frederik gladhorn 

Just in case anyone is following me on kdedevelopers.org, I moved my blog to http://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn.

Yesterday I arrived in Oslo just in time for pizza and talking to Will, Darío, Thiago, Olivier, Knut and the students working on mobile broadband connections. We had a great time so far, discussing apis and cleanup of our network manager bits. Read More

Björn of the FSFE initially triggered the organization of a joint KDE 4.2 Release Party and FSFE Fellow Meeting in Stuttgart. I'm very happy that our local team grew quickly so everything went very smooth. Read More

Björn and I sat down (or rather mailed around) to get the FSFE Fellowship Meeting and KDE 4.2 Stuttgart Release Party going. Of course that involved talking to people around here. Read More

Ok, it's sort of late... - I wish everyone a happy 2009 :) And since I just found my camera: What a way to start 2009 - Danimo enjoys his swimming pool and Lydia her green dragon. Read More

I'm happy to announce a KDE 4.2 Release Party in Stuttgart. At the same time this will be the first FSFE Fellowship meeting here. Together with the FSFE we will celebrate the release, meet, talk and have fun. Read More

I have not investigated the QEdje-Plasma-Applets much, but here's how to get them working, assuming you compile your kde from svn. Some info is on MoRpHeUz’s Blog. Not enough for me though. Read More

So M got a flying pig for his birthday. Imagine that! Awesomeness - aren't you jealous? I surely am. It's even pink! There are days (or does it only happen at night, when you can't sleep? Read More

A few weeks ago I got a smart card to use with gpg for hardware encryption. I'm no security fanatic but I like the idea, so I bought a "lots of different cards all in one" reader. Read More

I'll be giving a KDE 4 talk at the Hobby and Electronics fair in Stuttgart tomorrow (Nov, 16th). If you were planing to drop by the fair, come on over at 15:30. Read More

While eagerly awaiting KDevelop4 to become stable (it crashes on me too often right now)... I'm back to forgetting vim commands ;) To get a list of files on the left (still need to get comfy with it, but it looks useful) use the Project plugin Read More

Today the Systems Fair in Munich ended. I only spent yesterday and today there helping at the KDE booth. Eckhart and Holger spent all week there and I am deeply impressed that they still were in very good spirits and were lots of fun to manage the booth with :) The Systems is a rather business oriented fair, so knowledge about KDE and open and free software is not as common as at some other fairs. Read More

Back from FrOSCon. I followed the frog grasshopper. It was great to meet so many nice people again :) The KDE table (booth just doesn't fit) was shared with Kubuntu and Amarok. Read More

FrOSCon is coming up tomorrow-like... need to get ready, who stole all my time? Still some notes from Akademy. It was my first (therefor best) Akademy! I can only say it was great meeting so many nice people. Read More

Akademy is starting :) We arrived at Katelijne Waver!!! Time to head towards bed...

Akademy is coming closer and I still haven't managed to blog about current stuff happening in Parley. Instead I was wasting my time outside, climbing, and lately again (last weekend at least) some coding. Read More

I took a sneak peek at Kdevelop. I did so before, but after waiting a month or two and reading Andreas' announcement I was curious to see the progress. I've been impressed at how great the definition-use-chain (that David Nolden is working on) is becoming (it seems to know more about my code than I do ;)). Read More

Here's another tip for those not yet on subversion 1.5 (which supposedly comes with the goodness below integrated). svnmerge.py makes merging branches back and forth a little less painful. Most distributions have a package for it, it can be in svn-utils or something like that and sometimes it's simply called svnmerge without the py. Read More

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde Quite some time ago, Pino gave me a great tip (hm, maybe advice is of use occasionally). Read More

Yay, Daniel gave Parley's html export via xsl an overhaul to make it look way better. Two bugs fixed :) one of them would prevent counting answers as wrong in the tests. Read More

Yesterday I arrived (too early for my taste) in Karlsruhe, to present KDE at the Open Source Expo. The OpenExpo is a rather new fair, so it was not very full but there was an audience for the talks. Read More

