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I think the title say it all. so I wish everyone to have a nice year 2009, with everything one might desire ....

2008 has been a great year for me Free Software wise. Not only did I get the opportunity to attend three awesome KDE developer meetings/sprints, I also got invited and attended the Linux Collaboration Summit. Read More

Did some tumblin' a few days ago, as a result of me and some tram tracks at Hackescher Markt disagreeing as to the general direction of the front wheel of my bike. This resulted in a banged up wrist and rib, but no damage to the laptop or head. So while I'm still able to perform my primary function at work, namely talk, I am somewhat useless in my primary function at home, namely as a holder of hands while our daughter learns to walk. She has decided that this dire situation necessitates desperate measures and promptly started standing by herself. This works ok, as long as the realization does not hit her that no one is holding her, at which point we're back to tumblin', this time into a pile of cute making happy gurgling sounds, which I am convinced mean "Dad, check out what I did!". Read More

Well, I've been extremely busy on the weather plasmoid and finally, '1.0' is ready for use. It's now moved to kdereview so that any final bugs can be shaken out. This should arrive in extragear as soon as the review is completed. Read More

The Ubuntu Development Summit happened at Google the other week. Large numbers of people got together to spend a week discussing the next six months in Ubuntu. Lots of specs got written and you can find the Kubuntu Jaunty specs here. Read More

Today I <a href=https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84510>fixed a bug that has been open for more than 4 years. This feels good. However, there is a reason why it took so long: kdialog contains a member winId() as you can see <a href=http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/ktimetracker/idletimedetector.cpp?r1=900568&r2=900567&pathrev=900568>here, but this is not documented in our api documentation. KDE's api documentation has a list "This is the complete list of members for KDialog, including all inherited members." where winId() is missing although it is inherited from QT! I suspect the problem is that winId() is inherited from QT and not from KDE, however, this is something for you to be aware of: The API documentation might be incomplete.

The human race has been living and thinking in terms of borders for a long time, since the first people decided to settle down instead of keeping a nomadic life style. Read More

What an exciting day: The openSUSE team has an early christmas gift in the form of the second distribution release this year: openSUSE 11.1 - the best distro with the best KDE desktops. Download it within the first 24 hours to enjoy the Akamai speed afterburner! Also KDE 4.2 Beta 2 gets released today. Packages for openSUSE are available in the KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop Build Service repositories. Together this results in a new KDE Four Live release - an installable KDE 4.2 Beta 2 Live-CD based on openSUSE 11.1. Have a lot of fun... :-) Read More

Last week I have been in Nürnberg again, this time almost a whole week. On Tuesday evening I met Will and half a dozen other SUSE people in a really nice pub called Irish Castle. Ah, Guiness, Fish&Chips and more Guiness :) Though, as an afterthought, I should probably have gone with Wings&Chips like Will did, they just looked even more delicious. Read More

Since some August or so we are now requiring CMake 2.6 for KDE svn trunk. One thing was has been added and which is very nice support for the new environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. It's purpose is to help with getting CMake to find what you want it to find. Read More