daniel molkentin 

For the first time, FrOSCon will take place this year in St. Augustin near Bonn, the former capital of Germany. Due to its location, it is also in reasonably short distance for most KDE contributors from the BeNeLux countries. Read More

People have been wondering what I have been up to all the time. Now let me tell you: For one uni and a project consume most of my time at the moment. Read More

... is love, peace and this little bugger. The iAudio X5 has all I really want: 20 or 30 GB of harddisc, a color display, and plays mp3, wma, ogg vorbis and even flac (and more, e. Read More

Due to obligations at Uni, I was unable to attend all days of Linux World Expo and Conference in Frankfurt this year. However I spent most parts of Tuesday and all of Thursday at the the KDE booth. Read More

This friday I went to the meeting of SUSE beta testers to the SUSE headquarters in Nuremberg. The travel went pretty smooth and so I soon checked in and arrived in a meeting room with all the other testers. Read More

Ok, finally back at home. Pheeew. Over the last days I played with the Nullsoft scriptable installer system (NSIS) which allows for creating comfortable installation routines based on a description file. Read More

So Tom's story hit Slashdot. A lot of responses, from simply requests to almost flame-like comments asked KDE4 to simply be fast. I feel urged to comment on that: Qt4 gives us a major speedup in first place. Read More

amarok podcasting rocks, but it's not only big in .nl, Fab! Deutschlandfunk (Cologne) and Deutschlandradio Kultur (Berlin) are two german nationwide broadcasters that deliver lots of informational content. Both recently introduced podcasting for some of their shows. Read More

Ok, so we just had a meeting where discussed the redesign of kdelibs and kdebase. Although we have great technology in there, with Qt4 we have a good opportunity and reason to clean up the foundation of our very own DE. Read More

The life of the traveling KDE developer is not an easy one. We put our lives on hold while we travel far from home to meet with other ardent souls to bring you Free Software par excellance. Read More

Don't you love it when all your hardware goes on strike almost at the same time? On Wednesday, my workstations secondary harddisk went on strike, eating (among other things that I had mostly backed up) a report I was working on for quite some days. Read More

It seemed I made a wish of some people from the usability folks come true. Presenting: my first approach of a CollapsibleWidget! The same dialog with two filled and one empty collapsable item on Linux, OS X and Windows: Read More

Wikipedia has just won the most important prices german journalism in two categories -- the Grimme Online Awards. I am proud that we have teamed up with such a cool project. Read More

I arrived home safely at around 11:30pm with a Thomas, a fellow of my LUG in Bonn and a translator for kdeextragear. He also took our booth parts in his car, which helped us a lot, thanks again man! Read More

After we decided to merge some improvements from KOrganizer/PI yesterday I finished to check-in the new timebar last night. It looks a lot better now than the old one, which basically only showed hour and seconds at the same font size. Read More

Kurt has an interesting point on a common api for basic desktop usage, hidden under some stuff I basically agree with but don't think it's easy to solve: A minimal desktop API for applications that do not use DE libs directly. Read More

Last Friday (the 13th) was literally a black Friday for me. My car broke in the middle of my ride home and is broken beyond repair. Right on the freeway, involving a police car to protect me, my car and the ongoing traffic - the details would fill up two or three blog entries, but I'll spare you that stuff. Read More

As already pointed out by others, we started porting kdelibs to Qt4. Thanks to the restless work of Maksim, DCOP now compiles and works, at least the client part of it. Read More

I took the test and those are my results: Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Read More

Being online for less than 3 days, subversion already shows the rapid pace in which KDE development happens. Starting off with revision #409210 after conversion, Stephan Binner just made commit #410000, by fixing ugly-looking disabled icons (by using setIconSet instead of setPixmap ). Read More

Our beloved news source Slashdot is reporting that Microsoft is about to help Ford to build cars that don't crash. The linked article on livescience reveals: "Eventually, Gates said, there could be a car that wouldn't let itself crash. Read More

I just had a problem with Knowledge, which as you might know, is my attempt towards a Wikipdia offline reader: I needed to disable lots of GUI stuff in my QMainWindow-derived class as long as no offline image is loaded. Read More

Qt4 is really progressing well. The only problem at this point is that it still changes a lot even after Beta 2 which originally meant to end the phase of rather radical changes, according to the trolls. Read More

So i have toyed around with Qt4, which led to a small application called "Knowledge" (Screenshots: 1, 2, 3). Once it's grown up, Knowledge is supposed to become a Wikipedia offline reader. Read More

... if you ever existed. Today, Denmark failed in its attempt to stop Software Patents from being passed through the EU Council. There is IMHO little hope that the second reading of the parliament will make a difference. Read More

