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spookster

Luke Plant
Hi, I am spookster and I create Dolphin Service Menus, Utilities and Various KDE Stuff.

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Ultimate Lyrics

Amarok 2.x Scripts by berkowitz 138 comments

LyricWiki code needs to be changed, due to the fact the API access for getting lyrics has been shutting down. But you can just use HTML scraping instead.

You just need to replace this file:

~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/ultimate_lyrics/sites/lyricwiki.org.js

with this one:

http://lukeplant.me.uk/uploads/lyricwiki.org.js

Hopefully the official package will be updated soon. - Aug 04 2009
KABC Client

Groupware by krake 10 comments

OK, I tracked down a tarball via a src.rpm. It doesn't build out of the box, but it is here:

http://lukeplant.me.uk/downloads/kabcclient-0.8.tar.bz2

To get it to build, you need autotools. If you have autoconf 2.6 or newer, you have to hack the 'admin/cvs.sh' script, replacing 2.5 with 2.6 in appropriate places -- or just replace it with the one I made:

http://lukeplant.me.uk/downloads/kabcclient-cvs.sh

Then:

make -f Makefile.cvs

Then the usual. - Apr 05 2008
KABC Client

Groupware by krake 10 comments

It seems this is dead now -- none of the links work. Shame... - Apr 05 2008
Amarok Folder Icons

Utilities by spookster 8 comments

You are right - I only discovered CopyCover (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22517) after I wrote this. In fact, I probably wouldn't have written this script if the description of CopyCover on http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Scripts included the fact that it had a mode that worked for tracks that are not currently playing. - Jul 24 2007
Amarok Folder Icons

Utilities by spookster 8 comments

You mean it should make a copy of image in the folder? That seems messier to me. You can locate the cover image by looking at the .directory file.

Also, I may be getting myself into trouble with Amazon copyright. Currently Amarok handles the Amazon copyright issues itself, and it seems safer to leave it that way. - Jul 24 2007
Amarok Folder Icons

Utilities by spookster 8 comments

Thanks, I didn't realise that Amarok's Get Hot New Stuff linked into kde-apps. I've fixed it now. - Jul 24 2007
amaroKed

Karamba & Superkaramba by modzo 11 comments

This themes gobbles *lots* of CPU. Anything you can do? It seems to be constantly running bash/sed/lesspipe or something. - Jun 20 2006
beagle KIO slave

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 25 comments

I get exactly the same thing, and I'm using the 0.2 tarball (as the other poster also said he was). The tarball is broken (or at least the INSTALL instructions are wrong, but the former is much more likely). - Feb 24 2006
yaBi - beagle search client

Various KDE Stuff by dbera 31 comments

"No license whatsoever" means that we are not allowed to do anything with it -- that's normal copyright law. To avoid that, you have to explicitly grant permissions to us. I think what you mean is you are putting it in the public domain. - Jan 06 2006
Kio-Sword

Various KDE Stuff by spookster 11 comments

As well as the new features, the above issues are fixed in version 0.2, with strcasecmp being used as kundor rightly pointed out. - Jan 05 2006
KleanSweep

System Software by yogin 134 comments

Have a look at the debian package 'cruft' before tackling debian/dpkg support, as it does a lot of that for you - Oct 28 2005
kio_resources

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Linuster 28 comments

You might want to think how this will integrate with internationalisation of the folder names. I think that providing good translations of these folder names to sensible words in different languages would be better than allowing renaming. - Jul 19 2005
Kubuntu Package Menu

Dolphin Service Menus by philipacamaniac 18 comments

The shell script creates temporary files in a rather insecure way, unless I'm missing something (i.e. predictable filename, vulnerable to symlink attack).

mktemp is part of debianutils, an essential package, so will be present on all Kubuntu installations and can be used to fix this. - May 12 2005
Kio-Sword

Various KDE Stuff by spookster 11 comments

Yes, searching in the KJV is slow - it seems to be much faster in some other modules e.g. MKJV - Jun 07 2004
KWin Delay Focus

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by tildewave 6 comments

Click on the question mark in the title bar, then on the focus policy box/label, you'll get a full description. - May 18 2004