madpenguin8

Mike Diehl

Hi, I am madpenguin8 and I create KDE 3 Color Schemes, Wallpaper Other, Amarok Themes and more.

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Last time active : Apr 24 2011

Joined : Nov 18 2002

KDE 3 Color Schemes

Soylent Green

KDE 3 Color Schemes Apr 27 2005

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madpenguin's "simply splendid" scheme

KDE 3 Color Schemes Apr 25 2005

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webbie colors

KDE 3 Color Schemes Mar 31 2005

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Sol

KDE 3 Color Schemes Nov 10 2004

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Saturnian

KDE 3 Color Schemes Oct 10 2004

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Orange

KDE 3 Color Schemes Aug 14 2004

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Wallpaper Other

Kube Solution

Wallpaper Other Jul 05 2005

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Soylent Single

Wallpaper Other Apr 30 2005

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Plasma

Wallpaper Other Jun 15 2003

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Vision

Wallpaper Other Jun 08 2003

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Purple Swirl

Wallpaper Other Jun 03 2003

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Amateur

Wallpaper Other Jun 03 2003

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Amarok Themes

Solaris

Amarok Themes May 01 2005

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Melted Plastik

Amarok Themes May 01 2005

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Nightly Lemon

Amarok Themes May 01 2005

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Soylent Green Iconless

Amarok Themes Apr 29 2005

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Soylent Green

Amarok Themes Apr 29 2005

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KStars Data

Eclipse 2006

KStars Data Mar 12 2008

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Jupiter Occultation

KStars Data Mar 12 2008

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Constellation Tour

KStars Data Jul 03 2005

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Messier Tour

KStars Data Jul 03 2005

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Amarok 1.x Scripts

Transfer to Media Device (formerly iPod)

Amarok 1.x Scripts Nov 25 2005

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Web Lyrics

Amarok 1.x Scripts Aug 01 2005

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amarok knotify

Amarok 1.x Scripts Mar 26 2005

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Education Apps

SolSeeK

Education Apps Apr 24 2011

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Helios

Education Apps Oct 17 2010

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KDE 3.x Splash Screens

Soylent Splash

KDE 3.x Splash Screens Apr 30 2005

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Noia Warm Splash

KDE 3.x Splash Screens Feb 09 2003

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KDE Plasma Screenshots

amarok'n grape desktop

KDE Plasma Screenshots Jun 12 2004

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My KDE 3.2 Desktop

KDE Plasma Screenshots Oct 19 2003

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Dolphin Service Menus

amaroK DB service menu

Dolphin Service Menus Mar 23 2005

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Icon Sub-Sets

Soylent Slicker SVG

Icon Sub-Sets Apr 30 2005

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Various KDE Stuff

amaroK Collection Stats (konversation script)

Various KDE Stuff Aug 20 2005

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Various Stuff

Gentoo Pixelized Throbber

Various Stuff Dec 13 2003

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test

SolSeeK

Education Apps 45 comments

by madpenguin8

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Apr 24 2011

Interesting, can you run kicker from a console and give me any errors you come up with? - May 04 2008

It already supports using images as a desktop background, the option is in the configure dialog. Enjoy! - Mar 27 2008

Thanks for the comment. - Feb 17 2008

Can you mail me a screen shot of the dialog? - Nov 16 2006

Does the dialog open at all, or do you get a message box complaining about images? - Nov 15 2006

Sounds like a bug, I'll look into what's going on here, thanks for the input. - Nov 06 2006

I'll be sure to check the site out. I've been thinking about doing more lately, maybe this is the direction I should head. - Nov 06 2006

I wanted to wait until SOHO was out of the CCD bakeout before releasing, but that won't be for about another week so all the EIT images will be in bakeout until then. Also for animations to work, you'll have to build up some frames to really see anything, I suggest using the new GOES image until SOHO is back in regular operation. Once some images are built up a left click on the applet will make it animate, check the config dialog for other options. Also, I'd like to thank admrl again for his wonderful icon. - Mar 09 2006

Ok, I fixed the problem with only part of the animation being shown, turns out it was downloading the wrong file.

The open and save buttons won't be available until next release along with a fix for configuration not being saved. As soon as I get to this I'll make a release, thanks again. :) - Dec 04 2005

I'm not sure what you mean about configuration saving, it should already work, could you explain in more detail.

I'm also not sure what you mean about the whole animation not being shown, a screenshot might help here. Regarding saving the animations, I already have this working as well as loading of the animations that are saved already.

