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One question I've seen come up several times on #qt and qt-interest is how to add custom (application specific) APIs to those available by default in QtWebKit. This is actually pretty easy (once you know how) as I'll show below. This post will show a simple example of how to make an object available from javascript, including calling methods on the object and returning values from C++. Read More

KDE's conference opened today after the Canonical sponsored party last night. The location is superb, the auditorium is massive and right next to the beach. The people as always are the highlight with more than twice as many as usual. The hotel is nice too with our rooftop penthouse suite. Read More

If you're a developer interested in RSS in KDE (and maybe you are at GCDS right now), please scroll to the end. Akregator development was slowed down for quite some time: The development team was basically reduced to one person, me, and I had not much time for it. That's why Akregator only slowly recovered from porting regressions introduced during the KDE4 port. Also, the article storage layer showed its limitations (see startup time and memory consumption) and the metakit backend implementation lacks robustness, thus it became clear that something must happen to make both the user experience pleasant and hacking Akregator fun again. Another long outstanding wish of mine was to decouple feed list handling and item storage from the core Application to a central desktop service, to make both accessible to other applications without the need to run Akregator. Read More

A small status report about the Python bindings and support in the almost arrived, KDE 4.3. All of the APIs have been updated of course and I've added support for polkit-qt. This makes it possible to write applications and configuration tools which feature the much needed (and working) "Administrator" button. Read More

This may look like beating a dead horse, but it seems like many people discussing the WebKit issue not only actually don't have much of a relevant technical knowledge, but even fail to simply do a reality check. Because I have tried the WebKit KPart and while I can't say it worked perfectly, it worked. I don't see why I should even myself feed my personal data to Google or what's the point of suddenly needing a webpage for friends, so no GMail of Facebook, but I tried a couple of sites, including YouTube or using two online bank systems to make payments, and I mostly got done what I wanted to get done. Ironically the worst breakages I found were search on kde-apps.org or Martin Graesslin's blog, which possibly may be bugs in WebKit itself. Not that I tried that hard to break it, but after all, you can try out WebKit in Konqueror for yourself (openSUSE users can get the WebKit KPart from the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop repository together with the rest of KDE4.3RC1) Change the association in 'keditfiletype text/html' or temporarily in Konqueror's View menu. Read More

I finally decided to move my blog. kdedevelopers.org has served me well, but now I want some more features. Blogger provides some killer features, such as using my own domain, blogging by email, or the powerful comment system. So from now on you'll find my blog at blog.cornelius-schumacher.de. See you there.

I have moved my blog to kdedevelopers.org. The previous blog was self-hosted (at home) but I simply don't have enough bandwidth to host it (that box will be used to serve uber-lightweight static pages and a koji instance only). Read More

Just in case anyone is following me on kdedevelopers.org, I moved my blog to http://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn.

Disclaimer: I have no desire to re-ignite KHTML vs WebKit arguments. Rather, the purpose of this blog post is to hopefully enlighten a technical question. Over the last few months I've heard many KDE developers in various forums bemoan the lack of a working and stable WebKit KPart. The motivation behind this complaint seems to be that KDE folk want a WebKit browser option for KDE. Thus the naive solution is to just get the WebKit KDE KPart in shape. Given this motivation... the solution is wrong IMO. Read More

Today is the first day of my employment at a wonderful company called KO GmbH. KO GmbH provides services around software dealing with office documents, notably KOffice. I'm excited to have found such an inspiring job working in Free Software. Read More