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starting August 4th, i.e. Monday in 2 weeks, CMake >= 2.6.0 will be required to build KDE from svn trunk, which will become KDE 4.2 in a few months. So please update your CMake. In case there are no distribution packages yet, you can get the sources here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/cmake-2.6.0.tar.gz Read More

A new version of Strigi, the desktop search, is available. This is a bugfix release. It fixes some annoying issues seen in KDE 4.1. Check out the ChangeLog for the details. Strigi has currently good basid Xesam support, but no good dedicated search interface for KDE 4.1 yet. This is ongoing work. Read More

KDE 4.1 RC1 has been released yesterday - without big announcement as this is still a development release. The release of KDE 4.1 is planned for July 29th. As usual there are packages for openSUSE 11.0, 10.3 and Factory as well as a Live-CD available. Click below if you're eager to break your openSUSE 11.0: ;-) Read More

With some delay due the heavy workload at Mandriva offices, i manage to provide some experimental packages for Mandriva 2008 Spring. A standard urpmi repository is available. Please refer to README for detailed information. And of course: Read More

Akademy, the big yearly KDE conference, is only three and a half weeks away. Novell sponsors at Gold level this year and will by last count be represented by 8 people (me, Dirk Müller, Will Stephenson, Lubos Lunak, Vincent Untz, Danny Kukawka, Klaas Freitag and Cornelius Schumacher) and involved in three talks during the conference part. I am looking forward to show/distribute openSUSE 11.0 to everyone and spread how lot of fun it is to work on/for [open]SUSE :-)...

I've decided to write a series of blogs detailing the work that has gone on behind the scenes for KDevelop version 4, the new IDE that is now 3 years in the making. Like KDE4, KDevelop has seen much work on essential internal mechanisms (much like the pillars of KDE), the power of which will become evident over the next year or so. Progress has been great recently, with the hackathon we had in Munich earlier this year, productive SoC projects and several more/new developers becoming active again, it's looking like we can expect to be releasing a pretty solid beta within about a month. The other developers and I use kdevelop daily to work on kdevelop 4, including writing code; version control; building, executing, debugging, and valgrinding programs; navigating the project with quick open, find in files (grep), etc. Read More

It has been a tough decision, because we had three awesome proposals, but after a period of getting feedback from the community and some conversations between the boards of the KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foudation we have settled on the Gran Canaria bid for holding Akademy and GUADEC as co-hosted event in 2009. Read More

I've been in Berlin since Thursday, where we're having a meeting and hacking session about language bindings and Kross scripting. I like Berlin - it's a bit like Amsterdam - plenty of hippies on bicyles although without the canals, the Dutch or the narrow buildings. Read More

I got some Ruby Plasma bindings working a while ago. They wrapped the complete C++ api and allowed you to write a Plasma KDE plugin entirely in Ruby, which just looked like an ordinary C++ plugin to the Plasma runtime. However, that isn't the preferred way to implement non-C++ language support in Plasma. Read More

The first day of the KDE-Bindings / Kross Meeting in Berlin at the KDAB Office is still going on. After starting slowly this morning, because of staying up very late after having fun at a restaurant here in this area where were waiting for all the people to gather together, we caught up very quickly with doing bugfixing and discussions about how to plug hot technologies together. Which ended up with a commit by Richard Dale who made an impressive demo on how to create a smoke lib and a ruby extension within 20 minutes. The example allows to script Ruby applications using QtScript. In the afternoon and evening we had presentations about the particular projects and languages of the developers, from Lua, Python, Ruby, C# and PHP to the Kross Framework and Kross Plugins as for KDevelop or Krita. So far I can tell this meeting seems to be coming together well, and we are all looking forward to having fun during the next day or two and end up filled with new ideas and solutions.