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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

I'm about 18 months behind the curve here compared to you trend-setters in KDE-land, but I think I now actually "get" git. Meaning that I now have a mental model of git which makes sense and I can use to make sense of the numerous "Git $X seconds" blog posts hanging around on the web (where the number $X is always smaller than the last blogger). I remember sebas having a go at explaining it to me and me not understanding what the big deal was or what it really was about. Read More

Its been a while since I did anything productive in KDE land, so thought I'd try to do something in a morning. Its hard freeze time, so that should be bug fixing. Bug 185532 was something I'd been thinking over for a while. Read More

The best compliment for you, KDE devs, ever: "Daddy you have a new computer!" -- my ~4 years old son Michał, yesterday while sitting with me at a (4 years old) ASUS notebook rebooted from Vista to Linux+KDE 4.2.3...

We finally had a meeting of KDE people in Edinburgh, not quite Akademy but it's a start. Nice tie Paul. A couple weeks later Laura Dragan gave a talk to BCS Glasgow on Nepomuk, nice to see KDE interest going outside the free software crowd. Read More