Description: "aRoK" is a small superKaramba desktop applet that provides a few features which can also be found in some "smartphones". It's main feature is the interaction with amaroK player.
Touch screen with icons menu; Can be used both in Horizontal or Vertical mode; Various skins available; Configuration tools to access all configurable options;
Comes with the following plugins: Photoshow: - Display your favorite photos in a slide show. Calendar: - Configurable calendar with date display. Media controller (amaroK player): - Display cover and information of currently playing media; - Control basic player functions. Stock watch: - Follow the evolution of markets and receive custom alerts about your stocks. Mail: - Get mail count from your mail accounts (GMail accounts included); - Launch your favorite mail application to read mail. Phone: - Make internet phone calls to contacts all around the world; - Have your contacts indexed by Contact Books and Groups. Clock: - Display current local date and time in an analog/digital clock. Calculator: - Perform simple quick calculations; (...)Last changelog:
10-Apr-2008 - Initial release. 02-May-2008 - Multiple bugfixes; - Added SSL support to mail module; - Added password encryption to mail module; - Added support for wallpapers use; - Added menu bar to phone module; - Updated translations; - Changed a few icons. 11-Jul-2008 - Multiple bugfixes; - Added experimental support for Juk. 17-Sep-2008 - Multiple bugfixes; - Added option to sync wallpaper of the widget with the current desktop wallpaper; - Added support for making phone calls using the SIP protocol (requires Linphone). 18-Sep-2008 - Fixed bug that was making superkaramba crash on 64bit systems (scrolling of text will not be available). 26-Sep-2008 - Minor bugfixes. 01-Oct-2008 - Multiple bugfixes. 26-Sep-2008 - Minor bugfixes; - Added support for cover displaying of LastFm streams. 14-Nov-2008 - Minor bugfixes; - Started tests for KDE4 support.
SuperKaramba 0.42
KDE 3.5.9
Kubuntu 8.04
I think it is a good work but it crashes...
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fda82c016f0 (LWP 27969)]
[New Thread 0x4211b950 (LWP 23911)]
(no debugging symbols found)
...
[KCrash handler]
#5 0x00007fdaffffffff in ?? ()
#6 0x00007fff8ac33a70 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007fda79bd9ef0 in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000e7dfd8 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fda80c40c1c in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
This is the first time I've installed aRoK, I have the same problem with amaroKer...
Now I've tried to remove aRoK and reinstalled again, but when I click on the .skz file superkaramba crashes.
Hi there. I really would like to get this issue fixed, I just can't yet tell from where the problem comes from. Tried to reproduce but Superkaramba refuses to crash on my system. I'm a bit clueless...
Hi. Thank you for reporting those. The clock should now show the correct time with Daylight Time Savings. As for the proxy support will have to look at it and try to include it with next update. Best regards, Lechio
SuperKaramba 0.42
KDE 3.5.9
Kubuntu 7.10
I have edited the the backtrace to remove repeat lines:
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 47548964626688 (LWP 7029)]
[New Thread 1082132816 (LWP 9158)]
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#5 0x00002b3effffffff in ?? ()
#6 0x00002b3edc80f560 in ?? ()
#7 0x00002b3ed5cd1980 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0x00007fffd6e91bf0 in ?? ()
#9 0x00000000025830f0 in ?? ()
#10 0x00002b3edc80f560 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fffd6e91dc0 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000024f78a8 in ?? ()
#13 0x00002b3ed59f06fc in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#14 0xffffffff00000000 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000000020418a4 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000020343d0 in ?? ()
#17 0x0000000002034e50 in ?? ()
#18 0x00002b3ed4af4ecb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
#19 0x000000000250e9e0 in ?? ()
#20 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
I have nothing but praise for your good work. The aRok theme installed without incident, tried and tested OK, wonderful.
Alas on my next startup, Supakaramba informs me via KDE Crash handler of a signal 11 (SIGSEGV). I am gutted to say the least as I've tried everything to resolve this. Forgive me, I am a novice learning fast but I should say that I have a pclinuxos setup with s/karamba 0.359 pre-installed. I upgraded to 0.39 when this prob started. no joy. Oddly it is still shown on list of my s/karamba themes and shown as installed on the theme's list "Get More Sruff" window. I have also tried ur suggestions to astronomer
Please, Please help.
Hi there, thank you for the feedback. I believe i've managed to identify this issue that may cause SuperKaramba to crash on some systems, it's related with the DCOP interface when the application that provides the menu is created. Will issue a fix, that hopefully will correct this problem, ASAP. Sorry about that... Best regards, Lechio.
hi, i'm trying to run on F8 64bits... i get this:
aRoK : Config: extracted
aRoK : Selected Language: en
aRoK : Local Encoding: utf-8
aRoK : Loaded default configuration.
KCrash: Application 'superkaramba' crashing...
object not accessible
object not accessible
object not accessible
object not accessible
object not accessible
can help?
thanks.
