Or Display Configuration Manager.. Hhmm.. name sucks, doesn’t it? =) (But it will stay like that until you suggest something cool =))

Anyway, we have released Pardus 2008 Beta this week. It comes with a new manager (I and Fatih - “the Xorg guy” =) were together in this) which enables you to configure Xorg server (drivers, monitors, dual screens etc.)

You can reach DM via Tasma -> System -> Display Manager or simply by typing display-manager command from the line. Please do not hesitate to share your opinions and bug reports via Bugzilla.

There’re some screenshots here:

When I came back to home from the office, Eren gave me great news that made my day! =)

As we heard (in #pardus-devel (@freenode)) from Jonathan Riddell and Martin Böhm, they were in Ubuntu Developer Summit (@ Prague) and were discussing to adopt our configuration tools into Kubuntu. I really got excited, because we have a lot of beautiful tools for end-users to make Linux easier for them, but we lack of presenting these tools to open source community.. =(

When Pardus 2008 (and it’s very soon) got released, we will start to port all of our configuration tools (as well as other applications such as Kaptan and TASMA) to KDE 4 immediately.. And as being the maintainer of TASMA, I’ll really be happy to see them being used on Kubuntu..Yay! =)

I should have been written this post months and months earlier, but I was waiting for our superb designer, Gokhan’s designs for layouts. He did an excellent job, both for Kaptan and Yali (you should have seen last screenshots of Yali in OzgurlukIcin.com magazine, if you haven’t yet, have a look at here).

Well, as some of you may know, Kaptan was written in C++. But as all of our tools (except TASMA) are being written in Python, we decided to port Kaptan into Python, too. Actually, it only works on Pardus (network and package manager stuff) but I’ve been thinking to write a generic welcome wizard for KDE- but wait until we port ourselves to KDE4 =)

Okay, okaay.. here’re the screenshots =)

I’ve been asking this question to myself in last days, and decided to customize my desktop by removing any extra “thing” as possible as I can. Both KDE and applications (e.g. Firefox) come with neat interfaces. But cleaning up unnecessary menus and panels will really help to expand your workplace.

I’m going to give you some hints, but first have a look at my desktop (yes there’s only wallpaper :)):

I love to think all components of an interface as windows. Like all windows have a close button on top right, my desktop (panel) has a close button, too.

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You may have think if it’s hard to:

- work without seeing a task bar, but I think alt + tab do it very well.
- and starting an application without clicking an app icon on panel, menu, swh else. katapult rocks at it, just an alt + space and type F brings you Firefox:

Customization about desktop ends here In fact, the most important one is Firefox, one of the most frequently usable app. Here’s a screenshot of my firefox:

Have a look at the details:

Normally Firefox comes a toolbar & menu like that:

With the customization, area for toolbar & menu eg. reduces by half! That means nearly you’ll save %12 area of your workspace! I made this customization with three different actions.

Note that, with this customization; back, stop and forward buttons only appears when there’s something to stop, or a page to back or fwd. Plus, active tab is wider than others.

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Planet is full of with Guadec posts & reviews - everybody is having a fine time in Birmingham I see. I should have been in Birmingham at 14th as Adam wrote and was going to give my little poor lightning talk at Wednesday. But because of my mother got an accident at the day I was going to fly (thanx God), now I’m only counting my fingers & coding my SoC project

But I recently got a news that Guadec 2008 will be in Istanbul! Wow, if that’s true, I’ll really be happy to see all of you in my country.

Let’s see where you’re going to come via this cool video

I recently come upon Rails Podcast’s new episode: Roundtable: Women in Open Source. Women in open source, computer programming & Rails

Jen May Wu, Dr. Ana Nelson, Liz Summerfield, Sandy Metz, Carmelyne Thompson, Cynthia Kaiser, and Desi McAdam — most of them are from devchix and discussing the state of women in open source programming.

I haven’t updated my blog for a along time (but writing about progress of soc to gnome-soc list) because of being too busy about my last exams. I’ll graduate from university in a week (lol I’ll be a computer engineer at last) and now waiting to take my last exam (at this monday) to be free and completely interested in my soc project.

But Gsoc doesn’t let me alone! Yesterday was a very interesting day, because the biggest national and official TV channel TRT came to my university for making an interview with me! They’ve heard of me about being one of the first students who have being accepted to Gsoc and the first woman who has accepted from Turkey.

I first talked a bit about myself, my soc project, GNOME, Evolution & Seahorse, benefits of Google Summer of Code, etc. . Then they asked me what I’m thinking about Google’s last buyings. I was so excited during the whole interview as being a reserved person, so I don’t know how did I answered like:

“Yes, Google can be a bit monopolist, so the situation can be a bit anxious. But as Google makes our lifes easier with their awesome projects, and they truly know what to do with what,.. hey I can’t say NO to this monopoly!”..

