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ra1n

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Hi, I am ra1n and I create Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements, Icon Sub-Sets and Various Stuff.

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K-Umts 1.1

Various KDE Stuff by Divilinux 6 comments

Note that you could also use the apn (web.omnitel.it in our case)instead of #99**1 in the number form

For phone connectivity you could have a look at kmobiletools (wich main developer it's also italian) and at the kdebluetooth module (don't know how to deal with irda) - Jan 17 2007
logout dialog theme support and config tool

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

also ksplash it's not themeable, or better it's not fully themeable, the default splash screen uses a static set of icons instead of using system's actual set, I think that this should be changed
I know that there are different ones, but the default it's slightly broken in this aspect - Mar 31 2006
Kontact improvements & integration ideas

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by skadge 22 comments

maybe the example it's too crowded, but I agree that there is the need of a more thight integration between kde apps, something like apple does with their iApps, they blend very nice together - Feb 01 2006
Tango

Full Icon Themes by nmirthes 80 comments

this is the future, newer versions of kde should natively support this naming scheme, but for the actual kde you have to patch in order to fully use the theme - Jan 18 2006
Mp3 Player Icons

Icon Sub-Sets by impat81 5 comments

I've never been able to use custom icons for devices, I've got a similar player, but with a SD reader included, if I plug it I see the same thumbdrive icon both for the player and the SD card, the same happens for my multicard reader, how I can change this? I'm using ubuntu 5.10 breezy with kde 3.4.3 - Dec 30 2005
Tango

Full Icon Themes by nmirthes 80 comments

I don't think that they've changed it, but I'm not sure, but I think that Tango, alongside with Oxygen, represent a big Milestone for Linux (and BSD too) Desktop, no matter what gets release first (I like them both) because finally we could get a single Icon Theme for both the major DE (and maybe Xfce too) and that is a huge leap forward in desktop usability - Dec 17 2005
Tango

Full Icon Themes by nmirthes 80 comments

This page describes the proposed standardisation of icon names to use when creating icon themes for desktops and applications which implement the freedesktop.org Icon Naming Specification. This proposed Icon Naming Specification compliments the existing freedesktop.org Icon Theme Specification.

I don't see any hijack attempt here, they say that they implement the freedesktop.org specification (mentioned 2 times in the paragraph) isn't this enough? - Dec 17 2005
Tango

Full Icon Themes by nmirthes 80 comments

There a great misunderstanding about the Tango project
First, their project is an icon set, not conquering the world
Second their naming scheme IS THE STANDARD, the same standard that the oxygen project follows, and that is produced by freedesktop.org
http://tango-project.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-0.4.html
I think that people should read a little more, and stop attacking the gnome or the kde project, this is simply silly! - Dec 15 2005
IDEA: Alt-Tab Task and Desktop Switcher

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by atomicsmith 23 comments

I think it's good
You didn't stole anything, because Apple already took this thing from windows
And about multiple desktop, well, I don't think that a sane user uses more than 4 or 6 desktops, and not all the time, so hiding empty desktops and making a good use of zooming should do the trick :-D
It's a great idea - Dec 02 2005
Kstripe Konqueror Tiles

Various Stuff by djnoname28 2 comments

What is the nice font seen in the screenshot, and where I can find it? - Nov 09 2005
soundKonverter

Audio Extractors/Converters by HessiJames 608 comments

here it is:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/519271.html?thread=7758951 - Oct 02 2005
klik

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by probono 40 comments

I agree cmg are good for redistributing apps, but the current implementation of mounting them in loopback into /tmp it's a little mess, on the other side AppDirs are million times polished and easier to use, if you tried ROX at least one time you know what I mean, I don't understand why there is the need to reinvent the wheel.... - Oct 01 2005
klik

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by probono 40 comments

also this thing it's already supported from rox so it's only a matter of giving AppDir support to KDE and Gnome (and maybe XFCE) to have a fairly decent package manager that it's distribution indipendent at least for binary packages (mostly for commercial apps, like skype that distributes an actually broken debian package) - Sep 30 2005
klik

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by probono 40 comments

I think that the idea is good, but it has a wrong target, it mounts and manages cmg file while it should give users the ability to manipulate AppDirs directly like MacOSX and ROX instead of mounting the cmg file and running the app from there
the cmg file it's good to distribute the app though - Sep 30 2005
soundKonverter

Audio Extractors/Converters by HessiJames 608 comments

Probably it's silly, but please add support for the amr format so I can encode mp3 ringtones in amr and save space on my phone :-D - Sep 25 2005
mySengOOo Icon Pack

Icon Sub-Sets by laiseng 3 comments

Don't like the syle, but the idea of using different colors it's very nice - Aug 03 2005
KMenu launcher mod

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by lxnay 29 comments

I know the probably it's a problem patching kdebase, but I think that this is a nice addiction to the standard kmenu, that can work well within kde 3, I think that should be included in the main tree.
Then for kde let's hope to see plasma in action :-D - Jul 20 2005
Crystal Clear

