Mart

a cute little home a cute little boy a cute little cow: mooo!

Tale of a little pixel

a cute little girl KDE 4.0 Release Counter

Widgets party

Software

A target i have for Plasma in KDE 4.2 is to have a set of widgets that integrates nicely with the Plasma theme to be reused across multiple plasma applets.

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Sent from mart on 20/07/2008 at 14:43:04 — comments: 6Digg it



Update of Polyester 2

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Published an updated version of the polyester widget style for Qt4/KDE4. Actually it was a pretty long time i didn't touch that, but was too lazy to release the last state somewhere :)

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Sent from mart on 14/07/2008 at 14:38:50 — comments: 3Digg it



Waiter, there is a web browser in my Plasma!

BlaBla

Long time that i didn't felt like to blog, in the past days of storm others have sait way more insightful things that i would have been able to say. I can only say i felt really bad for Aaron and that sometimes the intertubes really can expose the very worst of people, bleach :( (ok, not really an original thing, but still...)

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Sent from mart on 06/07/2008 at 19:42:52 — comments: 13Digg it



Salute to an icon

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Ok, it's the new trendy thing of the planet and it's quite funny :)

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Sent from mart on 03/07/2008 at 22:02:52 — comments: 2Digg it



4.1 times more Prettyness

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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1:

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Sent from mart on 01/06/2008 at 10:15:58 — comments: 52Digg it



rain rain rain

BlaBla

It's some days that it doesn't happen anything but rain, rain and also well, rain. Starting to get pissed off and the rivers are starting to get hmm, "interesting"...
massive Chisone

Tags: real life

Sent from mart on 29/05/2008 at 19:25:48 — comments: 0Digg it



Enlarge your panel

Software

Plasma for KDE 4.1 is coming along nicely, probably it won't have everything we wanted to but i think it's an huge improvement already compared to 4.0.x series.
A feature i did for 4.1 is to make panels really easy to configure and make exactly how you want, even an insane layout like that:

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Sent from mart on 18/05/2008 at 15:40:07 — comments: 27Digg it



Cashews on a Panel

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In the last weeks not many "visible" things were done on Plasma, because we were all busybusybusy with the ginormous api changes and plasma breaking and unbreaking several times :D. As you can see the list has been nearly completely vanished, oh boy, can't really believe we did it in so little time, my best congratulations to the whole team that worked so hard :)

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Tags: kde kde4 plasma

Sent from mart on 01/05/2008 at 13:52:53 — comments: 6Digg it



Tokamak'd

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As I'm writting this right now I'm on the train from Milan to Turin heading back from TokamakMKI, unfortunetely i'm leaving early because an old 3vil exam (oh C.E.Shannon, you know i love you, honey:P)

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Sent from mart on 13/04/2008 at 22:47:44 — comments: 3Digg it



A simple way to test Plasma themes

Graphics

Some time ago when testing the code that draws the svg themes in Plasma (like applet backgrounds, panels and tooltips) i wrote a very simple plasmoid that its sole purpose was to test that code, its very uninspiring name was SvgPanelTest, because surprise surprise it was a test for the class named SvgPanel:P
It turns out this applet can be actually useful also for theme designers that wants to test the themes they're doing without killing plasma all the times.

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Sent from mart on 23/03/2008 at 20:52:30 — comments: 0Digg it