Dinesh talks on CMakeLists.txt

After Dinesh’s talk, Shantanu gave a good introduction about KDE. His objective was to give audience a good understanding about KDE.

There was one more KDE hacker Sinny

Altogether it was fun and good get together for me. Thanks to Phaneendra Hegde for arranging

the KDE hackathon

Enhancement:

1) Adding support to display the current slide number in the CA.

2) When user opens the CA Presentation, he/she finds the total number of slides  along with the current slide.

3) Hide the left arrow button ( previous slide/Spread sheet ) when user is in the first slide/sheet.

4) Hide the right arrow button ( next slide/Spread sheet) when user is in the last slide/sheet.

Feature:

1) The left panel of the CA Text doc will have the number of pages displayed on the left. User can click on the “Page+Number” text and move to that page.

A few more changes are required. I would love to have thumbnails just like okular!!! Need some time to implement it.

I got an excellent opportunity to learn on some basic QML. And know how the ListView and ListModel works.

Altogether I enjoyed Feb 2012. I would like to enjoy more, need to think more on the next work though.

I searched for long time. I managed to find klettres. Klettres had kannada, telugu and hindi. But then I found my mother tongue malayalam language was missing. I started creating xml with syllable’s and recorded my sound accordingly. I submitted my first patch  to annma. She tested it and accepted. I was happy. I couldn’t describe my happiness. In 2009 FOSSMEET@NITC I met pradeepto once again. I started enjoying the KDE indian community. I also joined with Madhusudan, Shantanu and Santosh Vattam.

After 2009 FOSS Meet I wanted to prove myself, that I can try writing C++ code. Madhusudan gave me the KDE Handbook. I got inspired by seeing the photos of people who had actually contributed to KDE from India. I built KDE from trunk. After restarting the kdm, I liked plasma very much. I asked aseigo how to start with plasma. He gave me the first task to “show applications by name”. That
was my first c++ code which went to KDE trunk. Felt really amazing. Continued my contribution with quicklaunch. And I had also submitted a few one line patches too. Over all, I made some good friends in KDE. For me KDE is not just a community. Its like a family for me. Every single patch to KDE had made me happiest man on earth.

Hence my humble advice to newbies who use KDE or who don’t know where to start in KDE ,  please do attend conf.kde.in. I bet you too would get inspired from some of the awesome speakers we have for the program. Take this as an opportunity to learn and make your KDE better. At conf.kde.in you can also get your queries get cleared which you might have had in your mind while using KDE. Once again I welcome to all to the KDE community at conf.kde.in and last but not the least welcome to the world of “FREEDOM”

Flickr link is here.

1)Download jwchat tar ball from here.

2) Install ejabberd( I used aptitude)

3)Create a directory ‘www’ in /var/lib/ejabberd/

4) Untar the jwchat to the /var/lib/ejabberd/www/

Give permission for the www directory as ejabberd

Now its time to configure the ejabberd and jwchat. Lets configure /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg first.

1) Uncomment the “override_acls.”

2) Since I am testing it in my machine I wouldn’t like to change Hostname part. I would like to keep it as localhost.

3) To my knowledge jwchat works with http-poll and http-bind. Hence we need to configure the port to which jwchat should listen to http-bind/http-poll.

{listen,

…

{5280, ejabberd_http, [
{request_handlers, [
{["web"],mod_http_fileserver}
]},
http_poll,
http_bind,
web_admin

]}

4) In the modules section of the ejabberd.cfg  add the following lines:

{mod_http_bind, []},

{mod_http_fileserver, [
{docroot,"/var/lib/ejabberd/www"},
{accesslog,"/var/log/ejabberd/webaccess.log"}
]},

I had added these lines at the start of the modules section, hence you may notice the trailing comma for the mod_http_fileserver. If you are adding it to the end of the modules section remove the trailing comma.

The ejabberd acts as a small webserver too. Hence you don’t have to install apache.

I forgot to tell you the version of ejabberd I am using. Its 2.0.1. After surfing a little in the internet I had found lot of users raised issues against ejabberd. And develepors are fixing it. Its good for a healthy project. Right?

