Okay, this stream died halfway through it, and honestly I don't understand why this happens. It's so annoying, but it just happens. I don't know. It feels like this technology is so unreliable. Anyway, I was doing this live stream, then it died, I created a new one, this one shouldn't exist, actually. Can we get rid of it entirely? Die, please. Yes, gone. Boom. Okay, so I'll give you a second, hopefully for everyone who was in the old stream to connect to the new one. Hopefully. If you just arrived, please say hi in the chat. You there. Okay, nice. Just give me a couple of seconds. That was true. That was true. Okay, let's try again. So don't you be annoyed by finding an extension to move around? Don't you are annoyed by finding an extension? No, I mean I'm not. I don't quite understand the question. Extensions are a cool way to customize GNOME, and I just have to Google from them, and they're pretty easy to find. So honestly, I don't have an issue in that regard. It just works. I have no complaints whatsoever. Okay, next one. Yes, the Toshag, how is that even pronounced? It's not being forked or integrated inside of KD. Nope, KD is developing its own just for implementation, so it's like its own thing. It's not setting just source in KD, but it's not Toshag or that kind of stuff. Honestly, I don't have an issue with GNOME. The default GNOME, I think, is reasonable. I have no complaints about the default GNOME, and even the extensions that I use. Okay, maybe some of them I would like integrated. But honestly, just one. Maybe the blur one, because it's pretty, but I can understand not implementing that. But the only one that really needs to be inside of GNOME is being able to select the audio input and output directly from the C-Centry. Except that it's fine, really. I don't have any complaints whatsoever. Does Plasma have a layout switch applet, which is not just an icon? Layout switch applet? I mean, you can use config saver, I guess. But you can use config saver. It's an applet that allows you to switch between layouts too, but slightly confused. Not being able to move C-Centry icons. Ah, you mean you want to move C-Centry icons? Yes, sorry, that's not possible. It's not implemented, sadly. Is there any bug report about KDE changing the wallpaper to the default one after an update? This is going to come as a shock, but I don't know all of the bugs by heart, actually. Update is what you do when you're wondering if there's any bug. No, I don't see any such bug. You can create one. Is there a way to make the review in Plasma more like GNOME? I mean, if you want to try changing... You have to change the code, basically. And if you do try sending a merge request, but not through a UI for users, you have to be a developer with no habit of QML to be able to do this kind of stuff. I don't quite follow multi-monitor closely, but as far as I know, there was some talk about a mirror panel feature, but I don't think it got implemented. So, not as far as I know. No. Hello, everyone. Ah, keyboard switch layout. Keyboard switch layout. Then nope. As far as I know, the only applet is the icon one. However, you can see if there's some third-party one by searching for keyboard layout in the KD store. If you don't find anything, then sorry, that's just not there. Do you know PsyPsyPsyPsyDotos? PsyPsyDotos. Yeah, the LatteDoc developer, right? Yeah, I've talked to him.   Basically, all by himself for quite some releases. That's very proficient. About the overview, I mean, the new one, I would like to change the new one. Like, I would like to put some time and add 14 to designing the new overview so that it's a bit closer to GNOME. And I feel like it would make sense. I do have, if you go see my Twitter, some mock-ups about this. But if I add the time, if I add the time, where is this? Here. These are my mock-ups. This one, this one, and this one. But I mean, you know, should KD work on a new icon set? There is a lot of work for a new set of icons for some icons. Keep in mind that doing a new icon set for all icons is impossible. Like, there are thousands and thousands of icons. You can't just do a new set of them like that. That's not going to happen. However, for some icons, it's possible to improve them. And there are new sets of icons, like icons getting replaced with new ones. So, yeah, I think it's either 5.25 or 5.26 will have some new icons. All the present windows is probably going away slowly after the new overview. Probably. I mean, technically speaking, the new overview is not meant to replace present windows. But practically speaking, I sure hope it does. Like, come on, do we really want to have like three different effects? Like the present windows, the desktop and overview? That doesn't make any sense at all. Just woke up. Okay, so ask something. Come on. Not enough comments. In the last stream there was a question about VR. I actually answered to it, but I think it got lost. There's a KD. You can actually run KD in VR. You have to use this XR desktop thing. I don't know how it works, because I never managed to try it. My brother does have a VR headset, but never quite managed to. But yeah, technically speaking, you can run KD Plasma in VR. Have someone think about making an option that when you open an app that's pinned in the taskbar, it opens the app in that position and not in a different one? I guess we don't guarantee. I mean, technically speaking, that should work. If you open an application, it shouldn't change place. Is that what you mean? That you click an application and its icon shouldn't go to the right? That should be guaranteed, I think. Epiphany versus Conqueror is that. If you want to make a comparison at least, try Falcon, not Conqueror. And even then, Falcon is not really actively developed. The KD doesn't have quite a live browser, I think. Just use Firefox or whatever. I don't think it would be two types of overview. I think it would be just one with different zoom.  So it would be something similar, I guess. I haven't quite followed the JDK for Libert White thing by choice because honestly, I was like, I'm a KD developer. Why should I, it seems exhausting to follow all of the opinions and stuff. I didn't quite want to. I wouldn't be so easy to judge GNOME developers. They do have a clear idea of what their desktop should be like. And that's what GNOME is meant to be. GNOME is not meant to be super customizable and everything. And if GNOME wants a thing that's only that thing and it's not customizable, and I'm not even sure that's their take on it, but still nonetheless, if that was the case, it could still make sense given what GNOME is. Personally, I prefer giving the option of customizing stuff. That's personally my take, and I prefer KD Plasma for that, but you know, each project has its own philosophy. WideWave and Next Drive Firefox in the text manager. That's actually a good question. That's probably a bug. Let's just get rid of this Firefox. You see that there must be some kind of bug with Firefox. Let's get rid of it. Why floating panels was hard to make? You know what? Let's make a video out of this. Let's try making a video out of why making floating panels was a mess. Let's give this a shot, so I won't mess this up, right? Let me think what I'm going to say. Hello, everyone. If you follow my channel, you know that I'm working on the feature of floating panels in KD Plasma. I've worked on this for months at this point. It took me way more than expected. I remember asking for donations about this very thing months and months ago, but now, finally, it's almost done. With a bit of luck, it will be in the next release of Plasma 5, as I said. However, it was hard. It was super hard. I want to explain why doing that feature was that hard. Let's get into it. How would you think of approaching this? You have the monitor, this is the border of the monitor, and usually you have the panel. But we want to make this floating. We could just put a margin to the left and to the bottom of the panel, and it would become like this, and here you get the icons. That's actually not enough at all. It would be super simple to do this, but it's not like that. First of all, if you look closely to the panel, you can see that the borders are not rounded, which makes sense. If you shorten the panel, they become rounded, but not on the bottom. If a panel is floating, it should be rounded. What you have to say is, if it's attached to the border, then it shouldn't be rounded. If it's floating, it should be rounded. Of course, I do animate between the two. If you click on the please float button, or if you maximize a window, the panel stops floating, and there's an animation between not floating and floating. So you do actually have to animate between the two like this. What's the issue? If you animate between these two, you also have to animate the corners. Otherwise, it would look weird that it goes from being not rounded to immediately rounded. How can you animate between rounded corners and not rounded corners? You can't. You just can't. I've looked everywhere, and it's not possible to animate within the two, which is an issue. There's also another issue. What you see as the panel looks like just a panel, and you think, okay, that's the panel, that's easy. However, it's actually made from two different components, a panel and the effects applied behind the panel, as an example blur. So how this works is that you have the panel, and then underneath the panel, in the same exact position, you have a mask for the blur, and so that behind the panel, you actually blur all the stuff. And you don't just have that. You also have the contrast effect, which I've talked about in the past, which is changing the colors of the background to make sure that it's prettier. So if I just move the panel, and that's it, what's going to happen is that the mask for the blur is going to remain in the same place. So the panel moves, but the blur doesn't, and that could look horribly wrong. And that means that when the panel is floating, I just have to move the mask accordingly. Issue, the position of the mask and the position of the panel are actually managed by two different files, and so I have to communicate within those files. But okay, I can do that. That's not toward. However, however, I also have to animate both at the same time. I cannot animate the panel that moves and then moving the mask at the same time. That would look weird, like the panel moves and then the blur does weird. I have to animate them at the same time. And that's already slightly more