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Tango Schema for Konsole
Today Wouter Bolsterlee's post about Tango colors for gnome-terminal popped up in my RSS reader and I thought it looked pretty good. The Tango Desktop Project is primarily used by GNOME, but I'm still a big fan even though I prefer KDE.
Here is the equivalent schema for Konsole, KDE's terminal app: Tango_Colors.schema. It should pop up if you put it in ~/kde/share/apps/konsole/.
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Summer of Code: Pre-Project Developments
Since the spring semester ended and my number of commitments promptly fell close to zero, my e-mail inbox has been mostly empty. But over the past few days, it's been a challenge to keep up with the swarm of traffic going on due to Google's Summer of Code program. This is a dream come true for people like me who check their e-mail every 30 seconds.
In a previous posting I mentioned that I was leaning towards my KDE proposal as my selected Summer of Code project. At the time of writing, I had already been in contact with the KDE folks for a couple days, and hadn't received a single message from the Python guys. The selection process inevitably requires crushing some dreams, and the lack of contact with the nice folks at the PSF facilitated my early decision.
What a surprise it was, then, when I received a message from one of the KDE mentors telling me that they had already been exchanging messages with the Python guys, who really wanted to see the proposal brought to life. Google had apparently instructed the organizations to 'fight' among themselves for duplicate acceptances. After finally receiving messages from Ian Bicking and David Ascher (this is not to their discredit — the KDE guys were just fast), I wasn't so sure which project to select anymore.
On one hand, I felt a little selfish selecting my own project over the Python one simply for the reason that it excited me more, even with more risk involved. On the other hand, I think a lot of other people are qualified to work on the Python project, and I also think Knoware will directly benefit more people in the end. Since my decision was not swayed, I hope it doesn't look like I've just been stubborn all along — I looked very closely at the goals laid out in my project schedule, and I see no reason not to continue. Furthermore, I plan to use Python for a significant part of my KDE project, and it directly lines up with another proposal accepted by the PSF. So there's something in it for the Python guys as well. Who'd have thought that after all this time, I'd have to turn down the organization and community that has been the biggest part of my life as a programmer for the past year?
Patty brought up a good point last night. After about a month of being unemployed and exploring possible ways to make money, it's funny that now I'm stressing out over my options of doing something completely awesome and doing something just slightly less awesome. Funny how things change...
I'm sending my final decision out to the mentoring organizations shortly. This means that the PSF will get to choose another proposal, which must be exciting for them as well as one lucky participant.