5) Please do restart ejabberd: /etc/init.d/ejabberd restart

6) Test whether the port is open by: ‘telnet localhost 5280′ or by ‘netstat -anp | grep 5280′. If its open everything is fine.

5) Lets configure to jwchat’s config.js(/var/lib/ejabberd/www/jwchat/)

var SITENAME = “localhost”;

As I mentioned I am using localhost, I would like to go ahead with it. If you are trying to use any different domain. Please mention it here.  For eg:

var SITENAME = “jabber.example.com”

The BACKENDS section takes care of http-poll,http-bind and others.

Hence I have,

var BACKENDS =
[
{
name:"Native Binding",
description:"Ejabberd's native HTTP Binding backend",
httpbase:"/http-bind/",
type:"binding",
servers_allowed:[SITENAME]
},
{
name:”Native Polling”,
description:”Ejabberd’s native HTTP Polling backend”,
httpbase:”/http-poll/”,
type:”polling”,
servers_allowed:[SITENAME]
}

];

You had configured the ejabberd + jwchat. Now open :

http://localhost:5280/web/jwchat/index.html

in the browser. You should be able to see the login window. Bingo you are done.

Since I liked to explore more. I had a look at the ejabberdctl command. So thought of creating users using command line.

ejabberdctl register foo localhost 123

ejabberdctl register bar localhost 123

Read man page of ejabberdctl to understand the above command and args.

Now try to login using foo and bar in two new windows of the browser. And try to add them as contacts. Enjoy chatting

We moved towards Neelesh’s place. Aah!!! There was an super market store. We got into the shop. I said a big “NO”. There was nothing interesting in the shop which could be gifted to him. We were least interested in giving up. Thought for a while, and made a decision to buy all the health drinks available in the shop. That means, Horlicks, Boost, Women Horlicks etc. We were in a hurry of buying everything we saw. Which included something for pregnant lady too We also brought a bottle of wine. After grabbing whatever we can, we moved to Neelesh’s house. He was surprised to see me and Maxin with the gift that we brought for him.

After seeing the gift, Maxin told Neelesh, “Please finish all these before it expires ”. Even Ami(Amrutha) was shocked to see all the things we brought. Neelesh invited us for lunch. It was just when we started to eat, Neelesh told that Ami is the cook for the day. And she did by reading a recipe book. Me and Maxin started looking each other. We knew we have to go office tomorrow, hence we need to leave today. Since the food was good enough I am able to write the blog post

After a good lunch. We moved to IC software. The place where I and Maxin got inroduced about GNU/Linux. Pramode sir was happy to see us and vice versa. We had lots of fun and talked a lot. Later chechi joined us. The most interesting part was I was able to see the joy and happiness on their face, which made me and Maxin talk more and more The discussion went from technical to all sorts of jokes. We also talked about books. All together me and Maxin enjoyed the moments.

We left Pramode sir’s house by 7.40 PM. I had to catch the bus which will reach palakkad by 11.30 PM. Since Trichur town was almost ready to celebrate pooram, we had to wait longer to get a bus which will go to Trichur round. After getting down near Ragam theater we walked to Shakthan bus stand. The time was almost 8.30 PM. We found no bus to palakkad. Baah. Maxin told, “Lets move to KSRTC bus stand”. I nodded. When we reached KSRTC bus stand, I asked in the inquiry, “Sir, at what time will I get the bus to palakkad?”. He replied, “One bus is right there( which was full) and the other one was at 9.10 PM.” Ahm we have time for dinner. We went to a hotel and had our dinner. I always love the hotels in Trichur. The food in Trichur is awesome than in palakkad. Its my openion

After dinner, we came to the bus stand and decided, if the next bus comes and we won’t make it, we will make our journey little more adventurous. And it happened. We couldn’t make the journey in the bus and decided to hire a taxi. We reached palakkad by 10.40 PM. Maxin moved to Coimbatore and I moved to Bangalore from there.

Excluding the return to palakkad, it was all fun.