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Loser no more!

And here’s a dramatic turnaround from the solemn nature of my previous post. *Ahem* excuse me while I get this one out of my system…

AAAWHHH YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Summer of Code application this year made it! Exultation! All the more sweet after the vivid bitterness of last year’s failure. So I shall be working this summer towards the conceptualization and creation of a sensible system tray for Plasma Mobile, and the excitement I feel, at being allowed the chance of contributing to the ongoing work to bring KDE to the mobile space, could hardly be overstated. Needless to say, this will be an awesome summer for me :)

Another cool fact: all the (other two) Plasmaters also landed their respective projects this year. Congratz guys! (Yes I spontaneously coined the term “Plasmaters”. I think I like it though)

And a final not so cool fact: Plasmate has been piling dusts of neglect ever since school started going crazy on me. Apparently the others have been busy too – I just went and did an update but it didn’t pull any changes. So much for a beta in April. I guess Plasmate’s gonna need a little summer love too alongside my cool GSoC project :)

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Plasmate 0.1 alpha2 Screencast!

So alpha2 of Plasmate got rolled out a day or so ago, and here I am again to give you an obligatory what’s-new screencast! This is my first ever voiced screencast too. Hope I’m legible :) Here goes…


OGG here

And that summarizes the larger part of the changes we committed since last month. Big thanks here to Sandro who hacked up the much anticipated GHNS integration at Tokamak! It only works for plasmoids now and has a fair number of kinks, but its good and sweet enough for a try out.

The plasmoid use case is pretty stable now, especially after a fix that came with 4.4.1 permitting python plasmoids to have a main script name other than ‘main.py’. Folks joining the Javascript Jam might want to give it a whirl, it may make your life easier! As for non-plasmoids, they edit, install and export perfectly now, and we’ll be diving in towards implementing previewers for them very soon. Great things lie ahead!

As Aseigo noted, you can get the alpha2 source tarball here. OpenSUSE users can grab it packaged from KDE:KDE4:Playground thanks to Will Stephenson.

Happy hacking!

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Plasmate 0.1 alpha1 Screencast!

Today being the day it is I should start with wishing all my fellow chinks out there a very happy and prosperous Chinese New Year. And then to the rest of the world, Happy Valentines Day! While I’m at it let me also congratulate KDE on a stellar 4.4 software compilation release, thank the openSUSE folks for a pretty darn good upgrade-experience, and of course, last but certainly not least, congratulate Plasmate, the lovable Plasma add-on creation tool, on our recent first ever alpha release!

You cannot imagine how excited I am about this :)

Unfortunately I don’t have much to add to the other posts who have already previously announced the news, so I decided to do a brief showcase screencast instead. It’s a simple one where I demonstrate creating a simple Python plasmoid from scratch in Plasmate, which would hopefully hint at the workflow we are aiming to create as well as demonstrate the salient features that made it into the alpha1 release. Here it is:


Ogg here.

I had to make do with slow-internet while doing this one so kindly excuse the slow loading on the documentation widget :) There is also unfortunately no sound.

As noted in the other posts, brave souls wishing to give this alpha release a spin could acquire the source tarball here, or check it out of svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/plasmate/0.1-alpha1. As with all alpha software this release is incomplete and may contain bugs so be warned. We’ll of course appreciate bug reports, which should be submitted under plasmate to b.k.o.

Have a lot of fun!

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PlasMate ~ Project Management and Other Goodies

It’s been a long time since the last update, and admittedly I haven’t been working on PlasMate as much as I’d like to in the past month (with school kicking in and all). Anyway, just a quick post to highlight some of the stuff we’ve been up to.

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PlasMate Documentation Widget

Another update on PlasMate. A number of improvements have been made since my last update, the most visible of which is the newly implemented documentation widget.

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PlasMate update (and hello Planet KDE!)

Here, have a screenshot of PlasMate as it is on svn now :)

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