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February 4, 2009

Alternatif PDF Reader selain Adobe

Filed under: General Affairs — bakthariq @ 12:15 am

Kampanye yang sedang digalakkan oleh FSF Eropa agar kita menggunakan pdf reader yang bebas dan gratis. Dari berbagai pilihan yang ada hanya Okular yan g bisa dipakai di Windows, MacOS dan Linux.

pdfreaders.org

February 3, 2009

Sribefire addon and Broken Kblogger

Filed under: Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu, ubuntu-id — Tags: , — bakthariq @ 3:26 am

I filed a bug against a broken kblogger-kde4, however there is still no fix. The bug is really annoying since no toolbars are present on the UI making the program in this case practically unusable.

Yesterday I tried to build the package from sources downloaded from kblogger website. The first tries failed, and only after following the fix i found here, i could have it build successfully. The bad news is that the resulting package also suffer from the same bug as the ubuntu binary package.

As a replacement for my blogging tools, I install the scribefire firefox addon. Setting up an account is a breeze and this is the first post using scribefire.  

January 30, 2009

Cara Menginstal Gmail Offline

Filed under: Indonesia, Linux, ubuntu-id — bakthariq @ 7:12 am

Setelah mambaca artikel tentang fasilitas Google Mail offline di sini, saya langsung tertarik untuk mencobanya sendiri. Setelah mengikuti petunjuknya, akhirnya Gmail offline pun bisa sudah tersetting di laptop saya. Bagi yang berminat mencoba akan saya deskripsikan caranya secara singkat.

Persyaratan pertama untuk menginstal Gmail offline adalah Google Gears, karena program gears inilah sebenarnya yang memungkinkan program-program online google yang populer dapat diakses secara offline. Jadi kita harus menginstall gears terlebih dahulu. Silakan download google gears di sini. Saat ini gears belum dapat diinstal di konqueror, jadi bagi anda pengguna linux yang menyukai konqueror seperti saya, nampaknya kita “terpaksa” kali ini menggunakan firefox. Sekedar catatan, tampilan Gmail yang digunakan harus tampilan standard (Standard View) bukan tampilan sederhana (HTML version).

Setelah gears diinstal, silakan masuk untuk sign-in ke Gmail. Pilih menu Setting–>Labs. Pilih settingan “offline” (pilihan paling atas) dan set ke “enable”, lalu simpan.

gmail-offline
Setelah itu akan keluar jendela gears yang meminta konfirmasi bahwa gmail offline ingin memanfaatkan fasilitas gears. Centang pilihanĀ  “I trust this site. Allow it to use gears”. Bila jendela ini muncul tetapi tidak ada tulisannya, coba tekan alt-tab dan pilih lagi jendela ini.

gmail-offline1

Selain menginstall gmail offline, proses instalasi juga menawarkan apakah kita ingin membuat shortcut di desktop untuk gmail offline. Saya menyarankan “ya” karena akan memudahkan kita mengakses gmail offline nanti. Gmail onine kemudian akan disinkronkan dengan versi offline dengan cara menddownload semua data email kita, termasuk attachment. Tentu saja lama sinkronisasi ini tergantung dengan banyaknya data email dan koneksi internet kita. Setelah ini selesai maka kita sudah bisa menggunakan gmail secara offline. Coba klik shortcut desktop gmail tadi, tampilan untuk sign-in offlinenya adalah seperti ini:

gmail-offline2

Apabila kita ingin online, klik icon status di atas halaman di sebelah kiri “Setting”, kemudian pilih “Please sign-in to receive your new mail”

gmail-offline3

Yang perlu dingat adalah bahwa data gmail kita kan didownload ke komputer/laptop yang kita pakai. Jadi sangat disarankan untuk tidak menginstal gmail offline di komputer umum atau komputer yang dipakai bersama-sama dengan orang lain!

Selamat mencoba.

January 29, 2009

KDE 4.2 dirilis!

Filed under: Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu, ubuntu-id — Tags: , , — bakthariq @ 2:49 am

Kemarin KDE 4.2 dirilis. Codename untuk versi ini adalah “The Answer”. Mungkin untuk merujuk versi ini sebagai jawaban atas kritik kepada KDE yang muncul sejak KDE4 dirilis satu tahun yang lalu. Secara keseluruhan versi ini sudah sangat stabil dan hampir semua fiturnya yang dimiliki oleh KDE 3, sudah berhasil diduplikasi. Menurut saya dengan versi ini, kita sudah aman untuk migrasi secara keseluruhan ke KDE4.

