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Wednesday, 23 July 2008

OLS Day 0

Spstarr  | 
On Monday, I drove to Guelph to hang out with some friends and then take the VIA Train to Ottawa. We arrived around 5pm today. About the only thing done that was productive today was order a Pizza and sync rawhide and pray wireless will work tomorrow morning. Read More
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Strigi Reloaded - The Answer to all our Problems? Hopefully to a few of them.

Trueg  | 
It took me one and a half day and Jos will not be happy about it. That is because I have to start this blog entry with apologizing to him: Read More
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

My SUSE curse continues

I've never been able to successfully run SUSE or openSUSE, on any of my machines. I don't understand why; it just doesn't work. My latest attempt was to download and burn the openSUSE KDE Four Live CD, last night. Read More
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Strange UDF DVD

Oever  | 
My sister-in-law got married and the wedding photographer made a DVD with 412 pictures. Unfortunately, my parents-in-law could not read the DVD, either with Linux (which is their main OS) nor with Windows XP. So they gave the DVD to me and I had a look. Read More
Monday, 21 July 2008

KDevelop 4: User Interface

Another leap forward in KDevelop version 4 is the interface. We've tried to make it both highly flexible (to fit most people's requirements) and reliable (kdev3 suffered from a difficult to maintain ui library, prior to a simplified rewrite), and the current state is pretty good (certainly better than kdev3). Features include: Read More
Monday, 21 July 2008

Nepomuk Virtual Folders Part III

Trueg  | 
No, I did not forget about the virtual folders, but I also did not implement subfolders or a graphical query editor. Shame on me, I know. I thought it was more important to focus on stability and a clean API first. And that is what I did. Read More
Monday, 21 July 2008

Requiring CMake >= 2.6.0 for svn trunk starting August 4th

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
Sunday, 20 July 2008

Strigi 0.5.11

Oever  | 
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
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

KDE 4.1 RC 1 Escort

Beineri  | 
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
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Mandriva 2008 Spring KDE 4.1 RC1 packages available

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