Hi there. No ideia why superkaramba is crashing there, I tested this on my system with Debian, Mandrake, Kubuntu, Slack and BSD no problems with these. Don't have FC to test it. My guess is that it may be a problem related with yor python install, check if you have pyKDE installed, also check if dcopserver is running in yor KDE session.
i've pykde,pyqt installed... could be python2.5 the problem?
i've been reading some forums where says that superkaramba0.42 don't work with python2.5...
i don't know what to do :(
(sorry bad english)
Don't know about FC but python2.5+superkaramba have no issues in my system. Try to use the non-pyKDE option as the error I believe comes from there. Here's how: Rename aRoK.skz to aRoK.zip, extract the file, open aRoK.py with a text editor. Near the the top where it says 'force_nopykde':False change to 'force_nopykde':True. Load the theme from that dir, should load ok now...
Without that change, KDE crash handler shows:
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 46912496438592 (LWP 25674)]
[New Thread 1084229968 (LWP 25715)]
Making the change, appear a window that says that arok could be runing or not. After, crash!, and:
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 46912496438592 (LWP 27550)]
...still not working.
Kcrash doesn't say much... I'd like to help you but I have no clue why superkaramba is crashing :/ try downgrading superkaramba to see if it solves it.
This is friggin' brilliant!
One suggestion for improvement, though: pictures (and amarok album art) are pretty low quality most of the time. Especially album art is very 'pixely'.
Anyway, super job. I don't know how you can be only at 70%+, 85 should be the minimum :)
Hi there, thank you for the comment. The 'pixely' work on album art is (for this time only) not my fault :) we ask amarok for the album cover, amarok replies with a miniature of that same cover (by default an image with 150px), we then resize that miniature the best we can. This can be fixed in the config dialog of amarok, change the size of miniatures to something like 300px and no more 'pixely' art :). The satisfaction comes from people using my work, not the kde-look rating.
You know what? I never even noticed the 'Default size for cover previews' option in Amarok. Thanks for the heads up. 200 pixels was enough.
Okay, I'll try another issue. :) I use the keyboard to control amarok. But aRok doesn't listen to the status. It updates the currently playing song, but when I press my 'pause' button on the keyboard, aRok doesn't change the 'screen' accordingly.
And I alrealdy noticed I'm wrong. It just takes like 5 seconds. I'm a bit impatient. :)
We give it some time there... :) we could be updating the status faster but that would take more CPU to do that. But... 5secs is allot of time... Do you have pyKDE installed? It's easy to check that, click on the top left corner of the applet, if it pops up a menu with submenus you have it, if it pops up a simple menu you don't have pyKDE and you'd be better installing it as it makes the applet allot more efficient and more responsive...
This is a thing that will be allot better handled when we change from the current method (DCOP) to D-BUS, available in amarok 2.
Hi,
could you add an option to reset the email counter and only show the number of new messages since the last time the email applet was clicked.
Reason: I use a pop account and leave my messages on the server, so aRoK shows the total amount of emails not only the new one.
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What are the versions of the libs this depends upon?
For the PyKDE and PyQT we are still using the 3.x ones. Any version of 3.x will work.
SuperKaramba 0.42 KDE 3.5.9 Kubuntu 8.04 I think it is a good work but it crashes... ... (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7fda82c016f0 (LWP 27969)] [New Thread 0x4211b950 (LWP 23911)] (no debugging symbols found) ... [KCrash handler] #5 0x00007fdaffffffff in ?? () #6 0x00007fff8ac33a70 in ?? () #7 0x00007fda79bd9ef0 in ?? () #8 0x0000000000e7dfd8 in ?? () #9 0x00007fda80c40c1c in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Crashed on the theme startup? Have you done a clean install, uninstalling any previous aRoK version and restarting superkaramba?
This is the first time I've installed aRoK, I have the same problem with amaroKer... Now I've tried to remove aRoK and reinstalled again, but when I click on the .skz file superkaramba crashes.
Hi there. I really would like to get this issue fixed, I just can't yet tell from where the problem comes from. Tried to reproduce but Superkaramba refuses to crash on my system. I'm a bit clueless...
Oops, sorry to post again but the clock is incorrect. It's not using daylight savings.
Hi. Thank you for reporting those. The clock should now show the correct time with Daylight Time Savings. As for the proxy support will have to look at it and try to include it with next update. Best regards, Lechio
Cool theme. Just downloaded it. The mail doesn't work. I suppose it's since I'm behind a proxy? Could you add proxy support? :D
SuperKaramba 0.42 KDE 3.5.9 Kubuntu 7.10 I have edited the the backtrace to remove repeat lines: (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) ... (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47548964626688 (LWP 7029)] [New Thread 1082132816 (LWP 9158)] (no debugging symbols found) ... (no debugging symbols found) [KCrash handler] #5 0x00002b3effffffff in ?? () #6 0x00002b3edc80f560 in ?? () #7 0x00002b3ed5cd1980 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x00007fffd6e91bf0 in ?? () #9 0x00000000025830f0 in ?? () #10 0x00002b3edc80f560 in ?? () #11 0x00007fffd6e91dc0 in ?? () #12 0x00000000024f78a8 in ?? () #13 0x00002b3ed59f06fc in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #14 0xffffffff00000000 in ?? () #15 0x00000000020418a4 in ?? () #16 0x00000000020343d0 in ?? () #17 0x0000000002034e50 in ?? () #18 0x00002b3ed4af4ecb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0 #19 0x000000000250e9e0 in ?? () #20 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Hi there, thank you for reporting that. That issue should now be fixed with this release. Best regards, Lechio.
