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Qt 4.5 came out today and I've just uploaded it to the archives. Lots of shiny new features and speed. Qt Creator also came out and it's available in Jaunty too as an easy to use IDE. Read More

So I was notified that commits to KDE are HOT, and I am in serious need of some hotness. What could be more hot than working on Kiosk Tool? Well maybe KHTML, but I don't need love that badly. So back to kiosk tool. Back in KDE 3 Waldo Bastian made up this nice little tool that could give administrators a GUI interface around the kiosk functionality in KDE 3. Well 5 years have passed and the tool was in need of some love. First step was to get the last of the KDE/Qt 3 compatibility code removed. That took most of the day yesterday. Today was spent trying to add a few features to make it easier for 3rd party application developers to add their application's settings to the Kiosktool UI. I broke up the old monolithic XML file into modular ini files that can be installed into the kiosktool application data directory. This allows any application developer to create a custom set of options for administrators to lock down their application. Read More

While working through my backlog of articles on Planet GNOME on my way to Nuremberg (yes, again), I came across a blog entry of Philip Van Hoof. In it he asserts that soon the era of email clients will be over, which I think some people misinterpreted as application for reading and managing email messages becoming obsolete. Read More

My talk from linux.conf.au 2009 is now available for everyone to see on video: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2009/Friday/72.ogg The slides are also available in PDF and ODF. There are a lot of other interesting videos also available - see Read More

Hi, today at work I noticed something strange. My box there has kUbuntu 7.10 (yes, I know, quite old, but does what it is supposed to do). I have an awk script which I want to use to process a text file consisting of 4.2 million lines, something like 600 MB. Read More

"That's not our usual postman at the door, and why is she carrying a plant?" What a fun thing to have delivered in the morning, and whoever the mystery sender was full marks on potted plant over wasteful disposable non-potted one. Read More

Like some other [open]SUSE developers I was casted and am now forced to look for a new day job. It could have happened in better economic times for sure. :-( Read More

ArchiveReader is a class in libstreams that allows you to open files embedded in zip, deb, rpm, jar, openoffice, and email files. It is used in the kio slave jstreams:/. This class works like this: Read More

Since I am missing important features from the kdedevelopers.org blog system I am moving my blog to wordpress. From now on all Nepomuk related blogs will be posted there.

Yesterday I was getting the smoke bindings lib to build with Qt 4.5 with krege on irc, and one of the errors we were getting was with a private class called 'QMetaObjectExtras' that was failing to compile. I fixed it by making the generator skip that class, but I wondered what was in it. This morning I had a look and it turns out that the new moc has a very interesting and useful new feature; you can now have constructors in your QMetaObjects. Read More