Wednesday, January 30, 2008

l.c.a. and fluffy bunnies

the "developing with libplasma" presentation went swimmingly today. the room was packed and there were lots of really good questions. the best part was that there were answers for all the questions that made sense. all the people who have been banging on the plasma api for the last year or so have really helped us to cover the common needs very well.

at the end of it, Karol Szwed came up and introduced Ross Cunningham from Sun and David Purdue from Frontline (an Australian consultancy) who proceeded to donate a Sun server to the KDE project. nice!

then it was off to lunch with a bunch of the kde people that are in attendance here, including a few i hadn't met before such as Ian Wadham of kgoldrunner fame. now we're sitting in Andrew Tridgell's presentation on clustered samba. it's pretty cool; the entire presentation is essentially a live demo. sophisticated stuff.

but the real highlight of the day? the fluffy bunny plasma widget background. i'm using it now, in fact, as you can see here:

13 comments:

Andrew said...

Great talk today. I got a lot out of it. Very excited about the runners, I have ideas :)

Anonymous said...

This fluffy bunny widget background should bring young rich white girls to KDE4 :)

Anonymous said...

Excellent! Fluffy bunny made my day!

Anonymous said...

Where can I get the video of the presentation?

Rafa said...

Holy sh*t! Did it make the cut for 4.0.1? :P

Anonymous said...

Why is the bunny fur pink? Did someone bleed on it?

Anonymous said...

hey aaron, i love your new style, your hair is really cool ;)

lo said...

gey aaron, here is something for ya:
http://www.physorg.com/news120930030.html


Note the utterly true statement:
"the Linux interface is ahead of other operating systems currently on the market for professional use."

Doggarth: Destroyer of Worlds said...

Dang! I was "just" about to switch over to Vista, but... augh!

...must...get...me..pink...bunny...widget...a-c-t-i-o-n!

Back to the land of resizable, svg clocks for me! Rock on KDE. :)

Sulamita said...

OH MY GOD BUNNIES!!!!!

Javier said...

Dude, awesome haircut. Saw it in the picture from that link in your post.
Enjoying messing with the Sun server?
Also, I totally gotta get that plasmoid theme. can't wait to see kicker with it :P

Ivan Čukić said...

I've just watched the video from the presentation and was surprised to hear that someone else has created a Plasma theme too.

Then I realized that you did (well, more precise, /tried to/ :P) mention ME :)

Thanks for that!!!

Marc said...

Hi Aaron, did you listen to 70th episode of the Linux Action Show? There's a rather nice review of KDE 4.0 ... seems your lobbying for the current state and goals of the desktop made some impression after all! :-)