difficult, but it's not just that. So when the panel is rounded, the blur effect also needs to be rounded. Otherwise, we have the corners back. So what we need to do is when the panel is attached to the border, we have a blur effect that's like no square corners. When it's floating, it has to have rounded corners. And you have to animate the mask between rounded corners and square corners when you switch between the two. And as I said, that's actually impossible. You can't do that. And that means that it's a mess. So how did I actually approach this seemingly unfixable issue? So what I did is I actually go to Plasma and say, you know what, can you actually draw two panels from me? So we've got the floating panel and you also have the normal panel. Okay, so you've got both of them. At this point, when you switch between the two, you don't actually move the panel in one and the other position because that's impossible. You have to animate a lot of things that you cannot animate, but you just change the opacity of the two. And then you also animate the position of the floating one to make it appear as if you're actually morphing the panel. When you're not, you're just switching between two panels that are already there. Still, you do have to sync the position of the mask underneath the floating panel and the mask of the panel that's stuck to the border. And also you need to change the masks of the two panels because you have two panels, you're going to have two masks, one that's not rounded and one that is rounded. So you also need to switch between the masks. However, whereas with panels, I can actually do like opacity changes of the two panels to make it seems like you're switching from one to another. The mask is just that one. You cannot give opacity to the mask. Blur is going to be blur regardless of where it is. So you just need to switch from one to another without any animation. And that would sound easy if it was. However, it isn't. And to be completely honest with you, I still haven't understood why when you change the mask, it doesn't actually change. So what's happening right now is that you switch to a floating panel and you still preserve the same mask of the panel that's not floating. And that means that you get the corners back. So currently, I'm trying to implement floating panels. I'm almost there, but I still get corners back, which is annoying. Now, before I wrap up and explain how I actually the last issues that I'm trying to solve, let me just say that if I'm able to do this because it's my free time, it's only thanks to the people who actually donate to my Patreon and PayPal and everything. So I really, really have to say thank you for all of them because otherwise without them, I wouldn't be able to have this much time to dedicate to KD. So if you have some mind to spare, even a couple of bucks every month, that would help. Anyway, let me get back to my sweet panels and let me actually get in slightly more detail. So let's open up the panels that, sorry, the files that I'm working on. So I was almost done, almost done until I sent the merge request and I was please asked to add an option to switch between a panel that's floating and a panel that's not floating. And I thought, okay, that's not too hard. I just have to add an option to actually check if the panel is floating or not. So what I do is I've got the panel code and this is like the panel we could. And in here, I just check if the panel configuration file as it's floating or it's not floating in it. And if it's floating, it sets a variable that can then be read by here, which is just the appearance of the panel. And the appearance of the panel actually changes the margin, only if it's floating. And by changing the margin, it has an animation on a variable that is then read by the panel code, which then takes that variable and updates it during the update mask function. What is the update mask function? It's the function that actually draws the mask and then does the blur and the contrast effect. And you do have hit here. What it does, it treats the property panel mask from the root object of this file and then it just draws it for the blur and the background contrast effect. What I added here is also reading the properties of the margin and moving this mask depending on the margin. And as the variable changes in the file with appearance, it also changes here to actually move the mask that's underneath the panel. That kind of works, kind of. The issue is of course this panel mask variable because the panel mask should be the rounded mask when it's floating and the non-rounded mask when it's not floating, which means that in here the panel mask should switch between non-floating and floating masks depending on whether we are floating. However, it is already switching between something and that something is the opaque or the translucent items because we also have adaptive transparency. And what that means is that it has to switch between a translucent floating mask if it's translucent and floating, an opaque floating mask if it's opaque and floating, an opaque non-floating mask and a translucent non-floating depending on the floatingness value and the adaptive transparency value. It's a mess, it's a mess, right? So what I did is say, okay, if your panel is floating, it has to be transparent. Like, sorry, that's how it is. So if you do that, it's slightly easier because now we've just got three, opaque non-floating, transparent non-floating and transparent floating. And the floating one is the messy one, so we just have that one of that. So what we would do here is add a new check and say that if it's floating, then always return a translucent, translucent floating mask. Does this work? Kind of, kind of. So to summarize, I'm almost done. This is the issues that I've had. This is why it's been so hard to make this. And if you're wondering, why do we even have that complexity under the hood? Well, complex things are complex and plasma is a desktop and a desktop is not easy. As an example, blur and contrast effect underneath the panel being managed by a different file. That's because of a variety of reasons. First of all, blur and contrast effect are actually completely independent on when they're used. You can use blur and the contrast effect, the very same ones, pretty much everywhere. And third party might want to use it too. Some plasma themes don't use it. Some plasma themes do, so you have to be super customizable in that regard. And also at the very beginning of KD Plasma, everything was in the C++ file. Then QML came and it was later, so everything had to be ported to QML. And it's not so easy to make sure that over time all of the code base still makes sense, complete sense. So you do have to deal with a bit of weirdness in the code sometimes. And for the floating panels, that's what killing me right now, sorry. Dan, sorry, I'm back to you, guys. So blah, blah, blah. What was I saying? Way-floating panels was so hard to make. I've got the video for tomorrow already, yeah, yeah. For example, I have Firefox pinned in the taskbar. Yes, I've seen this one, I've just removed Firefox. I think it's a bug of Firefox, I don't even know why. I almost started developing for KD, almost. Do it. But you only enjoy Java. Okay. Yeah, I guess, Java, if you like Java. I really dislike Java too. Okay, there's no Java stuff, but I mean, if you understand Java, you're going to understand KML, for sure, and also C++. All of the world is like, has some C++ in it. So I think that you should accept the fact that you'll have to deal with some C++ in some point of time. So I would suggest to put Java aside if you want to develop for KDE, see a bit of C++ and also KML, because that's super easy. I'm not going to use Flutter, I don't like that you're Flutter, to be honest. Do you like the sco-morphism design? I don't know. I mean, yes, but it's not my favorite one. So, oh, I didn't see this comment. The code just flows away from me. I should have used this. I should have used this. Yeah, I mean, it's a design. I prefer other designs, but it looks good if it's done correctly. All designs look good if done correctly. Yeah, you've been backstageed. What are your thoughts on Wayland with Plasma? For me, even if I'm a developer, I tried KDE Plasma with Wayland and it just works perfectly. So thumbs up for me, do it. Go for Wayland, because I don't have any issue with it and I think it has improved a lot. So, yeah. Just add padding until it gets out of the screen. It's possible to stream to Telegram. I've seen that. I've considered if I should do that. I think not, simply because my... like, how do you say this? My community on Telegram is rather small, so I don't think it would make sense for me to livestream to Telegram if I only have like two people watching me. Probably not even that, so I don't know. Why doesn't KDE have settings basic and advanced? There's actually a web page talking about this, which is called KDE Lessons Learned. Basic advanced modes and you just read these two paragraphs. You just search for KDE Lessons Learned. How does Latidog handle the animation? Okay, Latidog is magic. Latidog is completely dark magic. It's not, but I've talked to the developer on how it does some things and the amount of effort that Latidog's put in actually making sure that everything works is twice for me. It even goes CSD to draw its own shadows and I'm not able to do that. That means that the shadow actually gets removed. From a UI UX perspective, which KDE-based distro is your pick? From a UI UX perspective, I think that distro doesn't matter at all. Because if they have KDE Plasma on it, they're going to be basically the same UI UX wires. So as the New Yorkers experimented a bit about this, I think as they put it, we shouldn't be talking about distros but rather about desktops. So the question should be regarding UI UX, which desktop do you think is the best one? Of course, there's no clear answer to that. Just disabled animations. That's going to look weird. Yeah, I mean, if it comes to it, I guess I can just disable animations, but whoa, I'm mess. Yeah, to be honest, I record at this point all of my videos like that. I just talk really fast as fast as I can.  