Recently I’ve been using various pdf tools to watermark pdf’s and generally play about with them. They are pdfForts from https://github.com/sjau/pdfForts and have various tools, like -

addPasswdPDF

This script adds a password to the PDFs.

bookmarkPDF

Lets you edit the current bookmarks and apply ...

Although I use GNOME there are certain programmes that I use from KDE, like Kontact and konqueror and krusader. I have long had a gripe that I can’t read the tasks in Kontact because the red colouring of them obscures the text. So today I did something about it ...

Ever since I’ve been using debian and kde especially one thing has always bugged me, the date bars in kmail! These separate the mails into small chunks according to the day they were received, which sounds like a good idea until you see it implemented, and then you realise ...

By default under KDE, Debian 6 indexes files using nepomuk which can be suspended on the desktop, but that is only valid for one session. If you reboot then you have to suspend it again, so I’ve been looking for a way of turning it off completely.

And here ...

Yesterday was spent fooling around with widgets, those mini-programs that run on the KDE desktop and its panels. To start at the beginning, for some reason I unlocked my widgets, and then lost my ‘pager’ of virtual desktops! Whilst attempting to get them back I deleted the panel that they ...

Using the KDE 4.4.5 of Debian 6 the default menu shows as a series of opening folders of various contents, which if you’re not quick enough or don’t know where to look, close too quickly on you locking you out of them. I much prefer what ...