{"id":605,"date":"2008-08-20T23:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/BlaBla\/Akademy,_810_and_stuffs"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:21:02","slug":"akademy_810_and_stuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/akademy_810_and_stuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Akademy, 810 and stuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>came back from akademy saturday by plane together with Ruphy, WindowsUninstall and Andjam, all gone smooth, unlike other people, sorry guys \ud83d\ude41 apart from the fact i now have a spectacular cold (probably weather nicer than the belgian one was a too big shock :))<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t know what to say about it in particular, apart that KDE people are really amazing, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsvm.org\/2008\/08\/15\/akademy-2008-public-kisses-and-flowers\/\">those<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/commonideas.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/akademy-2008-team.html\">people<\/a> have done a really crazy job, there was a sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/home.kde.org\/~binner\/Akademy2008\/cimg2350.jpg\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/blog\/uploads\/plottingworlddomination.jpg\">domination<\/a> really fantastic, it makes feel that is actually possible (hmm, maybe not world domination, but at least market domination yeah:).<\/p>\n<p>Now at home, have a couple of patches still in the laptop that should really be polished\/committed or mercilessy thrown away (\/me laaazy)<\/p>\n<p>Most important i should really do my thesis, and i&#8217;m trying really hard to do it (now i&#8217;m in the phase of making old terrible code to look good ohyeah, funny as eating a bunch of nails:)<\/p>\n<p><p>But really nicer things pops up, like uhm&#8230; installing KDE4 on the new shiny n810 (Sorry for everybody else, but i&#8217;m reeally happy it did come with an Italian type L power plug eheheh) \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>These are some reeeally empirical advices i&#8217;ve got, btw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdedevelopers.org\/node\/3605\">Mek&#8217;s guide<\/a> should be mostly enough:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space on main device storage it&#8217;s negligible, just compile with a prefix under \/media\/mmc1 or \/media\/mmc2, maybe even qt<\/li>\n<li>If you like me are a bit autolesionist, installing on vfat does work, just copy dereferencing the links with cp -R -L, would eat way more disk space but yay, works!<\/li>\n<li>internal or external memory cards are mounted with noexec flag by default, so before starting it go into root (r&#038;d mode must be enabled) unmount and mount them again<\/li>\n<li>Installing dependencies and compiling qt+kde under scratchbox eats an humongous quantity of disk space, be prepared to sacrify around 10+ gigs of hard drive space \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>as Mek said if you got a compilation problem good odds that is qdbuscpp2xml (qt bug?), so delete the 0 bytes generated xml file, make with VERBOSE=1 to see the exact command and generate that file again with the system&#8217;s qdbuscpp2xml <em>outside<\/em> scratchbox<\/li>\n<li>maybe it&#8217;s just here, but sometimes seems to really hate make -jsomething, even if you have a garzillion of cores better you forget it when you compile kdelibs under scratchbox<\/li>\n<li>most of dependencies can be downloaded with apt, except <a href=\"http:\/\/freedesktop.org\/wiki\/Software\/shared-mime-info\">shared-mime-info<\/a> that the provided one is freakin&#8217; ancient, oh and boost (ouch!) if you want kdepimlibs, but till didn&#8217;t managed to get pimlibs compile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Random impressions:<\/p>\n<p>Very nice device, love its openess (well at least of the software) and hackability, it&#8217;s nearly not marketed at all and way too expensive, otherwise would sell many times it sells(or rather not sell) now<\/p>\n<p>Little roadblock between us and world conquering: QGraphicsProxyWidgets seems to not accept some keyboard input: letters don&#8217;t work, enter and control shortcuts work, it&#8217;s in this way i managed to post from twitter applet (qt or hildon input methods bug?)<\/p>\n<p>Oxygen widgets on one hand looks really nice due to the really high number of dpi, on the other hand gradients looks way crippled by the 16bit color depth<\/p>\n<p>Overall is slow but not so much, some applications react to the tiny screen size better than one would imagine, plasmoids are in general behaving well, apart the input problem, \/me thinks having a plasma interface designed for this type of beasts won&#8217;t be too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>came back from akademy saturday by plane together with Ruphy, WindowsUninstall and Andjam, all gone smooth, unlike other people, sorry guys \ud83d\ude41 apart from the fact i now have a spectacular cold (probably weather nicer than the belgian one was a too big shock :)) don&#8217;t know what to say about it in particular, apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,10,21,97,98,7],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blabla","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-linux","tag-n810","tag-nokia","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}