Thanks for the praise and I hope to keep adding more and better features, keep the comments coming. :)

Oh and CCD bakeouts are a needed by the detectors of the SOHO sat. and it's better explained at the bottom of this page http://soho.estec.esa.nl/hotshots/2004_01_04/

Try monitoring the continuum images or some of the others as they don't need bakeouts on there detectors. - Dec 03 2005

Do you mean that it doesn't download it? - Nov 24 2005

Everyone of them is our sun, just viewed imaged in different wavelengths of light. Try this link for some more information of what the images mean.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/Sun_Obs.html - Nov 24 2005

Thanks, I'll check into this and see what's going on. - Nov 24 2005

Thanks for making this package. - Nov 21 2005

Yeah this should be pretty easy to do as a SK theme. Just fetch the image and use mogrify or something to scale it to the size you want. :) - Nov 21 2005

The code is quite simple and should be easy to reproduce on any platform. - Nov 21 2005

Lyrics Manager

Amarok 1.x Scripts 53 comments

by msan

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Dec 02 2009

Just a little tip, try kdialog --icon "amarok" to make your kdialogs use the amarok icon, it makes the script look even more integrated. - Feb 23 2006

Amarok

Audioplayers 574 comments

by amarok

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Aug 01 2011

What version gcc are you using? - Oct 29 2005

Sounds like you are just a little disappointed in the ability of HT to pretend it is a SMP machine. My research shows HT to have stability issues all over the place, just google a little and you will see.

On a real SMP machine these issues are not present. This leads me to stay with the crowd that thinks this is a Linux kernel scheduler issue.

Remember we could have left you with no warning at all and just left you to figure out where the problem is.

I also would like to know what audio manager makes such extensive use of threads as amaroK does.

Oh, and one last thing. If you're serious about performance try a real SMP machine, multiple cpu or multiple core, not a single core pretending it's two. Another sorry attempt by Intel to try to keep a strong hold on the market by creating hype while other manufacturers pass them by with slower clock speeds imho. - Oct 29 2005

Or you could use this. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26850 You can install it directly from the script manager using the Get More Scripts button. Another thing, we are aware of the fact support for only iPods sucks. We plan on supporting more devices in 1.4 so please be patient and keep an eye on our website for developments. - Oct 11 2005

Yes, this is one of the things under consideration currently. - Sep 06 2005

libtunepimp - Jun 06 2005

Add --disable-amazon to your configure options, it's that easy. - Jun 06 2005

Your post is utterly ridiculous.

1) Package building should be maintained by your distro. We don't have the resources to build packages for every distro.

2) Maybe it's your engine that's tremendously buggy.

a) I can't say anybody would refuse a bug fix. Some bugs are more critical than others, also consider regressions.

b) What bugs? Like seb stated, minor releases are for the more important bugs.

So finally, why not offer some suggestions instead of just ranting. We have had many discussions, blogs, and forum posts regarding usability, so yes we do consider the user. Also, if you watch the developer's blogs, you'll find that feature adds for upcoming versions are discussed and are an excellent form of feedback.

And if all of these forms aren't your taste, we also have an irc channel #amarok on irc.freenode.org, we'll be waiting for your suggestions. - May 22 2005

Might want to try one of the other engines, but if you must use arts, this might help. http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_staticxt/staticfile,playback.html#id250939 - Feb 15 2005

Hardware Messages MOCKUP

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements 26 comments

by RikRat

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Oct 04 2005

Would be easy, use knotify. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22276 A really simple script I wrote that uses knotify to notify on track change in amaroK. - Oct 04 2005

Suggestion: AmaroRipper

Amarok 1.x Scripts 5 comments

by DaBlade

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Sep 16 2005

here http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27512 According to the Changelog for 0.3b stream ripping is supposed to work. - Sep 17 2005

amaroK Collection Stats (konversation script)

Various KDE Stuff 2 comments

by madpenguin8

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Aug 20 2005

The script is intended to be executed from konversation, and will not function properly from the command line. - Aug 22 2005

transKode

Amarok 1.x Scripts 126 comments

by attendant

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Feb 26 2008

Start the script, and then stop the script, I think he means the menu entries are still there afterward. - Aug 11 2005

Transfer to Media Device (formerly iPod)

Amarok 1.x Scripts 25 comments

by madpenguin8

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Nov 25 2005

While I can't support the GoGear directly, I did find this project http://opengogear.sarovar.org/ that supports the indexing of mp3's on your device. From the README it shows usage for there software. Find these lines in my script

transfer_type
else
read_config
transfer_type

and change to

transfer_type
gogear $destination/*.mp3
else
read_config
transfer_type
gogear $destination/*.mp3

Find there README here http://opengogear.sarovar.org/README

I can not say how well this software works as I don't have the hardware to test it on, good luck. - Aug 07 2005

Why not just install current svn, you can find instructions here http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_HowTo#Building_SVN_amaroK

Or you can grab beta2 if you want just USB support. - Jul 29 2005

This is a good idea, I will find a way to accomplish this one. - Jul 28 2005

I have to think of a way to do this, I don't think there is a cut and dry way to i18n a bash script, if so, please point me in the direction. :) - Jul 28 2005

Yes, it will copy to anywhere you choose. On first time use it asks for a destination directory to copy the files to. At any time after that you can simply click Configure in the Script Manager in amaroK to choose a new destination. - Jul 27 2005

I'll take a look into merging the two scripts I have after I get home from work :).

