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Unity or GNOME? KDE ftw!
I built my PC with a mid range AMD Radeon 6850. Everything worked well as long as I worked in Windows, or even Mac OS X for that matter. But the day I switched over to Ubuntu, all hell broke loose. My...
View ArticleGoogle Summer Of Code 2012 - KDE
This was the first time I dared to apply for GSoC, and I've been accepted for GSoC 2012 ! I had considered applying last year, but I started a bit late submitting a proposal without properly...
View ArticleSetting up my GSoC branch for KStars
Taking my first steps, I have branched the KStars repository to gsoc2012-spacetime where I'll update my progress. So, I'll document the process for anyone who may need to ever do this. Of course there...
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KStars Log Viewer (GSoC)
I thought I'll log my thoughts on the log viewer I plan to implement here and make sure I don't miss out on anything when I am designing and implementing later. This is the VERY rough user interface...
View ArticleFirst IRC Meet for KStars
27 May 2012 2230 IST Samikshan (samxan) was having connection trouble. A storm + Power outage. Victor (carbonix) was present. As my proposal and his GSoC 2010 proposal had a lot of things in common,...
View ArticleAdventures with OpenSUSE
I had a dedicated disk for Linux when I built my desktop. So obviously, I felt obligated to install every package available to mankind. After (a little less than) one year, the result is that my Ubuntu...
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[KStars] GSoC Update
It's time I write another blog post about my progress with KStars. I sortof missed the personal deadline I had fixed for myself, but I'm off by a couple of days so I can cover up soon enough. My...
View ArticleQSqlTableModel Error
A quick post about a pesky error. Thought this error wasn't interfering with my code on the surface, I'd rather take no chances. Here's the code causing the...
View ArticleMy experiences at Akademy 2012
EDIT: I started this post soon after returning from Akademy, but never really finished it. So I'm publishing it as I wrote it back then, but I'll keep updating it.Thanks to KDE e.V., I got a chance to...
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People forget there's a License involved
So I got a bulk email inviting students to compete in a contest. It was part of MNNIT's Annual Fest, "Avishkar" (www.avishkar2012.in). And I was greeted by this logo on their homepage.Of course it...
View ArticleHackfest at Shaastra 2013 (IIT Madras)
A quick update. I'll be at IITM in January 2013 to help students get started with development on KDE! Excited! It's going be a very rushed journey since I need to leave the day after my last...
View ArticleKStars Catalog Quirks
The Google Code In task that I had proposed resulted in some pretty interesting observations. I must confess my description for the task wasn't very precise, so I had to ask the students attempting the...
View ArticleHello Hackfest!
Hi there!If you're reading this, I'll have the pleasure of helping you contribute to KDE at Hackfest in January 2013. Or you've stumbled upon my blog, in which case you may read this as KStars...
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GSoC work merged! Finally!
After more than 4 months of finishing and fine-tuning, my Google Summer of Code work for KStars is now merge worthy. An hour ago, I merged the gsoc2012-spacetime branch to master.While I am certainly...
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Hackfest 2013
I have a habit of writing posts much after they should have been written. This is one of those posts. And as a result, it's not as detailed as it should've been. This post is about Hackfest, which is...
View ArticleAkademy 2013
Akademy 2013 was good fun! It was great to see so many new faces, and great to see so many familiar ones. Since this was my second Akademy, I was better prepared for the talks since I wanted to gather...
View ArticleKDE and Arch Linux with Macbook Pro 11,2 (Part 1)
ContextI'll be using a Macbook Pro 11,2 as a development machine at work. I have the freedom to set it up as I wish to, so I'll be setting up a fresh installation of Arch with KDE on it. I had been...
View ArticleKDE and Arch Linux with Macbook Pro 11,2 (Part 2)
Faced with the same trouble with the WiFi I use the phone again to install packages for X. I needed to manually start 'dhcpd' to get the network up.For the graphics drivers, I used 'xf86-video-intel'
View ArticleKDE and Arch Linux with Macbook Pro 11,2
ContextI'll be using a Macbook Pro 11,2 as a development machine at work. I have the freedom to set it up as I wish to, so I'll be setting up a fresh installation of Arch with KDE on it. I had been...
View Articleconf.kde.in 2014
February 21, 2014 to February 23, 2014When we were leaving from the KDE Meetup at Gandhinagar in February 2013, I remember Pradeepto and many others talking about organizing conf.kde.in again. The...
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