... to the Festival

Yes, we are going to leave for the 4. Linux and Free Software Festival (in Turkey) tomorrow at 17:00.

I've reviewed my slides for KDE Programming presentation, I'll also attend the Zemberek (Turkish NLP library) talk as the secondary speaker.

There will be presentations, panels, tournaments, an install fest, award ceremony for the last years best penguins and many more. And as KDE Turkey we are going to arrange a translation session for KDE in one of the 4 days.

In Turkish Linux Users Association the work is done in separate working groups (WG). Even though groups are separate they are in cooperation with each other and with the administrative board, mainly by the help of mailing list (and of course mobiles).

For the festival arrangements the hardest work is still being done in both Activities WG and Seminars WG. Kudos to each member of those groups :).

I'll have more things to write after the Festival...

Text on panel buttons

After taking Aaron's approval I commited the patch which I've mentioned before. As said before, currently only K menu button has the ability to show a text and it's disabled by default.

You'll need to modify your kickerrc to enable it. At least with adding something like this.

[KMenu]
ShowText=true

And here is what you can do with a suitable tile image :).



K menu button with a tile image with and Pardus icons.


I hope KDE artists can provide proper tile images which can get along with our logo.

KDE Turkey and Application of the Month

After the announcement of KDE Turkey in dot, Fabrice and Bram both made encouraging comments. It's very kind of them :).

They also mentioned about the Application of the Month and a Turkish translation of it. Other members of KDE Turkey also accepted the idea. And yes, after learning the regular process from Fabrice KDE Turkey will provide the Turkish "Application of the Month" (which will probably named as Ayın Uygulaması :).

KDE is fun

Just 3 days ago I got my svn account. As we are actively using subversion in our project I got used to it (infact I got addicted :). So It was no problem for me to work with subversion but working with a large code base like KDE's is challenging.

After waiting several hours to finish svn co and preparing my environment for the build, I was ready. I've prepared a little script for my build. But I do consider to switch to Michael Pyne's kdesvn-build.

Anyway I made my fist two commits. I'm very happy that we have solved a long waited Turkish locale bug. We have some more bugs for Turkic locales (tr_TR and tr_AZ) to be fixed. Unfortunately, we'll allways have due to the exceptional behaviour of Turkish :(.

I've also ported my Kmenu-button-text patch to PanelButton and used KShadowEngine instead of my own hack. Any panel button desiring to have a text can just call setButtonText(QString) (like I did in WindowListButton just for demonstration).



By default Kmenu's text is disabled.


More on the community part, we have published an anouncement about KDE Turkey. As can be seen from the writing I'll be presenting a KDE Programming talk in the 4. Linux and Free Software Festival in Turkey. I'm hoping to write more on the festival later.

Lorem Ipsum

So this is my second blog which I'll be using for expressing myself, but this time in English.

I've an other blog in Turkish which uses my home brew blog software Bosbogaz (in Turkish). Although I like the primitiveness of Bosbogaz and Bosbogaz GUI, I've decided to use blogger for a try.

That's all folks. Here we go!