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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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I demand you all download Thunderbird 3 nao!

Because I’m in it!

I made it onto the credits list!

:) I can’t believe it, considering I only had what three fixes to my credit? Thank you for the mention and the fuzzy feelings it brings, Thunderbird! Talk about Christmas coming early.

Anyway, for those of you under a rock, Thunderbird 3 has at long last been unleashed, armed with quite an impressive slew of features and enhancements too. Go get it while it’s hot!

And damn, this sure makes me feel bad about slacking off near the end. Guess I gotta start kicking myself a little and also keep my KDE love affair in check. I’ve got a few bugs I was supposed to fix that are currently lazing around hiatusing, and I guess its about time I got back to them.

Now if only I didn’t have so many other things to do.. :(

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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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File previews in folderview popups

Just a quick record. I just committed a fix for a folderview bug that had been (excuse the pun) bugging me for awhile now.

If you’ve been fiddling with the file preview settings in folderview, you’ve probably noticed that there was no way to control file preview in the on-hover popup views – all settings in the config dialog applied only to the icons on the folderview itself, while the popups invariably only previewed images. That has been fixed now – the popups now properly inherit file preview settings:

I had intended to attempt this fix much earlier, but was impaired by formidable difficulties in rebuilding trunk after fresh-installing my system (all the new and unfamiliar dependencies didn’t help :P ). Fortunately bugfixes are still acceptable during feature/string freeze. It would have sucked if this pet peeve of mine had needed to delay its resolution till 4.5 :)

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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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