Thomas Capricelli archive
Category: Gentoo

November 11, 2008

Opale ported to qt4 and kde4

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE, Software
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Opale was an application written using koffice that I use to handle my personal accounts. Long ago I have dropped support for koffice (mainly because of the crappy/undocumented/buggy chart API) and since then opale was a kde-based application. One year ago, i have started porting it to kde4, and, meanwhile, made it a Qt4 application. […]

November 2, 2008

Activities gallery

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Django, Gentoo, KDE, Linux kernel
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While developing my recently released activity mercurial extension (and here too), I did a lot of tests on some quite famous/big projects. I’ve found the results to be quite interesting and decided to put up this gallery. Are you interested in the history of commits for kde, linux, django, portage(software), and others? warning : this […]

October 31, 2008

Splitted activity for mercurial

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo, Software
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Today I have added new options to the mercurial activity extension and  most importantly, it is now possible to have a different curve for each author. It looks like this :

October 31, 2008

Activity extension for mercurial

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo, KDE, Software
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This is something i’ve really been missing for long in mercurial : a way to display the activity of a repository. No, ‘hg churn’ is not the right answer, I want an idea of when the peaks of development happened. So I have written this small extension. It is based on matplotlib, so you’ll need […]

September 26, 2008

KDE 4.1.2 tagged, gentoo land frozen

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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I’m not a gentoo fan. Mainly because I don’t like the idea of being a ‘fan’. Being a fan in the Free Software world usually means being an extremist and i hate extremism. I nonetheless use almost exclusively Gentoo on all computers, laptops, servers and other divx boxes I have or maintain. That means a […]

September 16, 2008

About mercurial and permissions

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo
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Distributed source control is really great, and among them, the tool I love the most is, by far, mercurial. I use it for all my free software projects, my own non-software projects (config files, mathematical articles and such) and also, dare I say it, for my CLOSE SOURCE projects. Yes, I also do this kind […]

September 13, 2008

Konqueror web shortcut for gentoo packages

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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You’re going to think that I’m some kind of web shortcut maniac, but I really think I’m not. I’m using http://packages.larrythecow.org a lot, and only today did I think about creating a konqueror web shortcut to get there faster. I’ve called it ‘gt’ (for gentoo, yes, i’m that lazy), and the magic url thinguy is […]

July 20, 2008

Youtube web shortcut

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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You all know the web shortcuts for konqueror, don’t you ? (like gg: or wp: when you want to use google or wikipedia in alt-f2 or konqueror). Well, I find this really useful, but theres none for youtube (in kde 3 at least, I haven’t checked kde4 yet). This is really easy to do. Go […]

July 13, 2008

Linux, a second-class citizen in the PHP world

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo
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PHP has the ability to send mails. Great. To do so, it can either connect to an external smtp server, or use a local MTA. Even greater! But only on windows. As astounding as it sounds, the feature of using a smtp server is only available on windows : on linux, you need to install […]

June 14, 2008

Entering the blogosphere….

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE, Linux kernel
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I intend to use this blog to give insights about my free software development stuff, which is mainly related to Qt/KDE, gentoo, and the linux kernel.