


Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by echoes 9 comments
Anyways, this is not an idea that belongs to KDE-Apps.org - it's a plain feature request that would be better off on bugs.kde.org where the developer(s?) can find and track it more efficiently.
Please don't use KDE-Apps.org as a feature request system, because it's not supposed to be one. - Mar 31 2009

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by d3f3nd3r 5 comments
As a consequence, feature requests like this one should go into the issue tracker at bugs.kde.org, not here. If you post this on KDE-Apps, chances are good that
1. the developers don't get to see this at all, and even if they do,
2. a page like this is not suited to keep track of the status of this feature, so it will likely be forgotten by the devs.
Please contribute your idea using the standard facilities at bugs.kde.org so that it has the chance to make an actual impact. Thanks! - Apr 30 2008

Utilities by zzzzzz 7 comments
KDE should be grateful to have the world's brightest heads amongst its developers! - Apr 01 2008

Kopete Styles by jpetso 3 comments

Education Apps by danap 4 comments
If not, then this application is not suitable for kde-apps.org, and should be removed. (regardless of its quality, which may be just fine.) - Dec 08 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
All of the icons are developed with and available in SVG format, and afterwards transformed to PNG with Inkscape.
You're right, many of the icons don't perfectly scale down to 16x16, but using SVG obviously doesn't help in this case. We'd rather need specialized lo-res versions of the SVG files, but currently lack the infrastructure to incorporate different source files into the same icon set.
The reason that we're still distributing the icons as PNG is the lacking SVG icon engine of KDE 3. Anyways, I really need to provide a tarball with the SVG files here, otherwise many people won't notice that this is in fact a real SVG theme. - Oct 10 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
However, the forum has little to do with the rest of our home page. It seems the whole BerliOS site is down at the moment, which is baaad...
but I'm sure they'll work it out, like get some more equipment and stuff, and then you can download the theme like always, with the download links on this kde-look.org page or on the downloads page on the Lila site. - Apr 27 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
I really hope this is a transient error, because I have little knowledge about how the forum works and how to fix it in case it's broken :(
...rezza, 9-speed, where are you! - Apr 23 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
Adding icons is work in progress, I'll see what I can do for those you mentioned. - Apr 18 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
If you'd like to help create a green mod, please contact me by mail and I'll explain how to do it. (Creating a color mod is essentially just editing a text file containing the colors, the more difficult part is only getting the icons and the svgutils from the development repository to be able to generate the mod.) - Apr 18 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
Could you please check if the liladdiction script works now and if the signature verifies? I can't do the first anymore because I switched to Kubuntu and I'm not sure if I did signing the right way.
Thanks for your help, let's keep the ebuilds going! - Mar 13 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by oscarello 15 comments
Seriously, I can't understand the low score, this is a totally classy joke.
But do remember that KDE improvements are also listed on KDE-apps.org, which might not be what you want. - Jan 30 2006
> (in your opinion) the best way to
> get in touch with the project?
I'm not into the Solid project, but I had the opportunity to work on KDevelop4's Java support since September 05. I introduced myself over the mailing list and was lucky enough to be supported by Roberto Raggi and Adam Treat when I needed help or explanations.
IRC (#solid) is not a bad way too, if the respective people are online and get to see your request in bearable time ;-) Remember to prefix your IRC message with the name of the one that you want to talk to, so that his IRC client flashes ("jpetso: hello!").
If you want to be prepared well before approaching the developers, it's always a good idea to get the source code that you're interested in from KDE's anonymous SVN server and see what it looks like. That way, you can not only learn about the current code, but also see in which style new code (e.g. by you) should be written in.
> The problem is that I don't really
> know if I will be usefull as I'm a
> quite newbie (1,5 years old) Linux
> (Debian only) user and, of course,
> developpr. SWScanner is my first GUI
> application which I mainly developed
> in 3 months. I'm sure lots of lines
> of code could be improved by
> experts.
That's what I'm thinking all the time. In case you're not sure about your code, it's always a good idea to send the corresponding patches to the mailing list (one patch for one purpose, using svn diff) and let the more experienced developers comment on it. At least, that's what I do, and you will have to do one or two patches anyways before someone tells you to get a developer SVN account.
Also a good thing to do is checking out the documents at developer.kde.org, most notably http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/developer-faq.html . You're getting more confident over time, believe me.
For the Solid project itself, there is a general page about getting involved with it at http://solid.kde.org/cms/1086 and a wiki page with available tasks at http://solid.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Tasks . When you feel like it, just approach Kévin Ottens (the main Solid developer) by mailing list or over IRC (where he's named ervin) and ask him for guidance.
And remember: if some remarks sound cold, they mostly do so because the developers don't take too much time to polish their phrasings, and they almost never want to critisize you personally. Quite the opposite - even if KDE as a whole is doing well, there are only one or a few developers per project who make for success or failure of it. (Unless you got some real lucky project, like Amarok.) So there's definitely the need for anyone who wants to help out.
Good luck,
Jakob - Jan 17 2006
Kévin Ottens is doing a good job, but he really needs people like you who are experienced with (wireless) networks and contribute to the common device library, making it easy for any KDE application to gather and use the data that your application can already retrieve. - Jan 11 2006