I have nothing but praise for your good work. The aRok theme installed without incident, tried and tested OK, wonderful. Alas on my next startup, Supakaramba informs me via KDE Crash handler of a signal 11 (SIGSEGV). I am gutted to say the least as I've tried everything to resolve this. Forgive me, I am a novice learning fast but I should say that I have a pclinuxos setup with s/karamba 0.359 pre-installed. I upgraded to 0.39 when this prob started. no joy. Oddly it is still shown on list of my s/karamba themes and shown as installed on the theme's list "Get More Sruff" window. I have also tried ur suggestions to astronomer Please, Please help.
Hi there, thank you for the feedback. I believe i've managed to identify this issue that may cause SuperKaramba to crash on some systems, it's related with the DCOP interface when the application that provides the menu is created. Will issue a fix, that hopefully will correct this problem, ASAP. Sorry about that... Best regards, Lechio.
hi, i'm trying to run on F8 64bits... i get this: aRoK : Config: extracted aRoK : Selected Language: en aRoK : Local Encoding: utf-8 aRoK : Loaded default configuration. KCrash: Application 'superkaramba' crashing... object not accessible object not accessible object not accessible object not accessible object not accessible can help? thanks.
Hi there. No ideia why superkaramba is crashing there, I tested this on my system with Debian, Mandrake, Kubuntu, Slack and BSD no problems with these. Don't have FC to test it. My guess is that it may be a problem related with yor python install, check if you have pyKDE installed, also check if dcopserver is running in yor KDE session.
i've pykde,pyqt installed... could be python2.5 the problem? i've been reading some forums where says that superkaramba0.42 don't work with python2.5... i don't know what to do :( (sorry bad english)
Don't know about FC but python2.5+superkaramba have no issues in my system. Try to use the non-pyKDE option as the error I believe comes from there. Here's how: Rename aRoK.skz to aRoK.zip, extract the file, open aRoK.py with a text editor. Near the the top where it says 'force_nopykde':False change to 'force_nopykde':True. Load the theme from that dir, should load ok now...
Without that change, KDE crash handler shows: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 46912496438592 (LWP 25674)] [New Thread 1084229968 (LWP 25715)] Making the change, appear a window that says that arok could be runing or not. After, crash!, and: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 46912496438592 (LWP 27550)] ...still not working.
Kcrash doesn't say much... I'd like to help you but I have no clue why superkaramba is crashing :/ try downgrading superkaramba to see if it solves it.
This is friggin' brilliant! One suggestion for improvement, though: pictures (and amarok album art) are pretty low quality most of the time. Especially album art is very 'pixely'. Anyway, super job. I don't know how you can be only at 70%+, 85 should be the minimum :)
Hi there, thank you for the comment. The 'pixely' work on album art is (for this time only) not my fault :) we ask amarok for the album cover, amarok replies with a miniature of that same cover (by default an image with 150px), we then resize that miniature the best we can. This can be fixed in the config dialog of amarok, change the size of miniatures to something like 300px and no more 'pixely' art :). The satisfaction comes from people using my work, not the kde-look rating.
You know what? I never even noticed the 'Default size for cover previews' option in Amarok. Thanks for the heads up. 200 pixels was enough. Okay, I'll try another issue. :) I use the keyboard to control amarok. But aRok doesn't listen to the status. It updates the currently playing song, but when I press my 'pause' button on the keyboard, aRok doesn't change the 'screen' accordingly. And I alrealdy noticed I'm wrong. It just takes like 5 seconds. I'm a bit impatient. :)
We give it some time there... :) we could be updating the status faster but that would take more CPU to do that. But... 5secs is allot of time... Do you have pyKDE installed? It's easy to check that, click on the top left corner of the applet, if it pops up a menu with submenus you have it, if it pops up a simple menu you don't have pyKDE and you'd be better installing it as it makes the applet allot more efficient and more responsive... This is a thing that will be allot better handled when we change from the current method (DCOP) to D-BUS, available in amarok 2.
Hi, could you add an option to reset the email counter and only show the number of new messages since the last time the email applet was clicked. Reason: I use a pop account and leave my messages on the server, so aRoK shows the total amount of emails not only the new one.
Sure, I believe that can be done. Will look into it.