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Today the Systems Fair in Munich ended. I only spent yesterday and today there helping at the KDE booth. Eckhart and Holger spent all week there and I am deeply impressed that they still were in very good spirits and were lots of fun to manage the booth with :) Read More

I've been watching the development of KDE for a while, submitting bug reports and testing trunk, and last night I made my first patch. I received an svn account and decided to start working on Amarok 2, for which I'm currently fixing this bug. But I also intend to work on other areas of KDE, after I poke around for a while and learn the general layout of the project. Suggestions? To begin, I think I might start investigating this bug. I also work on the Arora Browser. Read More

I landed the Python script engine for Plasma in KDE trunk about a week ago and already and the keen and excitable among us have been franticly trying to get it all set up and installed. rgreening said it best on IRC "I've been wanting this sooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad". Now that's what I call an endorsement. ;-) So if you are running KDE trunk out of subversion and you want to have a go at the Python support then you can have a look at this wiki page which I hastily wrote which describes what needs to be installed and in which order: Read More

Are you a KDE developer? Do you want to help improve the KDE desktop experience? Then Canonical's all new desktop experience team is looking to hire you. Let me know if you have any questions. Read More

You asked, and I deliver. I made an alternative stylesheet for Planet KDE with variable width. View -> Use Stylesheet -> Variable Width. My HTML foo is weak so it has mysterious gaps at below the header and above the footer for no reason I can see, plus the top and bottom shadow effects are semi-transparent and overlap in ways I wouldn't want. But it should be good enough for those wanting something that fits on an N810 screen. Read More

For last Kubuntu Tutorals Day and again at Ubuntu Developer Week I gave a quick introduction to PyKDE creating a simple web browser using Qt's WebKit widget. Now I have put the Python KDE tutorial on techbase so you can learn how to make a web browser too. Read More

I added microblogging support to Planet KDE. A surprising number of KDE developers seem to be communicating their lives over Twitter so it seems something that should be opened up for all to read. It's in a sidebar that you have to click to show so it shouldn't get in the way if you're not interested. It's a bit of an experiment, I'm not entirely convinced of the usefulness of it but we shall see. Currently only Twitter is known to work but it's probably not hard to ensure other microblogging sites work (does Facebook let you have a public status update feed?). I expect the content of the microblogs will be generally more personal than normal blogs, currently it's quite Amarok biased since those Amarok people love Twitter. You can add yourself through the normal means, editing the config file, submitting a bug or poking me on IRC. Read More

Another few hours until it comes back, apparently. You can read more details about it at http://news.opensuse.org/2008/10/10/power-outage-in-area-where-most-opensuse-servers-are-located

Just a short note: yesterday I booted my laptop with a brandnew kubuntu 8.10 beta CD. How to put it, this rocked so much !!! KDE 4 really is beautiful ! Read More

Mostly convenience foods are fun but loaded with sugar and salt. But building software needn't be inconvenient or make your waistline or disk requirements start to bulge. I've been pushing the openSUSE Build Service to anyone in the KDE community who'll listen, since making tiny tweaks to existing codebases with minimum effort is exactly what it's designed to do. Read More