I guess you all know the story how a comma “,” killed a man - the king wrote: Freedom not, death instead of Freedom, not death.
Well, something similar happened to Plasma recently. There was one (yes, just one) extra letter in the code, and the consequences were (not for all users, but a significant amount of them):
Panels didn’t have the resize controls, while the buttons for locking and other stuff remained.
System tray looked half-dead.
Buttons lost their backgrounds. Text was still shown.
Folder view lost the ‘selection’ controls.
Lancelot lost the no-click activation.
… and probably a lot more things I didn’t notice
So, a couple of minutes ago, I’ve made the smallest patch ever which killed a dozen bugs :)
Just remember that, whenever you step on a flower, it can produce a tsunami on the other end of the globe! :)
Published
in the KDE development section,
on 27 September 2010
After a few pre-ordered distro-branded versions* of Stipes, the K.I.A. (KDE Independent Artists) is proud to present a new feature wallpaper directed by the one and only, the author of “Plan 9” and “Glen or Glenda”, the memorable Ed Wood.
Published
in the KDE development section,
on 18 September 2010
It is nice that when you have something large to recompile, you can spend the time doing small things like breaking apart the Arch Linux logo and creating a new branded version of Stripes.
Just as before, you’re getting one version with original colour of the wallpaper, and one that uses distro’s colour. I’ve used the colour from the logo - a stronger shade of blue :)
I’ve spent some time with both of them on my desktop, and although the “strong” version doesn’t look anything special in a thumbnail, it is rather pleasant to use.
Packages
Previous wallpapers were just posted as previews here on the blog, but since this was not requested by the distro-art-managers of Arch, but only users, it will probably not end up as a part of the distro.
Edit Thanks to Pier for the hint, you can download the wallpapers from dropbox or sendspace. And I’ve added them to kde-look, so you can install them via GHNS.
Published
in the KDE development section,
on 5 September 2010
I bet nobody expected this (I didn’t) - the next distro-branded version of stripes is for freeBSD. The freeBSD logo is quite pretty, but distorting it ruins it beyound recognition. For this reason, the wallpaper has much less depth than the previous ones.
One is the obligatory blue (not to say vanilla version) and the other one is redish)
KDE be free…
And here’s the first attempt of making a KDE-branded one… I’m not yet satisfied with it, this is only a preview.