KDE Blogs 

Akademy is starting :) We arrived at Katelijne Waver!!! Time to head towards bed...

Upon user reports we've found a new way spammers abuse our web site, so I've upgraded the drupal to the latest version to be able to install some more anti-spam features. We're currently slowly digging through the damage and delete stuff as necessary. Read More

I started my first programming job on August 7th 1978 as a graduate trainee in the 'Advanced Systems Sector' of a company called Dataskil, and today is the 30th anniversary. Read More

Haven't blogged for a while, so here's some of the changes that have happened in Kubuntu recently. I finally found some time for the KDE port of system-config-printer, still far from feature parity with the Gnome version and needs plenty of tidying up but should be usable. Read More

That's not new but perhaps you'd like to know... ;) How to write a KDE app or a GNOME app. And of course,

After the kdebindings meeting about a month ago in Berlin, I had a 8-ish hour long trip back on the train from Berlin to Nijmegen. Deutsche Bahn's trains are rather civilised and have power on board for all your laptop charging needs (provided you can get close enough to the seats with the tables and the power outlets). Anyway, after getting some preliminary Python coding working inside KDE 4's systemsettings (thanks go to rdale for his help), I had a go at trying to fix up the PyKDE class documentation to more closely match the C++ KDE API docs. About 5 weeks of hack time later I now have something which is ready enough for the public. The formatting is much more in line with the C++ docs and the pages are laid out and cross linked much better than the previous class reference for PyKDE. It is still not perfect (code fragments are not translated to Python), but it should be perfectly usable 98% of the time. Give it a try. Read More

Akademy is coming closer and I still haven't managed to blog about current stuff happening in Parley. Instead I was wasting my time outside, climbing, and lately again (last weekend at least) some coding. Lately I leaned back and enjoyed other people working on parley a lot. Our two summer of code projects are becoming ready for broader testing and have been merged into trunk. New faces show up improving Parley, Javier Goday got started with two patches to improve the ui :) Daniel Laidig is working on a welcome screen that hopefully will make new users feel more welcome and not scare all long time users away ;) One sad topic that came up is the state of the handbook, which is not as nice as it should be. I cleaned out lots of old stuff from it a week ago, so now it's time to fill it with actual information again. Since huge parts will have to be rewritten, I was wondering if there is a good way to collaborate on the handbook. Any tips are more than welcome. I think we have enough interested people willing to write some piece and improve parts here and there, but the current docbook sources are not very easy to work on with different people that don't necessarily have svn accounts. Read More

Such a boring title. And so obvious. But it's August: everyone around packs, get their kids in the cars and rush for miles until they reach to the hot summer beaches.... puagh! not my style. You won't see uga roasting his back under the sun just to look like the Guinness Record of Large Red Tomatoes. Life got other interests to keep my time busy. Different cultured and tourist-free destinations where you can taste the flavor of magestic culinaires not adapted to local aberrations, or you can just walk through, admiring their architecture and nature. Read More

The eGroupWare resource in KDE-PIM hasn't gotten much love and attention in a long time. It compiles, but we have no idea if it really works, nor do we have anyone on the PIM team who uses it. Read More

Akarsh Simha is pursuing a very ambitious project for Google Summer of Code 2008: He's increasing the number of stars displayed by KStars by a factor of 10 (from 130,000 to over 1 million), without having a negative impact on the performance of the program. James Bowlin and I are his co-mentors in this project. James and Akarsh spent the pre-coding SoC period hashing out the code architecture required for this effort, which allowed Akarsh to hit the ground running when he started to code. His progress has been amazing: in the kstars/summer branch, we are already displaying over 2 million stars, and it feels just as responsive as trunk, because the new architecture is extremely efficient in memory usage. Read More