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How to connect with 3G through Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

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Posted by Evandro Myller on October 30, 2009 – 2:44 pm
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The new Kubuntu Karmic was released yesterday and I just installed it here. Unfortunately, I could not connect to Internet through my Huawei E156 (3G).

I’ve been watching to the development of this new release, and I noticed that a previous version of the plasma-widget-networkmanagement (that comes with knetworkmanager, the application that let us manage our connections) worked fine with 3G. So I just installed this version here and now I am able to connect again.

Download here the older version (0.1~svn1023224-0ubuntu1).

Once you’ve downloaded it, open a terminal, go to the directory you just downloaded the package and run:

$ sudo dpkg -i plasma-widget-networkmanagement_0.1~svn1023224-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
$ sudo aptitude hold plasma-widget-networkmanagement

Now just restart knetworkmanager (or logout / login) and your 3G connections will be working.

Pâté, Kate and Kubuntu (KDE 4)

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Posted by Evandro Myller on August 10, 2009 – 4:31 am
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It’s quite a long time I’ve been trying to run this awesome plug-in for Kate (Pâté) on my Linux box, a Kubuntu jaunty (with KDE 4.3).

Recently, when I got contact with Paul, the Pâté creator, we got it working here (Thanks, Paul!). I was very excited to see things like expanders working on Kate, and I like – very much – to have the power to enhance my favorite text editor easily.

So, here’s the magic I gotta do to install Pâté:

$ sudo aptitude install cmake kdelibs5-dev kdesdk-dev python-kde4-dev python-qt4-dev sip4

After that, you’re ready to compile Pâté and enjoy it. Compiling: In a shell, switch to the Pâté directory that you just downloaded from the git repository.

Then, run these commands (you might be familiar with them):

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. --DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kde4-config --prefix)
$ make
$ sudo make install

There are some cool bundled plug-ins already. Can’t wait to use them?

$ cp -r src/plugins $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kate/pate

One of these plug-ins is the awesome Expander, that can add code snippets to your code like Textmate does. Cool, huh? Now, start Kate, go to the plug-in list and voilà. Pâté is there. enable it and happy coding!

I noticed that it’s very easy to develop a python plugin for Kate. Please help us to make Kate even better and share your ideas with the community!

IRC: #kate @ Freenode

Banshee: watching and listening at Linux

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Posted by Evandro Myller on December 12, 2008 – 9:14 am
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Some time ago I just found out another media player in my Ubuntu.
I was trying to find something more than the Ubuntu’s default players, and I got surprised with Banshee 0.2. It was really cool. Great tools, great music organization.

Then, after some days enjoying my new prefered music player, I finally had one idea: how about visit the Banshee website?
So I went there and saw that the current Banshee version was already 1.2. Damn, I was outdated. The Hardy Heron’s repository was kinda poor if I’d expect for newer versions of applications like Banshee. Today I use the version 1.4.1 on my Intrepid Ibex.

I downloaded and installed it on my PC and, wow, it wasn’t a music player anymore. It was a media player. Yes, music + video organized in one application.

Some of the things I like much in Banshee are:

Media organization and access

It’s very easy to organize and search for your media files: just sort, type and list.

Banshee Media Organization

Banshee Media Organization

Editing  Media Information

You can select multiple media files then update their meta information.

Banshee's Track Editor

Banshee's Track Editor

Smart Playlists

Banshee can go beyond organization with smart playlists.

Creating a smart playlist

Creating a smart playlist

It has many other features, like CD burning and extraction, media synchronization to media devices and album art automatic search & download.

Wanna see more? Go to banshee-project.org, download the latest version and enjoy!