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Manually hidable panels coming to KDE4.

A Hunt — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:10:37 +0000

For all you retroists out there who are missing having manually-hideable panels on your desktop (or those, who like me, are sticking with kde 3.5 due to this regression), there is good news. After some discussion on a certain bug report) I have decided to try my own hand at adding this functionality. And I have now finally figured out where the necessary code resides. [View KDE online source repository here.] Work is starting (and I am beginning to learn some of the intricacies of CPP and Qt).

As outlined in the same bug report linked to above, I will implement this feature/necessity by adding a new display mode to the panel, labelled “Manually hideable”, which will make the panel behave the same as when “Always visible”, but adding two hiding buttons (or one if the panel is only connected to one side of the screen), which will then (as the name suggests) hide the panel, displaying a small button (on top of all other windows) where the panel has been hidden to. What will (probably) be missing is the option to manually set the width of the buttons, or set animation times and suck like as in 3.5, but I don’t think that is a key necessity, and it wouldn’t fit in with the rest of the idea of KDE 4.

Whether or not this change would then be incorporated into mainstream kde (assuming I get it done) is not known yet; this depends on quality of code (eek!) and whether or not the devs think this is useful.

Additional Grub splash screens

A Hunt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:27:25 +0000

I have added two new Grub splash screens, which can be found on the grub-splash page. They comprise a picture of flowers, and a picture of candles. I will soon start learning how to make Grub 2 splashes, so expect some to arrive within the next year.

I also would like to apologise for the downtime over the past few days, caused by a server change by the hosting service I use. I hope you weren’t too inconvenienced…

Mv_Embed in use for html5 videos

A Hunt — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:11:46 +0000

Today mv_embed, a javascript solution allowing the playing of html5 videos in non-compliant browsers was installed on the site. On browsers with javascript enabled, but that don’t support html5 videos, the script modifies the page, and can also load a java-applet based player, meaning that videos can be viewed on almost all platforms, no matter what browser or plugins are in use. The script is completely free, and is released under the GPL v2.

The only video so far on the site is one of a TI Calculator Emulator here. There probably will be more soon though.

Noteworthy is that the mv_embed script broke my wordpress theme’s (!) scripts. This turned out to be a jQuery problem, explained in a post here. Strangely enough editing the mv_embed script was not enough to fix the page, and the theme’s scripts had to be changed as well, but now everything works, so everyone’s happy .

Me on google Earth

A Hunt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:12:23 +0000

I have discovered myself on Google Earth, and also on Google Maps, right here. What’s more, it includes the whole Scottish Junior Quad. (You can almost smell the sewage works we’re rowing past on the picture…)

Welcome

A Hunt — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:38 +0000

After some kaffuffle, it’s up…

Enjoy