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Maybe you already know, maybe you don't: Google created its own browser, called Chrome. The good is that it is based on WebKit, thus contains KDE technology. That's is another recognition for the work of KDE developers. The bad is that they mention Apple's WebKit and nothing about KDE/khtml. Sad. :( See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html . Read More

Summer is gone. No more pictures or travelling, lack of time for much opensource... that's life. I will also be moving soon, and that will make my spare time even shorter. Lets hope there will still be some spare time during the weekends! Read More

I got kdesupport build in a maemo (scratchbox) environment and I documented every step in my beloved wiki. It is the first list item here.

I'm real sorry, but the images in this blog post were lost in a server move (kdedevelopers cannot host images), so I had to delete it altogether =(

Hi! My name is Evgeniy Ivanov and I was a GSoC student mentored by Alexander Dymo. I've developed DVCS support in KDevelop. It's a small preview of working things I've implemented this summer (some things need some love and I will give it). This summer was amazing: our team includes very interesting, intelligent and kind people. I wasn't able to know all of them during one summer, but Alexander, Andreas, Amilcar, David, Vladimir, Manuel, all other guys impressed me very much. When I knew most of them have PhD I decided I want it too (but I have to study 3-3.5 years before getting Master degree :D). Read More

Funny little story... I was profiling with valgrind recently and was shocked to discover a huge hiccup in the painting performance of my QImage raster based app. There was this repeated call to QPainter::drawTiledPixmap() that was soaking up CPU cycles. It was a true mystery as I had thought the canvas of my app was completely QImage based. Not so. Read More

Zero as when it does not work. And that's sometimes zero fun. There is a plan to enable compositing by default in openSUSE11.1 when possible (just like e.g. Ubuntu already does), so I've been again pondering the idea of enabling KWin's compositing by default in SVN too, just like it was in pre-4.0 times. The "when possible" part is of course the problem. Even openSUSE11.0 is already ready for compositing, assuming proper driver is correctly installed, but there still may be possibly some problems with some setups, and of course upstream KWin does not have the comfort of knowing the underlying stack is configured properly. Read More

Ubuntu Developer Week happens on IRC next week. I'll be giving my introduction to PyKDE with a WebKit web browser tutorial. There's plenty more interesting talks, see you there.

It's Friday now and hackweek comes to an end for me. It was exceptionally fun and we got some decent work done. The team was fabulous, a combination of SUSE and external community guys. Frank was here for the whole week and worked on the API and the opendesktop.org implementation of it. Sebastian joined us for two days and we had a lot of interesting and useful discussion how to put Nepomuk into the picture, Dirk started to write a Plasmoid for showing the activity log on the desktop, and Zack was here this morning giving us moral support and inspiration. We didn't completely realize the "Social Desktop" yet, but we laid some groundwork. The most visible result currently is this screenshot: Read More

Many of us have the cool Nokia N810 that is an ARM system based on maemo. To compile software for it, you will normally use scratchbox. What a pitty scratchbox only runs on 32bit hardware. As a proud user of a 64bit desktop, I have to use a virtual machine for running scratchbox. Now the question is what is the better virtualization solution: VirtualBox or VMWare? Read More