LukaRenko
Luka Renko
IRC: Lure (luka74)
Forums: [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=69941 luka74]
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/lure
Email: MailTo(lure@ubuntu.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
I have attended UbuntuDeveloperSummitMountainView which was great to meet others from great community.
- Always having my laptop with dual-boot: current stable + current development.
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.
Laptop Buttons
I have worked on KubuntuLaptopButtons spec for Edgy and as part of that effort I am collecting info about various laptops in ["/Keycodes"] sub-page. For Feisty, we want to even further refine this as defined in KubuntuFeistyLaptop.
Power Management
Ubuntu power management is based on hal, acpi-support scripts and powernowd. This is then controlled with gnome-power-manager (GNOME) and guidance-power-manager (KDE), which has replaced older klaptop solution. I have worked on multi-battery support on guidance-power-manager and various fixes.
There is 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 (from Dapper times). As KPowersave is also switching to HAL and is more complex that we would like it is not used by default.
Network Management
For mobile users, good network management is key. Kubuntu is currently lacking in wireless management tools (wifimonitor, knemo). During Dapper, I have helped to get latest knetworkmanager into the product, but it looks like Feisty will be first release to finally support knetworkmanager by default - see NetworkRoaming specification for details.
Since other networking stuff is changing, I plan to work on further improvements in Kubuntu networking as specified in KubuntuFeistyNetworking.
Packages
As my main interest is KDE and laptop support, these are also the area where I have contributed 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
more laptop & networking greatness
- help with KDE 4 migration.