There is an updated version of KdeAm available. This is only a bug fix for situations where the audio is not playing correctly. This was due to a recent change in the sox utils, where the ‘play’ command expected a different style of paramater. Find it on the KdeAm page

I recently upgraded the kernel on my workstation to kernel 2.6.8 and, of course, some things didn’t work as they had previously. One of those things was the ISDN card (which was previously using the ISDN2Linux tools). So, I took the opportunity to switch over to using CAPI instead. Which required upgrading KdeAm (the KDE answering machine) to read the files produced by CapiSuite. CapiSuite of course doesn’t use the same format for the audio files as vbox, nor does it store them in the same place, so there are a few modifications to be done.

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I’ve set up the krefty project on Sourceforge, an experience in itself. I’ve gained a lot of admiration for people who go through the whole process of creating and distributing software in the Free Software world. Writing the code sometimes seems like the easy bit of the work. Writing documentation, creating and testing the distribution packets, setting up a home page, creating and uploading projects on places like freshmeat.net and sourceforge takes a fair bit of work in itself.

The project is here and locally here.

Today saw the first release of Krefty, a Quick Reference Application written for KDE.

A quick reference sheet is a handy look up page of all the hot-keys, command parameters, options and so on for various programs. I’ve put together sheets for such things as GNU-Find, GNU Tar and so on, there is one for FlightGear, one for Vim. The data files are standard XML files, so the hope is that some of you will contribute a few more Krefty sheets to the pile, I can distribute them from here.

Source code, krefty files and some docs available on the Krefty pages.

The first KDE application has been put up for download. Its an answering machine front end for KDE, written using all standard KDE stuff. Its called KdeAm and its available on the KdeAm pages.
Its also up on Freshmeat and at KDE Apps.

Let me know if there are any troubles installing or running the application.
Note that it does need a functioning vboxgetty backend to handle the ISDN connection (part of the ISDN4LINUX packages, installed as standard) and the SOX audio utilities for playback, again, usually part of the standard install routine. (UPDATE: now also works with Capi4Linux messages).