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I could no longer resist, in spite my notorious lack of spare time... It began with installing SUSE 11 via KDE4 Live CD on my eeePC. On my desktop PC I had been trying KDE4 since the RC's where released with a special user and was quite happy I could come back to 3.5 for daily use. I was really astonished how very well even 4.0.4 was looking and behaving on the eee 701. Since the release of kde4.1 RC1 I switched my default also for the desktop mashine from 3.5.9 to 4.1 and am very fond of it. All that did commit to KDE4 did and still do a great job. Read More

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I've been enjoying the time (bikes!), meetings (absolute record # of attendees) and technology (n810!) at Akademy since 9th August. And a young student from Poland, Michał Bartecki has been invited to come, what adds one to the number of the gfx individials around and made the KDE ping-pong team stronger. Kudos for the Team for such an unique event, for their time, sweat and tears :) Read More

With all the recent interest in Nokia's N810 device among KDE and Qt developers I think it is important to note that Qt/X11 painting performance is badly broken when running under Hildon. I've been porting a QtWebKit based browser to the N810 for awhile now and have noticed a steep drop in performance when compared to the same browser running under Qtopia Phone Edition on the very same device. Read More

During the last couple of days I've been working on trying to get parts of kde packaged for maemo, to make development for others easier, and after some struggles, I finally succeeded in doing part of this. Most of this isn't available yet in the official extras-devel repository, because getting it to build in the buildsystem there would probably be quite some extra work, but I've uploaded the binary packages to my own repository. All the stuff in this repository is of course very experimental, and it might do all kinds of ugly things, but I at least managed to run kbuildsycoca4 after installing kdelibs5 from my repository. Read More

FrOSCon is coming up tomorrow-like... need to get ready, who stole all my time? Still some notes from Akademy. It was my first (therefor best) Akademy! I can only say it was great meeting so many nice people. Others have blogged about that quite a bit already, so I will save me the effort ;) Read More

I really enjoyed Akademy this year, and blagging a Nokia N810 right on the day of my birthday was one of the highlights of a great week. I'm very keen to port the QtRuby bindings to the N810 as it should make a nice development environment for quickly developing small free standing apps and Plasma applets. Instead of using Scratchbox, cross compiling on a laptop, and then downloading the binaries, I've been building on the device itself. I'll summarize what I've done so far to get my tablet set up with dual booting OSs and native compilation. Read More

The coolest picture made at Akademy 2008 was made by Nepomuk developer Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes. This is the main square of Mechelen stitched together from 19 pictures. Check out the details. You will probably be able to buy it as a clock from the Mechelen tourist office soon. Read More

This year was just my second Akademy. And as my first one, two years ago in Dublin, it was a really great experience again. Actually I don't know where to start. To put it in one sentence, it almost feels like a huge family. Hundreds of people from all over the world come together and meet, they know each other, they work towards the same goal, they appreciate each other. Where else do you have that (for such a big number of people) ? Read More

Just two days ago I was still partly optimistic in the hope the ISO would do it's job. Yesterday we got it official, they don't. To break the own rule of consensus for things running though the fast-track process, to ignore all the provided feedback, to ignore any protest, to cloud as much of the decision-making as possible while hide-out any details or reasons leaves only one conclusion: The dying of the ISO starts... Read More