Podcast Season 1 Episode 7

Suggestion for next podcast/article/magazine/whatever

Muzer (not verified) - April 29, 2009 @ 6:16pm

You may have remember I twitter'd you asking for help about google gadgets? Well, I figured it out myself, so I thought I would share it. You can put it wherever you want.

Here is how to get

This tutorial is based on a tutorial by Francesco Santini ( http://www.francescosantini.com/files/ggadgets/google_gadgets_plasmoids_jaunty.txt ).

Install the dependancies (I have a soft spot for aptitude, you should be able to replcace it with apt-get)
sudo aptitude install google-gadgets-qt firefox libggadget-qt-1.0-dev libggadget-1.0-dev

(yes, it does need the horrible bloat of a browser that is firefox, unfortunately, if only for the rendering engine)

INSTALLING FROM A PACKAGE
If you don't want to compile it from source, you can compile it from a package. I have not tried this (even though I did make the package for amd64), so I have no idea how well it works. (FYI, the person who wrote the original tutorial made the i386 package).
Follow the instructions for your processor.
i386 (32-bit processors)
~$ mkdir ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~$ cd ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ wget http://www.francescosantini.com/files/ggadgets/fs-kdebase-workspace-googlegadgets_0.10.5.3_i386.deb
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ sudo dpkg -i fs-kdebase-workspace-googlegadgets_0.10.5.3_i386.deb
Then reboot (I experienced problems when I didn't)

amd64 (64-bit processors - including Intel ones)
I've given the .DEB for amd64 that I made to the maintainer of the site with the tutorial and other package on, but he's not at home at the moment, so I've hosted it for now (it'll probably stay up forever :p)

~$ mkdir ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~$ cd ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ wget http://hbcapps.com/miight/crap/dump/fileYDKkfN.10.5.3_amd64.deb
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ sudo dpkg -i fileYDKkfN.10.5.3_amd64.deb
Then reboot (I experienced problems when I didn't)

Compiling from source

If for whatever reason you don't want to use the .deb, you can compile from source.
~$ mkdir ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~$ cd ~/google_gadgets_in_plasma
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ sudo apt-get build-dep kdebase-workspace
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ apt-get source kdebase-workspace
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma$ cd kdebase-workspace-4.2.2
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2$ cmake .
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2$ cd plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets$ make

Now, preferably with KDE stopped (see below), copy the following files:

~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets$ sudo cp ../../../lib/plasma_package_ggl.so /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_package_ggl.so
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets$ sudo cp ../../../lib/plasma_scriptengine_ggl.so /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_scriptengine_ggl.so
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets$ sudo cp plasma-packagestructure-googlegadgets.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-packagestructure-googlegadgets.desktop
~/google_gadgets_in_plasma/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/plasma/scriptengines/google_gadgets$ sudo cp plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets.desktop

Stopping KDE:
Save all unsaved work. You don't need to close apps, but it could cause data corruption if you don't (as with any crash-like experience)
Press Ctrl + Alt + F1 to switch to a terminal-only session. Log in as normal.
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

Then you can change back into the directory you were working in before, and carry on. When finished, reboot your computer with:

~$ sudo reboot now

I hope you find this useful/interesting!

And why can't they just put that .deb in the repos? It would make things so much easier!

The next Ubuntu?

Rhakios - April 29, 2009 @ 8:15pm

Well, if we follow the name scheme as they are doing, it must begin with a K. That doesn't leave a lot of animals.
Kinky Kangaroo, might be somewhat obvious.
Kleptomaniac Kea. The Kea being a New Zealand parrot, when I first read about this parrot, it mentioned that they occasionally engaged in carrion eating, feasting on the corpses of dead sheep (of which there is apparently no shortage in New Zealand), which lead me to the bizarre mental image of a parrot saying, "Polly wants a sheep!"
Kaput Kakapo if it turns out to be not too good, probably would have been a good name for a KDE4.x Kubuntu release.
Keen Kestrel might not have been a bad name actually, but nowhere near whimsical enough for the Ubuntistas.

None of which is particualrly funny, but I had an odd few minutes to spare. Hmm lots of things worthy of mischief on the dictionary. I'll leave them for someone who wants some magazines. :)

Video Transcoder

BaldFat (not verified) - April 30, 2009 @ 3:38am

I want Arista Transcoder in a KDE/Qt kind of way :) I want it to be like Perl Audio Converter with built in support in Dolphin and Konquer!

BaldFat

mp3 and ogg

Paul S (not verified) - April 30, 2009 @ 12:37pm

Why cripple the mp3 file by using CBR? Ogg is using VBR. Any chance of VBR V2 in the future (just use lame with the "-V 2" parameter)?

Note to self...

statto (not verified) - April 30, 2009 @ 2:05pm

Listen to podcast before posting in the comments section.

Alternative naming suggestions:
Kranky Komodo
Kooky Kouprey
Kool Kodiac
Katastrophic Kraken

Name for the next Ubuntu

Ancient rustic (not verified) - April 30, 2009 @ 7:07pm

How about (with a nod to KDE and Gnome) "Komic Knomenclature"?

Klu Klux Krill

mags (not verified) - May 1, 2009 @ 9:35pm

How about

dazfuller - May 3, 2009 @ 6:45pm

kahlua Kinkajou

And yes they are real words

I wouldn't mind running a

Lurgee - May 5, 2009 @ 8:47am

I wouldn't mind running a fresh version of Krunchy Kockroach on my computer. This naming scheme, of course, would only work on the Kubuntu edition.

A man can dream...

I love the podcast

bgryderclock (not verified) - May 9, 2009 @ 3:46pm

Grown British men who scream about Python documentation make me smile. Keep it up and release them weekly, please!

http://bgryderclock.blogspot.com

Python

Pykler (not verified) - October 13, 2009 @ 3:51pm

You don't need switch in python. If you really need to use switch like experience you can do the following:

C ::

<code>
switch(a){
case 1:
do_somin(); break;
case 2:
do_somin_else(); break;
</code>

Python:

<pre lang=python>
{
1: lambda : do_somin(),
2: lambda : do_somin_else(),
}[a]()
</pre>

PS. Why isn't there code support :(