I do perfect silence, and I think what I'm going to say, and then the silence gets automatically cut out. No, no, thank you. Thank you for the video idea. That was totally a good idea. What is your gender? It's male. Gmail. I personally would use Garuda and Davor. Yes, but I mean, you can make any distro look like any other distro if it's just about the theme. You just have to install the theme from those distros, and you can use it wherever. So, you know. I wonder what are the historic reasons for having the two components separate and separatedly handled. Look, it's... Because I've done videos about this in the past. We don't have the panel. We have the panel view and the panel containment because technically you abstract on what's going to the panel. So, if you have just the panel containment, if you just have the panel containment, it's going to be empty. It's going to be an empty panel. And the idea is that the panel is a general concept regardless of what's in it. And then inside of the panel containment, which is the general idea, you put the panel view, which is actually what manages the content of the panel. So, you have the panel view, the panel containment. It's, I think, maybe more complex than it has to be, but that's how the code is structured. And that's how I have to deal with it. Something like Android settings, the most used settings first. Maybe, I don't know, but we are reorganizing settings and I don't think that we have, like, expert tire settings in system settings, really to speak. We can't hear you. I hope you can. Can you hear me? Is everyone here hearing me? I'm not looking... No, no, I don't have two monitors.  It's a way to, like, disconnect from reality. Like, I have distractions here. So, when I have to think, I just look up and think. That's how we do it. Editing KD code in J-Edit. Yeah.  I was like, what? But, I mean, that's what popped up. So, it's fine, I mean. I'm going to use Kate for actual development, don't worry. Sorry that I'm behind with questions, but I'm getting to the last ones. So, feel free to make more and I'll get to them. I use Arc, by the way. Nicolo, you are known as Father V. What are your thoughts about that? So, apparently I'm Father V and baby Evogua decided that I'm called Father V. My best guess is that V stands for Venerandi, which is my surname. That's my best guess. It makes sense. I guess that fathers should, like, have the surname. So, okay. If you want to call me Father V, it's fine. I know it's me. I know it's me. Inside of my heart, I know it's me. I would have just moved the mask first. And then morphed the icons and widgets. But if you move the mask first, then you are blur in the wrong place. And also it looks like half of the panel already moves. Because half of the background of the panel is drawn by the contrast effect. So it looks like half of the panel moves up and then the other one. Not quite what you want to see. It's more sophisticated. I mean, yeah, but I don't know C++ well and I'm still able to contribute. So even if you don't know C++ very well, don't worry. But even if you don't want to touch C++ at all because of whatever reason, you can still contribute through QML. So don't worry about that. What is a good programming language for someone to learn that has a PHP background? I would say Python. Go with Python. In your floating panel... Sorry. In your floating panels making Opera 3, your window decorations seem to be merged with the Dolphin toolbar. How was that done? No, I totally did not implement this. Maybe it looks... No, I don't think... Lattidoc does this because Lattidoc is dark magic and does everything, but I haven't implemented this. Can QD Plasma get round corners in all windows and some blur at default? No. Why? Okay, so round corners in all windows, it is a long-standing discussion between the visual design group and the QWin developers. Last time I asked for it, I sent an email and said, QWin developers, can we please have round corners in the bottom? And they replied that some reasons that I didn't agree with and then they said that it would decrease performance significantly. So I thought, okay, fine. I mean, if it's going to make Plasma slower, then I guess don't do this. But... Is it suitable to use Plasma, NVIDIA, and Wayland? I think that you should try it in a live environment to figure out because it changes so much between computers that I'm not really able to safely tell you, yes it works nor no it doesn't. You should try it out. Can you give a quick high-level overview of Plasma? Regarding the panel, I've done a bit about that. Of Plasma in general, it's a bit hard because I don't know all of Plasma very well. But I mean, in general, you have Containments and Views and you have the panel, Containments and View and then you have the Desktop which is another Containment and then the World Paper View. What else to... Yeah, the Plasma theme. I could talk about the Plasma theme. I've actually done an article about this but probably that too much time ago. Let me come back to that question later on, sorry. I just wasn't speaking that moment. Yeah, that makes sense. I've done some silence. Looking up to the thing is actually quite common. I totally agree. I don't know why people are weirded out about this. People keep telling me what are you looking at? Nothing! I'm just thinking. I thought it was obvious. My parents, my friends. It's V probably because your channel named Nicola V. V is my surname. Venerandi. V is a short for Venerandi which is my surname. V is probably from my surname. Would you mind to check about the Snap layouts? No reason to check them out. Sorry. This goes completely beyond my skills. My area of competence really because I mostly work with Plasma and the panel. These kind of things are K-Win. So you need to ask K-Win developers that. Not me. Why haven't you speak Italian during the Noob video? Because I feel like the subs wouldn't have made as cool as a video. It would have been boring to just have subs to understand the video. I thought that wasn't acceptable. People would have got bored and stopped watching and that would have made the whole thing a bit pointless. Yeah, yeah, it looks sweet. That's for sure. I wouldn't be against it if somebody implemented it. At all. I'm just not the right question to do this. Can you show us the animation you have so far? In theory. I think I don't have it compiled yet. I think it's not compiled right now. My voice is slowly dying. So let's switch to GIT branch. We've got a GIT checkout work Nikolo floating panel. Then we need GIT checkout work Nikolo floating panel and then frameworks GIT checkout GIT checkout work Nikolo floating panels GIT checkout work Nikolo hello GIT checkout work Nikolo floating panels what Ah, floating panels, sorry. And then we have to build this first plasma framework make install give it a couple of minutes. Could you somehow speed up fixing K touch wheel and back? Nope. I'm not a K touch developer and I'm not a wheel and developer either completely out of my skills. I believe there shouldn't be around the corners on bottom because app UI we are talking just a few pixels, like three pixels rounded that's not going to cut out any UI. So don't worry about that. Why does plasma have a specific settings for customizing JTK apps while GNOME doesn't have it for us? Ask the GNOME developers and let me know what they answer. I think that they are not really interested in that compared to us because we do make a conscious effort to make sure that we are able to provide this. Probably their philosophy is different so maybe they just don't want to but you could ask them. I am going to create a DE called fvde sponsored by the vcharch with fatherv as the pop please go for it send me the link when you're done or did my terminal go? Did I close the terminal? I had a terminal here. Where the hell did my terminal go? What? Please tell me if I'm I was compiling stuff here, right? Did it just disappeared? Did I close it? Please tell me. Did I close the... Okay, that was weird. What was I answering? Worst criticism about cat plasma? No, no, it's the same activity. Yeah, that was weird.  I think it looks pretty now. So I still hear this and every time I hear it I'm sad. Let's try again hoping that this time it doesn't disappear. That was weird. Did it crash or something? Oh, it's not going well. Uh... It's going to take a lot to fix this. Yeah, sorry. No animation for you. I couldn't understand some Italian. Since some words are pretty similar to Portuguese. Yeah, that makes sense. Are you by chance thinking on developing for a plasma mobile? I would love to. However, my free time is what my free time is. I don't think I have enough time to actually work on Plasma Desktop and Plasma Mobile at the same time.  So nope. Probably, I mean, GNOME's philosophy is completely different compared to KDE's. So if they don't want, they are not obliged to do this. You're also not. You don't have to use GNOME either. So... My country is under sanctions and it seems, due to that, I... I can't download widgets and themes. So... Yes, there is an alternative. You can just download the file manually. You do have to find the files though. But I mean, you should be able to see... Uh...  You should... Nope. You should be able to connect to store.kd.org and then if you go to... Plasma Applet somewhere... Plasma Moids, I guess. Uh... Plasma... Oh, come on. Applets. Let's take this one as an example, which is, funny enough, a very relevant example for you in this case. Under files you can download the Plasma Moid and then you can install it manually with comments that you can find just by googling like KDE manually installing Plasma Moid. I would love to run Plasma Mobile on my Android without flashing it. That's not going to happen. Android is Android and you can't quite... You know... Change it to use Plasma Mobile without flashing it. Do you have the Color Picker widget? Uh... You can find it in the widgets here, Color Picker. It's here. So it still exists. I don't think Plasma's bloated. Oh, I agree. I don't think Plasma's bloated. There's surely some improvement to be done in the simple by default thing because sometimes we do show too many options in some places but I don't think it's... that is bloated. What's the one thing you like to brag about KDE? Well, you know... Windows is actually removing the ability to do this. And Gromp doesn't have it. Makeintosh doesn't either. So... Windows very soon will be the only major desktop to allow for moving the panel. As easy as that. Now, of course while I was doing that it died. Everything died. Thank you. That's what happens when you have like... How do you say this? Blah, blah. How do you say this? The latest stuff installed. You don't have it. That's indeed weird. You probably can try to download it somewhere. Somewhere. Bleeding edge, thank you. The word had just slipped