Počas minulého týždňa sa viac ako 130 z vás zapojilo do súťaže o výber mena pre nášho chameleóna v pražskej ZOO. Obdržali sme viac ako 150 skvelých nápadov a naša skalná komunita, ktorá sa zdržuje na IRC kanáli #susecz mala čo robiť, aby z nich vybrala najlepší. Medzi návrhmi sa objavili rôzne pôvabné mená ako Bugísek, Susík či Zmizík, ale nakoniec zvíťazil Jastík. Z pekných cien odfotených na obrázku nižšie sa môžu radovať Petr Dvořák zo Studenej a Jan Hora z Prahy.
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Pred pár dňami sa pražská pobočka SUSE Linux, s.r.o. stala adoptívnym rodičom Chameleóna obrovského (Furcifer oustaleti) v ZOO Praha. Ako každý vzorný rodič musíme nášmu potomkovi vybrať meno (a anglické Geeko sa mu predsa nehodí). Keďže je openSUSE komunitný projekt, nenechávame si túto radosť iba pre seba a chceme Vás poprosiť o pomoc pri výbere. Vaše nápady nám píšte do konca tohto týždňa (23.8.2009 23:59). Najlepší z nich odmeníme zaujímavou cenou!
Na záver ešte prikladám certifikát a dve fotografie nášho krásavca:
A few days ago the Prague SUSE office became the adoptive parent of the giant chameleon (Furcifer oustaleti) in the Prague ZOO. You can see the adoption certificate and two photographs of our beauty above.
From time to time I use Mac OS X and I really like the application management with its dock. I came across several different implementations for KDE 4, but they were usually too immature and not very pretty. I was very surprised when I finally found a decent implementation called Daisy. I immediately dropped the default KDE taskbar and started to use Daisy in conjunction with desktop effects “Box Switch” and “Present Windows” a.k.a Exposé. You can look at my setup here (only bottom 64 pixels are shown, the rest is usually occupied with maximized application):
Daisy detects running instances of applications by Window Class, so it doesn’t try to start another instance, it rather activates the already running one. The experience is very similar to the Mac OS X one, but still, there are three problems:
- I still have to use the panel for Battery Monitor and Device Notifier widgets
- Daisy could act as a host for other widgets and show them as icons
- Applications started manually (e.g. with KRunner) do not appear in the dock
- Daisy could act as a taskbar and show icons of all running windows
- Applications like instant messengers or IRC clients use tray for notifications
- Daisy could act as a tray and replace the launcher icon with the one added to tray by application after its start (so it will flash in the dock)
Once these three points are met, Daisy will become a complete counterpart of Mac OS X dock. I’ve already written these suggestions to Lechio (upstream developer), but I’m not sure if this is the direction he wants to go and whether it is possible to do without any extra hacks at the KDE/Plasma side. (I’m sure that Lechio will accept any help 
) Anyway, have a look at the project page, KDE-Look page or try the plasmoid from the Build Service. The package is called plasmoid-daisy and is present in KDE:KDE4:Community project.
Today I stumbled upon blogpost by Andreas Gohr called identi.ca Mosaic. He took 30.000 avatars of identi.ca users and created a mosaic from them using the metapixel software. What a great idea! How about doing something similar for openSUSE folks?
We hadn’t metapixel packaged in openSUSE, so I created the package in Contrib repository. Then I started collecting the avatars of openSUSE users. I searched both twitter and identi.ca for messages containing “opensuse” and added the authors’ avatars to the pool. Identi.ca also has groups, so all members of openSUSE group ended there as well. Facebook contains both openSUSE group and openSUSE page so I grabbed all avatars I found there too. At the end I was able to collect 3760 avatars of people using or interested in openSUSE!
I started experimenting with metapixel, but because I still had 10 times less images available than Andreas, I was not able to produce very good results. Fortunately, I discovered -c option, which tries to create a collage instead of a mosaic, which looks much better. (Mosaic has photos arranged in a rectangular grid, while collage does not.) After some fiddling I was able to create the following pictures. I hope you like them! (use right click and “Save as” when downloading hi-res images)
If you’d like to play with the parameters I give you the tarballed avatars (6 MiB), original images (1 MiB) and the command lines I used to produce the image:
tar xfj opensuse-users.tar.bz2
tar xfj collage-sources.tar.bz2
mkdir ./opensuse-users-ready
metapixel-prepare --width=48 --height=48 ./opensuse-users ./opensuse-users-ready
metapixel -c -l ./opensuse-users-ready -w 48 -h 48 -m wavelet -d 500 -e global --metapixel opensuse-logo-6000.png opensuse-users-collage.png
metapixel -c -l ./opensuse-users-ready -w 48 -h 48 -m wavelet -d 300 -e global --metapixel chameleon.jpg opensuse-users-collage-2.png
Enjoy! (Don’t forget to install metapixel package from Contrib.)
Update: Lubomir Rintel tried to do a similar collage for Fedora users, check his version.
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