bye 2004

2004 has gone. Nice end-of-year celebrations like Christmas, time to spend with family. Got some neat gifts, like a coffee machine to make real coffee. Scott complained while being in Chile about we drinking nescafe. New year was also cool, had a nice dinner with family and cousins and then I went to a cool party in a big house. Unlimited bar and good music.

On the KDE side, I finally fixed the photo displaying issues in the contact list. They are now centered, bordered and nice scaled.

Now, I am trying to port Richard Smith's modular qt:QListViewItem Component classes from Kopete to KickPIM. I already ported the photo stuff, even the newest border and scaling patched. The component classes would allow me to make new display styles more easy. I haven't received an email back from the author about my patches, and they start to grow. What can you do in that situation? fork?... no, I would not be able to maintain a fork of it.

On KDE-Chile's side and accessability, Mauricio Bahamonde (a.k.a elkrammer) just finished a kttsd plugin for Kopete. He was new to KDE development and I showed him bug:95529 . He used that bug to develop his first plugin and he had success. Sadly we are in feature-list freeze so the plugin will not be in KDE 3.4. But surely it will be a great jump for kde-accesibility for KDE 4.0