my mind. Yeah, but I wouldn't call XFC like a major desktop right now. I think we have like GNOME, KDE, Elementary, and of course Makeintosh and Windows and like Chrome OS. Yeah. I was just flexing. No, it can't be different packages. Let me just check where the color picker is. It should be in probably Plasma desktop. Maybe it's a third party. I don't think so though. Come on. Maybe it's a third party. I thought it was by default but I don't find it. What's the name of the probably color picker? It's in KDE Plasma Donuts. You probably don't have the... You don't have... I can't speak English. I cannot speak English after an hour. You probably don't have the color picker... The KDE Plasma Donuts package. You're on Arc, right? You said yes. You don't have the KDE Plasma Donuts package. Any anime suggestions? Have you seen Monogatari? If you have not seen Monogatari, watch Monogatari. That is my only suggestion and this is the best one. Ever thought about creating a community discord server? No, I hadn't. That's not a very bad idea. However, I do prefer a telegram channel and I have that already. I slightly prefer telegram and I use it more often. For now, I would like to stick to telegram. What's your day job? I just study. I'm a student. I study mathematics and that is why donating to me is so important because I don't have a job at all. I just study and live with my parents. That's how it works. I do have a telegram. To join my telegram, you go to the link in any of my videos that brings you to Nicolov blog. Then from Nicolov blog you should be able to go to the group which is this one. The general group. I'll just drop the link nowhere. Here I guess. Totally feel you. Very relatable. Thank you. When is KD6? Probably less than a couple of years from now. Probably. I know that doesn't mean much for you, but it's something. There's no exact time for KD6 as far as I'm aware. When it's really 3D and that should be within a couple of years. Does KD have any plans on adding a welcome tour? Not right now. Especially given that KD doesn't quite need explaining. It's so similar to a very popular commercial operating systems that I don't think there's any explaining to do. So Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean or what you're referring for. I can promise you that KD6 is going to be better than the last season of Game of Thrones. I promise that. How does Plasma generate video thumbnails? Good one. I think you need to ask this in the development chat because I haven't got a clue. I never actually worked with thumbnail generation. I'm not sure what component is that. It's probably some framework but I really don't remember what that one is. Sorry. The color picker package. If I remember correctly Arc as KD Plasma Addons package This one. It should be in this package amongst other stuff. Technically speaking you could try to install only the color picker by installing its package. It's harder though send me an email if you want the instructions. Any plans to changing the entire Discover Store appearance from scratch? No. Hell no. What this throw would you say gives the best KD experience out of the box? Probably probably maybe Kubuntu maybe KD Neon maybe Fedora KDE They are all very good. It's very hard for me to say this is worse because it does X. They all provide very good experience. Of course it depends on what you're looking for. Thank you Gustav. What is the most controversial idea amongst Plasma developers? The most controversial. There are a lot of controversies. I don't know which one is most popular. At least. There is one controversy about making things opaque or transparent. That has read some discussions before. Also a lot of things about the nature of convergent applications I guess. Also should Windows be rounded have rounded corners? There's probably some more that I'm forgetting right now. But these kind of things surely do. Lechidoc now isn't that much more active ever thought of getting Psyphedotos I'm going to learn this name. Psyphedotos On board I'm not sure what you mean. Lechidoc is active. They have done a release not that much time ago. Maybe less than before but I do see still development about getting Psyphedotos on board. What do you mean on board? He is part of KDE He talks like in the KDE chats so I'm not sure what you mean. I was actually watching one of these videos just yesterday. That was like super Yeah, yeah. The video tutorials are impressive. I've seen this one super well done. I'm honestly, honestly impressed by the quality of the videos. The best way to replicate the setup probably is the Plasma Config Saver I have done an entire video about it. Check out YouTube Nicolo the Plasma Config Saver. There's currently no way to rearrange system tree icons and there's nobody working on that, sadly. On board with the default KDE doc No, sadly not. Latidoc is for advanced users not quite for the default experience and there's no plan to use as the default doc. About making Plasma more popular regarding distros specifically. That's a lot more with politics. As an example No, sorry. I'm not sure how to approach this question. It's not really about KDE Plasma itself, I think. It's not about the product itself it's more about the people who work on it the relationships between them so the product is fine it could be defaulted on any distros as far as we could it's really good but GNOME being the default I think is not related to GNOME being any better than KDE Plasma inherently. When will Dolphin support fruit operations? Who knows at this point? They had implemented it recently then it got reverted I didn't even know it was reverted I don't know I mean I don't know, I haven't followed the the question of the issue after the last revert Probably it will be sooner or later implemented if somebody works on it but I really don't know Have you thought a bit doing more scripted videos? I did think about it I tried Last week, if you go see my channel I have not published any video at all The reason is that I was trying to do more scripted videos and I messed up I wasn't able to I would like to do more scripted videos but at the same time I have to realize that my time is very I don't have that much time actually so I have to wrong video, sorry so I have to accept the fact that I don't have that much time to actually go there, script a video learn it by heart and stuff like that What's the name of the video again? panel why heart boom I was thinking of like trying to hire someone to my time is very limited I was like thinking to hire somebody to help me out but I don't have that much money at all so I don't know KT is my default IDE same to report bugs check out bugs.kd.org and also if you go to youtube and you search for NikoloVay like this, NikoloVay how to bug then you get a whole new, not this one how to report bugs wrong video ok so maybe this one somewhere I do have a video about reporting bugs though so this is the webpage though the panel become active the panel is going to be removed from the overview effect when it's activated, that's actually bug so yeah the panel will be gone from the overview what do you think about SteamKD Plasma as based from the Steam Deck? I'm super happy about that it was amazing news for us, like amazing so I don't know what else to say except we've done it Nikolo, do you like big Firefox tabs? they're fine I'm fine honestly I don't have complaints they look pretty I like them, yeah, I do like them I think I'm in the stream here it's been more than an hour and I'm tired so thank everybody for following along and I'm going to publish this video very soon so you know what's up and see you next time yeah my desktop is a bit glitchy but don't worry about that thanks everybody


Prominent Nigerians have called on various governments to allocate more resources to education to avoid collapsing of the system in the nearest future. Speaking in O.A. during a lecture on Pan-Africanism and Humanity, Professor Meiji Aquata of the University of Nigeria, Nsukha says, prioritizing the educational sector will strengthen the institution as well as foster peace and economic development. The Pan-African scholars also believe that the challenges facing Nigeria not only leadership, but institutionalized corruption. Education is a serious matter. Now, there's a document of Patreon Council, too, called Gravisimum Educaciones. Gravisimum Educaciones, that's the name of the document. It's about education. The great matter of education, that's the meaning of Gravisimum Educaciones. It's great. It's as serious as anything I can get. Don't get it right. I'm going nowhere. 1971, Nsukha will be developing a vaccine for cholera in Nigeria. Why are we not participating in the search for the vaccine for COVID-19? Yes, you go to the university lab, they're empty. They're empty. No reagents are used up. You have to be replenished. You know, a good painter has got to be. When I was younger, I used to project this idea of bad governance, bad governance. Why can't I begin to look in what, from the family to the society? And to the general public before you get to the government? What transpires in my office? How well am I leading in my office? How well am I teaching my students with all sincerity? How well am I delivering my service without asking for bribe in my own office? We should begin to, that is, what Nigeria is facing today is called institutionalized corruption. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


The Bemidji football team entered today's contest at the top of the section with the 2-0 record and hope to keep it that way. Lumberjack's looking for their third win in a row and their first win against Alexandria since 2014. Lots of pink in the stands for the tackle cancer game. In the second quarter, Jack's up 14-6 looking for more. James Williams takes the pitch, runs it in 17 yards, breaking tackles for the touchdown. They go up 20-6. Alex trying to get some points before half. The trick play, a backwards pass, then the forward pass gets intercepted by Jacob Beiberg, snags it for the pick 20-6 at the half. But right after half-time, Alex trying to get something going. The snap misses the quarterback, not ready for us. They would tackle him in the end zone for the safety 22-6 Bemidji. Not a lot of passing today in the wet game, but Beiberg to Ryan Beberdorf here for the third down conversion. Later on the drive, the perfect play call James Williams takes the reverse untouched for the touchdown. That makes them go up 30-6 and they would go on to win this one by a final score of 30-12.


