I always was a nonconformist, so while everybody was at aKademy in Tampere, I decided to hold my own version of aKademy in Munich. Well, it wasn’t really my decision, I had more than 6 hours gap between my flights, so I decided to go to the town.

Pictures are worth a lot more than words so:

As you can see, the city was crowded, and they served weissbier and weisswurst.

I arrived to Tampere at 9PM - just in time to join the ongoing party in some fancy nightclub :)

Just a small reminder - in KDE SC 4.5, Lancelot shows Plasma’s widgets/viewitem.svgz as a background for the items in the lists. So, you should remove the files that match lancelot/action-list-view-* except action-list-view-headers.svgz from your themes.

If you don’t, the list items will have two backgrounds and will look ugly.

The reason why I didn’t disable the old backgrounds directly in the code is that someone could possibly want to have the two backgrounds (an example where it looks OK are the list headers).

For those who didn’t see the notice by Tom, you should convert your password based SVN accounts (https) to SSH (svn+ssh) as a first step of migrating from SVN to GIT. For instructions, head straight to: http://www.omat.nl/2010/06/23/convert-password-based-accounts/

I’ve already converted, and I can’t be happier - the sun is shining, everyone wants to be my friend, all members of Pink Floyd are alive again, and I have 10% more girlfriends than before. Ok, I’m stopping with commercialism before somebody kicks me…

Every once in a while I write a post related to relations between lancelot and kmail or kopete.

This time it is only to notify you that until KMail2 arrives*, the ‘unread mail’ section in Lancelot will not work since L in SC 4.5 switched to Akonadi.

• if PIM devs don’t miss the initial plan, it will be for 4.5.1

There were a lot of complaints when we decided to limit the size of icons placed on panels in plasma to 32x32 pixels.

The reasoning behind limiting the size were requests from users who use vertical panels - vertical panels are usually made wider then standard panels, and icons would grow to 300x300 pixels taking up most of the space on the panel.

Putting a maximum size for icons was a good decision generally, but the bad side of it was that the new size was hard-coded. There was an option in the system settings to change sizes of icons, but setting the size for panel icons was disabled.

Now, thanks to a patch by Mike Kasick, this option is enabled and it works. Mike is one of the best types of users - although he isn’t a Plasma contributor (as far as I know - no SVN account) he sent us a patch, and responded to all of our suggestions with revised versions.

In the end, Aaron and myself adapted the proposed patch a bit to better fit the rest of Plasma, and it entered the SVN so it is on its way to KDE SC 4.5.

In KDE SC 4.5, the option is located in System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Icons -> Advanced -> Panel