


Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3272
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3275
so from that it might be possible for you to create a map theme that would display the contents of your tiffs.
The only other option would be to wait or provide patches so that Marble supports the KML feature to add images to the globe (which hopefully will be the case soon). - Sep 15 2008

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
But it was "What would you need to have for that (in order to work well for you)? just a Url?"
Of course I see your motivation why you want to have the feature. And we'd be interested in providing it for you. However you need to tell us how you'd like it to work in detail. - Sep 03 2008

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
I guess you installed Marble into /usr/local. So you need to tell the dynamic linker where to find it. This can be done by setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the correct library:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARYPATH:/usr/local/lib
You can also add this line to your .bashrc to ensure that it will also be found in the future.
Also please check that no previous Marble version is still installed.
This should already fix the problem.
An alternative way to fix the problem would be to set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to /usr:
Just use
cmake -DQTONLY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../marble
instead of the other cmake command.
Please tell us whether this advice fixed the problem for you and which steps you had to perform to resolve it.
- Aug 17 2008

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
That being said we'd be very interested in patches to enable WMS support for our next MARBLE release. Especially with the last changes for OpenStreetMap integration it shouldn't be too difficult to add WMS support to MARBLE. However our development resources are limited. So if someone volunteers to work on it we'd provide help to get up to speed (just visit us on IRC, freenode on channel #kde-edu. - Aug 16 2008

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
http://edu.kde.org/marble/obtain.php
We'll try to fix the issue though. - Aug 29 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
packages are being worked upon. Today the debian packager has uploaded the first package to Debian unstable. However there are still issues with it which we are sorting out at the moment. Also work is going on on providing packages for the other plattforms. I'll link the binary packages once issues have been sorted out ( I estimate about 2-3 days at most ). - Aug 21 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> ignoring ¨ ° ^ ¯ ´ ˇ etc. on
> characters in the search field
works in KDE SVN now. - Apr 17 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> 1) The names of some cities are
> spelled little wrong - e.g. Rîga
> (i with circumflex) should be
> Riga (i with macron).
The city names are from www.world-gazetteer.com. I know that although they were written in Unicode there are issues with letters for some east european countries due to the fact that under windows where this data set was compiled these characters don't exist, e.g. Romanian where s and t lack the accent (e.g. "Braşov" ).
> 2) A useful feature would be
> ignoring ¨ ° ^ ¯ ´ ˇ etc. on
> characters in the search field
Yes, that would be nice. I already had that idea and wasn't sure whether Qt had this implemented already. It seems I'll have to implement it myself.
> 3) In high zoom levels, big cities
> still appear as a mere "coloured
> dot". The dot should zoom along,
> or maybe become a gray area or
> something...
At a certain point of zooming up these bitmaps will be replaced by SVG's. That's still on my TODO however.
> 4) Great app.
Thanks :-) - Apr 13 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
Then do:
mkdir marble_build
cd marble_build cmake -DQTONLY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ~/marble
make
sudo make install
After that you can start Marble either from the menu or from the konsole by entering the command "marble". - Apr 01 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
So please try commenting out marble/src/pntmap.cpp line 75-137 and line 180-183. If there should arise further questions, please mail me in private ( tackat@kde.org ). - Mar 27 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> Probably applies to Kubuntu as well.
Done. :-) - Mar 26 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> system requirement for its smooth
> functionality?!!
That's pretty hard to do. It really depends on your processor (Intel seems to be better there for whatever reason) and the 2D (not 3D) performance of your graphics card. Right now it should perform a lot better than pure Mesa without DRI enabled.
I will try to improve performance further (also by providing a slider which will gradually improve speed at expense of the display quality). I also plan to add an optional OpenGL backend later. However that doesn't have high priority right now.
> Other than these, the vertical
> distance measurement didnt seem
I just verified it and I don't see an error. The measure results look very much correct to me. If I measure e.g. the distance between Flensburg (Germany) and Tunis I get almost exactly 2000 km on Marble. This seems to be correct as other virtual globes show the very same distance down to the kilometer.
If you still think there's an error please send me your example measurement to tackat@kde.org. - Mar 24 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> Oxygen icons on the Navigation [...]
> more options ;)
Those things are on my Todo list already. So be patient, as I want to implement it the right way (tm ;-). Concerning the options: Yes, there will be the possibility to turn layers off. But I want to do it in a non-obtrusive way (as part of the legend actually) to provide good usability.
> Also, jpeg artifacts get pretty bad
Yes, this is the initial offline database. Satellite View and Night View are currently just provided as a proof of concept. The primary map is the topographic map.
Next on my TODO is however the capability to download further tiles.
So then the Satellite view should a much higher resolution (comparable to Nasa World Wind).
Concerning Virtual Earth: I will have a look at the way they store their tiles. - Mar 24 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
> Oxygen icons on the Navigation [...]
> more options ;)
Those things are on my Todo list already. So be patient, as I want to implement it the right way (tm ;-). Concerning the options: Yes, there will be the possibility to turn layers off. But I want to do it in a non-obtrusive way (as part of the legend actually) to provide good usability.
> Also, jpeg artifacts get pretty bad
Yes, this is the initial offline database. Satellite View and Night View are currently just provided as a proof of concept. The primary map is the topographic map.
Next on my TODO is however the capability to download further tiles.
So then the Satellite view should a much higher resolution (comparable to Nasa World Wind).
Concerning Virtual Earth: I will have a look at the way they store their tiles. - Mar 24 2007

