


Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 4 comments
If you have a large library of photos on flickr.com (or have friends who do), you can automatically have those images used as a slideshow on your desktop.I f you aren't familiar with flickr.com, this probably won't be too interesting to you.
Also, it shows you the file descriptions, camera information, etc. - Oct 19 2005

Dolphin Service Menus by timb 65 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
To make it work on both pre-KDE 3.2 (which breaks with the patch) and KDE 3.2+ (which needs the patch), on many KDE installation variations (SuSE, Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Gentoo, etc etc), and to make it always compile in the correct fixes depending on the system? Yes, that really is hard.
We don't have 50 machines to install every distro on or time to test all configurations. But I think we should have it worked out by the next release for most everyone.
Why don't you tell us why it wasn't fixed on your particular distro/kde version/etc? Feedback on how to fix it on a setup we have no way to test is a lot better than complaining each time we make a release with it still broken on your system :)
Thanks,
Adam - Jul 25 2004

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 7 comments

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Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Thanks,
Adam - Jul 13 2004

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1797 comments
But don't worry, there are things in store for SuperKaramba in the near future. Hint: I've been invited to move development onto the KDE servers and make it part of KDE. - Jan 19 2004

GTK1 Themes by davidsansome 280 comments
It's still buggy obviously, but wow! I started up gaim using Plastik and was amazed!
Keep up the awesome work! - Jan 04 2004

