Slackware 12.1 with KDE 4.1 and Amarok 2 alpha

Based from latest news on slackware official site, developer team has announced that slackware package for kde 4.1 already ported in /testing directory which part of slackware current. Not only developer was happily use it, this euphoria wouldn't complete if I'm not trying it too. Now, here is my slackware desktop's screenshot using kde 4.1 and also with amarok 2 (alpha release) inside.

desktop spesification:
- Cover switch mode ( an alternative alt+tab window switcher ) for desktop effect
- using elegance theme for desktop with field of peace's wallpaper
- amarok 2 alpha release with video applet
- firefox 3.0.1 using KDE 4 theme

What I get that this version is still slower than KDE 3 which is an official version for slackware 12.1 by default. Beside that, there are several problems still appear. some icons on menu applet doesn't show up. Dolphin file manager doesn't do well when handling movie filetype if thumbnail applet enabled. It will break up when I put mouse over that filetype and dolphin will close by itself.

Maybe this major version isn't a stable phase yet and still buggy. The problems also come with amarok 2. Video applet that come with this alpha release sometime can cause amarok hang and not responsible. I think this is not the right time to use it now.

fun with gnu make utility

This idea is inspired from gnu's humor collections. there is a quote looks like this on that site:
%make love
Make: Don't no how to make `love'. Stop.

It's only a joke and doesn't implemented on every linux distro as far as I now. You wouldn't get a message like that when you type a command 'make love' on a console. But in forum, my friend post a message which almost as same as that joke when he type the command 'make love' in freebsd version 7.0. A message looks like this:

$ make love
Not war.

Because I don't have freebsd 7.0 installed on my lovely pc to see the fact, I start a challenge which mean It should be adopted too in slackware 12.1 that already installed. I check into source file of GNU Make utility on slackware installation dvd, which version is 3.81 as same as the last sources package in its official site. And also, it's the same version that included in freebsd 7.0 when I check on freebsd site repositories.

I'm curious which part of this utility has been modified by freebsd developer. Instead of trying to find out in freebsd version of gnu make, I try to find it from scratch which means from its original source. After consume so much time, I found it in 'remake.c' file. Exactly in complain function from that file. Here's a full modified source from that function:

/* Show a message stating the target failed to build. */
static void complain (const struct file *file)
{
const char *msg_noparent
= _("%sNo rule to make target `%s'%s");
const char *msg_parent
= _("%sNo rule to make target `%s', needed by `%s'%s");

if (!keep_going_flag)
{
if (file->parent == 0)
{
if (strcmp(file->name,"love")==0)
{
fprintf (stdout,"Have fun! :^)\n");
exit(1);
}
else
fatal (NILF, msg_noparent, "", file->name, "");
}
fatal (NILF, msg_parent, "", file->name, file->parent->name, "");
}

if (file->parent == 0)
error (NILF, msg_noparent, "*** ", file->name, ".");
else
error (NILF, msg_parent, "*** ", file->name, file->parent->name, ".");
}

What I modify is just to generate an output like this:
mine@unique:~$ make love
Have fun! :^)

I think this is not the only one trick to generate a message like that, but it work as I want. Now, FreeBSD 7.0 not the only one which can do it. Slackware 12.1 too! ;-)

-Simplicity is yours-