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Two great pictures brought to you by Wordle in combination with my blog and Planet SUSE. <a href="http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/49581/My_Blog" title="Wordle: My Blog"><img src="http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/49581/My_Blog" style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd" ></a> <a href="http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/49578/Planet_SUSE" title="Wordle: Planet SUSE"><img src="http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/49578/Planet_SUSE" style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd" ></a> Beautiful. Read More

The World Wide Web Consortium is looking into the feasibility of standardizing desktop widgets. They have done a survey on the widget frameworks available in the market. The frameworks they have surveyed are Konfabulator, Windows Sidebar, Google Desktop Gadgets, Opera Widgets, Mac OSX Dashboard, Web-Runtime by Nokia, and Joost Widgets. Read More

An issue I encountered while running plasma on my Neo1973 is the lack of a right mouse button (the screen can't really distinguish between ends of the stylus/which finger I use). A situation where this lack of an RMB is most clear is when you want to use some functionality that is only available in a context-menu. I've implemented one way this is sometimes handled on other devices: if you hold your 'left' button for more than a certain delay (without moving more than a certain distance), the widget will receive a context menu event instead of the original left mouse button down and up events. I've implemented this by installing an event filter on the application object that intercepts all mouse events and when it detects a left mouse press, this event is saved and not immediately passed to the program. Instead a timer is started. If the left mouse button is released or the mouse is moved far enough before the timer fires, the original event will be send, so the application will just think a normal click or drag happened, however if the timer fires before the button is released or the mouse is moved, both the press and release events will be eaten by the event filter and instead a QContextMenuEvent is sent. Read More

As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, I'm working on making KDE and plasma behave better on systems that are quite different from 'normal' computers, specificaly small devices. As currently the only physical device I have access to for this project is a Neo1973 Openmoko phone, most of my initial work will be for that device. Read More

5-A-Day is a simple way for everyone to get involved in helping Kubuntu or other parts of the Ubuntu family, just triage 5 bug reports a day. Today the statistics show Team Kubuntu-de.org are the first team to triage 2000 beasties. Well done folks (especially top triager txwikinger who I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this week). Read More

I got some good comments on my last post. Let me try to clarify what I was trying to say, because I don't want to be misunderstood as being denigrating toward users: Read More

I just updated the Build Guide for KDE on openSUSE for 11.0, some fixes for recent package splits, and some better formatting. Unless you are or want to become a developer, our Build Service 4.1 Beta packages should be new enough for you - they are updated weekly.

Have to say, I totally agree with the sentiments expressed by Troy. KDE, like many other open-source projects, doesn't really need users at all, whether they are poisonous or not. What we need are contributors: that's the life-blood of our community, what keeps KDE growing and evolving. To the extent that users can and do become contributors, I will grant that we need a userbase as a pool of potential future contributors. But I am simply baffled by any argument that we "need" to have a large number of people that never do more than use KDE. Why do we need them? Read More

After more than two weeks of vacation I read up on my email and of course am also sickened by some of the stuff I have to read there. Let me open with a quote: Read More

After a very relaxing night, we can finally plan the dressing code for sunday.