Untuk anda pengguna ubuntu intrepid, KDE 4.2 dapat diinstal melalui PPA kubuntu-instrumental. Tambahkan repo ini dalam /etc/apt/sources.list anda.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main

Selain itu import juga gpg-key untuk PPA ini agar tidak ada tampilan kesalahan waktu melakukan “sudo apt-get update”.
Impor key-nya dengan cara:
“gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 493B3065 && gpg –export -a 493B3065 | sudo apt-key add -”

Banyak kemajuan yang kita temukan pada vesi 4.2 ini , antara lain ada 2 yang saya suka yaitu:
1. Fitur untuk mendapatkan versi desktop klasik seperti KDE 3. Klik kanan di desktop–>apperance Settings–>Type–>Pilih folder view. Klik apply. Kita bisa mensetting file apa saja yang bisa tampil iconnya di desktop dengan cara klik kanan desktop–>folder view settings. Kita misalnya bisa memfilter hanya extensi file tertentu saja yang muncul, tampilan iconnya (melintang atau membujur), dan lain-lain.

2. Tampilan widget/plasmoid untuk screensaver. Kita bisa mensetting agar ketika screensaver kita aktif dan desktop terkunci, orang lain bisa meninggalkan pesan di komputer kita. Buka systemsettings–>Desktop–>Screen saver. Klik “allow widgets on screen saver”, dan lakukan setup. Untuk menambahkan widgets klik cashew di pojok kanan atas dan ipilih “add widget”. Silakan tambahkan widget yang anda inginkan. Untuk memungkinkan fitur yang saya sebut di atas, tambahkan widget “Notes”

Sudah tentu masih banyak lagi yang lain. Jadi silakan cek sendiri.

October 30, 2008

Posting Pertama dari Kontact

Filed under: Ubuntu — bakthariq @ 7:22 am

Kalau berhasil, ini adalah posting blog pertama dari Kontact. Instuksi untuk psoting ini bisa dilihat di sini: http://mikearthur.co.uk/2008/09/kde-blog-from-korganizer-howto/

Hari ini Intrepid Ibex dirilis!

August 7, 2008

Funny Thing When KDE Neon Meets Enlightenment

Filed under: Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — bakthariq @ 1:02 pm

They say that opengeu is “when gnome meets enlightenment”. Now, what do you get when you put KDE Neon on opengeu?
This week I wanted to install opengeu to resurrect my old laptop. This laptop used to have a Kubuntu system (starting from edgy if IIRC). After Intrepid alpha emerged in the wild, I installed it fresh on the laptop, since I was going crazy about KDE4. Mind you, I have a functional Intrepid, updated to alpha 3 at the moment, and Hardy with KDE Neon on my other laptop. Although there is small problem with the nvidia card, overall it is very much reliable.
I don’t know about you, but I found that Intrepid’s KDE4 is slower (yeahh I know its alpha! but KDE Neon is OK). My poor old laptop with its ancient trident graphic card feld so slow and the rendering problem is dragging the overall perforamance to its feet. So, it was a was mistake to wipe out Hardy and put Intrepid there.
I’ve been hearing good review about enligtenment 17 (e) and decided that instead of just put Hardy back I would give the ‘e’ a spin. I installed a minimal Hardy and the xorg packages to get the X running. Then add up the opengeu repo and install the opengeu-desktop.
Yes, I really like the enligtenment. Small, feels modern but lot of eye candy. But for a full desktop it needs to borrow many programs outside. In the case of opengeu, it borrowed many packages from GNOME and XFCE. So opengeu actually is a mixed desktop, a ‘gado-gado’. If the purpose of opengeu is to have e as the WM then why it also installed metacity, GNOME control center, and co?
I think it is just a logical thing to do to promptly do “sudo apt-get remove –purge gnome-* xfce4-*”.
Then I thought why not install KDE Neon and run it inside ‘e’? I added the KDE Neon repo and install it. Minutes later its all there. I click the desktop, open konqueror, dolphin, konsole and it just feels that they runs perfectly well in enlightenment. It is faster and, because plasma is not running, there is no rendering issue when we click in the desktop.
Satisfied with the results, I then tried to run plasma. And this is what I get..:)

It tempted you to wonder why don’t we have a kickoff like that in the first place?
Now, I am back to KDE Neon fulltime. I have no KDE3, even the libraries, in that laptop, only Hardy+KDE Neon. I don’t know why but my laptop with its KDE4.2 trunk feels snappier, just like it used to.