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments

Education Apps by tackat 73 comments
http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/marble/kubuntu/marble_0.3-1.tar.gz
Or you can build directly from SVN: You need Qt 4.2, subversion ("svn") and cmake installed. Then do:
cd ~
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/marble
mkdir marble_build
cd marble_build
cmake -DQTONLY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ~/marble
make
sudo make install
and launch it via "marble" from the command line or from the menu.
Torsten Rahn - Mar 23 2007

System Software by zrusin 8 comments

Various Artwork by vettemph 5 comments
Tackat - Jan 18 2004

Various Artwork by Yaba 22 comments
Brilliant work :-)
Tackat - Jan 18 2004

Full Icon Themes by everaldo 385 comments
We are working on it :-)
And yes, I created some SuSE icons in that style already.
Enjoy,
Tackat - Aug 29 2002

Full Icon Themes by everaldo 385 comments
We are working on this problem.
Tackat - Aug 19 2002

Wallpaper Other by alois-kde 14 comments
> "i think the looks of KDE
> right after installation need
> to be impressive. first impression
It not only needs to be impressive but also usable. Your current proposal
looks indeed quite beautiful. Still there are some issues which I'd like to
see fixed.
The default wallpaper not only needs to look good - we usually want the user
to keep it as the wallpaper he uses all the time. The problem with your
wallpaper is that the contrast is to high.
You have some "black stripes" in it and some clean white parts. I would
suggest to choose dark blue for the border of the planes instead of black
and dimming down the white parts a bit.
The clouds in the background remind me of windows. You might want to fix
that if you want to avoid bitching.
Great work though. Did you do it completely yourself or did you use stuff
which was created by other people.
You might want to talk to ante about the license ... he's the kde-artwork
license man ;-)
> is what counts. it's time
> to choose some REALLY GOOD
Seems your caps-lock is broken ;-)
> say this because these wallapers
> were love at first sight.
Well, default_blue was love at first sight, too (that's the default
wallpaper right now) ...
It doesn't show any reallife objects (which makes it a pretty usable
wallpaper, it's small in terms of memory and it's still decent beautiful.
> icon set is tougher decision because i still have not seen a truly
COMPLETE
> icon set apart from the default.
Well, you don't only need to have a complete set you also need to have
people who continously take care of the iconset (that's one of the tougher
points - most people loose interest after 3 months or so ...).
Everaldo and me have been paid by Conectiva and SuSE to work on a vectorized
corporate version of the crystal iconset in the past few weeks/months. It
will be shipped with KDE 3.1 as the new default.
> oh, and window deco/ theme? LIQUID.
The default for 3.1 will be keramik. It's fast and original.
> what do you guys think?
> i feel like KDE is now very beautiful, but it's time to make it look
> impressive right out of the RPM.
You are right. And we have been working on this all the time until now.
If you want to contribute tell us what you want to take care of.
>
> Damian"
Weren't you the guy who created artwork for Mandrake? Do you like to work
with vector graphics and can you adapt other people's style?
Greetings,
Tackat
- Aug 14 2002

GTK1 Themes by miguelicaza 60 comments
No, he's just childish and clueless. According to one of our developers we'll have SVG-icons in KDE by the end of this week. That might be too late for KDE 3.0 but who cares anyways? SVG support is technically nice and might have quite some benefits in the longterm - but not for now. - Feb 12 2002

Icon Sub-Sets by JabberWokky 9 comments
Tackat - Feb 12 2002

Icon Sub-Sets by JabberWokky 4 comments
1.) rename your "action"-directories to "actions" ("actions" is what you specified in index.desktop - of course you could also just change "actions" to "action" in the index.desktop-file as an alternative solution)
2.) Replace Context=actions with
Context=Actions in your index.desktop-file. "Actions" is one of the Context your theme inherits from. Therefore the Context has to be named the same in your theme. Otherwise KDE won't be able to map the icons correctly
Tackat - Feb 12 2002

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments
We will only ship iconthemes with KDE 3.0 which don't have any known copyright-issues.
The default-icon-theme for KDE 3.0 will be "hicolor". Hopefully some of the icons from other iconsets will continue to replace/influence/improve those from "hicolor".
Greetings,
Tackat
KDE artist team - Jan 19 2002

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments
- Jan 18 2002