Usability ( or why my app is not ready yet.)

For those that don’t know me yet, I’m trying to make a good app for Graph Theory study. it has few goals, like the ability to draw graphs and the ability to program the graphs with algorithms and execute the algorithms to see the results. I’v managed to do a working ( but very ugly ) app in ~ 2weeks, and people in my university used it, I was kinda happy. ;D

Rocs first Version

but as you see, this version was ugly as hell. so I start porting it to Qt only to KDE libs, and my first version was like this:

that time I was trying to use Kross. my original implementation was in QtScript and I wanted more languages than just ECMAscript running on it. Now the program has this looks:

But it’s still QtScript only. I Know that Kross should be easyer to use and stuff, but I think I’m a kinda retarded, I couldn’t make it work no matter how I tried ( and I think I almost drove Apol crazy on irc. ;D ) Goals for this year: Finish the JavaScript implementation and after that try to help kross guys.

Frustrating

A bit frustrated by my  university this year.  Last year 100% of the computers where running windows, but since I got elected for representing the Computer Science students, I did a meeting with the principal and he allowed me to have 4 labs with Linux  running. I did another meeting with the students, choose a distribution (  between fedora, kubuntu, mandriva and suse) and  some programs that we needed, burned the CD,  and did a small shell script to  install everything that we choose, and mailed to the computer management section. this was last november.

Last friday I went there to see how was going the installation of the 4 labs, and they just had one machine installed,
without  all programs that I’v asked ( there’s no point in having a linux installed for computer science classes without a compiler ). so I tryed to use firefox to send an e-mail with a few nasty words to them, but I couldn’t. The internet for linux was blocked. I was in shock. the excuse was “it’s easyer to hack the system with linux, so we decided that linux labs will not have net access”. Way to go.

the machines where running unecessarily slow, they had formatted everything in FAT32. argh.

Another  reunion with the principal, I manage to get networking on the linux labs, asked them to reinstall everything right using an ext3 partition ( for some reason I dislike raiserfs. ) and installing  my needed software.
One thing that I really  don’t got it, is that the university has 11 computer labs, and *every* semester they reinstall ALL windows,  but they didn’t have time to  install 4 labs with linux?

Ps. There’s a lab with 4 windows in each machine.
Frustrating.

Latex file for Kde-Qt code coloring

Hey all. 

I was lost a few days on the land of the strange latex files, trying to do some code coloring on it. the thing that I`v seen that worked almost, but not quite I was expecting was lstlistings using c++ as the default language. after a bit more of a research, I found a `C coloring in latex with tango` and a few other projects that translated the code into a non-compreensible-to-humans format that could output color to latex generate pdf.

 

Well, Suffer no more. I humbly give you all my modification of the C++ language on the lstlistings package that pretty colours your code.

OBS:. the file is .tex, I just changed the extension to .png so WordPress will let me upload it. please, rename it to .tex  

The file: 

(remember to rename it kdetex.tex)

and a PDF that I used this thingy.:

livro

to test it, just put the code into a lstlisting block.

Comments, Tougths?

Back from dead

This should be my first Planet post, so let me introduce myself.

I’m Tomaz Canabrava, already helping kde for about a year (but much less than I hoped) translating techbase articles to PT_BR and developing an app for Graph Theory teachers and students (or at least trying to. ) and Writting a book in PT_BR for KDE Development ( that should be finished when it’s finished. but it’s in Creative Commons, and I will post each chapter on my blog as soon as I finish it. )

I’m 25, I can cook, origami and tapdance.

and of course, annma is my mother ( and so Jucato’s ).

Think that is, Farewell.

edit: activated comments. ( why everytime I post something from korganizer it comes comment-disabled? )

KDE Party Bahia

Parece que terá um KDE Party de instalação na FTE dia 27/1/2009 as 18:00 indo até as 20:00.

quem irá coordenar a bagaça é o Embaixador do Fedora Jason.

Então amiguinhos, quem quiser conhecer o KDE 4.2, instalar linux, levem seus notebooks.

Meio da aula

Ja estou aqui 4 horas dentro da sala de aula do latinoware “dando” o curso de Qt4/KDE4

contatos sendo formados ;D

há

Chegada no latinoware

Ahn, tirando o blog do mundo perdido de blogs perdidos no mundo ;D

usando um teclado hispanico, nao tenho a menor ideia de onde ficam os acentos e realmente, preguica de procurar.

acordei cedo, fui pra o aeroporto, nao consegui nem respirar e ja estava meu professor la esperando. voamos pra sao paulo as 10 da manha, chegamos as 1 da tarde. tempo pra almocar? nah… voo direto pra foz do iguacu. chegada: 4 da tarde. restaurantes fechados, tomaz roxo de fome. “Ah, liga nao, vao pagar um jantar pragente hoje as 8.”, nao foi pago as 8, mas valeu  a pena, peixes e peixes ;D

depois escrevo mais, estou rodeado de pessoas que nao tenho a menor ideia de quem sao, mas que tem um crachazinho no pescoco entao devem ser importantes. hah

volto ja.

Sobrevivência?

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Rocs Reloaded 2

Começando a ficar fofinho =D

Rox com Code-Coloring e code-folding.

Rocs Reloaded

Não estava satisfeito com a cara do rox que eu tinha reescrito, agora peguei o fim de semana e mudei aquela cara horrivel para isso aqui…

Nova cara do Rocs

Mas ainda não está funcional.