XFig is not young. It's not beautiful either. It is still in use though. Even on Windows, there are people setting up cygwin only to get xfig. And that is because it has one killer feature. Read More

Avgoustino Kadis works on a summer of code project for Parley and has ambitious plans: Hi! I'm a fresher in Computing at Imperial College London and I've the luck to participate in GSoC this year with doing something for Parley. Read More

David Capel will work on Parley during the Summer of Code. I'll let him speak for himself: Hello, I'm David Capel, an 18-year-old from Minnesota in the USA. I'm going to be a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this fall and will likely major in computer science of some sort. Read More

This morning Patrick complained that he had no picture of himself while he was at the cebit. So here comes remedy. I stumbled across some other random KDE related pictures also. Read More

Seems like I've been bad. At least bad enough to get kicked from planetkde.org. No clue why actually. edit: I'm back, thanks to Chris Lee for running the planet in the first place :)

Today (for some yesterday I guess) the KDevelop meeting started. After arriving a little late, I came just in time to grab something to eat after listening to the end of Aleix's talk about KDE 4 in general. Read More

A week ago I discovered a feature so obvious in that plasma thingy, that I just need to share it. You can put your favorite vocabulary trainer into your favorite panel. Read More

The time to paint easter eggs has not come yet. It will though, in about half an hour. Also I don't really know why I'll do it. Maybe to reflect on my art skills once more and be happy that other people user their ability to create great artwork for KDE and Parley. Read More

[image:3318] Ok, so SaroEngels was first... but who has the better view? Opposite of KDE CeBit booth...

Plasmoids have been creeping into different parts of KDE... The E-Team lately spotted two of them. So maybe check out KDE-Edu to get a real hot calculator made by apol. The gui is in need of some love, but it's already very powerful since it uses KAlgebra behind the scenes (yay, scientific calculations on your desktop). Read More

Seems like the official launch of KDE4 generates quite some momentum all around. I got two surprise presents today ;) Michael Hofer started a Java app to practice Parley vocabulary files "on the road" - using mobile phones that is. Read More

At the "Hochschule der Medien" (applied university for media (?)), which is really close to where I live, a Linux day took place yesterday. I only got there when most of the show was over already, but in time to listen to the talks I was interested in, given by the Amarok promo people (Lydia and Sven, the official amarok-beer-manager(titles are important, right? Read More

Torsten, the evil marble-mind tries to take over the world, but that's old news (pun where?). He talked me into getting hot new stuff support into Marble. That was real easy. Read More

After Jeremy adopted KNS2 as his new project, being pushed by Annma also, the first results start to show. We invaded the so far very low traffic freedesktop.org get hot new stuff mailing list and got some status updates so. Read More

After much back and forth, Parley has an icon! And not only one, Lee also gave in to my wish to create maybe one or two other icons for the menus and such. Read More

Yesterday I wandered around in my library a little and stumbled upon a book about XSLT. I never intended to get into that stuff because I hate doing html and this looked far too similiar to that. Read More

... is what Parley started doing lately. Pretending to have some very basic limited intelligence. Extending that to some more still very limited and basic intelligence will be easy now that the groundwork has been done. Read More

Now that was quick! I got interviewed about KVocTrain/Parley today. Read it on blue-gnu.biz.

Ok, it's been a while, but Parley did not lay sleeping. Actually it ate up my spare time pretty well... Parley is sexy? Today I got an improvised page for Parley up. Read More

KVocTrain is dead. Welcome Parley! You might already have noticed when synching kde-edu yesterday or today that the KVocTrain folder has gone and been replaced by Parley. And not only the name has changed. Read More

Who am I? Good question, next question please. But seriously, my name is Frederik Gladhorn and this is my first post on the planet, if everything goes well :) I have started taking over KVocTrain some time ago. Read More

Will it be a GargleBlaster? (the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick) Well maybe not. Read More

This will be my blog about KVocTrain and my kde hacking in general.