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As I mentioned in my previous post, one of the key contributors to KDE on Windows for many years is unhappy with the way we, KDAB (and our partners at Intevation and g10code) have handled our collaboration with them. In particular, Christian writes: Read More

I pried my eyes open at 0430 and stumbled to the airport. This all started about a month ago when we had the idea of having a developer sprint to get Network Management into shape in time for KDE 4.3's release. Now I'm sitting in a meeting room in Oslo listening to the progress report of 3 Norwegian students Peder, Sveinung and Anders who are investigating ways to make setting up mobile broadband connections easier. Thanks to the KDE eV's sponsorship, six of us are meeting this weekend. TODOs include cleaning up UI glitches, fixing some exotic VPN types and auth types and deciding how to abstract different backends like wicd and ConnMan. Read More

Since Christian Ehrlicher expressed his unhappiness with our (KDAB's) efforts in the area of DBUS on Windows in this blog post, I thought I'd clarify some things. The work that we announced in <a href=http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2009-April/011207.html Read More

As reported in a previous blog, I've spent some time working with Taras Glek on Dehydra and Treehydra. It is stabilising and getting to be easier to build. However I thought I'd show a simple example of actually using GCC and Dehydra to check for a policy decision, along the lines of the things that EBN does. Read More

The Kubuntu spods here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit here in Barcelona went out with a few of the local KDE types. What a good looking bunch. Jonathan Riddell, Aleix Pol, Scott Kitterman, Alex Fiestas, Ken Wimer, Yuriy Kozlov, Roderick Greening, Anthony Mercatante, Albert Astals Cid, Ryan Kavanagh, Mackenzie Morgan, Daniel Chen, [bottom row] Sebastian Krugler, Michael Casadevall, Roman Shtylman Read More

Yesterday I learnt about two new options for my xorg.conf : Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" I must thank the X Strike Force guys from Debian for that knowledge :). Yesterday I tried the latest Xorg packages (7.4) that are available for sid, and my keyboard and mouse stopped working. It seems that Xorg now relies more on what HAL tells it about the available input devices than on its own configuration (as explained here, thanks Ana for the link), and those two options together force X to continue using the input devices configuration from xorg.conf instead of using HAL. Read More

Qt loves Ubuntu. To show their love, they gave away t-shirts to everyone at the Ubuntu summit here in lovely Barcelona. We love you too Qt. Qt Ubuntu Love photos on Flickr Read More

UDS is happening in Barcelona. The hotel is super posh, which means the service is rubbish. I was supposed to arrive on Saturday but they gave my room to some politician instead. On Sunday my room wasn't ready until the evening. This morning the pool tempted me and Sebas to go for a swim until an irate janitor started shouting at us in Spanish indicating that it wasn't open, I wonder why they bother having a pool. Read More

Based on a comment from Taras Glek on my feeble attempts to get a GCC plugin going, I did some work on Dehydra / Treehydra. Its an interesting approach, and one that benefits from the GCC plugin API. Read More

The Canonical AllHands meeting is happening a wee bit outside of Barcelona. It is a requirement of all buildings in Barcelona that they have weird and interesting architecture. This hotel has more floors underground than it has above ground. The translucent showers are a curious feature but my roommate is Aurelien who turns out to be as cool a bloke as you could expect being a KDE developer. Why Canonical, with these Ferrero Rocher you are really spoiling us no? I got to meet Zhengpeng who helped make Kubuntu support CKJ back in the day and now works for the OEM team. Aurélien fixed my Gwenview crasher bug without me having to even report it! I've had a good number of people come up to me to shake my hand and thank me for making the desktop they use happen on Ubuntu, naturally I blush I remind them of the many wonderful people at KDE and Kubuntu who do far more than I ever do. I've also had quite a few say "I've never used KDE. Although I use Kopete all the time. And Amarok is great. And KMail saved me when my other app broke." turns out people use KDE without even thinking about it, which is quite pleasing. Read More