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00:09.30fooI setup my XF86Config file so I have two devices and 2 monitors congigured. Each monitor has its own start menu, etc. In my kde startup script, I have a script start 2 programs. When I start kde, these 2 progarms each open on both monitors, anyway I could direct one program to open on a specificed device (monitor) ?
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00:10.46dec0derhello
00:11.39dec0derWhen I open files in KDE, in any editor, even in Quanta+, it opens as unreadable characters, though they were saved as UTF-8. In console the utf works, I have set LC_LANG and LC_ALL, what else?
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00:50.34eille_lahi there
00:50.59eille_lawhy is dot.kde.org always down?
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00:54.46annmabecause it's difficult to ind a good server?
00:54.50annmafind
00:55.28eille_ladid you guys asked microsoft to host some pages?
01:00.46eille_lai wonder when MS will begin giving money to some f/oss projects
01:02.00mobtekannma: hmm we use the company that formerly was rackshack
01:02.25annmamobtek: pardon?
01:02.37annmaI think the dot is hosted in Montreal, no?
01:02.56annmaeille_la: it's not some pages and frankly, do you believe MS would do that????
01:03.26mobtekannma: they are really good 1gb/month 10mbit link for like $70US a month iirc
01:03.55mobtekbah akregator died during the night
01:03.56mobtekhehe
01:04.17annmaI don't think the kde roject can afford to pay
01:04.42annmathey mostly rely on university servers
01:04.45mobtekannma: yeah I know :)
01:04.59mobtekits needs a kind soul with some dosh :P
01:05.13annmabesides depending from a company is risky, they will say we use too much bandwith and all
01:06.32eille_lawhy not use P2P (bittorent) for web sites?
01:07.16annmaP2P?
01:07.28annmaso the website would be everywhere?
01:07.45annmaand where would you upload stuff? what about security?
01:08.41thiagoand where would you get the peer list from?
01:08.50thiagoremember BitTorrent uses an HTTP server to get that
01:09.19eille_layep, one base server where the hash can be verified
01:09.46eille_laat least this would take much less bandwidth than one server who serves everyone
01:09.53annmaeille_la: if you have ideas to improve all that, you can subcribe to kde-www mailing list
01:10.14annmakde is an open project so you can easily join
01:10.28eille_lait look a bit restrictive
01:10.35annmawhat?
01:10.48annmathe mailing list?
01:11.06annmahere on irc you won't find the right people
01:11.35eille_layeh thats what i often hear
01:12.30annmamailing lists are very good to manage projects
01:13.24mobtekannma: indeed
01:13.55annmaeille_la: and most people don't realize how projects like kde are really open
01:14.05eille_lamail message often contain the essential and compact information needed to say something usefull
01:14.30annmayou want this, you contact some people, you tell your intentions and there you go
01:14.42annmayou're in charge
01:14.58annmaas easy as that
01:15.28eille_laBut a project like JuK, where i saw many good feature requests in the bug list and where wheeler (the main coder of it) dont want to implement them because he dont see his app that way
01:15.52annmathen you fork it
01:16.06eille_laforking it wont make it in the next kde dist
01:16.11annmait's the right of an author to follow his vision
01:16.16annmawhy not?
01:16.22annmaof course it will
01:16.36annmait happens in all releases
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01:17.04eille_lawho then will take the desision if its usefull or not for that or that progrm"?
01:17.24annmait just happended in kdeedu where a new app got wheeler's app out
01:17.37annmait's a community decision
01:17.41eille_laok
01:17.54annmain kdeedu, the new app was presented and nobody objected
01:18.04annma(mailing list)
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01:18.28mobtekheh I saw that annma  it was all very civilised :)
01:18.30annmaa guy started a Logo app, he did not work with others
01:18.53annmaa new guy sort-of forked it and now this new logo is in kdeedu
01:19.29annmathe new guy has a clear vision of what he wants, sometimes it's not what I want but as I help, I respect his vision
01:19.40annmabut he is open to ideas
01:19.48annmahe works in a team
01:20.05annmait's all quite smooth in fact
01:20.17mobtekok back to learning some more qt after 2 weeks of a head like concrete :)
01:20.30annmaI bet kdemultimedia will maybe be changed for kde 4.0
01:20.46eille_lais QT gpled?
01:20.51annmaof course
01:21.06annmaotherwise KDE would not be open
01:21.12eille_lai knew it has been opened but i ignored the license
01:21.27annmakdelibs is LGPL
01:21.38annmakde as a whole is GPL as is Qt
01:22.10annmaeille_la: but I believe KDE is one of the more open project
01:22.16mobtekwhich was great move from trolltech, cause gtk  sucks so much to code for ;)
01:22.20annmain the sense of integrating new people
01:23.01annmakde is quite true THE open project, in terms of number of people
01:23.31annmait's fascinating to see how this can work in fact
01:23.42eille_laannma: yes thats what I feel to, I really like to naviguate the website
01:23.53annmayou should get in
01:23.56mobtekyeah I like how it doesn't have one person as the figurehead for people to obsess on
01:24.06annmamobtek: exactly
01:24.29mobtekannma: yeah its like here's our project, here's our code, lets get back to work etc
01:24.50annmayeah
01:25.57mobtekhmm nothing like coding to Mozart Oboe concertos at full-blast on a public holiday morning
01:26.01annmatake PhantomsDad, he got involved recently and does quite a good job writing docs, tutorials and beginning programming
01:26.13eille_larequiem is also excellent
01:26.14annmalol
01:26.20annma<-- metal
01:26.24mobtekhahah annma
01:26.38mobtekI'm getting over my 2 year trance-a-thon
01:26.50mobtekso '70s rock and classical and baroque
01:26.51mobtek:P
01:27.02annmalol
01:27.19eille_laannma: you probably listened to Opeth then?
01:27.29annmaof course
01:27.45annmahave all the albums, currently Damnation is the one
01:29.03annmanice, KTurtle has Swedish now
01:29.55eille_laI used to much of metal
01:30.10eille_laits more indie rock now
01:31.01annmaI was metal and I still am metal
01:31.09annmamy kids are metal too