Hi again archers, pidgin is now built with voice and video support.
You can find pidgin 2.6.2-3 in official repository [testing].
I added farsight2 to depends but I keept gstreamer0.10-{base,good} as optional.
October 4th, 2009
Bug Squashing Day: results
Yesterday we did the 1st Bug Squashing Day made by me and Paul.
We closed 76 bugs in Arch Linux project, 27 in Community, 3 in Pacman and 10 in AUR. Many bugs are still open but with the fix provided by some user. Really we want to say thank you to all archers who helped us in this!
A special thanks to Ionuț, Roman, Eric, djszapi, Bluewind, jelly12gen, Arkham…and others who probably I forgot now.
If you missed it, you can repair: join next, next month!
October 4th, 2009
[sonata] fetch lyrics now works!
I was looking for a source tarball from one week, cause berlios.de have problems, and finally I got it!
This new release fix the annoying problem with fetch lyrics feature.
I can tell you: sonata 1.6.2.1 available for archers!
September 21, 2009 (Version 1.6.2.1):
- Library artwork caching/displaying improvements
- Lyricwiki screen scraping workaround
- Replace Amazon.com cover art fetching with Rhapsody.com
- Bug: Fix library sorting when adding, e.g., albums to playlist
- Bug: Fix window positioning weirdness when unwithdrawing from systray
- Bug: Fix album being labeled various artists when a duplicate exists
- Bug: Fix album tracks in the info tab being out of order sometimes
- Bug: Show songs with a missing date in info album listing
- Bug: Library icons change after adding stream to playlist
- Bug: Cpu spike, tooltips missing in library search results with gtk 2.16.2
October 4th, 2009
[ncmpc] added lyrics support
Whit ncmpc 0.12 developers added an experimental lyrics screen disabled by default.
Now archers can find this screen in ncmpc 0.15-2 package who I built some hours ago.
ncmpc 0.15 changes include an improved build, updated lyricwiki plugin, fixed bugs, and a tweaked display.
NB. Lyrics plugins need python and/or ruby (depends on which you want to use)
June 7th, 2009
official [kde-unstable] repository is back
Hi all,
only let you know the repository kde-unstable is again active.
I packaged with Pierre KDE 4.3 beta2; at the moment packages are bigger than previous because we enabled the DEBUG build option, but we will disable it soon: there are few vantages and many disadvantages to keep it.
Pierre talked with Allan who said that pacman 3.3 will be out soon, so we are working to split KDE packages. Will be nice to have splitted packages in time to the new KDE release.
Cheers
May 25th, 2009
Kopete Facebook Plugin
This is real man, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. is working to add facebook support in Kopete. So I made a PKGBUILD to build his nice plugin, obviously you can find it on AUR.
It works with KDE 4.2 or above; you also need qjson.
Now you can chat with anyone in your facebook contact list from Kopete. It supports proxy.
Enjoy!
May 24th, 2009
KDE 4.3 beta 1 packages
Hi all,
I’m working on kde 4.3 beta packages – we must be ready for the official release – so I temporally created a repository [kde-unstable] where I’m putting the packages that I built.
The repository is located at http://dev.archlinux.org/~andrea/kde-unstable/ and here I’m putting the PKGBUILDs that I’m using.
So if you want to try the new beta simply add this repo to your pacman.conf. Only i686.
Please report to me bugs which are related to a bad PKGBUILD.
Enjoy ;)
May 4th, 2009
How to set the icon in KDE Kicker menu
To change the Kicker menu icon you have to change ${icons_dir}/places/start-here-kde.png icon.
For example, to set archlinux-icon-crystal-128.svg, from archlinux-artwork package, as Kicker menu icon you must run this (you need librsvg):
# for i in 16 22 32 48 64 128; do rsvg-convert /usr/share/archlinux/icons/archlinux-icon-crystal-128.svg -f png -h $i -w $i -o /usr/share/icons/default.kde4/${i}x${i}/places/start-here-kde.png; done
Now re-apply your icon theme and enjoy ours logo ;)
April 24th, 2009
[libmsn] Kopete crash caused by emesene
After two months of awesome window manager, I’m back to use KDE4 on my laptop to test KDE applications.
This means I’m using Kopete instead of Pidgin, or Quassel instead of XChat, or QMPDclient instead of Sonata, etc…
Sometimes I get a Kopete crash, without any reason. Or said it better, I thought it was without any reason.
Looking on the web I found this bug report which said is libmsn faults caused by emesene MSN client.
To fix this, a patch was made an sent to Tiago Salem Herrmann which merged in libmsn SVN trunk.
I applied that patch to libmsn-4.0beta4-2 in [extra], so…enjoy with emesene people!
April 14th, 2009
[kdebase-workspace] patch to fix calendar resizing bug applied
I applied a patch to kdebase-workspace to fix the KDE bug #187699:
In KDE 4.2.2, the calendar plasmoid uses 100% of CPU when the user try to resize or move it.
package: extra/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2-2
