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As I pointed out recently, I only develop KDE in a virtual machine. It does not only enable me to rollback changes that screwed up something, it also allows me to go back to a verbatim snapshot where I can e.g. be sure that there are no mysterious plugins installed to directories that I have not thought of. I also pointed out that compiling in a virtual machine is slower, because you cannot use more than 2 processor cores per virtual machine. No problem! Use coolo's icecream and build up a compile cluster as described on http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream. I have done it and at the moment my fans are roaring and compiling the KDE for my virtual machine. Read More

The all new Planet KDE is going well. One hickup was that blog entries would duplicate themselves in RSS readers when anyone edited their post. I've fixed that now by changing to using the URL to the entry as the ID in the RSS feed (before it was using a hash). So you may well get duplicates of everything today with the change to the new scheme, but not after that. Read More

I originally planned to do that in time for the KDE PIM special feature which has been published as part of one of the recent commit digests, but I didn't find enough time to it then and almost forgot about it later. Read More

I just wiped a partition on my laptop that had Mac OS X Tiger on it - I haven't used Mac OS X for a while and the disk space was just being wasted. I've replaced it with KDE from the Kubuntu Hardy disk I got at Akademy, and upgraded it all to 4.1. It was great to just start from scratch and only put in the latest things that I was interested in. One of the shiny new toys was Mono 1.9.1, along with some of the associated sub-projects such as the Visual Basic compiler. Read More

Hello, Just to let everyone know, I haven't stopped development. Here's a current look of the plasmoid with more changes coming I've been busy with notmart aka Marco Martin and finally the results are starting to pay off nicely. I am still gunning for KDE 4.2 to have the '1.0' version of this plasmoid complete and ready for use. Read More

This morning KDE is waking up to a shiny new Planet blog aggregator. I'm not sure what caused this, but there are reports the old host didn't want the CPU load on their server any more, many thanks to them for having put up with it for many years. Fortunately I'd been working on a new Planet started by Chris Lee using rawdog and my own Rawdog RSS plugin. The design comes from the exceedingly cool Oxygen dudes, Nuno and Ruphy. Read More

video Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMrAx4AYqk We all know making the top level window transparent is easy on X11 with XCompsite stuff. and I thought I could get away with some simple flag or a function call on mac to do the same. but when actually needed to do it.. I found that this is was impossible :(, unless Qt widget creation was modified. (http://trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/faq.2007-02-08.3940505976/). so if you have the same problem as me.. here is a patch that enables Transparency on the top level windows. this is very unfortunate I hope some day this problem will be solved, and if you know a better way to do it, without patching QT it would be helpful too :). the patch is kinda ugly so if you need it just drop me a comment or an email ;-) Read More

This message is written on a N810 at the first presentation of the first Maemo conference. To be able to show my face here I have installed KDE and Strigiclient on the N810. Read More

This is a big day for me: after 15 years, my last day as an astronomer. After three years of trying, I wasn't able to get a faculty job, so this year I started applying for non-academic positions. Those applications were basically all dead ends, which has been pretty frustrating. Read More

Yes, KDE-4.2 will be 32 times faster deleting a large number of files compared to KDE-4.1! I was looking at the highest-voted bugs last Monday (yes, voting is useful in bugzilla, some people weren't sure about that), and bug 43356 (260 votes) was about konqueror taking too much time deleting a large number of files (in kde-3.0, but still true in 4.1). Read More