it's your Fort Worth. I'm Mayor Betsy Price. I hope you're ready because today's show is going to be a little bit funky. Fort Worth is a city built on cowboys and cultures. It's a unique blend in our city that gives it a distinct characteristic. It's what we're known for and it's a part of who we are. Some call it Fort Worth special appeal, but a growing number of us call it keeping Fort Worth funky. Keep Fort Worth funky is the local group supporting local music and businesses. Supporting local business just as important to the city's economy. It's also part of maintaining our special character. Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. But while we welcome new businesses and residents, we have to figure out how we maintain that critical community identity. We have special guests with us here in the studio today to talk about just that. With me today is James Zammett, the godfather of Keep Fort Worth Monkey. Welcome James. Thank you. And James is joined by John Rodey, better known as the Southside Pirate. Thank you both for coming and in a minute, John, I'm going to have to ask you where the Southside Pirate came from. Very good. I'm going to ask you a few questions, but I'm going to start with John. Where did the Southside Pirate come from? Well, Mayor, the Southside Pirate came from an idea that spawned from an opportunity for local non-profit organizations to operate radio stations in a climate that's otherwise monopolized by corporations. And the Obama administration in 2010 came up with the Community Radio Act. This past November, we successfully applied for such an FM channel for Fort Worth. These low-power FM stations would cover the entire city of Fort Worth. I think what makes the Southside Pirate probably even more different and funky is that we only play music from Fort Worth. Love that. You cannot imagine and everyone should just take a moment and listen to the station online if they so choose and just see how well all this diversity works together. You wouldn't believe it's all coming from Funky Town because the artists themselves, the musicians, give us their music. This has turned out to be quite a grassroots thing because we have a booty box on the Southside at Avoka Coffee where the musicians put their music in. Sally and I founded the non-profit organization, deal with the FCC and other government agencies, and we stream at 24-7. And people listen to it. We've had listeners in 12 states who listen to Fort Worth music exclusively. That's really cool. So if I could write music, I could submit my own music, correct? Yes, you could. Or if I could play. I certainly can't sing, so I'm not even going to go there. We might be able to find something for you to do. Yeah, they might be debatable. And James, tell me about your part in Keep Fort Worth, Funky. Well, my wife and I, we've been in Fort Worth for going on 10 years now. We grew up in Arlington, but we just fell in love with the Fort Worth scene that was coming up and the music scene and everything. So we thought of a way that we can maybe be a part of it, get involved with it and help nourish that, you know, enrich it. You know, get all the information and have an avenue for people to find out more about what's going on in their city. So, or people outside of the city to find out when they come to Fort Worth what's going on and things like that. And you focus a fair amount on the music scene, too. A lot on the music scene, yeah. We like music. And I know you remember the night riders, the bike group. Or you ride with them, son? I've ridden, yeah. I don't have a lot of time to ride, but as much as I can, yeah. My wife is with the bicycle beddies, and so we're, yeah, we're big bike riders, so I take my kid around a lot. And the bicycle beddies tend to show up in their costumes and ride, which is really fun. All right, you have to tell us and tell our viewers what North Texas Beard Alliance is. It's a group of a bunch of hairy guys that got together and they do, they actually do a lot of fundraising events. They hang out at Rar Brewery a lot. They're a lot of drinkers and they grow their hair out. So it's a fun group. They do a lot of good stuff for the city. They bring us a lot of character. They do, they do. Yeah, we've done an event with them. We had a beard competition where some of the wilder-haired guys judged the competition, so it's been fun. So it's not just No Shave November. My sons all grew beards and told me it was No Shave November. Yeah, that's every month for these guys. I love it. It's part of, if Austin is weird, it's part of what makes Fort Worth funky, huh? Right, right. That's cool. Tell me what the biggest struggle is that local bands and local musicians face in Fort Worth, or indeed in Tarrant County. I think it's exposure, really. That's why the South Side Pirate is an important part of this, because once they're on the radio, then, just like KXT, they do play local stations, but the pirate's exclusively local, so it'll be very important once they're on the radio to get the local music scene up and go on full steam. You know, I think to get exposure is a huge for a band, and in certain markets that I've lived in, in certain places I've lived in, the only place you could go see them would be in a bar, or a saloon, or a honky-tonk. Fort Worth has got... And what's wrong with that? Nothing's wrong with that. However, not everybody goes to them. And so we have Friday on the Green. Right. We have a big events planned for the spring. We have Busker-friendly streets, where the essence of Fort Worth's artistic community can rise to the top. That's what I would probably say is why this climate, you know, you've got the right temperature, you've got the right humidity, you've got public acceptance, and so to give them more exposure, we're certainly not lacking music venues. That's true. So to bring about, you know, I've told people this at other presentations I've given. I said, Fort Worth, with the vibrant, and it truly is, uber-vibrant, you could be another Nashville within a half a decade. We have fine recording studios, we have world-class writers, songwriters who travel all over the world from Fort Worth. And I think that helps me, because we run the pirate, and it's all Fort Worth music. So, you know, that's what I would say. It's not too big and it's not too small. Its critical mass is reached in that artistic algorithm, if you will, you know? And if somebody wants to find Funky Town, Fort Worth's Funky Side, what's the best place? Is it Friday on the Green to start for a starting place for them? If you've got your family, we've got this new development downtown that is breathtaking. Absolutely. Panther Island Pavilion is a great venue for lots of stuff going on. So we're very excited about Panther Island. Southside has lots of family-friendly things going on. It really is exploding across the city. More than it started a lot in the Southside, the very artistic, creative funk, so to speak. And it seems to be expanding because Panther Island is certainly right at the edge of downtown. Plaza will have some events, and I hope that it's growing. It is growing, and people are very hungry for it. Their appetite is high for this. We talk about an idea we have on our slate at the pirate to do a dog show called the Southminster Dog Show. People like their beer, they like their bicycles, but they love their dogs. They do love their dogs, and so do I. We're really trying to get some support, maybe from Purina or someone like that, to chime in with some support money so that we can take over the Southside because that's where we live, that's where we play. And I think if all the districts in Fort Worth had as much pride about their area as the Southside did, it would really be something. We're very excited about the Southminster Dog Show. I think that's one of the beauties of Fort Worth. Each neighborhood, each area has its own distinct personality, and some of our other older areas that have declined a little bit are really beginning to find themselves. And I think Fort Worth Funky and the Southside Pirate go a long way towards helping those neighborhoods say, here's an example that's really working, here's what they've done. And so I would suggest that people come to some of your events, kind of see what's going on and maybe take those ideas back to their own neighborhood. Yeah, we would encourage that. We'd like friendly competition between the sides. It just encourages more creativity. So yeah, absolutely. And we're sort of much luckier than most districts in the Southside. We have the real estate developers and the merchants, independent mom and pop merchants like Avoka and all the development that's going on at Shipping and Receiving as what was less than a year ago an area that you wouldn't be so comfortable in now has people walking around. Yeah, a lot of locally owned businesses. And I think we have some questions coming up in our mailbag segment that'll get us to that. Well, you guys are a great example for helping us move Fort Worth forward but maintaining our personality. We just appreciate you coming and talking to us. And I think you have one of your t-shirts. I have one for you, Mayor. You can wear this to the city council. We all have them if you're so inclined. This is the Southside Pirate. It's 100% local Fort Worth music. We're hoping with everybody's help will be on the FM by the end of this year. But you can listen 24-7 using the Pirate app, the iPirate for your Apple people. And you can listen on our website at SouthsidePirate.com. Perfect. SouthsidePirate.com. James, you have some Fort Worth funky things. This is one of our new logos since we love riding bikes. We support bike groups and stuff. All right. It's a handle-borne mustache. It could also be Fort Worth's Molly, right? Yes. So that's for you. And I got you some stickers too for your bike. Awesome. Put stickers on them. That's cool. Just a grab bag of different things that, there's the stickers there. Some of the events, there's a t-shirt from the Arts Goggle event that we were part of this past October. And then some local businesses and artists that make stuff. So here's a book that one of our friends made. And so it's a, for every book they sell, they give one away to kids that wouldn't normally be able to do that. People work dreaming. That's a good thing. Well, thank you. So if you see me on the street, don't run over me and eat one of my cool new t-shirts. James and John, we always end the show with mailbag pieces. So we're ready for our questions that come through the mail for us from citizens. People writing letters. Well, there goes the mailbag. And since I prefer email, we're going to take our questions the good way from electronically. So the first mailbag question comes from Hayden Blackburn. And Hayden wants to know, how can local citizens really connect with the local music scene? Yeah, I mean, support the events that you see, you know, sees the opportunity to see us at Friday on the Green, you know, which is a great family event. You get to meet yourselves familiar with some of the dozens and dozens of musicians that play out and about there. And, you know, at the various events they have around the city, there's always music. Never more than a few hundred feet from the musician at Fort Worth. That's probably great. It is. So, I mean, and the opportunity to go to some of the great restaurants we have on the south side. See, Carlos has got live music, Fusion. And these are people that live in the south side. These are south side residents who are playing. And so you'll see them again. Yeah, sometimes you'll see them carrying their instruments. Yeah. A block from their house to the gig. There's one guy who rides with his guitar on the back of his bicycle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, on the north side, our local mariachi groups are