Free kicker software for linux

More generally, it is intended to work with window managers that use the concept of "large desktops" instead of "multiple virtual desktops" as kwin does exclusively.
Technically, it is a matter of respecting window managers standards as defined by EWMH (http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html), using the facilities already provided by KDE.
The code is based on the minipager applet taken from kdebase-3.5.4.
To install the package, follow the generic instructions found in the INSTALL file. Generally, you will want to install it in your KDE directory, using:
./configure --prefix=kde-config --prefix
make
make install
You will likely have to use superuser rights to execute the last make install.
(Alternatively, you may choose to install in a different directory, using for example:
./configure --prefix=/opt/kicker-compiz
make
make install
For this to work, you will need to tell KDE about the new prefix, by ensuring that KDEDIRS contains it, e.g. export KDEDIRS=/opt/kicker-compiz:/usr and then restart KDE.)
Once it is installed, use the kicker dialog to add a new applet, and the pager will appear in the list.
The code should soon be hosted somewhere in the KDE svn, hopefully to be merged in one of the next releases.
Currently working:
- pager has the good size, displays windows correctly
- current viewport is highlighted
- click to switch to another viewport
- Known buggy or can be improved:
- Window drag&drop doesnt work reliably
- Aspect ratio is not respected when using kicker is vertical
Enhancements:
- Viewport numbering is ok
- Handles both vertical and horizontal viewports, for the plane plugin vertical kicker is ok
- Know buggy or can be improved
- Window drag&drop does not work reliably when dragging from a viewport different from the current one
- small graphic glitches (seams) for certain panel sizes, due to rounding errors

Khalkhi applet for Kicker is an applet for direct access to your addressbook entries! Place buttons for single entries, for lists by category or for the whole list of entries in your addressbook onto a Kicker panel.
See the status in the several systems a person has an account in, by the symbol on the button! Do a lot of things, like surfing to her homepage, starting an email or a chat by a click on the button! Or drop the list button of all your school friends a file/url to send it to them!
By the right mouse button menu you can add and remove the buttons, configure them and the whole applet, or start the KAddressBook.
The applet is based upon the Khalkhi framework, thus endlessly extendable by plugins. You need to first install the framework:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=54450
You might also want to install the cards server:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=54452
Needs version 0.2.2 of the Khalkhi framework (see link above).
Enhancements:
- adaption to rename of Contacts framework to Khalkhi framework
- added: configurable presentation of status changes

KickPIM is an applet for KDEs Kicker panel for an easy access to your addresses in KDEs addressbook. You can view and edit them, send emails, let it remind you about birthdays and more ...
Enhancements:
E-Mailing:
- Added MBox support
- improved mail notification
- Sending mails from the contact card view will now add the name of the contact to the
- mail address (like in "Givenname Familyname ")
- Ignoring inactive mail accounts when displaying status and tooltips in the KickPIM Icon
Events:
- Starting KOrganizer via the settings menu (like KAddressbook)
- Fixed read-only Reminder-Settings
- Fixed age displayed at year-change (Thanx to Harald K?mmerle for the patch)
Contacts:
- Fixed title of the new contact - dialog
Misc:
- Positioning of right click menu optimized for panel at the top border
- Fixed: Display in transparent kicker panel for KDE 3.2 (Thanx to Oliver Bausinger for the patch)

Kickoff for CRUX is a little port of Kickoff for CRUX.
With a little Animation at the Menu-Button
Please install this with pkgmk or prt-get!
You can use the httpup File to checkout the whole Repository or get only Kickoff with:
httpup sync http://ecarux.de/ports#kickoff kickoff.
Please use the pre-install script to backup your normal kicker.
It is recommended to build kickoff for CRUX with the pkgutils, but for all people who have problems (maybe with autoconf etc. ) there is a precompiled binary package too.
It has now heavy optimisation, just generic i686.
Attention:
Kickoff will overwrite your normal Kicker.
So be careful!
Please use the pre-install script to backup your normal kicker.
Enhancements:
- Fixed some Problems with newer SVN Version (some patches ...)
- Add pre-install and post-remove scripts to backup and reinstall the normal kicker.
- New precompiled binary package (date 24.05.2007)