After I tried to discover what's behind Konquerors new shiny Introduction page, I discovered a feature that I want to share: Konqueror now knows the metaphor of WebFolders, similar to Windows, but actually supporting more protocols. Read More

[image:837,right] Today, I finished two the new intro screen that was fairly overdue already. It's meant to look fancy and be useful (to a certain extend at least ;) In other news I finally committed the new exchange wizard with hopefully all relevant strings. Read More

Ok, this is just in: The town of vienna is migrating to Linux. Contrary to Munich, they are doing a "soft migration", which means they will only migrate 4.800 workplaces to Linux out of 7. Read More

As some might know, KBattleship was Niko and my first application in KDE CVS. Today, I saw some commits to it again. It's unbelieveable that people kept working on it, even added new features like the DNS-SD support that was recently checked in. Read More

I spent the last days in Berlin, joining the folks at the 21. Chaos Communication Congress (dubbbed "21C3" for that matter). Besides attending some highly interesting talks this was a very welcome way to not only meet the "usual suspects" from the KDE and GNOME camp, but also to make new friends, share new ideas and discuss things. Read More

Today, a lot of people have voiced their opinion on wether or not it's a good idea to port the KDE plattform to Windows. In other news, I whitnessed another uncessary crash today, that was due to a stale library that had an old interface. Read More

This is an attempt to establish awareness of KDE programmers for problems that might arise on large installation sites. I am expiriencing them at Uni from time to time, where several hunderts of clients run a FC1 based KDE installation. Read More

I got one of the Linksys WRT54G Routers from aKademy, and I must say it really rocks. It can be whatever you want: Easy to use or a real geek toy. Read More

You got one of those nice HP nx5000 with SUSE 9.1 preinstalled at aKademy? You were annoyed because the stupid intel chipsets could not handle mixing and the sound device was permanently busy? Read More

Today I was told by a friend that minicli contains a... calculator. Just press Alt+F2 and type e.g. 23-5. Then press enter. Seems like there were alterantives to kcalc that predate the current calcualtor war. Read More

Yesterday, I did some calls with Skype. Amongst others I talked to Fabrice Mous and afterwards we even did a conference call with Stephan Binner. Later on I called my father. Read More

You sure have been wondering why we integrated the google search bar and why we "secretly" developed gecKo. The reason is simple: We are after you. Flee, but mind you: you can run, but you can't hide! Read More

Krita is a very promising application. Its problem is that the potential user currently has to build all of KOffice only to get krita. At aKademy, Ken Wimer told about that at the artists meeting. Read More

Tonight I got my new laptop, which HP offered at a very very low price. My own laptop, finally! That was a dream I actually had since a long time, but I never got to buy one because it was "too expensive". Read More

So I'll jump into the car in the next minutes. The plan is to arrive at wheels place somewhat before 10. I really hope at least Aaron will open the doors, or else. Read More

"Wow, Kontact is starting up much faster now" many of you might say after testing a recent CVS snapshot. While we of course are steadily improving speed, this perception of huge speedup is due to the delayed initialization trick: Kontact starts - the mainwindow almost instantly appears, showing the component icons. Read More

After Till kept bugging me, I finally asked David Vignoni to submit his final versions of the icons, which I then committed to CVS. As a result, Kontact has now finally decent icons. Read More

While Kolab 2 promises an easy installation, I always thought Kolab 1 was a bitch to set up. When I tried to set it up and build it from scratch, it took me more than a day and it was really bad. Read More

Just in time for the feature freeze, I managed to finish the Kontact wizard. I finally took the time to understand the concepts behind the framework that Cornelius orgininally came up with and I really start to like it. Read More

Hmm, haven't written something in a while, but now that KDE 3.2 is tagged and branched, I think I should give an update. Cornelius has already described everything that comes into my mind these days (and yes, picturing Zack without dreads scares the hell out of me as well. Read More

Last night I did a lot of bug fixes and janitor work on bugs.kde.org and others were also working hard to get some stuff done before the string freeze that hits us as of today. Read More

Recently, a discussion about KApplication::random() popped up on kde-cvs. People were asking to move this in a Math tool class. This reminded me of something the KDE-Qt integration group in n7y discussed as a "would-be-nice-to-have" thing. Read More

Finally I found enough topics to annoy you with a new blog entry, so here we go: The last days were definitely too hot. Consequently I enjoyed most of the day in swimming pools or similar and didn't get to do much coding. Read More

So this is my first blog entry. I will try to add something every now and then if it makes sense. Let's see how useful it becomes. I think it has great potentials. Read More