Author Archives: ruedigergad
Note to self: Compile kdepim with Mobile UI
Some month ago, I got a Samsung Slate 7 Tablet PC on which I am using Fedora as my main OS. The only thing that bothered me a little was that the built-in e-mail client cannot be comfortably used via … Continue reading
Plasma Active 4 for Nexus 7 (2012) and Archos G9
Some days ago, Plasma Active 4 was officially announced. Great thanks to all the people who worked so hard on this release. 🙂 Today, I could squeeze in some time to create PA 4 rootfs tarballs for Nexus 7 (the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Misc.
Tagged Announcement, Archos 101 G9 Turbo, Google Nexus 7, Mer, planetkde, Plasma Active
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Automatically clone all repositories defined in conf/gitolite.conf
In this post, I post a simple, hackish script to clone all repositories defined in a gitolite config file. There may be various reasons why one should want to clone a bunch of repositories at a time, e.g., in case … Continue reading
KDE Lock Screen vs. Touch Input
With respect to touch input, most parts of KDE can be handled very easily. However, one, imho, very important aspect, simply lacks all touch UI support: the lock screen (and also the login screen), right now, do not support touch … Continue reading
Zotero on Nexus7 in Plasma Active, Updated
I put a little more work into running Zotero on Plasma Active tablets. First of all, it is now possible to install Zotero via zypper. You can get Zotero from my xulrunner branch repository on Mer OBS. Furthermore, it now … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Misc., Other Software
Tagged Mer, Open Source, planetkde, Plasma Active, Zotero
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Note to self: Resize animated PNG (APNG)
Interestingly, animated PNG (APNG) files seem to be so scarce that neither Gimp nor ImageMagick support this format. In fact, it took me quite a bit of searching until I found a way to scale an animated PNG preserving the … Continue reading
Posted in Misc., Other Software, Snippets
Tagged APNG, Image Processing, Open Source, PNG
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Zotero on Nexus7 in Plasma Active
Zotero, in a nutshell, is a pretty sophisticated literature management tool. It lets you, “… collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.” In this post I briefly present how I got Zotero running on the Nexus7 tablet in Plasma … Continue reading
Posted in Other Software
Tagged Archos 101 G9 Turbo, Google Nexus 7, Mer, planetkde, Plasma Active, Zotero
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Nexus 7, Linux, Accelerometer, sensorfw
This is just a brief wrap up about a patch I just submitted: in a nutshell, this patch enables the practical use of the acceleration sensor on Nexus 7 in Linux. Thanks a lot to Glueckself who posted a first … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Google Nexus 7, Mer, Open Source, planetkde, Plasma Active
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GTK+ Editable Menu Accelerators
One never stops learning. I was reminded of this just very recently when I discovered a very cool feature of GTK+ which I wasn’t aware off even though I have been using Linux-based OS as my main OS for more … Continue reading
Plasma Active: Current Devel Snapshots for ArchosG9 and Nexus7
This is just a very quick announcement that new rootfs tarballs of the current development branch of Plasma Active are available for ArchosG9 and Nexus7. These snapshots are not made based on Mer latest but on an older version. Additionally, … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Archos 101 G9 Turbo, Google Nexus 7, Mer, Open Source, planetkde, Plasma Active
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