Dolphin Service Menus by danboid 14 comments
Now if only someone would integrate
all these available tools into one tool for converting back and forth between DVDs/VCDs/AVIs, it would make the whole thing accessible for people who are not able or don't want to get 5 different pieces of software from kde-apps.
It won't be too long, I think... - Jan 05 2006

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by jpetso 5 comments
We really lack a Lila logo. Any other good ideas which icon to place there? - Dec 29 2005

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by Luck 4 comments

Video Apps by TOD 4 comments

Video Apps by meneerdik 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zvonSully 18 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zvonSully 18 comments

KDE 3.5 Themes by MaxAuthority 25 comments
...and before someone dares to ask: he is using the Ion3 window manager.
sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) - Oct 24 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zvonSully 18 comments
KDE is configurable because
1. no one thought of keeping it simple, or (in other cases)
2. the options are really necessary for a good user experience.
Every option that you're adding increases complexity, so you have to add options with care or you'll end up with software that you can't understand anymore because they're so complex. KDE is also about efficiency and a good workflow, so they are currently cleaning out unnecessary options.
It is a sign for good software if it rejects the proposals that don't bring a good usefullness vs. complexity ratio with them. As you can clearly see at the good/bad percentage, this one is such a feature, most people think similar as I do, and I love KDE for being consequent enough to not integrate every possible feature that you could think of. - Oct 23 2005
So, you may have the best thought out systems, archives and all, but in practice it's all the same because any combination of numbers has exactly the same probability as any other one... - Oct 19 2005
Lila does not need to have effects applied to them which make the icons monochrome, because they can natively be converted into such, which would be a color mod. This is possible for SVG files and being worked on. (at least, to some degree. I know the color mods for lila-gnome are slightly outdated, but there is a white color mod, which only has to be a little more refined to make everything just black and white.)
I guess if you've got the shapes from inside too, like it is in the color mod, then you don't need an extra conversion doing it wrong by just looking at transparency. - Sep 29 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by goldenboy 3 comments
Thanks for pointing it out, maybe I can use it. - Jun 10 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by goldenboy 3 comments

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by kerokid 4 comments
Anyways, you're not doing any good to the community with this. - Jun 08 2005

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by kerokid 4 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by jpetso 31 comments
> the ones that come up for me when switching to your
> icon set look like the ones from another popular icons-set.
Maybe the other popular icon set is Crystal, which is the fallback from KDE? ;-) Anyways, the USB device icons will definitely look different once we have any USB device icons at all - until the, you'll see standard KDE icons anywhere where our theme lacks them. - Apr 28 2005