Well, I got the kopete yahoo plugin to work again. Yahoo decided to change their authentication methods and so that left all of us in the dark. From the looks of it, I tihink they're using an SHA style hash now, but I'm not all that sure since I don't know enough about the protocol internals as I should. Personally, I don't think they're documented well enough, so maybe I'll document them when I have the chance. Anyways, time for bed, have to be at work early tomorrow. ;(

oh yeah, i'm not #2 on the bugs list anymore. oh well. ;)

... Kompare seems to be in a useful state again atm. I did a lot of hacking on it and moving a lot of code around and i think the code is a bit cleaner now and easier to maintain.

I also fixed some bugs:

• scrolling in the view (it currently still does not work fully yet but i'll keep on improving it).
• navigating with ctrl+up and ctrl+down, it only navigated into half of the differences in a file.

Outstanding bugs i will fix before 3.2 is released:

Man its been almost a month now since i posted...

Well n7y was great and i got to start on a ton of stuff that im just now finishing. The coolest one IMHO is KJS support in KDevelop 3.0. Currently I can create a new project in KDevelop to edit KJSEmbed scripts, and the debugger is loaded. [image:203,middle].

So, finally my first blog entry...

Lately I was doing a lot of work on KCModule and related classes like KCMultiDialog that uses KDialogBase and KJanusWidget. It's all pretty nice and cool what functionality they provide but I think the interfaces can be a lot better for KDE 4.0. While working on it and hitting limits everywhere I sometimes have ideas on how to improve the interface but it's not possible in the 3.x cycle.

Wow, it's amazing what a little venting can do for your motivation!. I ranted about how certain people were pissing me off and that I just didn't have motivation to work on Kopete a whole lot anymore. Well, after ranting, I feel much better! Being in your last semester of uni and taking only 9 hours of class gives you lots of free time to work on free software. :) (and I prefer to use it doing something other than playing video games, although Halo has become rather addicting)

Here's the mandanatory blurb about having not posted a blog in awhile: "I haven't posted anything here in awhile, sorry bout that"



And now on to the bulk of the content. :) (It's going to be rather long)

so after weeks of flakiness with our sourceforge mailing list, I finally requested a [email protected] mailing list, which we have been happily using for a few weeks now. It's great!

Unfortunately, we still aren't being archived at lists.kde.org, despite 2 emails to [email protected] and one to [email protected] (all of which were unanswered). Does anyone know from experience how long it takes to get listed at lists.kde.org, and if the complete archive since the list started will be available?

I haven't updated my blog in quite a while. The car accident, moving to a new place and a lot of work didn't leave with me a lot of spare time.
People have been complaining about the speed of kabc (or rather the lack of it). I wrote a few simple tests. Run them a few times and started looking at the profile data. I was quite happy with what I found. There are still things I see as bottlenecks but we're getting there and I'm quite confident we can make kabc very fast.

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.

So yes, another step back in the Krecipes usability. SQLite is nice, easy to install, easy to code... but in two (or 3) words: "it's crap". Slower than a cow trying to climb up a ladder.

It's convenient when the lists are small and no strange queries are done, but give it a bit of search work, and it's useless. MySQL could do a query over 3000 recipes in 0.12s and took SQLite 1 minute to complete the same thing.... I can't say that's useful.