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For the last few days, I have been busy implementing translation support for the KDE Commit-Digest. Both the website and the actual digest introduction are now able to be translated and displayed in other languages. Read More

So, it is that time of the week again... commit-digest time! Read the latest issue here This week, I have enhanced the commit-digest.org site quite a bit (though I am certainly not finished) - now there are actually links in the sidebar, so it is now a functional random strip of blue, and I have implemented the options page that I always wanted. Read More

The KDE Commit-Digest, written by Derek Kite for many, many issues is back... only this time, i'm producing it :) So, here is the first issue of my new digest: http://commit-digest. Read More

I have now extended a certain myscreen feature kde-wide... buzz ratings! Check the charts at http://myscreen.org/buzz As this is the first calculation, naturally the "change" indicator is flat - however, I will probably run the calculation once a day. Read More

So, by writing now I am keeping my last promise that my next entry would be about the project that I have been working on. However, maybe I should have written earlier than exactly 2 months later. Read More

Some of you may now have guessed the project that I hinted at in my last entry. Well, I am not going to talk about that this time (I will in my next entry, I promise! Read More

Finally time to write a first entry. There have been so many things to do lately, which means that I won't get bored - though my head may explode :) Read More

Today I've read a post on planetkde asking the question: "why is one of the jewels of the Free Software promoting non Free Software pdf viewers?" For those who didn't read the post, the author was referring to the NY Times Firefox ad PDF file not being viewable on any free pdf viewer. Read More

I've just read this story about AT&T trying linux. The story tells us that they might deploy linux to 70,000 computers. Of course, this might be the case that AT&T is just trying to get some leverage against Microsoft to get a better deal, but I began imagining 70,000 KDE boxes runing. Read More

I've got a new job (actually I've had this job for about 4-5 months). In telling where I work now, I started to realise why I've been away from KDE development in the past two years. Read More

wow, i'm amazed, i just read http://wlinux.ods.org/GNOME-2.6/ the gnome guys are doing some awesome work! i'm really happy that they are actually catching up with the state we were in 2 years back! Read More

Once in a while, i need to write a formatted text document for printing, for example a letter, a job application or, like to day, a table for checking the boats in my local sailing club. Read More

So Eugenia's proposal for a new "usable" widget style (what is dotNET, anyway, chopped liver?) was wrapped in an envelope today as a "KDE style challenge", whatever that's supposed to mean, by someone I happened to see on IRC. Read More

It's been a long long while since I came up with a blog entry here, mostly since I didn't do anything interesting for the public lately. KDE is still in a freeze, so I have been fixing a few bugs occasionally, nothing more. Read More

i'm having a coding frenzy at home at the moment while waiting for my adsl to be installed. amazing the amount of work you can get done when irc, mail and even sane tv listings are all unavailable. Read More

So, I've been rather quiet on the KDE front lately. I've been busy, though. As much as it might shock and dismay a lot of you, I've been playing around with GNOME. Read More

I know, that I should study geography / history these days (and will, too), but instead of doing that I am again working on kmameleon... This week there has been some drastic changes in the (core) of the kmameleon proggy, so basically this is what is new: Read More

So, with revision of 1.25 to kdelibs/khtml/khtml_popupmenu.rc, Stephan Binner removed a function from the context menu in KHTML that I happen to use quite frequently. This commit was the one that took away the 'View document source' action from my right-click menu in Konqueror, and I can't begin to tell you how unhappy that makes me. Read More

So, I've spent the last 3 days porting the Redmond KWin decoration to the new kwin_iii style API in my spare time. In case anyone actually cares, here's how it broke down by the day. Read More

So much to code, so little time... I found an older .plan, and was reading through it. It's from roughly two months ago, and it has notes such as "Find all configuration pages that have a sucky UI, and make them suck less. Read More

Well, I said originally that I wasn't going to release this, but the reactions have just been too funny so far to pass it up. It's not an official release, yet, of course - I still have to implement the rendering code for the sliders and tabbars and probably a few other widgets too. Read More

Long time no posts from me, I have been buried in exams work - but that is now over! A while ago I found a chatlog posted on the web where a few persons obviously close to the Jabber project (or even Jabber Inc. Read More

I wanted to go to Kastle. I wanted to go really badly. Well, unfortunately it happens during the only week my girlfriend and I could have gone on vacation this year. Read More

The bot seems to behave, so I welcome any testers. If you want to use it, subscribe to it at kdedevelopers@jabber.org. It will reply with a short welcome message and ask for authorization in turn. Read More

