Yay! We have now sewed fancy kde4-cds with the current state of kde4. Get them before your neighbor. Look at kde team homepage to find it.
Reports welcome to debian-kde@lists.do
Thanks to the rest of the team and to the debian live project who made this quite easy.
Christian, I am pretty sure that at least dato have access to pink themes. Jut try look at his screen shots in his blog post and in this piece of minirok software: minirok screenshots
According to a KDE packager in some Germany based distro:
Delivering Eventually, By Interminable Annihilation of Novelty
About the recent blogs on planet debian about debian maintainers, I guess I have a couple of comments also.
About me: I am currently in "waiting for DAM" stage. I have been 10 months getting there and has now waiting for 6 weeks there. Looking at the DAM queue, people have been waiting in more than 6 months.
What would make the process faster for me ?
Getting processed by the DAM – and then the keyring maintainer is the obvious answer.
A thing that would have made my 10 months at AM stage shorter would be if the "reward" for getting the AM stage done wouldn’t have been queueing in maybe to 6 months. It wasn’t like the most motivating factor for answering my AM. The fact that it took 10 months is mostly my own fault.
So what am I trying to say here? Fix it it at the DAM stage (and maybe at the keyring stage also) and see people becoming DDs faster. Without lowering the barriers – except the barriers for the ability to stand in a queue.
Debian Maintainers seems mostly like a ugly hackaround this. And I kind of find my self being in the target group for some of the use of Debian Maintainers.
– and I am eagerly waiting getting processed in the DAM queue.
And back to development
Who wants to test & fix kdm on sparc ? (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433801)
Hi!
Earlier I blogged about being too (little) paranoid.
One of the comments was my unencrypted /boot on my harddrive. So I did something to it. Daniel Baumann told me some stuff at debconf about how to make bootable cd’s with grub – so I had to try to move my /boot to a cdrom instead.
It works.
A quick and dirty howto:
mkdir -p builddir/foo
cp -r /boot builddir/foo
cd builddir
genisoimage -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -r -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -o boot.iso foo
and now you are not yet up and running. It looks like it, but you have to adapt boot/grub/menu.lst to make it boot from cd.
First issue: boot fails with a “Error 29: Disk Write Error” – I wondered a bit and asked for help around and wondered a bit more why grub wanted to write to my harddrives in order to boot … finally solved it with help from the Super Grub Disk Page – it was the savedefault point of all my kernels. Removing that made it boot. So time to remove /boot and trust my cd.
Which was a wrong decision.
All my kernels had root=(hd0,0) so it kind of didn’t work. Changing this to root=(cd) did it – and removing (hd0,0) from my splashimage was also a bit nessesary.
So after this, rebuild the cd again with the genisoimage command mentioned above and now I am up and running completely.
And I of course have secretly marked the cd so evil people can’t replace it without me noticing it.
So what’s next step in my tinfoil covered world ? SELinux? something else? I guess you know how to make comments. Feel free.
/Sune
From my nightly irc log:
< anonymous debconf attendee> i saw ari and i thought he was astronut.. then i read this badget and it was ari... :)
Some people have been missing me today. Sorry about that. Flying sucks.
Plane from Copenhagen to Heathrow delayed one hour – so the hour I had to get from the first plane to the next plane was kind of … gone. Getting from Heathrow terminal 4 to terminal 1 required to take a bus, then be half hour in the queue to be allowed to join the queue to a extra security check. I got rebooked to a plane to EDI 3 hours later than my original flight, so I had a couple of hours to kill in the domestic part of Heathrow. The place where the gate is the most exciting place to be.
British Airways was nice and offered me a cup of coffee and a piece of cake while waiting.
Finally I was allowed on the plane with 16:15 planned departure. Somehow I was upgraded to first class which was nice – so I sat on first row next to the aisle. And then the pilot said we was delayed. Maybe we wouldn’t take off to until 20:20 or something …
F*ck – was the general word amongst the people – even on business class. Somehow Heathrow got stuff sorted out and we departed 18:05 – only almost 2 hours late.
Finally Edinburgh airport needed to find my luggage. It only took as long time in Edinburgh to get the luggage as the time it took from when we took off in heathrow …
Finally – at 21:00 I walked into Teviot and got registered. \o/
A quick trip to the hostel to check in there was needed before 22:00 – so I was back at teviot 10 to 10. Open laptop. Get on internet. Try to get beer. The bar was just closed. *sigh* what a day. Hope it gets better tomorrow ;-)
At least I have met a couple of nice Debian people – and it seems I have a bed.
Am I on the right track? should I turn up my paranoia on the ‘hmmm’s or is it in general acceptable?
Oh – and of course – a layer of security by obscurity is always nice. So let us throw dvorak keymap in also.
Bastian suggests on planet that we need to spend even more time on bikeshedding. Please. Let us move on.
ps.: kblogger seems to be able to do the job.
Kblogger is a nice little applet for Kicker. As the smart reader probably already have guessed, this is very much related to KDE. Kblogger basically sits in the bottom bar with a small "Blog!" button. Click it, and you should be able to write a blog post easily. I wonder if it works – and if I end up with packaging it for debian. And a general note. You need to use the link for the remote api to your blog. Not the ‘main’ link. In the wordpress case, it is to the xmlrpc.php file.
Is there other apps that does similar things ? or is kblogger the state of the art currently ?