very active. And that's largely local citizens over there. So there is a lot of local music. You kind of got my brain started. And I was thinking, there's a lot of local music. Even a lot of our restaurants when you go places, it's largely local musicians playing it. Right. Yeah. Yeah, we encourage, and that's the main reason we have our Facebook page is our main hub for finding out what's going on. And we're always posting stuff that's happening. So, I would say, first off, to be a fan of our page. And you can find out a lot. Which is keep it worth funky. Yes, on Facebook. Perfect. Yeah, and we're working on the website. So it'll be an even more comprehensive place to go to find out. Not just music, but food, local farmers. And we're talking community events, food co-ops, things like that. So everything that's local that supports local will be right there. And we had a question that dovetails nicely in with that that got me to thinking from Rachel Navajar, the question Rachel said, how can we as citizens tell the difference between a local business and a chain business? We don't have a local Fort Worth. We don't have a seal per se. Sticker per se. I'm working on that. But I think when you go into like Magnolia Cheese Company, I think you get an instant idea. Even though Fred's burgers, there's more than one. There's two local. You know they're local. And so look around and you'll see that, you know, this is not a Madison Avenue kind of town. This is the kind of, and actually I don't know that people would so embrace something that would be as such. Because we saw like, you know, the quality that we get, some of the restaurateurs or some of the finest you'll get in all of the area. Because they're local. You know, even in the stockyards. Local restaurateurs. That's true. And you're working on a program that potentially restaurants could identify themselves. Yeah, I was going to say there's a number of handful of businesses right now that have our mustache sticker on the front of their store. So you know that that's a local shop and we support them and they support what we're doing. So it's a cooperative thing that we're working on. So if you see our sticker, you know that it's supported and it's a local business. And there's a nationwide program that the council supports a couple of times a year called Shop Small. And Shop Small, if you see those stickers indicates that that's a local business, a locally owned business. So there are ways if you start thinking about it. But that's a growing concern I think that we could probably do a better job so that citizens would know who we are. We have another question came in from Hayden also. Hayden wants to know what are Keep Fort Worth Bunkies most well attended music events? And what's coming up for 2014? Well, Clear Fork Fest was the first one was last year. And it was a really good turnout. There was a number of local bands on three stages. They had a solar powered stage, acoustic stage that we used a local solar company that has a shuttle trailer. And they do Prairie Fest. Prairie Fest is another one. And Prairie Fest is on the east side of Fort Worth just off Authority. Right, at Tandy Hills Nature Center. Yeah, and that's a great event too. I'd say those two are probably my favorite. And it's springtime as early May as I recall. Yes, April. April. Yes, so that'll be coming up soon. So people can watch that. And then Clear Fork Fest is in the fall. Watch the Facebook postings for those days. Yeah, we'll be sponsoring that event. Don't forget Arts Goggle. Arts Goggle is the... And that's free. That's all free. That's good stuff going on. Well, you know folks, don't forget to send me your questions for the show. You can just email betsy.price at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. Or you can like us on Facebook. Follow us on Facebook. Whatever you want to do. You can find us if you want to send questions. Thanks for being with us guys. I enjoyed having you. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Great. And now for some final thoughts. At the end of 2013, the beginning of 2014, and I'm pleased that we can look back at our accomplishments. We made real headway on this year's budget and getting that pesky budget back in check. We continue to get citizens more involved in charting the direction of our beloved city. We've built on our progress to support clean and healthy communities. We've driven down crime and even increased the efficiency in city government just a little bit. But there's more to be done in Fort Worth. We simply have to hold the line on the budget so that we can reinvest in greatly needed city services. As major highway projects are completed, we must sharpen our focus on bringing to our citizens alternative farms of transportation and getting them interested in that. We should continue to tackle major challenges like access to affordable water and ending chronic homelessness. In the coming months, Fort Worth will hire a new city manager and in doing so, council and mayor will keep the pressure on to cut the red tape to serve you, our citizens better. Thanks to all of those citizens who continue to give their time, ideas and energy to make Fort Worth the great city it is today. Hope to see you again soon. Let's keep Fort Worth funky. After all, it's your Fort Worth.


The DEBCONF 7 Lightning Talks, these are a series of very short 5 minute talks by people to give a better idea or introduce an idea to everyone here. So first up we have balloon open hardware board and license, which will be followed by why tracker is cooler than unsliced cheese. So I'll hand over to Wookie and we'll get going. Hello, I've gone a bit soggy. Right, I carefully written a 15 minute talk, compressed from the 45 minute normal version, just being told I've got precisely five. So this is the short made up version. I got into open hardware because of the LARP project, TU Delft University. Open hardware is a highly overloaded term, people mean all sorts of things like FPGA designs which are actually software that creates hardware. I'm talking about actual designs you can make like that thing there. So here's a real one in a box, very fancy. I don't really want to talk about the hardware itself per se. I'm more interested in the licensing, but I'll just mention this as I'm here. So that's a relatively powerful ARM box. It's reasonably fast.  Engineers get very excited when you tell them there's a million gate FPGA on because there's a whole lot of wires going into that and you can connect it to arbitrary inputs and do live FFTs and analysis in hardware on whatever data you're getting in. So that lets you do neat stuff and there's a standard bus on the back of this thing. So this isn't very useful on its own as a computer. It hasn't got any useful sockets, it's just got a load of FFCs. So you have to stick in like a second board like this with USB ports on or whatever special IO you need for your interesting project. That's how it's intended to be used. So for example, I have here a light writer. This is a Bloom 2 in here in fact. So the company that now pays me to do cool stuff makes these things. And if I can get this to work. So that one's French. So they make speech synthesizers for people who can't themselves. There's a Linux box inside and there's their own IO to drive all the funky input devices they use for depending what sort of input the user can use. What else do I need to tell you? So licensing. People have used all sorts of different licensing for hardware designs. The people who actually write software to make hardware can use standard software licenses. And there have been various people got quite excited about open hardware around about 2,000. Quite a lot of you have probably heard of the Simputa project in India, which was a strong arm design, quite a lot like what's inside that light writer. And that was a lawyer written license. They called it the Simputa GPL, which was intended to allow people to make similar designs. And if they were enough like a Simputa, they could call it a Simputa. But then they had to pay the Simputa foundation, quarter of a million dollars, to actually make them. So that was partly successful. There were a few thousand sold, about the same number as have been sold of balloon 2s, in fact, which is a lot less popular as a project. And that was done by a guy called Steve Wiseman, whose license was. You can make as many as you like, but you have to persuade me if you want to make any changes. So what we've done is tried to formalize this a bit better for balloon 3 with having looked at all the various licenses. We decided, of course, that we had to write our own. The problem with hardware, unlike software, is that it's very expensive to copy. The Simtech guys explained to you why it costs serious money to make things. You spend a lot of money on prototypes. Then they don't work, so you have to do it again. You spend a lot of money designing stuff. Even if all your time of expertise is free, there's still quite a lot of money to be spent on actual stuff. And of course, the copying cost, I can't give you a URL and you can all download a balloon to play with. Well, actually, with QMU, you can kind of do that. So because of the copying costs, and also because you sell people actual hardware, a whole load of new laws apply like the sale of goods act and the fact that you have to be able to send it back within seven days if you don't like it. And it has to be disposed of in a particular way. And the ROHS, there isn't allowed to be any lead in it act and so on. So we've tried to write a license which covers the various legal aspects and allows people to do what they want in a copy left sort of way. So you can derive designs from this and you can manufacture as many of these as you like and you can sell them and so on. But if you want to change the design, you have to join the design group, which is really just a formalization of the normal software process. There are some people who know how this is all done and they are the geeks in charge of this project. And we can have as many balloon subprojects as we like, but because of the manufacturing requirements, there has to be a list of people. And that's how the current license works. Now, what I want is for anybody who actually is interested in this to tell me whether that license is actually any use to them. I think there's a little bit too much formalism in it, but the principles are sound and I'd very much like to have some feedback on it. There's URLs on my link. That's it. Okay, it's not to use notebooks, so I'll skip the quick demo I had prepared. Probably I broke it anyway. Hi, my name is Philipp Kalutza. I'm not a Debian developer, but someday I will be. And I want to talk about Tracker. I'm not a Tracker developer either, but I think it's interesting. The title, someone asked me that, refers to while I was writing this up, I read a blog post and it talked about something, something being the best thing since sliced cheese.  