Today another TV channel (but not big as TRT, it’s local TV channel of Canakkale) will make an interview with me, too. Hey, I’m going to be famous

Days are passing away quickly and there’re just two weeks to start coding. Last week I decided to examine & understand libcryptui but I couldn’t find any documents on Google or something helpful like that (and I was very stubborn about not asking this to Adam- because i shouldn’t ask everything to my mentor as i’m a student and have to find my way ultimately, right? (yep, sometimes I became some kind of a psychopath). Hmm.. and a confession: I wanted to make my mentors a bit suprised about how cool my work is (because i couldn’t interested in the project enough because of uni. exams).. So..

DON’T try at home! If so, you’ll lose days like me. With a regretful heart, a mixed-up brain, and,.. poor me Advice: Please talk with your mentor about what you’re going to do.

What happened? So for a couple of days I couldn’t do anything, just paralized. Then the amazon inside me had rised suddenly so then I started to examine codes, tried to understand code structures in these days.. At the end I prepared a little documentation about libcryptui, its functions and what it stands for. However I don’t know if my ideas about the library are true, or this is the best part to start..

libcryptui: a simple api for key selection

Simply we’ll start with index of libcryptui. It has those headers and files:

/seahorse/libcryptui
* libcryptui/cryptui-defines.h
* cryptui-key-chooser.c
* cryptui-key-chooser.h
* cryptui-key-combo.c
* cryptui-key-combo.h
* cryptui-key-list.c
* cryptui-key-list.h
* cryptui-key-store.c
* cryptui-key-store.h
* cryptui-keyset.c
* cryptui-keyset.h
* cryptui-marshal.list
* cryptui-priv.h
* cryptui.c
* cryptui.h
* cryptui.pc.in

/seahorse/libcryptui/cryptui-defines.h

Just a simple header file for declarations that will used by both libseahorse and libcryptui.

/seahorse/libcryptui/cryptui-keyset.h
(includes gtk.h & cryptui.h)

Needed declarations about cryptui. Has two structs [_CryptUIKeyset, _CryptUIKeysetClass] that will be used in /seahorse/libcryptui/cryptui-keyset.c as keysets for removing, adding, updating keys functions (we’ll see this functs later on at cryptui-keyset.c)

/seahorse/libcryptui/cryptui-keyset.c

Now time came for using our cryptui-keyset structs. Besides this c file includes “cryptui-keyset.h”, “cryptui-marshal.h” (?), and “dbus-glib-bindings.h”.

This file has those functions with their arguments’ types.

• static gboolean remove_update (const gchar, gpointer, CryptUIKeyset)
  Takes parameters from remove_key funct. end updates keyset after removing the key.
• static void remove_key (const gchar, gpointer, CryptUIKeyset):
  Sends required parameters to remove_update fuct. for removing keys.

I’ll continue to transfer document from my scraps this evening, but now i have to go to the school

PS: If I have mistakes (and sure i will) please leave a comment.

As I told in my last entry, I’m also working in Turkish Academic Network and Information Center’s (ULAKBIM) IPv6 Task Force. The infrastructure and knowledge is very limited about IPV6 in Turkey as in other countries. So we’re planning to make IPv4to6 emigration easier. A photo from our (ground) round table meeting

It has been a long time since my last entry. I was interested in my awful exams for two weeks and when I just could breathe, I had to go Ankara (~700 km’s away from home!) for the biggest FOSS event of Turkey.

I was also a speaker in a panel called: “Women in Computing: Career to the Life“. Other speakers were Prof. Dr. Nese Yalabik from METU, chair of Department of Computer Technology and Programming Reyyan Ayfer from Bilkent University, Fusun Nebil and Begum Saygecitli. I talked a bit about academic and social life of a woman computer engineering student, and then I talked about advantages and disadvantages of being a woman in free software and Linux community.

I’m also a member of Turkish Academic Network and Information Center’s (ULAKBIM) IPv6 Task Force, so we made a little meeting and talked about IPv6’s future in Turkey.

And a pretty good news: I won a prize called “The Most Hard-Working Penguin of 2007″ from Turkish Linux Users Association. Prize is so sweet, a little crystalline penguin sits on a wood panel:

Anyway, it’s time to work hard about my SoC project. Details are coming soon, wait!

Note #1: A bad news: I can’t come to GUADEC because of my grandmother’s illness. Maybe another time, ugh..

Note #2: I couldn’t interested in console games for a long time. Steven (author of Linux Quake HOWTO and my team friend of LinuxQuake.org) sent me a screenshot from Tomb Raider Legend. Omg, the last time i played Tomb Raider was 6 years ago, and i suprised to see her in this gothic style and isn’t she looks like Eric Draven from the Crow? That’s cool!

Note #3: I’m listening to Blind Guardian’s new single “Another Strange Me” and Paradise Lost’s new single “The Enemy”. They’re all damn cool, but especially I should say that Blind Guardian rocks while making progressive metal