KDE Troubles and WoW Books
KelsinI’ll deal with the more fun topic (for most people) first. I just finished the second Warcraft novel and it was incredible! The first one (”Day of the Dragon”) was a rather plot-less (in the large scheme of things) story that included some cool characters and plot points but kindof felt like a subplot that occurs after Warcraft 2 and before Warcraft 3. The second (”The Lord of the Clans”) was amazing. It is basically the plot that the action-adventure game would have followed if Blizzard ever made it. This book has CEMENTED the fact that Orcs are my race in Warcraft 3 and makes me desperately want to not play my Gnome Warlock (Warlocks = Evil) and make a Orc Shaman. I probably will very very soon… like tonight after MC.
In the linux side of things I am working on a Raid Signup program in PhP. Thinking about putting it on Sourceforge so I have a stable cvs site and so that others can use it. Should be a neat little program I hope! It has support for your account (WoW Account name and a password) and then as many characters as you want under that. Then you can make a raid with one of your characters as it’s leader and then others can join that raid. You can set any out of the 40 slots to certain classes or “Any” or “Closed”. Then when a character joins it fills up the class slots, then the any slots, then starts filling a waiting list. What I have to program later is the part that when a character is removed the program takes a character of that class from a Any slot (if there is one) or takes a class off the waiting list (if there is one) to fill the slot. It will work out well.
Any other people use Kbuntu? I think NFK did. It feels wierd cause my KDE menu is filled with Gnome programs that I use some more then KDE programs. Obviously I use Firefox over Konquerer cause it’s better in almost every way and I can’t live without the Web Developer Extension when doing CSS work. I use Synaptic cause it has a lot more options then the KDE version. I use GNUCash cause I’m used to it…. I really want them to make a GTK-2 version very soon.
I switched to KDE originally cause Gnome’s VFS seemed terrible. It would always crash out. Also the default GTK editor panels have UGLY colors. Every program (Screem, GEdit, GVim etc) had a horrible pink, green and brown color scheme. How is that changed? KDE’s Qt editor panels are much better and look very nice when working on pages. I was going to use Kate with KDE’s vfs until it started crashing on me as well… I’ve gotten used to Dreameweaver at work and not having to FTP the files up once I’m done editing every two seconds. I was also working with a site on a FreeBSD box where I don’t have a ftp account only ssh. The VFS’s would have worked great if they were stable and actually worked. In KDE I couldn’t even figure out how to change the settings of a networked folder after I made it, so if I made a mistake I would have to delete one and make another.
Finally I downloaded KDevelop and Quanta. I havn’t tried KDevelop for anything for Quanta works great so far for remote editing. The saving is pretty quick and the editing pane is Qt and good. I think it uses parts of KDE’s VFS but not all of it so at least it works. I feel wierd cause it’s not a totally free program (for my use it is) and I’m using about 1/920834 features of it. It does way more then I want, and the automatic HTML stuff is annoying (I turned it off real quick) but it works reliably when remote editing and has a CVS module client in it, which will be nice once I get a sourceforge account. It’s working for now but I still havn’t found a reliable php editing environment. I love emacs for a lot of stuff but it really doesn’t work with php well at all (which is annoying). I also don’t know enough about make and stuff to even make emacs good for C/C++ work. I just can’t find my perfect development environment at all… kind of important for me! If anyone has suggestions about how they work and code let me know 