Trident Microsystems Cyber 9525 display not fullscreen and the fix…

Filed under: Kubuntu — Tags: , — bakthariq @ 12:56 pm

I have found this bug and meant to blog about it long time ago. As you know, since hardy, Kubuntu used bulletproof-X, so that we would get a basic X as fallback in case there something wrong. If you look at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you’ll see that the configuration is very basic.
A problem arise if you happen to own a trident microsystems cyber 9525 like I have. Although my laptop (Hitachi Flora 220FX PC7NP7) is 7 years old, i know it is capable of having 1024×768 resolution fullscreen, although only in 16 color depth.
Now, no matter what you tried, you could only have a maximum of 800×600 resolution and the most annoying thing is that the screen can’t not be displayed fullscreen. There is this black area as thick as 3 cm around the screen like a border. (I guess this is what it feel in eee..). Before Hardy, I had no problem like this. Just to remind you that you will still have the same problem in Intrepid.
The fix is really simple actually. Just put the the value for Horizontal Sync and vertical refresh in /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this in the monitor section:

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
HorizSync 30.0 – 80.0
VertRefresh 30.0 – 60.0
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1024×768″
EndSection

Section “Screen”
…………….
DefaultDepth 16
…………….
EndSection
…..end you’ll get your full display back.

July 29, 2008

Intrepid alpha and jigdo problem

Filed under: Indonesia, Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — bakthariq @ 8:35 am

I like to use jigdo for my kubuntu cd because my internet connection is limited. It is always better to use the limited bandwidth for something more useful, like browsing and blogging for example…:) With jigdo we can cut down the time to download the CD image. I’ve been using jigdo for the first alpha series of Intrepid and I always encountered problems. I always followed the official link to download the jidgo advertised in kubuntu announcement. Turn out that some of files on the jigdo template that made up the iso afterward had been removed from repositories. When I encountered the problem in Intrepid Alpha 1, I managed to get the missing files from this repo: cn.archive.ubuntu.com (china?) which eventually is slower than Indonesian mirror. Three days ago when I wanted to download Alpha 3, I stumbled the same problem, this time 15 packages were missing, I switched the repo again to cn.archive.ubuntu.com but only got 10 packages and still missing 5.
I decided not to waste more time and decided to download newer jigdo template which is from the daily images. In case you didn’t know you can get them at kubuntu daily images. So my advise is to use the jidgo template from here since it is in sync with the ever changing repo.
I did managed to download all the files with jigdo this time. I decided to fresh install my intrepid and it failed. Obviously there were some kde3 dependency problems that make it impossible to install adept, amarok, and others (and yes..that included kubuntu-desktop).
I don’t know whether the official cd image had this problem and haven’t check the launchpad on this issue. But if you had this problem and insist to procede with the install you can install a minimal sistem. After it finished installation of base system and you key in the username and password actually you are almost there. So when you were faced with the failed install screen (red background) you just skip the process and choose to proceed with the installation of grub. You will end up with a minimal system. But from there you can add up the packages. Since the dependency of kubuntu-desktop is borked, you can’t install it, instead try to install the packages one by one (xorg, konqueror, kdm, konsole, kdebase-workspace, etc).

July 18, 2008

Desktop efek kwin terbaru di KDE 4.1

Filed under: HAKI, Indonesia, Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu — Tags: , , , , , — bakthariq @ 2:22 am

KDE 4.1 membawa beberapa efek kwin baru, antara lain:
- flip switch


- cover switch


- snow


- wobbly window

Efek-efek ini sebenarnya sudah lama dapat kita nikmati dengan menggunakan compiz tetapi sekarang pengguna KDE dapatmenikmati efek tersebut dengan menggunakan kwin yang lebih terintegrasi dengan KDE. Untuk KDE 4.2 kwin mengenalkan efek baru lain yang merupakan primadona di compiz yaitu efek kubus. Silakan lihat videonya di you-tube.

July 16, 2008

Handle baru plasmoid di KDE 4.1 rc1

Filed under: Indonesia, Kubuntu — Tags: , , , — bakthariq @ 5:32 am

Ternyata KDE 4.1 rc1 memperkenalkan beberapa hal baru yang belum ada di KDE 4.1 beta sebelumnya. Setidaknya ada 2 perubahan baru hasil commit setelah beta 2 kemaren. Pertama, adalah perubahan pada handle plasmoid yang lebih sederhana

Kedua, applet/plasmoid yang ada di panel sekarang bisa dengan mudah dipindah-pindahkan. Cukup klik kanan, pilih panel setting, maka aplet tinggal diklik terus digeser-geser. Kemudahan untuk menggeserkan aplet ini, disamping mengubah besarnya panel, adalah salah satu hal yang paling banyak diminta oleh user KDE 4. Sebelumnya cuma di OpenSUSE 11.0 kita bisa menggeserkan aplet di panel karena mereka sudah membuat patch tersendiri di KDE 4.0.4.
Sampai sekarang paket kubuntu intrepid di mirror dl2.foss-web.web.id belum semuanya terupdate dengan KDE rc1. Paket kdeplasmoids terbaru misalnya belum diupload jadi kita harus uninstall dulu paket ini karena jika tidak plasma akan crash!

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