Luka Renko

• IRC: Lure (luka74)

• Forums: [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=69941 luka74]

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/lure

• Email: MailTo(lure.net@gmail.com)

Me & Kubuntu

• First tried Kubuntu Hoary on my old notebook (HP Omnibook 6100) - impressed with how good laptop support can be out-of-box

• Switched my work notebook (HP nw8240) completely to Kubuntu Breezy (using VmPlayer for remaining Win stuff I need)

• Started testing with Kubuntu Flight 2 and got hooked into improving it even further
• With Flight 5 switched to Dapper completely

Kubuntu Laptop Support

I am very interested in great laptop support in Kubuntu. Kubuntu is already best debian-based distribution in that regard, but there are some development that we need to follow closely to keep up-to-date.

Power Management

Ubuntu power management is based on hal, acpi-support scripts and powernowd. This is then controlled with gnome-power-manager (GNOME) and klaptop (KDE). Problem is that klaptop is quite buggy and unmaintained.

There is major work going on on [http://powersave.sourceforge.net powersave] & [http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29295 kpowersave] solution: see KubuntuPowersave for details.

Network Management

For mobile users, good network management is key. Kubuntu is currently lacking in wireless management tools (wifimonitor, knemo). There are some alternatives:

• [http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net wlassistant] - waiting for incluson into Main

  • still no WPA support

• [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager networkmanager] - waiting for incluson into Main

  • my notes on getting knetworkmanager on Dapper are on ["/KNetworkManager"] sub-page

Packages

As my main interest is KDE and laptop support, these are also the area where I have contibuted regarding packages:

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/powersave/ powersave] - improved integration with Ubuntu, sync with upstream, [https://launchpad.net/bugs/39215 UVFe] & [https://launchpad.net/bugs/42651 UVFe]

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kpowersave/ kpowersave] - sync with upstream, [https://launchpad.net/bugs/39221 UVFe]

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager knetworkmanager] - worked on required patches for inclusion into Dapper, sync with upstream

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdeadmin kdeadmin] - patched knetworkconf in order to stabilize it for Dapper

Complete list of packages from [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+packages Launchpad]

Testing

• Kubuntu on my notebook: ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNW8240/Kubuntu"]
• Kubuntu on my desktop
• Kubuntu Live CD Installer (Ubiquity)

Bugs

I do bug triage for Kubuntu specific bugs with focus on laptop support, networking and live CD installer:

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs Bugs reported by me - Still Open]

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs?field.omit_dupes.used= Bugs reported by me - All]

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+packagebugs My Package Bugs]

• Have worked on nailing down some strange regressions: [https://launchpad.net/bugs/34592 34592], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/31974 31974], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/34587 34587], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/32785 32785]

Future

• Kubuntu Laptop support:
  • powersave/kpowersave by default (drop klaptop), better integrated with Ubuntu base (acpi-support...)
  • hotkeys in KDE should work as nicely as they work in GNOME

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