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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

Stylish new Kubuntu gear available at the Canonical Shop. Just the perfect give for that special someone for Christmas.

I think we are getting one step closer to World Domination (TM) of Linux ! ;-) How come that I think that ? Have a look at that page (it's german): http://www.dm-digifoto.de/gratis-download.html Read More

The UDS warmup that is FOSSCamp ended on Saturday. Alex managed to charter an entire bus for the KDE spods just so we could hunt round the Google campus to find the giant android and take a fuzzy photo. Read More

I have not investigated the QEdje-Plasma-Applets much, but here's how to get them working, assuming you compile your kde from svn. Some info is on MoRpHeUz’s Blog. Not enough for me though... So here is a step by step walk-through. You probably need libeet-dev or similar, I just got a distro package. Get qzion and qedje: $ git clone http://dev.openbossa.org/qedje/qzion.git $ git clone http://dev.openbossa.org/qedje/qedje.git Build and install the stuff: $ cd qzion $ qmake PREFIX=$KDEDIR $ make $ make install Install qedje the same way. Rebuild Plasma from kdebase. Read More