by Dave | Jan 15, 2013 | Tinker Blog
We all make mistakes sometimes, even me. And when it comes to computers I sometimes make messes that I then have to clean up. This is one of those times. Do a search for Nepomuk and mostly you find things like “Help! Nepomuk is eating all of my CPU” or...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2013 | Tinker Blog
Not too long ago I decided to switch back to KDE as my desktop environment. My reasons were aesthetic and technical. I do think that Canonical’s Ubuntu plans are great. I like a lot of what they’re doing. But it’s all a mish-mash of technologies and...
by Dave | Mar 16, 2011 | Tinker Blog
It would seem to be a simple request. But, not so. There’s even a bug. When I try to assign the shortcut, it showed “Launch (1)” as the assigned key. I was able to resolve it using the tips at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=837944 which...
by Dave | Mar 14, 2011 | Improving Apps
Recently a big step towards a unified KDE interface occurred- the oxygen-gtk project. Rather than the imperfect solution of theming where a GTK theme that approximates the KDE Oxygen look is made, this project is an actual GTK engine that will dynamically and...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2010 | Tinker Blog
Attempting to change the photo in the ‘About Me’ Personal Settings control, I ran into the error above. I found a good hint at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62046#p134788 but with one minor change. I don’t know why they felt they...
