OSDW OMG
Wow what an experience this has been so far. Interesting talks, brainstorming and the obligatory brewery visitation. Matt's flight was overbooked, but he still made it the next morning. Linspire's support and appreciation has been no less than awesome!
I had a discussion with one of the Linspire programmers about a network manager program he wrote in python that manages interfaces on your laptop, switching them based on interaction and events from DBUS. Not only does it handle things nicely, but it also sit in the system tray and apparently has a kcontrol module. I thought this was very interesting considering that it was written in python and with all the recent discussion on the different network monitoring apps recently on the kde-devel list. Why can't we get all these guys together to make one "kick ass" network management application that handles wifi, wep, wpa, etc. I can dream can't I?
Also, with some interest about networked virtual folders and things of that nature that sit on your desktop and are interacted by others across the network in plasma, I started writing a proof of concept SK theme that uses network programming modeling game design ideas(i.e.udp client/server). This proof of concept will emulate Pong, although I'll have to implement the collision code somehow and then I'll release it upon kdelook.
Pictures will be posted on the next entry of some of the happenings that I've been able to attend.
I had a discussion with one of the Linspire programmers about a network manager program he wrote in python that manages interfaces on your laptop, switching them based on interaction and events from DBUS. Not only does it handle things nicely, but it also sit in the system tray and apparently has a kcontrol module. I thought this was very interesting considering that it was written in python and with all the recent discussion on the different network monitoring apps recently on the kde-devel list. Why can't we get all these guys together to make one "kick ass" network management application that handles wifi, wep, wpa, etc. I can dream can't I?
Also, with some interest about networked virtual folders and things of that nature that sit on your desktop and are interacted by others across the network in plasma, I started writing a proof of concept SK theme that uses network programming modeling game design ideas(i.e.udp client/server). This proof of concept will emulate Pong, although I'll have to implement the collision code somehow and then I'll release it upon kdelook.
Pictures will be posted on the next entry of some of the happenings that I've been able to attend.
1 Comments:
Why can't we get all these guys together to make one "kick ass" network management application that handles wifi, wep, wpa, etc.
My thought exactly! Another area that could do with a bit of aggregation is music, particularly when it comes to playing MIDI files. Recorded music and MIDI music may be fundamentally different, but users shouldn't have to know the distinction and remember which app to open each filetype with.
By vladc6, at 9:50 AM
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