I have a working version for reqular USB devices, so it should be pretty easy to merge the two.

- Jul 26 2005

Well, let's see what new things this script brings.

1) I had to add new DCOP functions to amaroK for adding files in the transfer queue, and for the actual transfer.

2) It's obvious you have never tried to transfer any files from the playlist while leaving the Context Browser open.

So in all I bring you more robust DCOP functionality to amaroK, and to top it off the script makes amaroK more useable.

With this script you no longer need to select files, open the Media Device browser, drag the files into the queue, then finally cicking transfer. This also doesn't take into account the need to click the tab for the browser you were originally at to return to where you were. Now you need only select files, and click "Transfer to" -> "iPod".

So please look again before making claims as this script is also easily extended to support uploading to regular USB mass storage devices.

- Jul 26 2005

Maybe I should have put current svn like now, thanks seb :) - Jul 24 2005

Extended Lyric Support

Amarok 1.x Scripts 3 comments

by Hydrogen

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Jul 29 2005

You need amaroK 1.3beta3 or svn, It appears you are running a 1.2 version of amaroK. You do not need python anything for this script, only bash and html2text. - Aug 04 2005

CleanUp

Dolphin Service Menus 7 comments

by LaFleche

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Aug 04 2005

restoring them as original also? I thought of this idea a while ago, but never got around to it. :) - Jul 24 2005

Audio Format Converter

Amarok 1.x Scripts 67 comments

by mlmitton

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Apr 28 2007

Well, this could easily be done with 1.3beta2 and up if support is built into this script using the customMenuClicked notification. Have a look at http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/35-More-scripting-goodies.html and http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Script-Writing_HowTo#Notifications for more details. - Jul 04 2005

I already thought of a solution, but you'll have to wait for 1.3, or pick up svn.

* New playlist column "Extension" allows easy sorting of playlist for
compatible file types for portable media players.

Also per track scripting is being worked on currently so you will be able to make scripts run against selected playlist items. Have a look. http://madpenguin8.pwsp.net/custom/multiple.jpg - May 30 2005

danna-blue

Amarok Themes 4 comments

by OneWingedAngel

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Jun 27 2005

Couldn't just wait for meNGele to release his own version? - Jul 01 2005

Saturn

Wallpaper Other 4 comments

by ozemale

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Jun 08 2005

imho you are lame. First you accuse the guy of stealing the image but then you have to attack his wallpaper because you have nothing else to go on. If these images are so lame, why are billions spent taking them? - Jun 11 2005

If you actually checked NASA's copyright you would know he's free to use the image. - Jun 09 2005

KDE No Blue

Wallpapers KDE Plasma 4 comments

by nitelurker

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Jun 13 2005

I like this one, how about a dual monitor version. - Jun 11 2005

SSMI - Simple Service Menu Installer

Dolphin Service Menus 2 comments

by ytannus

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May 04 2005

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=11435 - May 05 2005

Soylent Single

Wallpaper Other 2 comments

by madpenguin8

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Apr 30 2005

I used Fyre 1.0, and the Gimp for text areas. - Apr 30 2005

amaroK Pod

Karamba & Superkaramba 5 comments

by Tinny77

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Jan 05 2005

Your using the nowPlaying DCOP call and then using sed to get the track title. It might be easier just to use the title DCOP call.

Some other ideas I had, but I'm not sure if it can be done in karamba:

A volume bar graph like the iPod uses in the display. You can use the getVolume call here.

A track time progress bar, something like trackTotalTime / trackCurrentTime * 100 should give you the track progress percentage.

And last, the five star rating that the iPod has could also be implemented using the score call if you are using amaroK 1.2.

Maybe make it so the progress bars and rating displays are switchable using the center button on the iPod. Like I said I'm not sure this stuff can be done with karamba, but it would make this nice theme even better. - Jan 09 2005

SpiffiLyrics (Juk + xmms + amarok)

Karamba & Superkaramba 21 comments

by gstnet

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Sep 30 2004

Are we going to see an amaroK version? :) - Sep 08 2004

Really Slick Screensavers

Screensavers 43 comments

by davidsansome

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Jul 24 2004

During make cc1plus decides to eat all of my memory. On lattice.cpp it seems to start eating the ram, after only a few seconds top shows over 70% mem usage for the process.

Linux Opteron 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 #3 SMP Fri Jul 2 23:06:44 EDT 2004 x86_64 5 GNU/Linux

GCC 3.4.1

KDE 3.3beta1 - Jul 14 2004