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1797 comments
Not everyone likes the same thing. It's ok - I promise. - Sep 06 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by BOSSoNe 22 comments
I mean look at KDE and GNOME. Why are there two entire desktop environments that basically replicate the exact same thing? Well, there are two because some people like programming in plain C using callbacks (GNOME) and some people like programming in C++ using OOP and signals (KDE). Some people are sticklers for LGPL and GNU (GNOME) and some people are satisfied with plain GPL (KDE).
So yes, one super desktop environment would probably be better. But you can't assume you could have ever made the people from the other project come work on your project, unless you start paying them :) For every successful open source project, there is another one written by people who for whatever reason disagree with how the first one is written. Linux and FreeBSD, KDE and Gnome, Gaim and Kopete, XMMS and Noatun, etc. etc. :) - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
KarambaR doesn't have any scripting at all as far as I know. It's much simpler right now than SuperKaramba (i'm not implying that is a bad thing). For example, there is no way you could do an exact copy of most of the popular SuperKaramba themes in KarambaR (Liquid Weather ++, any of the task bars, etc) because KarambaR just doesn't support all the needed features.
And what do you mean by "with all specs based only on QT and KDE"? SuperKaramba is based only on Qt and KDE. In fact, SuperKaramba uses much more of the KDE api (task management, systray, etc) than KarambaR does. The only extra requirement that SuperKaramba has is that you have python installed when you compile it. If you compile SK a certain way, you wouldn't even need python installed on users' computers (who install from an RPM or deb or whatever). - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
KarambaR's theme editor is cool, but it's not exactly how I want SuperKaramba's theme editor to work. There will be a SuperKaramba theme editor. I just haven't had time to write it yet. But at the same time, you can't just take the KarambaR editor and slap it into SuperKaramba if it doesn't really do what you want (wasn't designed with python scripts in mind).
So basically, SuperKaramba and KarambaR both began life as Karamba. But merging them isn't neccesarily productive from a programming point of view. It would be way more work than just adding whatever features KarambaR might have to SuperKaramba by hand. I've written (and others contributed) far more code to SuperKaramba than there was original Karamba code. Just because SK and KarambaR came from the same original source doesn't mean they are still compatible in source code terms. You can't just drag and drop functions from one to the other.
I totally understand why you think that there should be one clear leader. But what do you want, one of us to just stop working and delete all existance of our creation? :) I think that users will pick the one they like the best and that will probably be the "leader". And if 30 more "karamba clones" pop up, that isn't a Bad Thing. It just means there is more competition and the "winner(s)" will be better programs for it.
In the world of free software, you can't kill a project because it is not "popular", because sales don't equal further development. You kill a project when the developer(s) give up or lose interest.
As for the other question, there is nothing wrong with using XML for the file format (like Konfabulator and gDesklets do). If I was involved in the first month or two of Karamba development, I might have used XML (because I would be too lazy to write my own parser). But what is the compelling reason to switch right now and thus break every single existing theme? And I think XML is a lot more cumbersome to edit by hand than what we have now. What is the reason you want XML so bad?
Maybe when the theme creator is finished (so you won't edit by hand anymore), I will switch to XML. It isn't a huge change to the code to do so.
XML is a buzz word. It does help in certain areas (program interoperability), but that doesn't mean having XML in SK makes SK a better program at this stage of development. Don't believe the hype :) - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by Chromakode 17 comments
(note, this is just what i gather from the description. I didn't write SSK). - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1797 comments
Did you recompile superkaramba after you upgraded? Are you using an RPM that may or may not work with KDE 3.1.3? Does superkaramba give any error messages? Any other information that might be helpful?
thanks. - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Anyway, I will fix the more than 10 desktop bug and also add the ability to put a theme on some, but not all desktops.
Thanks. - Sep 05 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by Chromakode 17 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by BOSSoNe 22 comments
If he does have some interest in merging, then he can email me and we can talk about it. But if he doesn't, please don't complain :) Let's let him do what he wants and continue to release cool programs :) - Sep 04 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Mandrake releases 9.2. I upgrade and thus have a python 2.3 box to test on.
or
Someone else submits a patch :)
I don't have python 2.3 to test with right now. But I would love to add python 2.3 support. - Sep 04 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 28 comments
Btw, I don't know if the cycling bug is fixed yet :) I hope someone can confirm that. - Sep 04 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
SuperKaramba is completely in C++. It's not written in python at all. All of the karamba methods you can call from python are implemented directly in C++. SuperKaramba embeds a python interpreter so you can control your widget, but SK is definately completely written in C++.
Just clarifying. - Sep 04 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
The theme creator is kind of neat, but it's not really WYSIWYG. I definately plan to do a real SK theme editor at some point, but I want to do it more like the way Qt Designer works.
Please don't everyone yell at us to merge. We are giving you cool toys for free and asking nothing in return. I've worked many, many hours on SuperKaramba. The KarambaR guy is designing what he thinks is cool and I'm designing what I think is cool. Suggestions are welcome, but patches are much better :) - Sep 04 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
I guess I'll simplify the startup window in the next version and shrink it down.
PS:
I didn't that the gnome talk seriously. The guy who said karamba sucked really had some valid complaints about the original karamba but didn't really seem to understand superkaramba's architecture. karamba does "suck" only because it was a new program that was never really out of beta testing (Hans still rules for writing it!). Thats the whole point of SuperKaramba, to make karamba into something much more capable. Once I add full multithreading, taskbar support, some other random features, and then seriously clean up the code, SuperKaramba will be awesome. Then my next plan is to make a sweet gui theme editor... - Aug 25 2003

Various Stuff by djworld 44 comments

Various Stuff by luci 11 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by sick 11 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Don't run your python script by hand. Create a file called mytheme.theme and define the basic theme stuff (size, location, etc) then create mytheme.py and write your python code there. Then to test it, run "superkaramba mytheme.theme" and your python code will automatically be run.
I hope that makes sense. - Jul 07 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 7 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Thanks. - Jun 24 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 28 comments

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 28 comments

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Karamba & Superkaramba by ntesa 11 comments
nice screenshot. - May 21 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 28 comments
You can try rpm -Uvh superkaramba*25*rpm -nodeps in the mean time. - May 13 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by genneth 62 comments
I'm amazed at the functionality. It's actually useful :)
Keep up the great work! - May 12 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments
Check the website.
Some dude deleted the whole website and I had to rebuild it from scratch. - May 11 2003

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 326 comments