæden på min leje-cykel er kun faldet af to gange ind til videre

Og ting at se frem til i dag:

• Akonadi-foredrag
• Kleopatra-foredrag
• Vaffel-pause
• Bryggeribesøg

Og jeg har allerede hilst på en masse mennesker.

The following is not a joke:

• KDE4 needs java for best performance

more precise, soprano, used by nepomuk (semantic desktop thingie), has a sesame backend (java) and a redland backend (c++). According to upstream and others, the sesame backend is way faster than the redland backend.

In the soprano svn dir (and in the pristine tarball), there are a few jars put in precompiled:

• openrdf-sesame-2.1.2-onejar.jar
• slf4j-api-1.5.2.jar
• slf4j-simple-1.5.2.jar

This isn’t completely beautiful, but as they all are bsd licensed, it is at least legal.
But it isn’t good enough for debian, as we ship sources and build them. (I think I have heard at least fedora mumble something similar)
The two last jar files, the slf4j ones, are available packaged in debian in the libslf4j-java package. but openrdf-sesame is not available.

If some persons out there has java knowledge, debian packaging knowledge, preferably knowledge of debian java policy and some spare time, packaging openrdf-sesame would be much apprecaited.

And after that, getting the soprano sesame backend built is next goal.

Thanks in advance. applications welcome.

… I’m discussing colors with someone who doesn’t know what a atomic power-plant is.

• Updated the debian packaging and debian patches of KDE4 to the 4.0.84 tarballs
• Pushed kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-runtime and kdebase-workspace 4.0.84 to experimental
• Prepared the rest of the packages ready to be pushed to experimental when the auto-builders have built this
• Updated Arora packages to the 0.2 release

Ana guessed slightly wrong when trying to guess next update of kde4.1 in debian, but her howto still works. Give it a bit for the autobuliders to catch up though.

But I guess I should find a rich uncle to give me newer hardware - my computer was only idle a few hours since friday evening.

I do hope that plasma people soon reaches a stable ABI.

And by the way:

Thanks to frisoftware.dk

Fathi blogged a reply to Peter in where he kind of “tagged” me to also reply. So I will.

• you can’t configure size and appearance of the panel. This is a long-standing problem, but I thought it was fixed.

You can as Fathi writes, but it is … a bit well hidden.

• KMail doesn’t interact well with encrypted IMAP accounts. I didn’t try much beyond that, because I have no accounts that are not affected by that.

My encrypted IMAP accounts works without any problems on 3 seperate machines. (home workstation, laptop, work workstation). There is a slight packaging issue here though, not all shlibs were proper bumped, so make sure you have 4.0.80-something of all packages.

• Various kicker widgets don’t appear to be available for KDE 4 (yet?).

You have moon applet and fifteen puzzle in extragear-plasma. Eyes-widget seems gone though. Not a big loss. (Or which ones are you talking about?)

- and yes, I do see kde4 in Lenny.

Now that kde4.1 is beginning to really take shape, I have also upgraded all my computers to kde4. Bye bye kde3.

I can’t live without a few kde3 apps though, particularily amarok. But my amarok usage was mostly controlled by the kicker media applet.

So I needed something that behaved similar to the kicker media applet. Plasma && dcop command line to the rescue. It still needs some polishing, especially getting the buttons closer together. But it works. It wasn’t that hard to get started, although the plasma docs still haven’t the quality of Qt documentation.

Here is how it looks:

And if anyone wants it, well - it is here: http://elvira.killmulehill.net/~sune/plasmaamarokcontrol-2008-05-27.tar.gz - at least for now.