GSOC 2012

Setting different Text Angles for Different Frames and Setting the Angle = 0.0 for Text outside the Frame.

 

The frames have been set at angles : 1, PI/2, 3PI/2 and 2PI

BUG : It performs OK for now, but there is a bug, that when I edit the frame properties like width, the text angle in the frame, gets set to 0.0 and redraws the text with no rotation.

Here is the Debug output :-

DEBUG: metrics asc 214 desc 52

DEBUG: Clip bottom is 3012
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  1.570000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 1.570000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 3012
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  1.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 1.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 4727
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  4.900000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 4.900000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 4709
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  0.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 0.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 3012
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  1.570000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 1.570000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 3012
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  1.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 1.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 4727
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  4.900000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 4.900000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Clip bottom is 4709
DEBUG: Aaditya : Angle Set  0.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : Get Set Angle 0.000000
DEBUG: Aaditya : How many times Unset ?
DEBUG: Frame Edit mode set to 0

Text Rotation in Abiword

I have here rotated the text in Abiword by 180 degrees and 90 degrees :- Below are the screen shots :-

180 degrees rotation

90 degrees rotation

Abiword : Additional Requirements

Get Old fb Chat Back

Today, While Surfing Internet, I found a very simple way which will help you to get the old Facebook chat. This is the simplest way to get rid of new chat sidebar which only shows you the list of people you chat with the most. Also, there is no way to see who’s online right now in the new Facebook Chat. You’ll find many ways to get rid of new sidebar, most of them quite nerdy, but I don’t think you’ll find any working solution easier than this one.

You just need to install a script in your browser. The script is named as ‘Facebook-Chat-enhancer’ that will solve the problem. Once the script installed, you will be able to see all your friends who are online at the moment on chat and also there is a scroll bar in the sidebar which you can scroll up and down to see all your online friends, just like the good-old times. No more offline friends will be shown on chat.

Installing the script in Google Chrome

Installing ‘Facebook-Chat-enhancer’ script is as easy as installing chrome extensions. Go to this page and just click on the ‘Install’ button and restart your browser after installing.
There is another plugin, I haven't checked  it but Hope it would work Just fine . HERE .

Installing the script in Mozilla Firefox

In Firefox, you need to install Grease Monkey Add-on before installing the ‘Facebook-Chat-enhancer’ script. Install Grease Monkey Add-on here and when done, install this script to get back old Facebook chat. Restart your browser and you’re done !!!!!!

Script for Opera, Chrome and Firefox

In the Chrome Extension there is another one for the old facebook chat  HERE , It does the same thing as the previous one. However there is one flaw that it can access your data on from facebook.com 

Thank me, if it works  :P

And please do share this post on your Facebook wall .

Do Comment If it doesn't work for you 

Startup Optimisation with Bootcharts (Ubuntu kde and Gnome)

The Sok project looks far from completion, I am certain that the project wont' get completed or wouldn't achieve results that I thought it would achieve, before I started the Project. Clearly I didn't have much Idea or thought before starting the project, and my mentor too was clueless at some points, like the part where I had to find the time spent in each of the starting programs and modules. He had suggested using a function like clock(), in each of the classes and then subsequently finding the difference between each script. Something line clock(arg1) - clock(arg2). Clearly it is a Herculean task in magnitude as well as complexity. So I have resorted back to using the good old bootchart. Well its true that it wont give me a very clear time difference, but atleast it would give me a rough idea. So I installed the bootchart application. From :-

                                  http://www.bootchart.org/download.html

Apparently there is a newer version

                                  https://www.ohloh.net/p/bootchart2

Sadly I didn't find any difference in their working. For anyone still wondering what is a Bootchart, a Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart. Bootchart provides a shell script to be run by the kernel in the init phase. The script will run in background and collect process information, CPU statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc file system. The performance data are stored in memory and are written to disk once the boot process completes.

Obviously you can't optimise or reduce the time spent by the events unless you know where the time is spent, hence bootchart gives you some idea. On having downloaded the bootchart files from either of the above sources. Browse to the extracted directories and nstall them by :-

---> make

---> sudo make install

Or a sudo Command like :-

aaditya@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install bootchart
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gcj-jre gcj-4.4-jre libgcj10-awt
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  pybootchartgui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pybootchartgui
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bootchart
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 90.1kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe bootchart i386 0.90.2-7 [12.5kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe pybootchartgui i386 0+r141-0ubuntu2 [21.7kB]

Having downloaded and installed the files, you just need to reboot your system. When you restart your system next time, browse to /var/log/bootchart and you will find a nice png image showing your boot chart lying there.

Here is my boot chart for my Gnome Desktop system

title = Boot chart for ubuntu (Tue Jul 26 17:53:32 IST 2011)
system.uname = Linux 2.6.35-30-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 7 18:40:23 UTC 2011 i686
system.release = Ubuntu 10.10
system.cpu = model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU       M 370  @ 2.40GHz
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU       M 370  @ 2.40GHz
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU       M 370  @ 2.40GHz
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU       M 370  @ 2.40GHz (4)
system.kernel.options = BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-30-generic root=UUID=C010D42210D42168 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop quiet splash

You will have to download/save the above image and zoom it to accurately view the events.

Here is my boot chart for my kde Desktop system 

You will have to download/save the image and zoom it to accurately view the events.

I guess this is the all important bootchart, and a lot of the future progress will depend on the findings from this bootchart. The upcoming time and may be a future post will be derived from my findings from this post.