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(Warning, rant ahead) There has been a lot of excitement on the web about Google's new browser Chrome. So much excitement that it has been spilling over into the free desktop blog world. Excitement is good in general, but I think many people are missing the point of Chrome and what Google is trying to achieve here. Chrome is not about building a better browser or winning the browser wars. It's about building a better platform for running web applications. It's about winning the internet operating system war. It's about determining what the "operating system" for running internet applications will look like in the future. It's about platforms, APIs and VMs, not web pages. Read More

New versions of KDE Four Live are up to accompany the KDE 4.1.1 release and give an impression of the development in trunk half-way to the first KDE 4.2 Alpha release. These CDs are built with k*-branding-upstream instead of k*-branding-openSUSE packages (see openSUSE branding policy) so their desktop appears less green than usual. :-)

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 .

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.