Posts Tagged ‘KDE’

Mauritian Holiday Files for KDE

Jan
15

Wanna have our National Holidays and special days get shown in your KDE calendar?

Here’s the way to get it:

You can checkout from SVN here or download the files here (might not be up to date):

svn checkout http://kde-for-mauritius.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ kde-for-mauritius-read-only


Copy the contents of “Holiday Files” to “/usr/share/kde4/apps/libkholidays/plan2″. You will need administrative permission to do so. Open the destination location with this command (kubuntu). Then you will be able to paste the files

sudo dolphin /usr/share/kde4/apps/libkholidays/plan2


Right click on the time widget in the lower-right section of your screen and select “Digital Clock Settings”


Now go to calendar, nect to Mauritius, select “Days Off”


U’r Done! :)


Notes:
1. This calendar is only valid for Year 2012 only. The following Holidays won’t appear in the following years:

Spring Festival
Thaipoosam Cavadee
Maha Shivratee
Ougadi
Assumption // This holiday did not appear in year 2011. I did not put it reccuring for this reason cause i’m not sure when they decide to put it
Ganesh Chaturthi
Divali

If you know in advance when the above events will occur, please let me know. Events like Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adhia are approximated yearly like this:

“Eid-Ul-Fitr” weekend on hijri 1 shawwal // weekend makes it appear as a Day off
“Eid-Ul-Adhia” on hijri 10 thualhijjah // this will appear in green in the calendar as it is not a holiday

2. Send me a list of cultural days which mauritian celebrate such as St. Valentine’s day, Father Laval day and birth of Sir Ramgoolam etc.

3. If you want to help, here’s my project page hosted on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/kde-for-mauritius

Next, i’ll be doing a calendar for the Major activities organised by The University of Mauritius. Stay tuned to the SVN :P

The Art of taking Screenshots in KDE

Nov
2
If you were on Windoze and you want to make screenshots, you have to press “PrntScr” button, open MS Paint or your an image editing program then paste the contents of your clipboard there. It can be a pain if you are making multiple screenshots! With KDE, it’s a pleasure to take screenies ;)
1. Hit “PrntScr” button on your keyboard
2. A window like this will appear
3. You can save the file directly or send it to your favorite Image Editor
4. Your image editor opens with the file loaded where you can do whatever you want then save it :)

“Upgrading” to Kubuntu 11.10

Oct
17

After i downloaded the Kubuntu 11.10 .iso file and made a startup pendrive with it. I thought when i would boot with it, it would offer me an “Upgrade” option like Ubuntu does but it didn’t. I installed afresh and overwrite onto my existing installation.

After the installation completed, i noticed my desktop remained almost the same. I opened my torrent client and all my torrents continued to download normally.
All my installed programs were gone though. However their data files were still present. After i re-installed them, they continued working as before. The mail client was not working at all. It would just crash just after i launch it.
My sound was not working sometimes. The desktop would crash often.
I decided finally to wipe my linux partition and install afresh.

I just discovered the Netbook Desktop. So far, i’m enjoying it. Here’s a screeny!