Re: Call for testing: kio-mtp

2012-09-17 Thread Andrew Mason
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:52:40 PM Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hello everyone, > about half a year ago I boldly stated that I would implement a MTP KIO > Slave. Well, my master thesis and other stuff kept me busy and from that > work, but when I read that a Gnome developer published his first version of

Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Andrew Mason
> > There may be an answer to the question of how to programmatically render > icons that are both attractive and useful across a wide range of sizes, but > SVG isn't it. Out of curiosity what are the issues with regards to SVG? Kind regards Andrew >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Open Source Software Survey 2011: A request for input

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Mason
I'm not sure what you are tying to achieve but this survey is not very well done at all. It's very leading, so the results are essentially useless unless you want some results to agree with a particular view point. Andrew >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubsc

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
> > I don't think these people should be our main target audience. We all have intel core-i5's at work and were forced turn Nepomuk off for performance issues with kde 4.7.4 / 4.8. That is not new hardware but there would still be a reasonable portion of people with lesser hardware using KDE.

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
or perspective you would need to find someone who knows more. I only threw in my 2c as something that maybe worth consideration. It probably isn't enough for a gsoc project, but once again, that is not my call. Kind regards Andrew On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: &

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
> By the way, if you want to sort downloads by file types, using Nepomuk > is the obvious solution. I like this idea but please consider there are some people, for which Nepomuk is disabled. This can be because Nepomuk impacts the performance of their desktop in some way, or simply because the b

Re: KDE 4.8 Thoughts

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew Mason
> > do you get accelerated 3D and visual effects now with Sandy Bridge? Yep, had them with 4.7.4 also, although it's significantly nicer with 4.8. I am using a newer intel driver than was originally shipped with oneiric which gives me stability but it was working 'out the box'. Andrew >> Visi

Re: KDE 4.8 Thoughts

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew Mason
KDE 4.8 is rocking for me too.Using the Kubuntu PPA's on Sandy Bridge system and it's just lightning fast to do anything. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Mason
On Monday 12 December 2011 00:55:15 Gravis wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:22 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote: > > Qt is just the framework which makes building the functionality of > > applications easier..so not every bit of functionality that an > > application has shou

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Mason
On Sunday 11 December 2011 23:37:28 Gravis wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 10:13 +1000, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:35:40 PM Gravis wrote: > > > konsole requires all these packages to be installed. > > > > Thats just a silly argument. Konsole does not exist in a vacuum, its

Re: Help fixing Lokalize & generic development questions

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Mason
Hi Albert, > At the moment I am unemployed so if you are really interested drop me a mail > in private and we can have a chat. Thanks, Albert > Thank you for the quick reply. I have sent a proposal to my manager however think he has found another piece of software which seems to do the job

Help fixing Lokalize & generic development questions

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew Mason
Greetings, The company I work for is trying to provide our clients with a mechanism to translate a website using .xliff and of all the translation software we looked at, lokalize was deemed to be the best for our use case. We ran across a few minor issues. We tried to contact the lead develope

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2011-04-26 Thread Andrew Mason
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote: > Hi again, > > Just letting you know that this has turned into a real project at Mozilla: > http://blog.mozilla.com/joe/2011/04/26/introducing-the-azure-project > > This is being developed in this repository: > http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/gr

Mentor needed for libqgit2

2011-04-25 Thread Andrew Mason
Hi All, Recently I started working on a new project which aims to create a key/value database ( somewhat similar to couchDB ) using Qt core and Git ( for the actual database bit ). So naturally I went searching for Qt Git bindings and found this wonderful library written by Laszlo Papp https://proj