Full Icon Themes by everaldo 199 comments

The theme it's great, but please make any other color folder by default, silver/gray folders are unreadable, the get counfused with background and many mimetype icons, please use any other colour, if you don't want to abuse with blue folders (that are nice btw) but make them distinguable from other things - Jul 18 2005
QFaxReader

Graphic Apps by aserghei 10 comments

about this, any plan to port it to the windows world?
and for kde integration, i partly agree with you, now this program works without problems on other DE, and probably other platforms too, maybe there could be a fork, with a common codebase, but that operates in different envrionments,the standalone Qt version, and maybe a kpdf generator, as suggested above.
just my 2¢ - Jul 08 2005
FairytaleWorld Icons Themes

Icon Sub-Sets by chunxiayu 43 comments

only one thing, i see that a lot of icons are very windows-related, like the firewall icon, and the media mimes, maybe could be cool if the windows graphics remains only on windows formats (like wma and wmv) and not on the rest (mpg, wav, etc)
The same for media apps like kaffeine... - Jun 27 2005
KDE icons in Plastikfox / Plastikthunder

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by djworld 4 comments

I use gtk-qt, can this thing work with it or it's absolutely necessary a mozillinux theme? - Jun 16 2005
KDesktop Menu

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rfujimoto 115 comments

in this case,me too... I tried some time ago to make the same thing, but I wasn't able to create a menubar entry with both icon and text - May 31 2005
This Spring on Kubuntu 0.2

KDM3 Themes by vanaedium 7 comments

the wallpaper of microsoft royale theme - May 24 2005
KDesktop Menu

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rfujimoto 115 comments

ok, but running a program seems an action to me :-D if I'm not wrong even the gnome applet places run in actions menu, also you placed it at bottom of the menu, difficult to reach (probably is faster to do Alt+F2 than getting to the menu entry, you should place it on top)
Well apart from system:/ and network:/ (that you rearranged very well in Desktop menu) the other kmenu actions seems placed quite well where they are now.

For the trash I partly agree with you, it should be configurable, and have two submenus, open and empty, so you can empty it directly from the desktop menu, but this means modify the code of the kio - Apr 05 2005
KDesktop Menu

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rfujimoto 115 comments

cool, also run command should go in actions menu, and not in applications,continuing with the actions thing, probably, the black sheep is system:/ that includes something you placed part in desktop and part in actions. You could also add the show desktop entry in the desktop menu, and one for trash:// too - Apr 04 2005
KDesktop Menu

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rfujimoto 115 comments

The action submenu in kicker it's dynamic, you could add more entries, like search, terminals, printers, yours instead seems to be fixed (I've added terminal sessions and it doesn't show in your actions menu) you could try to get advantage of this behaviour (that also could make your applet more consistent with the rest of the DE) you can modify the action sub menu by going in "configure panel) and in the menu tab
for the rest, your work is very good :-D - Apr 04 2005
KDesktop Menu

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rfujimoto 115 comments

but I think that the kmenu icon should be removed, or made part of the application entry (like in the gnome applet) but I don't know if it's possible - Apr 04 2005
ShadowFade at logout for KDE 3.4

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by ra1n 3 comments

This is why I placed that disclaimer, I tried it myself and works smoothly, but I cannot guarantee that this will work everywhere, probably this applies to the original code too - Apr 01 2005
kxPlayer

Audio Apps by andrej 6 comments

eheh good, btw I've got another problem when compiling your app, it's the same error that another player gave me, it's related to the cd player part:
n file included from /usr/include/linux/cdrom.h:14,
from loader.cpp:25:
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:28: error: syntax error before `(' token
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:32: error: '__u64' is used as a type, but is not
defined as a type.
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:33: error: parse error before `}' token
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:34: error: syntax error before `.' token
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:40: error: syntax error before `.' token
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:41: error: syntax error before `.' token
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:42: error: parse error before `:' token
In file included from /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:11,
from /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:57,
from /usr/include/linux/cdrom.h:14,
from loader.cpp:25:
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:160: error: syntax error before `(' token
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:170: error: syntax error before `(' token
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:174: error: `__u64' was not declared in
this scope
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:174: error: `addr' was not declared in this
scope
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:175: error: variable or field `__swab64s'
declared void
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:175: error: `__swab64s' declared as an
`inline' variable
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:175: error: syntax error before `{' token
make[2]: *** [loader.o] Error 1

It is a problem of 2.6 kernel? I use 2.6.7 packaged by slackware 10.0 - Mar 06 2005
kxPlayer

Audio Apps by andrej 6 comments

Well even amarok it's building up on itself, adding features on features, instead of fixing a little bit the usability of the application, noatun it's a big mess! this app seems good, but IMHO you should add gstreamer as backend since it will become a standard part of future desktops, and keep it simple like is now, a bit polish to the user interface and we have a simple audio player for kde - Mar 05 2005
BalloonFileTip patch