I created a Jabber blog bot today which you can use to post diary entries to this blog via your favorite Jabber client. It's a PHP script and it actually seems to work, this message here has been posted using the bot. Read More

Woohoo the site is back! Good time to announce Kopete 0.7 is out of the door, even though that's probably old news for most. Except for a few upgrade issues and an ICQ password problem, the majority of things seems to be stable. Read More

I get to go to n7y! HOORAY! Seriously... this has got to be one of the coolest things to ever happen to me. How many people think that the result of their after-school coding efforts are going to end up getting to go to a conference in the Czech Republic? Read More

What would you think about a Jogger interface for kdedevelopers.org? For those who don't know Jogger, it is a Jabber component that allows you to post diary entries via any Jabber client, such as Kopete for example. Read More

I spent a few hours today fixing the last release issues for Jabber. Not everything went as expected since I missed the string freeze but at least a few things were ironed out. Read More

I am figuring, that KMameleon needs overhaul... Not only a coding one, but also it would be nice to get a new graphics set of icons. One of the first things is to create a nice icon for the application (think chameleon) Read More

I attended Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco a month ago. Coming from a Linux and KDE background, I was particularly interested in what Apple would say about open source. Read More

OK... So I have managed to install KDE on qt-copy these days... now going back to development... I am figuring, that xmame has some really weird and funky options, like -norotate isn't exactly the same as rotation switch disabled, and -nothrottle isn't the same as throttle switch disabled. Read More

Hmm, I'm not sure how twisted this is, but I want to do something other than hack irc for a few days. At work everyone is on ICQ, so I run sim to talk to them. Read More

Finally! With a bit of hacking and borrowing from the new libxmpp code, the Kopete Jabber plugin is now able to properly encrypt messages and can thus talk with Psi and other Jabber clients in a secure way. Read More

What fun! What glory! I have a birthday today. So, work is interesting. I get to set up a PII 400 machine, for use as a server. FreeBSD 4.8 is the OS of choice (I just like FreeBSD on my servers, and I don't know why. Read More

OK... So last night I browse around some CVS posts in the nonbeta, and only after 3 hours of being there and 10 minutes after finding & installing I find myself fixing the new module. Read More

I've been checking out libxmpp lately, the successor of libpsi. Actually I am supposed to be studying for exams, but well, you need to have a few interesting things to do once in a while. Read More

Finally fixed ksirc's handling of effects characters. For bold, underline and reverse it used to use ctrl-b, ctrl-u, ctrl-r. This followed the standard text irc clients. It causes problems though, so I changed it to bold underline and #reverse#. Read More

Jabber seems to be growing again lately. Yet, Kopete seems to have no real userbase in Jabberland. I always wonder why I don't get any real feedback. There are hardly any bug reports, hardly any wishlist entries. Read More

so, i'm back, as people were moaning that i don't keep this up to date, in any case i need to get back in practice now that kdedevelopers.org has appeared, still waiting for my approval though, wonder whats taking them so long. Read More

Well notices now highlight the nick in their randomly picked colours. reved the version to 1.3.8 to allow for the per server prefs. That's it for ksirc today, it's too hot out. Read More

This seems to come up fairly frequently with people who talk to me about Kiwi and its goals and the seeming redundancy when compared with JuK. At the risk of possibly offending wheels (which is completely not my intention), I do have a few reasons to continue developing Kiwi, and these reasons are all valid to me. Read More

Wow, what a great idea! I can only say thanks for such a site - I definitely hope it will start to be a good resource for any user seeking closer contact to the members of the KDE team. Read More

KSplash plugin loading scheme changes, and probably will change again before 3.2. Grid spacing on kdesktop needs to be made flexible. No Perl: Python or Ruby? Am I happy that I am the only one hacking on the new ksplash plugins! Read More

Trying to fix http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60522 isn't a problem in kSirc. It's a generic problem in KStringHandler::tagURLs. URL entries that are of the form http://url/~ or end in any none-word or none-number entry gets poorly highlighted. Read More

So, a quick primer for people who aren't familiar with me. I wrote and maintain the dotNET widget style. A lot of people have given me a bunch of different compliments on it, so I've gotten kind of a big head. Read More

Nothing. Savanna isn't saying anything right now. She's just marking her space in the cyber arena of the KDE Blogosphere. Maybe her silence will last, or maybe not. Only time will tell. Read More