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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 ;-)

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

The openSUSE KDE team is holding a Bug Squashing event to work through the KDE bug reports in bugzilla.novell.com this weekend. Among the goals are reporting non-openSUSE specific bugs to bugs.kde.org and closing duplicates to reports within bugs.kde.org or bugzilla.novell.com - hope to see you! :-)

Dear LazyWeb ... erm, I mean DoItYourselfWeb. As you may or may not have noticed, KWin now again defaults to compositing enabled, if possible (the self-check will possibly still need polishing a bit, but that's why it's enabled by default now, right; and the little trick for detecting too bad performance needs some testing too). This is true for both to-be-KDE4.2 KDE trunk and to-be-openSUSE11.1 packages. Read More

When I heard that Nokia was giving away N810 devices on aKademy, I wondered how long it would take till I saw the first code changes. So, code changes to support the ARM architecture or the use of KDE on a PDA. Today I saw three (and wrote two of them): Read More

As there seem to be people who continue, despite being told about dependency errors and packages that cannot be upgraded, to install newer KDE packages (and then wonder about a broken desktop) I want to point out this important service information for users of the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop repository in the openSUSE Build Service.