Yeah, why do I talk about Tracker to you guys? Well, building a distribution is all about integration of different software. And I think that Tracker is a good way to do that. Good opportunity. Basically Tracker started out as a desktop search engine, similar to what Beagle is doing. Yeah, Beagle is a bit heavyweight for its purpose, I think while I really like developing in C sharp, I think Beagle is, or a search engine is too central apart to write it in such a heavyweight language. Tracker also had a second mission, and that was to be like a central store for all the metadata that happens on the desktop. So any data that actually you could collect to a file, for example, I downloaded from this and that URL at this and that time, or possibly the link to this URL was sent to me by this and that friend. That's the kind of metadata that I think is really interesting to collect, that you cannot extract automatically while you do know about the file creation time, but actually finding out this kind of metadata is, yeah, would need to be collected, is not collected nowadays. And once you have that, I think the computing experience might change for the better for most desktop users. This file searching is especially targeted for the desktop, for usual documents that you handle, not for system-wide files. And yeah, the architecture works roughly like this. You have one demon per user indexing the files that this user is interested in. So mainly his home directory, which also means that if you have a shared directory for documents or for sound or something, that every user will index it himself. There's not yet any provision for having a system-wide service doing this. This per user demon is started by debus automatically whenever it is needed, but it has a bit of startup overhead to see what stuff changed while it wasn't running. So it makes sense to start this as early as possible in the session. And yeah, while the demon is running, it will watch with iNotify what happens in your home directory or wherever. The whole thing is backed by SQLite database. You can look at it directly, but if you want to manipulate it, you should go through the debus interface through the tracker demon. And it has a separate word index for full text searching. This will include, for example, PDFs that contain real text, not scanned PDFs of course. And yeah, you can find your documents easily that way. Tracker is fast and small. I haven't done any memory measurements myself, but the last numbers I heard is that you should be able to keep it running with just six megabyte of memory used. And yeah, as I said, it wants or aims to be your one-stop shop for all the metadata. So especially interesting at the moment, I guess, are keywords, sometimes also just called tags. Many of the Web 2.0 applications allow users to just mark up your files simply with that. There's a patch also floating around where you can replace the, in GNOME, the Nautilus emblem mechanism with keywords. So it shows the emblems on the files for keywords that have a defined emblem. That was what I wanted to demo. Also, of course, it can extract keywords from PDFs and stuff if they are created properly. Yeah, so time's almost up. I'll skip the demo. Any application that you might be hacking on or maintaining and doing some more stuff on it, what can your applications do? Of course, it can search the metadata. It can, but there's centralized search tools also. It would be important to tell Tracker about metadata that you have and that can't be extracted automatically, like where did I download that, the file. And yeah, hopefully that will in the long-term lead to a nicer desktop integration and nicer user experience. Thank you. Okay, next up is Pandora's technology box followed by talking about Debian or not. Talking about Debian? P-Builder. Debeday.debian.net. Yay! Okay, well that crashed my laptop. So I think we'll move swiftly on while we try and get this sorted to Conspiracy, Descent and Fund, which may be slightly longer than five minutes now. Yes, and so nobody's gone so far. Maybe I'll take a little extra time. So as many of you guys know, I'm from the U.S. and from Seattle, where Microsoft is from. So I thought I would come up with a conspiracy theory that would link these two. This is from last year at DebConf over drinks that came up with this crazy conspiracy theory and it was kind of used to describe some of the trollish behavior that's happened in Debian. Some people told me I should turn it into a lightning talk this year, so I did. So this is somewhat funny and tangentially related to Debian, but it's, you know, anyway. So 1999, the European Parliament Directorate General for Research requested a report on the development of surveillance technology and the risk of abuse of economic information for political control. This was actually written by a guy from Edinburgh. And this report detailed state of art in communications intelligence, which is also known as COMMENT, basically the automated processing of intelligence for purposes basically targeted in communications intelligence activities by the U.S. government. And this was a report that followed the echelon technology that everybody knows about. Two of the key findings of this report was that basically at the moment in 1999, there are comprehensive systems that exist at the moment to access, intercept and process every important modern form of communications that exist. And another one is that there is a wide-ranging evidence there is wide-ranging evidence that indicates that major governments are routinely utilizing communications intelligence to provide commercial advantage to companies and trade. This last part is particularly important to note because typically the targets of COMMENT operations are military diplomatic communications like narcotics trafficking or money laundering terrorism, that sort of thing. But since the 1960s, following increase in world trade, the collection of economic intelligence has been increasingly important aspect of COMMENT. And it's clearly been demonstrated to be exploited to obtain economic advantage for the U.S. In fact, the U.S. officials acknowledge that the NSA collects economic information through these methods. And these methods or this information that's gathered is used to produce intelligence of direct commercial benefit to companies like Boeing and I will posit Microsoft. In fact, in the 70s, the executive director of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Intelligence Advisory Board mandated that from here on out, economic intelligence be considered a function of the U.S. national security interest, which is up there with diplomatic military and technological intelligence. So if we take that and we combine that with the second part of this conspiracy theory that involves a little bit of U.S. history about a program that the FBI initiated in the 60s called COINTELPRO. This is something that Wikipedia defines as a program that was used to or designed to investigate and disrupt dissident political organizations within the U.S., particularly targeted organizations which were considered to have politically radical elements, although the range was pretty broad. It went from anti-war groups to Martin Luther King's organization, that sort of thing. Basically how COINTELPRO worked was FBI agents infiltrated organizations and exposed and disrupted and misdirected, discredited and otherwise neutralized the activities of these movements. They used methods by basically infiltrating and pretending to be part of the group and then they increased factionalism and caused disruption and defections within the group. So this program was secret until the early 70s when a FBI office in Pennsylvania was burglarized by a group of left-wing radicals who stole a bunch of files from the FBI and then published them. Basically the effect of this program is pretty widespread in the U.S. and it caused a lot of disruptions in organizations. And the reason that the U.S. gave for this program, they said they dismantled it, but a lot of people think it still exists. But the reason they gave for this program was it was created for the purposes of protecting the U.S. national security interests. So let's turn to Microsoft here for a second where Microsoft's profits are somewhere in the range of about $15 billion a year. That means daily net income is about $55 million. That's every 24 hours they make $55 million in pure profit. Apparently it takes Microsoft about 10 hours of business to exceed Red Hat's entire quarterly profits about $20 million. So we also can combine this with the report that was released in January in the Washington Post about Microsoft working with the NSA to include a backdoor key in Windows NT in order to have access or whatever. It's probably, everybody knows, somewhere in NT-4, Service Pack 5, Microsoft screwed up and forgot to cover this information that it was identified. And the NSA and Microsoft are pretty adamantly against asserting that this is for any purpose otherwise other than something very innocuous. But anyways, as I was discussing earlier about the comment interception capabilities report to the EU Parliament, one of the areas that the U.S. now considers important for protecting national security interests includes economic interests. And if we take this information, combine it with the knowledge of the well-documented Cointel program, we can sort of develop a conspiracy theory that asserts the very viable possibility that the U.S. could within reason consider the free software movement fairly revolutionary and by extension debbing itself and dangerous to the U.S. national security interests and as a direct attack against the national security interests of the state of America. So if we construct a thread between all these elements we get a fairly conspicuous picture that could lead you to conclude that the free software projects in Debbie in particular is likely infested with agent provocateurs. Well-paid technical professionals frequently contracted by the U.S. three-letter agencies. And so it would be relatively trivial for a paid technical agent of one of the CIA or FBR or whatever to pass through the NMQ and permeate Debbie's web of trust and slowly disrupt our inevitable progression towards total world domination with free software and the erosion of the various proprietary profits that companies like Microsoft have enjoyed over the years. And of course, Microsoft's scope patent licensing schemes that are coming out recently that are claiming open source vendors must respect Microsoft's intellectual property and some of which they claim is Linux itself and Steve Ballmer's partnership with Novell and all that sort of stuff. Clearly Microsoft considers Linux a threat. We all know that. And we sort of celebrate it with a certain amount of glee. But they are a significant economic part of the U.S. economy. And by extension, because of this, this threat to Microsoft could be considered a threat against the U.S. government. So if Microsoft's threatened by Linux, U.S. government is threatened by Linux. Covert operations are undertaken to disrupt Linux. Trolls appear on our mailing list. So we know Boeing, for example, also a Seattle company, no coincidence there, has engaged in actual activities such as this in the past. And Microsoft's past cooperation with the government on covert operations with this NSA key can lead one to sort of an inevitable if not ridiculously crazy conspiracy theory. So there you go. Those slides were not mine. Okay, so as you all know, we have about 15,000 packages in the archive.  