Functional Programming in C++

Lancelot 1.0.3, media coverage

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Plasma section, on 13 September 2008

Well, we are going to reach the final step in the evolution of Lancelot for KDE 4.1 very soon. Will it be called 1.1 or something else, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the fact that Lancelot is more stable than ever, and even has a new feature.

Changelog since 1.0

Feature update: “Reset the [application] browser to show Favourites on menu open” option, which is the default behaviour from now on.
Installation fixed. Thanks to the bug or whatever in the new cmake 2.6, there were problems installing Lancelot - no binaries were installed in most cases. It even got a /quick fix/ in the FAQ section of the L’s website. Now, that is a thing of the past thanks to the Than Ngo who sent me a patch that mysteriously and miraculously fixes this problem.
Crashes… no more. The 1.0 was stable enough in my opinion, so most of you haven’t had any problems with it. But then, there are those of you who were less fortunate. And those of you who had the 1.0.1 installed which had a really nasty bug. All reported crashes are now fixed. That doesn’t mean that it is impossible to crash Lancelot (for example it crashed to me today - some misunderstanding with KRunner and it’s code) but it means that it is harder to crash it than before :)

Media coverage

I am glad to see much more positive reviews on the internet than the negative ones (the negative ones being mostly forum posts). The coverage culminated by Lancelot’s feature at linux.com. The blogosphere was also kind to Lancelot, so I’ve encountered reviews on Spanish, Russian, French, Polish…

So, once again, thanks to you all for helping and supporting the journey Lancelot development was, and for making it such a pleasure. Now, we are going to go to the new heights :)

p.s. The cool thing is that when you search “Lancelot” on Google (just Lancelot, without mentioning KDE), you get this Lancelot two times in the first 10 results - one has the 3rd place, and the other has the 6th.

carl
Thanks for your great app but in the sourceforge I can see only the 1.0 version. Where is the latest source version?
Ivan Čukić
@carl Wow, I completely forgot that I've made a SourceForge project for L. :) The latest version is in SVN repository of KDE (see http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/download). I'll make a new source package soon - when I decide that it will be the final one in the 1.0 series.
Milan Sipovac
Fantasticno, svaka cast!
Tim Bocek
Thanks for the great menu! It's now my default, although the fact that I don't have to click takes some getting used to.
One question: is it/will it be possible to select which logout actions are shown on the bottom? I'm the only one who uses my computer, so log out, switch user, and lock screen are useless to me - shut down and restart, however, are not. I'm thinking maybe something like being able to right-click on any one of those three and select which option is shown in that position?
BTW, Thanks for using recaptcha!
Jan
I second Tim in his request. I just came here because I have exactly this single "problem" with Lancelot. While I actually sometimes use "Switch User" (I need KDE 3.5 for one application that just won't run unter KDE 4, some QT-bug it seems) I regularly reboot or shutdown the computer, but never log off.
Otherwise: Lancelot is so much more what I look for in a menu than Kickoff: Thank you for that. :)
Ivan Čukić
@Tim Not a bad idea I must say. I'm not sure I will go that way, but I've added it in the TODO list under 'maybe'.
Miloš Mandarić
Evo baš čitam review na linux.com i ne mogu da vjerujem. Znao sam iz Gnuzille da si KDE programer al da ti praviš Lancelot? Svaka čast!
Thiago
Lancelot is so cool, but in the search tool I can't use Enter to launch the first in the list, and use the up and down keys to select the item to launch. Thank you for this awesome work.
Bobulate
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Ivan Čukić
@Benoit Well, no special reason... smaller install...
@Milos Hvala :) jos da se sredimo za Gz i sve ce da dodje na svoje mesto.
@Thiago Read the previous post about keyboard navigation.
Jonathan Thomas
Has 1.0.3 been tagged in svn yet? I can't seem to find it. I'd like to update the Intrepid packaging, but I'd need either a tarball or a 1.0.3 tag to make a tarball from.
...that is unless you can tell me at what revision the 4.1-backport branch became 1.0.3. ;-)
Ivan Čukić
@Jonathan Thomas Well, I wasn't tagging anything since 1.0. The revision is 860641. I know it's a bore to use the rev number, but I want to wait for a while before making a real new release.
Jonathan Thomas
Cool, thanks. That's all I need to know.
Benoit Jacob
In the Lancelot webpage, you recommend to use the \release\ build-type. Why so? The default (if one doesn't specify anything) is release-with-debug-info, it should give roughly the same performance while still allowing to get meaningful backtraces in most cases.
Benoit Jacob
Oh, and awesome work. I hope it becomes the default in 4.2.