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Welcome, I'm Shantanu Tushar, currently pursuing B.E. in Computer Science And Engineering at B.M.S. College Of Engineering, Bangalore. You'll find here mostly, apart from my personal details, technical stuff that I am able to put on here. Please share your views and comments in the Feedback section.
Please note that all content here is the best to my knowledge, and I do not take responsibility for any direct/indirect loss caused by following the text herein.

  • Gluon Player Plasmoid, Yay! It works
    May 1, 2010, 2:03 am

    Right from the time I found about the Gluon project (which I found on the GSoC ideas page), I've been very excited and having loads of fun with the Gluon team (as usual :)

    I'm happy to announce that the Plasmoid has taken its first step, displaying a Gluon example game on an OpenGL rendered Plasma applet. The applet is a Plasma::GLApplet which uses the Gluon Framework to create game graphics and output game audio alongwith support for input.

    Here's a screenshot (yes, the transparency is a bug)-

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  • Added simple Type-and-Select feature to Folderview applet
    April 26, 2010, 8:12 pm

    With the type and select feature implemented in the Folder View Plasma applet, I hope that we finally resolve bug 187241 completely. This makes the applet even more usable than before.

    This fix was different in a way that I had my first ever usability discussion with the KDE Usability team over the type and select behavior differing from Dolphin (and in general with anything derived from QAbstractItemView). Finally we concluded that the behavior be modified to match Dolphin's, and thats what the current state is.

    The fix will ship with KDE SC 4.5

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  • Hack Fest at Avalanche 2010
    March 14, 2010, 12:19 pm

    I still remember the day when I entered into the hall where hackfest was going to happen in at Genesis 2007. Just like everybody else I though they'll teach how to intrude into others' systems and do other crazy stuff. Little did I realize that it was a day when I was going to change; my way of computing was going to change.

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  • Plasmate 0.1-alpha1 release - it feels exciting
    February 12, 2010, 8:28 pm

    (Update: See Yuen Hoe's nice screencast here and Diego's post here).

    There are some moments in life which are just too exciting and thrilling. The best of them came just recently - when Plasmate's first release happened.

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  • How to make Sify Broadband GNU/Linux client remember username and password
    January 14, 2010, 6:28 pm

    Another fine example of how non-free software can create nuisance is the Sify Broadband GNU/Linux client. It was my mistake that I was happy the moment I found out that they have a GNU/Linux client.

    If you're using the client, you know how stripped down the software is as compared to the Windows client. And that comes with its own problems-

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  • Made the Add Applet... panel context menu option to work
    January 3, 2010, 1:21 pm

    Since the new Widgets Explorer was added to Plasma, the Add Widgets... options from the Panel context menu was not working. I thought it might be fixed later because Widgets Explorer was in heavy development.

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  • FOSS.IN Day 1
    December 2, 2009, 12:19 pm

    After a long time of excitement and joy, atlast FOSS.IN 2009 started today. Reached the venue at 10:30 AM instead of the 10 AM I had targeted. At the venue, NIMHANS convention centre there was a long line for delegate registration (surprise, I'm a speaker this time, no queues Smile ) and the weather was really hot and uncomfortable.

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  • How to use ssh keys to make password-less logins
    November 25, 2009, 4:26 pm

    I regularly connect to my father's Ubuntu PC using ssh to help or to transfer files through scp. I have been using ssh keys to make these logins password-less and I thought the method needs a blog post :)
    Generally a user can have two keys - a private key and a public key which we generate using the following process and then copy the public key to the remote machine. Remember, don't give anyone your private key.

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