A KDE powered device of some sort. Laptop? Phone? Media boxen?

They died. But it was unrelated

Okay, but: why is the screenshot a KDE code snippet? ;)

Wake me up when pyside is on that list. I’ve been waiting for this day for a decade…

Love the KDE community. Was involved a a dozen years and learned so much from the experience. I recommend this to any rookie, amateur, or student programmer out there: get involved. Even if it’s just reporting bugs, you’ll learn so much about so much.

Not OP. I remember having to migrate to subversion… Do you think my credentials still work ;)

And has broken those systems in the past. But diversity in implementations across Linux systems likely means it doesn’t break all systems simultaneously.

It’s probably a tiling window manager. ;)

Early computer aided art and programs I’ve written, dating back decades.

In the mid 1990s I used ImpulseTracker to create music. The music sucks. But losing the original source .IT files would be heartbreaking.

Likewise, my first programs, written as a child in MS DOS batch files circa 1991 – basic menu driven interfaces that facilitated launching my installed sharware… I don’t have the games the program points to anymore, but that isn’t the point ;)

Threading intensifies

I’m excited about this, even if it is just baby steps. It’s been one of my very few complaints about python, having spent two decades using it.

I’m hoping that pyside and QThreads can be made to work with noGIL. That would be super sweet. :)

I mean, python has pickle and people use that to store config. It’s a weird practice, and totally unsafe, but it works well enough. This wouldn’t be that different.

KDE had a policy editor back in v2.0… honesty I never really followed whether those features stuck around. But the simple version is to lock down write access to folders in $HOME, such as .config or similar. Linux already prevents most users from installing programs over the system directories without root, but I’m not sure if you can restrict new programs with +x in $HOME unless you write-lock the whole folder… Someone with more network admin experience probably knows this :)

Congrats on taking the plunge. I suspect there are others like you.

I’m actually kind of envious. The joy and frustration and joy again of exploring something new was something I relished in my early Linux years. Back then you had to use a text editor to configure your video card before even getting started, so it was kind of insane haha. But totally worth it later, as all of those skills translated.

Ouch. I know Bandcamp isn’t owned by its founders anymore, and the new owners in theory are sketch… But it’s still close to the best webstore ever conceived for music. The payment processing alone is worth it. What is Faircamp in that space?

Oooh, I wish I had time for this. :)

It’s probable there are better ways at finding things, but sometimes these commands are sort of muscle memory and I don’t even think to explore what else is out there once I have something that works for me ;)

It’s hard to teach an old dog like myself new tricks. I still think git was a mistake and long for centralized revision control systems… Because that’s what I grew up with ;)

I hate to alarm you but… What is a file system except dynamically allocated memory. ;)

KDE always gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Like, set the transparency of all windows to 100% and wonder why the system is fucked, or whatever haha.

Working blind, and from memory (I didn’t check my system): depending on your system, there will be a kwin config file in .local or .config or .kde or similar in your home directory. Assuming you have console access, df -h | grep kwin will probably find it for you. Take a peak in the file first to make sure it’s reasonable that this is the right file to nuke. Rename it something like kwinrc-backup and restart KDE.

Heh, that’s amusing ;)

We did do the high version numbers for alpha, beta, RC etc. leading into 4.0 as well.

You can find some of that here: 4.0 release schedule - go through the version history of that page. Fun times. (Makes me nostalgic.) You’ll note that the release date got pushed back a few times as more betas and things were inserted. You’ll also see version numbers like 3.97 for release candidates.

Kids these days and their type hinting. Back in my day, all objects were ducks, and we liked it!