Kubuntu - Dolphin Search

If you want to get search feature in Dolphin working you need to have the desktop search enabled in Kubuntu. Dolphin is the file manager comes with Kubuntu. However, if you try the search without the desktop search feature enable, you will simply get an error message which doesn't give you any clue as to what went wrong. I have file a bug highlighting this.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/505754

Until the developers fix this, I thought of educating others as to how to get it working, hence the blog. Go to system settings, click the advanced tab and then you will find the desktop search feature there. Please see the below image.



Go in to desktop search and enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop and Strigi Desktop File Indexer.

Kubuntu 9.10 released

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/9.10-release

Just upgraded my home PC and must admit, this is really cool now. Great job, Kubuntu developers!!!

Power of openoffice impress

I did this using openoffice impress and with some help from GIMP to fix up the images.

How GIMP has made me an artist :)

You also can be; http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/

Microsoft and (Open?) Standards

Yesterday I met Chris Levanes, Platform Strategy Lead, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Region. The first one I have met from Microsoft with whom I had a sensible dialogue about Open Standards. Interestingly, before joining Microsoft he has worked for Red Hat.

NITC 2009

I got the opportunity to present some of the national IT infrastructure work we do at ICTA as a keynote speaker in the 27th National Information Technology Conference (NITC 2009).

I had the honour of sitting in the head table with Prof. K. K. Aggarwal (2nd from the right).

KDE 4.3.0 Caizen

KDE has announced their release of version 4.3.0 of the free desktop. I just upgrade and it looks really good. Ability to have different wallpapers in each of the desktop is back with many other really user friendly improvements.
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/

I think the KDE team has demonstrated how a community project can take a FOSS product to a level where it can out perform a proprietary product. This should iron out any perceptions on usability features of a FOSS OS/Desktops.