But there are also a lot of little gems which are from most of them totally unknown. So I'm part of the team behind Debian package of the day. You have a picture here of the website. So the goal is to introduce little gems that nobody knows about to our users. So you should submit us entries because we don't write the entries. We just edit them. For example, this one, this was an entry a few months ago about calculate. Who knows calculate? Okay, so all of you are there. It's desktop calculator. With a GTK and a QT interface. There are about two packages. It does unit conversion, which is quite convenient to think about current threads on Debian level. And we have quite a lot of readers. We are syndicated on Planet Ubuntu on Debian times. We are not syndicated on Planet Debian because of the non-personal blogs or policy. We got slash dotted in March. And the result is that when an entry gets published, the popcorn score of the package really increases. That's the popcorn score for calculate. The red line indicates when it was published. So really submit us entries about package you like, or package you package. You can also become an editor. Debian Day, with this current form, exists since last December. We publish two entries per week. We currently have three active editors. There's Anna, me, and Tincho. And we really need someone else to help us. So if you think that you can help us, just mail us and join. You don't need to write English very well. We don't. So if you do, it's even better. Okay, that's all. Oh, and since I have lots of time remaining, one of the first entries that were published on day-by-day was about WebSec, which is a cool package that allows you to monitor websites for changes. That is, you say that, for example, a personal homepage of someone you want to follow can just, it just mails you when that page changes. And these packages are found now. So if someone is interested in this, just adopt it. Okay, you've all heard the conspiracy. So I've got a solution. In fact, I'm quite sure that I met some of those trolls, those flame war people that have come from somewhere in the United States by way of somewhere in Europe. My talk is about the two commands of success. I see that many things in the world can be carried from one organization to another organization. And so if you look at the world to see what organization has been most successful, in my opinion, there's a fellow that came and they ask him, what are the two great commands? Or they ask him the first one, actually. And he said, the first one is hero Israel. The Lord our God is one, love your neighbor as yourself. And the second one is like, and the second one was, the first one was love him because he's one. The second one was love your neighbor as yourself. Unity was his number one command. He started out by saying, we're one. If any organization wants to be successful, unity is the first command. That's why the United States, as he documented, sent people in as spies to infiltrate the organization and cause dissent within the organizations. Because later on the Bible says where there is division, there is every evil work. And the last day that he was here on this earth, he spent sweating like drops of blood, praying that all his disciples might be one. And he said two times, the reason was so that the world might know. So if Debian is going to be even more successful than the great success we've already enjoyed, the path to the greater success is going to be through greater unity within the organization. And I've used half of my time and that's all I need to say. Thanks. I have like two seconds to make my laptop work and make the worst lighting dog ever because it's completely improvised to filling the gap. So I have basically no chance that it works, but let's see if that will work. It doesn't, okay. That's very fine. I had a good idea to improvise a talk actually. Anyway, so this is about the Smith Review Project, also known as the worst announcement ever. Actually, it happened on April 1st, 2007. Some guy, some random French guy announced that he would launch a project to review English in all of your templates, control files or whatever. So actually, nobody ever imagined that it was serious and it was. So basically this lighting dog is meant to say you that this is a serious project. So this is basically on purpose than one of the guys that speak the most awful English ever. You have ever heard in a dep conf.  Right. Everybody agrees. So the point of the project is pretty obvious. It's meant to review the use of this wonderful language and make Debian the best English speaking distribution ever. It's already the best Spanish speaking, French speaking, etc. So we have to be the best English speaking distribution ever. The point of my slide was to give you a kind of wiki page or pointer or whatever to have all the native speakers of this beautiful language join us and replace me as the worst leader ever. This is somewhere lost on the wiki.debian.org under I-18N.  Initially I wanted to use Cambridge, which sounds like more British style. Someone very keen in both English and legally stuff told me that Cambridge Dictionary is something that's non-free. So Smith is supposed to be an English dictionary, which was this name. The point is whenever you have something written in English, think about the male English, Debian, Elton and English, and ask for a review, please, and just make us mad with a lot of work. And of course, native speakers, please join so that we can deal with that. So that was basically the point. And the very last, as I still have two minutes, and this morning I was disappointed and I didn't have any enough attendance to the Butan talk. So I wanted to say thank you to everybody and thank you to the Debcon organizers, but I wanted to say it in Zonka. So my slide was supposed to explain you how to say thanks in Zonka. So we will do it together. So I will ask you to say kujutsangpo to all Debcon organizers, please. Lada, kujutsangpo. Thank you. Good afternoon. Right. What was the first one I was going to be doing? Ah, yes. Thank you very much. I have been writing an article called Pandora's Technology Box. And I wanted to tell you about it. Now, you know what Pandora's Box is? It's the box that somebody opened and all of the world's illnesses came out of it. When you apply that to technology, basically it means all of the things that when you open the boxes of the technology and you sit in front of a computer, especially like us, for prolonged periods of time, it has an effect on you. We know this. Yeah, you get RSI from Standing Thing, that Microsoft Student. I don't know if you've seen the photograph. The student is down like this with the laptop on the floor. Yeah. Now, how many people actually sit like that? How many people have you seen today sitting like that bent over the laptop? Now, for how long? Ah, my neck. Oh, ah, thing. 50 hertz, 60 hertz screens flickering under 50 hertz lights causing interference patterns. We've got to look after ourselves for goodness sake. And the reason is very simple. It's because technology is in our entire world, our first world, is now entirely dependent on technology. And that is a, in some ways for our health, that is a really bad thing. But it's also, it's necessary because from a communications perspective, the fact that we're able to communicate globally, share information and knowledge globally. And as one person was pointing out in one of the buffs, you can now, you can create something in a file, send it to somebody and they will ship you a physical product. You have to send them money as well, but you can get a physical product back. So, we are, we have an enormous amount of responsibility, all right? To keep ourselves healthy, all right? I'm, I've, both psychologically and physically. So, please, please, please, don't punish yourselves, all right? With, with these, these rules, these social conventions. Oh, I'm, you know, all of my peers are drinking, or so I must. My employment contract says that, you know, all my intellectual property is owned. Therefore, I must, you know, I must sign it.  Everybody here, all right? Some of the talks that I've been to, and people I've spoken to, have been absolutely fantastic, all right? The, you know, the emphasis on things, I'm just so delighted to have been here to, to, to a sample and opportunity to talk to people about things. That social, the social survey that I think that guy was giving, that they talk about his social survey. Speaking to Ian Jackson about them getting some information about the fact, Debian is, you know, insight into Debian being basically a political organisation. It is political, everybody's political. Being in that guy's talk, that was a fantastic boff you did.  What do wanna people see from Debian? The insights from that are fantastic. Every single one of us is here for a very, a very specific reason, all right? It's because we, we, we believe in something and we're not going to give it up. That's fantastic. You know, there's that wonderful quote, the, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Now please be unreasonable, as unreasonable as you'd like, all right? And enjoy it. Stay in your integrity, all right? At this man here, all right? This idea of the, the idea of unity. Fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. A really, really good thing, yeah? You don't have to believe in God.  You know, if you think that it should be done for goodness sake, do it. Don't wait for anybody else, all right? Please don't wait for anybody else, all right? Don't wait for any social conventions, but also at the same time. Please look after your health. Look after yourselves. Enjoy your life. Enjoy doing what you're doing. Thank you. So thank you, Morgan, for dredging the very bottom of the barrel and coming up with me to talk. So I'm going to give a lightning talk about calendaring extensions for distributed authoring and versioning. Does anybody know what that is? CalDAV. So last debconf, one of the things that's been pissing me off about free software for the last 10 years is that something I used to do back in the early 90s when I was using Windows 3.1 was to share my calendars with other people. And it's just something that I have not been able to do successfully with free software ever since, really, other than web-based calendars are there now. Yeah, it doesn't work so well on aeroplanes, but then neither does CalDAV, perhaps, although it can sync later. But there are some kind of light at the end of the tunnel with CalDAV and GroupDAV and the API for Google Calendar. So last debconf I started working on writing a CalDAV server. And it's pretty much kind of working now. So there is an option there for people who want to have shared calendars to look at other calendars. And the way webDAV works and is supported by a lot of calendaring software is to write the entire calendar out as a file using DAV, which is very prone to collisions. If you've got two people maintaining the same calendar, it will easily collide. CalDAV has a bunch of mechanisms around it that avoid those collisions partly by simply writing individual events out rather than writing the whole calendar and partly locking mechanisms and using e-tags. If you've ever looked at the RFC specifications, CalDAV is one of the finest examples of standing on the shoulders of others that I've ever seen, but it makes it a bloody nightmare to read because it's built on top of HTTP 1.1, it's built on top of DAV, it's built on top of DAV permissions, and it's built on top of iCalendar, which is built in turn on top of other things. So does anybody have any questions about CalDAV or anything like that? The URL for my server is rscds.sauceforge.net, and rscds stands for the really simple CalDAV store. It also stands for the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society for a little bit of humor since we're in Edinburgh. Any other questions? I know Apple recently released their CalDAV server under some license that at least OSI is happy with, probably the APSL or maybe something more DFSG free. Does anybody, have you compared yours to theirs and how does it differ? Sure. I have tried the Apple CalDAV server, it's written in Python, and it uses extended attributes in the file system to store the metadata, and it works to some extent. It will crash evolution hard, if you try and use it with evolution, but that's a bug in evolution, not a bug in Apple's CalDAV server, so no doubt somebody could exploit that if they were security or anti-security minded. But yeah, generally it's okay, it probably goes further than my one does because mine's a solo effort and Apple's calendar server is the work of several people, including one of the authors of the CalDAV specification and other specifications related to CalDAV. But I'm having fun doing mine. Any other questions? I've only got one second left anyway, so thank you for putting up with me.


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