Kirocker Music Display is an Amaork script that makes your Kicker (the KDE main panel) rock with your music.
It is a Kicker applet that displays what you listen to in Amarok
You then always know what you are listening to, and watch its cover: it is always visible on your panel.
It allows you to rate your music with one click: you can quickly change the number of stars of your musics from anywhere on your desktop.
To install:
- Extract the archive
- Open a konsole in the extracted folder (in Konqueror, go to the extracted folder and press F4)
- Run this set of command: ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) && make && sudo make install
- It will ask your root password to install the applet on your system
- Right click the Kicker, choose "Add an Applet to the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Double-click "Kirocker Music Display"
- Start playing a music: the applet is empty when Amarok is stopped or paused, to not annoy you with useless information when you are working
Also included in the package: the Kicker right translucent white background.
How to make the kicker translucent:
- Your screen resolution need to be 1280*800. If not, you will need some artistic skills and a Gimp experience to modify the given background
- Extract the image "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" located in the Kirocker Music Display archive
- Open your desktop background image with The Gimp
- Drag and drop "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" to the Gimp window of your background image
- Save the image and set it as your desktop background image
- Right click the Kicker and choose "Configure the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Place the panel on the right (click the button on the right)
- Set the size to "Personalized" and enter "96 pixels"
- In the "Appearance" tab, check "Enable transparency"
- Click "Ok" and youre done: ENJOY!
Enhancements:
- This release fixes an issue with big playlists where Kirocker Music Display would hang up, act badly, or not respond.
- It also solves a long-standing tedious crash.
- Kirocker Music Display should be rock solid now.

kio-clucene provides an indexed search engine for KDE.
kio-clucene is a KDE search ioslave that uses clucene, a C++ implementation of lucene, a well-known full-featured text search engine library. kio-clucene gives any KDE application friendly access to searching the content of files inside directories, archives, and many virtual file systems. Optical character recognition (OCR) is supported by using a program like gocr, allowing the text content of images to be indexed.
Main features:
kio-clucene can search for
- full text content
- mimetype
- metainfo
- mod. dates
- path names
- multifield queries are possible (a multifield search-dialog can be used (or not))
kio-clucene can index
- local files
- remote files (ftp,pop3,... (basic support))
- archives (basic local support)
- read-only data stored on cds,dvds.
- text inside images using optical character recognition OCR programs like gocr
kio-clucene stores previews of
- all images
- all videos
kio-clucene can search on
- a single index
- multiple indexes
- Multithreaded search-daemon.
Integration with KDE
- kio-clucene integrates well to the existing kde-framework. You can use kio-clucene from
- konqueror location-bar
- kicker "run command"
- "Alt+F2" "run command"
- any apps, using the openfile dialog
- Example: from kpdf, you could open the file-dialog and search very fast for your pdfs like adobe acrobat reader can do.
The ioslave is build to be user-friendly
- it works a bit like KDE remote-ioslave
- it can call a search-dialog which allow for multifields queries
- it displays recent queries
- recent queries can be saved to desktop-files
- => this almost emulates "virtual folders"
Search-engine
- The search engine is based on clucene, a c++ implementation of apache/lucene. clucene allows for sophisticated queries like:
- proximity-words queries
- but kio-clucene does not implements queries of the form *substring yet.
Display of the results
- So far only standard KDE-listviews are used to display the URLs of the matching documents. No kpart is provided for the display/sorting of the results like beagle can do.
Instantaneous file indexing
- This is not provided by the indexer, but any KDE application can make use of DCOP to request the indexing of any URL. Instantaneous indexing is a kernel/kdecore problem. But Suse 9.3 already ships with beagle installed, and an inotify-enabled kernel. So those features should soon be available with KDE too.
kio-clucene build-system is Scons-enabled
- Kio-clucene make use of the scons build and install system.

KCdSpeed is a little applet for K Desktop Environments desktop panel Kicker. I wrote it because I needed quick and handy tool for changing CD-ROM speed.
Main features:
- selecting CD-ROM speed
- eject & close CD-ROM tray
- mount & unmount disc
Installation:
The `configure shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation.
It uses those values to create a `Makefile in each directory of the package. It may also create one or more `.h files containing system-dependent definitions.
Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file `config.cache that saves the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring, and a file `config.log containing compiler output (useful mainly for debugging `configure).
If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to figure out how `configure could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README so they can be considered for the next release.
If at some point `config.cache contains results you dont want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
The file `configure.in is used to create `configure by a program called `autoconf. You only need `configure.in if you want to change it or regenerate `configure using a newer version of `autoconf.
The simplest way to compile this package is:
1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system.
If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.
Running `configure takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make to compile the package.
3. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean.
Enhancements:
- No new functionality.
- Re-created the project, made compilable under newer Linux kernels.
- Minor changes in coding-style and indenting, renamed classes.

Milknoir is a KDE theme/style final version by pernambuco.

Needed:

Dekorator and qtcurve last versions.

In this package is included the config file for qtcurve, wallpaper for kicker, button for kbfx/kickoff and the color-scheme.