kio_sftp rewrite upstream
I've commited my kio_sftp rewrite to KDE trunk today. The patch for KDE 4.3 if you want to test it is available here. You need libssh 0.3.2 to get it working but I suggest to use the libssh v0-3 git branch which has fixes found by kio_sftp testers. Thanks to all of them!
Hack Week: kio_sftp in action!
The openSUSE Hackweek is over and I have a working kio_sftp implementation using libssh. There is still work which needs to be done. I have to cleanup the code and test all the features (resume of files, recursive deletion). Today I've copied successfully the first files to my webserver!
I've uploaded the two files to my webspace, here. Remeber that it's not finished yet! You need libssh's v0-3 git branch to get it working. I've found serveral bugs during the week. I will release libssh 0.3.2 next week.
Thanks to Dirk Müller who answered all my question and helped me with the KDE stuff.
Benchmarks will follow soon too.
kio_sftp authentication with libssh works
I've got the fingerprint verification and authentication with public key and keyboard interactive working. There is still a dialog missing for special interactive questions, but the normal user stuff works just fine.
kio_sftp using libssh
I wanted to reimplement kio_sftp with libssh since some month. This week is another openSUSE Hack Week. I'm in the SUSE office in Nürnberg with some KDE developers. Dirk Müller helps me with the implementation. I'm normally not a C++ developer so it is a good oppurtunity to get help and things done. More on Wednesday. The weather will be good tommorow so I plan to go climbing.
phonon and amarok wakeups
I've used my notebook the first time with openSUSE 11.1 without a power cable attached and wondered why my battery was empty after a short time. So I've did some research and found a knotify4 bug, this leads to a phonon and xine bug. I have the latest version of xine installed and the wakeup bug in xine is already fixed sine 1.1.9. So there must be still a bug in the phonen backend of KDE 4.1.3.
I found a new phonon-xine backend on kde-apps.org, here. I've found packages in the build service (click) and tested them. The wakeups of the whole system dropped to less than 200 wakeups per second.
During my research I stumbled over a amarok problem too. If you're playing music with amarok, it produces more than 900 wakeups, even if you stopped playing the music. The whole system should need more than 500 wakeups if you play music and browse the internet.
You have to quit the application!
UPDATE:
The bugs are fixed in KDE SVN (KDE 4.2). Thanks to Mark Kretschmann. The amarok bug for this was #177517.
Pimp my KDE
As KDE 4.1 RC1 has been released I've installed it on my notebook and pimped it
I've build the Polyester theme in the openSUSE Build Service for KDE4 and Qt4. krusader for KDE4 is available too, here.