


System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

System Runners by dilettante 4 comments
I don't really have the time to write a new plasmoid and the architecture of KRunner is rather different from gnome do this isn't such a trivial task. - Jan 31 2009

System Runners by dilettante 5 comments
Alt+Space is also a historical shortcut. It was inherited from the Cmd+Space shortcut of Quicksilver which was passed on as Alt+Space to Katapult and now QuickSand. You can always change the shortcut to something like Meta+Space though :) - Oct 23 2008

System Software by dilettante 22 comments

System Software by dilettante 22 comments
- Aug 12 2008

System Software by dilettante 22 comments

System Software by dilettante 22 comments
On Gentoo this is provided by libXScrnSaver. I'm looking for the corresponding debian package. What distro are you using? - Aug 11 2008

System Software by dilettante 22 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Instead of /usr you can use `kde-config --prefix` so the command will look something like cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde-config --prefix` -DREALTRANSPARENCY=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull .
I added the -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug full switch so debugging info will be included.
Could you run a gdb katapult command for me? Then type run at the prompt and if the program crashes, type bt. You can mail me the stuff to avoid flooding this page with comments. - Jul 04 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
>>I am able to reproduce this pretty consistently,
Unfortunately, I haven't. I rarely get crashes but I'm unable to consistently reproduce them.
>>especially if I type in a bunch of garbage, then hold down the backspace key.
Why are you typing garbage? ;) I tried that too with the previous releases but you're the first to report the problem so I thought it was pretty isolated.
>>Maybe it has problems keeping up with rapid key presses?
Yes, apparently sometimes it does... Except without a definite set of keystrokes or normal program usage that causes it to crash it's difficult to identify what's wrong. - Jul 04 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
The command for cmake should look something like `cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DREALTRANSPARENCY=1 .`
My prefix (as used in gentoo) is /usr/kde/3.5 but /usr also works. It should be the directory returned by `kde-config --prefix`.
I'm not sure about Kubuntu though. I think it's kde3-config in Kubuntu. - Jul 03 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
$KDEDIR should be the directory returned by `kde-config --prefix`
Your system isn't detecting the libraries used by the program. - Jul 03 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
It appears that the libraries are not in your system path. So the program bails out when it can't find the display plug-ins.
My motherboard gave up on me last night and I don't have the money to fix it right now so sorry but I can't really do additional testing at the moment. - Jul 03 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
I didn't remove the localization support, it's just that no translations have been written for it. I suppose I could reuse the translations for the old katapult but they'll need updating. - Jul 01 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Anyway, for programs, check the options for the programs catalog. Maybe you didn't have icons and had "ignore applications without icons" checked. There really shouldn't be any difference in the programs it finds because I didn't modify anything there.
With regards to the IM catalog, I haven't really touched code that didn't cause problems except if I needed to add features. So I guess I'll take a look at it after I finish the stuff I want to do first (maybe in a month or so). :) - Jun 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
The project manager stopped replying after my first three e-mails and I got tired of waiting so I fixed most of the bugs myself and released this. :)
But I do agree KRunner will fulfill a lot of what this program tries to do for KDE4. I still think there'll be a niche for a Katapult-like program in KDE4 given that not everything I plan for it will be done by KRunner. Of course, I could just hack on KRunner instead so right now I'm not really sure what to do after I finish the next two feature releases for this. - Jun 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
I'll have a fix it up sometime tomorrow which should theoretically fix the crashes as well as other reported bugs. - Jun 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
It appears that the program launch counter in Katapult-Fast Track is passed deleted items. Are you receiving "Ignored duplicate item" messages for programs?
Also, how large is your amarok database? Have you tried running without the amarok catalog? If so, does the freezing behavior still occur? - Jun 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
The old Katapult and this fork don't detect changes to the menu made when Katapult is running. The work around is to go to the settings dialog and press ok.
The code for detecting programs hasn't changed (except ignoring duplicate items became silent for programs). I only modified the way the rankings they are given based on user launch preferences.
Btw, fixed real transparency support. Will be adding it, along with bugfixes, within the week. Stay tuned. :) - Jun 26 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
I've been unable to reproduce the shortcut problem.
Is there another Supertux desktop file available? The default behavior of the program catalog is to ignore duplicates because adaptive search currently doesn't work properly if duplicates are found.
The clear query after a delay bug is one I didn't notice. I'll look into it. :) Hopefully I can have a patch ready in a couple of days. - Jun 25 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
If you run gdb katapult it will tell you were the program crashed. I could use that information.
The activating/deactivating catalog issue is a QDict/thread related issue. Display crashes usually come from missing plug-ins. - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
A backtrace would also be helpful. configure it with ./configure --enable-debug=full. - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
What does the backtrace look like? - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
>> You'll have to explain 'disabling catalogues' a bit more
Go to the settings dialog box. Click on "Catalogs". You should see two list boxes. Select catalogs from the right list box and click the arrow pointing to the left. I guess the design of the dialog box is a bit misleading because you tend to assume the Catalogs part is just a heading. I'll see what I can do about that in the future.
>> Um... maybe I'll do a 'strace katapult' later - if you could give me a hint how to grep the output (would be insane to put the whole output on kde-apps).
Hmmm... The original authors set a 20ms timer that wastes a lot of CPU. The strace output will most probably be mostly connected to the timer. Based on your system specs, the timer shouldn't be much of an issue though. You could clean up the output by removing all the "gettimeofday" calls. You could mail me the output. My address is in the AUTHORS file. - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Deleting katapultrc should do the trick for now. I'll be fixing it in a while. I have to cram for a test first. haha - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Had that problem before. I think it's because the configuration files aren't 100% compatible. - Jun 24 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
You're system may end up just being an isolated case but no matter what I need to get to the bottom of this. What were the other open programs? Were any of them CPU intensive by themselves? - Jun 23 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Could you do me a favor and tell me what catalogs are active? Also try disabling catalogs one at a time to determine which one is causing the problem.
Also try backing up katapultrc in ~/.kde/share/config/katapultrc and then deleting it. There shouldn't be any problems migrating from 0.3.1.4 but I'd rather know for sure that's not the cause.
I run gentoo and it's been perfectly functional for the past couple of weeks. I can't really test it myself on Suse so your help would be appreciated. :) - Jun 23 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
Wrt the name, I know Fast Track is a long shot because it's been used for other products (like a technology for FPGA's). I could end up getting sued for using it. Still preferred using something that expressed speed but had a 'k' in it. ;) - Jun 23 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 81 comments
I'm working on something KRunner based now but it's far from complete. The mockup for the new KRunner interface looks sweet btw. - Jun 23 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 21 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 21 comments
Faux transparency works well until the contents of the underlying windows change.
I've been a Gentoo user since the 1.4 days and I don't plan on shifting to Kubuntu so I really can't tell if real transparency is working there. Would be interesting to see the code though. - Mar 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 21 comments
Hopefully they're working on the KDE4 version which should have native support for real transparency but its not in svn and I don't have access to the bazaar repositories. - Mar 27 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dilettante 21 comments
Hopefully it'll be fixed in a while. - Mar 27 2007