
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This is a plugin for Kopete that displays all online (as in not offline) contacts right on the desktop, Karamba style.
It uses contact photos and transparency to give a unique new look to your contact list. You can close the regular contact list to system tray to reduce window clutter.
Many features of the real contact lst are accessible via this list: double click starts chat, groups can be collapsed, tool tips and (with some restrictions) context menus can be used.
The look is extremely configurable to adapt to as many users needs as possible.
The option to exclude single contacts as well as whole groups is now available.
14 years ago
New in 0.3.0:
- improved rendering engine
(the window is now only completely redrawn if the number of displayed contacts changes, otherwise the existing window is modified, which doesn't cause the flicker)
- added an context option for contacts as well as groups to be excluded from the desklist (accessible via meta contact/group context menu)
- hopefully fixed some crashes caused by removal of meta contacts
- added a couple of configure checks
Thanks to Daniel Faust for the new Suse RPM!
14 years ago
New in 0.3.0:
- improved rendering engine
(the window is now only completely redrawn if the number of displayed contacts changes, otherwise the existing window is modified, which doesn't cause the flicker)
- added an context option for contacts as well as groups to be excluded from the desklist (accessible via meta contact/group context menu)
- hopefully fixed some crashes caused by removal of meta contacts
- added a couple of configure checks
Thanks to Daniel Faust for the new Suse RPM!
bolleg
12 years ago
since the download link for Suse seems to be broken I tried to compile from source. I am using suse 11.0. ./configure is working without problem, but make stops after undefined references to kopete. I installed kdenetworks-devel... is there any other thing to take care of?
Regards,
Bolleg
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gothicbob
12 years ago
I'd also suggest trying to get in into the kopete svn, so that it is included as a default plugin. It is just the sort of quality plugin that kopete needs.
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stevenjoseph
12 years ago
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dglent
13 years ago
thank you
is a great plugin, indispensable in my desktop environment
mandriva 2008.0
kde 3.5.7
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MADevil
13 years ago
I've make an ebuild for Gentoo users, so i post it here !
kopete-desklist-0.3.0.ebuild
Quote:# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header:
inherit kde
S="/var/tmp/portage/kde-misc/kopete-desklist-${PV}/work/desklist"
DESCRIPTION="This is a plugin for Kopete that displays all online (as in not offline) contacts right on the desktop, Karamba style. It uses contact photos and transparency to give a unique new look to your contact list."
HOMEPAGE="http://conrausch.elise.no-ip.com/index.php?p=kopete_desklist"
SRC_URI="http://conrausch.elise.no-ip.com/kopete/desklist/desklist-${PV}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE=""
#FIXME Fix deps before KDE-4
DEPEND="( >=kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r2 )"
need-kde 3.5.5
src_unpack() {
kde_src_unpack
}
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MADevil
13 years ago
S="/var/tmp/portage/kde-misc/kopete-desklist-${PV}/work/desklist"
by
S="${WORKDIR}/desklist"
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bauerfichtner
13 years ago
Trying to configure the desklist plugin with
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3/ --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib64/qt3/include/ --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib64/qt3/lib64/
is the only way to make the configure script find the libqt-mt library. However, it does never find KDE libraries (and they are installed in /opt/kde3).
Has anyone managed to compile this plugin on openSUSE10.2 with latest KDE 3.5? Any help is appreciated.
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nickajordan
13 years ago
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whome123
13 years ago
Could not find Kopete header files!
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majewsky
13 years ago
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shneeble
13 years ago
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Hantilles
14 years ago
I hope you're still working on this plugin, cause I have come to like it very much over the last two weeks since I began using it.
With an upgrade to a new xserver and a new i810 driver on my laptop I got finally my 3D desktop working with beryl fine as where I had many problems before.
The only usability problem I have with DeskList now is, that it doesn't work really well with beryl activated, as it doesn't show anymore on every workspace and pops up above my current window when it's view is updated. I would be great, it there's a possibility to make DeskList ready for the use with 3D desktops.
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trafikselskabet
13 years ago
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WMPhP
14 years ago
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shneeble
13 years ago
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i666an
14 years ago
./configure --prefix=/usr/kde/3.5
If this doesn't work, then search the internet for the Qt install path in fedora 6, and use that in the ./configure.
hope this helps
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WMPhP
14 years ago
I'm using Fedora 6, and KDE 3.5.5.
When I run './configure --prefix=/usr' ('which kopete' prints '/usr/bin/kopete') it prints a lot of lines starting with 'checking ...' and then it prints this error and exit:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
and the last 6 lines of config.log are:
#define ksize_t socklen_t
#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;
configure: exit 1
The error says 'checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2)', but I have a Karamba theme that says "Qt: 3.3.7"
I also tried to run ./configure --prefix=/usr as a superuser, and the error was the same.
What can I do?
PS: I'd be pleased if someone explained me wth is "Qt" :P
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gecko
14 years ago
And for the path variable you have to search for the KDE-directory maby it is /usr/share/kde
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gecko
14 years ago
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dkarlmt
14 years ago
I downloaded the source file, and it shows up in file manager, and I know I'm supposed to extract the files, but I'm not sure where to extract to, and then what executable I should run.
Also, after that I'm not sure if Kopete will automatically recognize the new plugin, or if I have to show it where to look, and if so, how to do that.
Can someone help me with this?
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Coffeebot
14 years ago
Kubuntu has KDE installed in /usr/lib and /usr/bin
Conrausch was quick and very willing to respond to my query. Great plugin, great author!
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scummos
14 years ago
i already searched whole google...
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Anaryin
14 years ago
I have superkaramba Installed and I was wondering... how do I put the improvement to work? I can't find it anywhere... =/
Thanks!
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Anaryin
14 years ago
Great improve btw, congrts!
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lordcrow
14 years ago
thanks!
cheers
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