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by mabs 10 comments

also have a look at this:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=21453
you could combine thos ideas in your patch (the actual tooltips are too large IMHO, this is a more compact look) - Mar 05 2005
BalloonFileTip patch

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by mabs 10 comments

Do you know if this will work on 3.3? it seems good and I want to include that on my kde for slackware - Mar 05 2005
dotCURVE

KDE 3.5 Themes by peroxid 56 comments

I like the general roundness :-) of the theme, menus, textboxes, icon areas, etc etc, the theme is amazing fast, but I'll prefer a more polished and good looking one (my actual default style is lipstik) so those features with a little more of eye-candy could make a great theme - Feb 13 2005
ShadowFade at logout

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by tobydox 44 comments

I'll insert it in my kde for slackware (released when I'll find some hosting space :-/) it will replace your precedent patch

PS

if you could code some kcm module to select the logout effect(the xp-ish one is cool too) would be awesome - Feb 10 2005
Passive windows

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by chuliomartinez 9 comments

another nice addiction (I forgot) also would be grouping of copy/move operations like beos. - Feb 08 2005
Passive windows

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by chuliomartinez 9 comments

ing :-P
A single place where notifications could be aggregated, even in background, if properly configurated it could be a cool addiction to KDE. - Feb 08 2005
KCheckGmail

Email by nascent 181 comments

if you don't use the wallet, with the plain file method the pass gets truncated to 3 chars and it isn't recognized correctly, using wallet works fine.

Ps I'm on 3.4b1 - Jan 26 2005
Firefox and Thunderbird Icons

Icon Sub-Sets by jizzbiscuit 5 comments

Yeah the original is much better than this - Jan 23 2005
Kmenu-Improved

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by roachofdiscord 35 comments

Ugly, it's the first thing that I change when I install windows for someone, so K menu needs some tweaking, but it's good, it don't need to be replaced by a unusable thing like the windows menu - Jan 22 2005
Convert WMA to MP3-OGG

Dolphin Service Menus by zast 34 comments

Servicemenu WMA to MP3:

X-KDE-Submenu[it]=Converti WMA
Name[en]=WMA in MP3


Servicemenu WMA to OGG:

X-KDE-Submenu[it]=Converti WMA
Name[en]=WMA in OGG - Jan 18 2005
Lipstik

KDE 3.5 Themes by PaT 347 comments

If you choose the windows style scrollbar you can resolve an oddity with the gtk scrollbar (the gtk scrollbar is like windows one, with one button up and one down, the kde one instead got one button up and two buttons down, the result with gtk-qt is that the bar itsel scrolls over the bottom up button, lipstik with windows style scrollbar resolves this issue :-D) - Dec 17 2004
load-plugins

System Software by Brahmaputr 7 comments

Those applets are very useful, the only issue I've found is that they are unusable on a small kicker like mine, you should make it appear on a single line if placed on a small toolbar - Dec 02 2004
load-plugins

System Software by Brahmaputr 7 comments

I can't download it, it redirects me on net.net :-? - Dec 01 2004
Kopete Visual

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by gr3gg 60 comments

I didn't know about that because I don't use tabs, but an icon provides a more powerful feedback (have a look at gaim) - Nov 11 2004
Kopete Visual

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by gr3gg 60 comments

I didn't found a better title, kopete chat window also lacks a very useful thing, an icon that shows when other people is writing (like in gaim) by now there is only text on the bottom status bar, that you hardly notice, It's a very little thing, but very useful IMHO - Nov 11 2004
Konqueror GUI Ideas

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by PaT 12 comments

I think that the sidebar,while looking good, occupies too much space, the sidebar could be better if has some integration with kparts, for example the one you called file management(similar to what I've done in mine) that appears only with file manager, and a different one (and other related) when the web browser, or image viewer, or pdf viewer is loaded - Oct 17 2004
Improving KDE

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by andrunko 313 comments

what about rounded selections also in treeview? in the second screenshot I see that those are still squared - Oct 15 2004
IPC stands for InterProcess Communication, and DCOP it's an IPC implementation (gnome uses corba) I don't think to port mozilla to KDE/Qt, it's a waste of time, but I want to use it as default browser, to open an external link from thunderbird or kmail into firefox, something that in windows is possible, but not under any DE in linux - Sep 07 2004
What is really needed is a good IPC if mozilla supported DCOP this won't have been necessary, a strong standard IPC protocol is needed - Sep 07 2004
Idea: Re-designing 'Recent Files' / URBs

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

It's good, but I also have a couple of ideas:

1. implementing recent as a kicker applet or button, which pressed opens a simple window that shows icons (with metadata tooltips) and a search bar or a filter.

2. implementing recent as a KIO slave recent:/ and use the konqueror's search and filter capabilities.
Making the Kmenu able to embed kio's (it's difficult to write, I mean being able to browse a kioslave, for example smb:/, within the menu) it's possible to create a recent entry like yours, what do you think? - Aug 06 2004