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Microsoft is pushing their evil SilverLight platform very hard. They want to make sure that providers of cross-platform software for delivering rich applications via the web browser are thwarted. This is normal behavior for a monopolistic company and certainly for Microsoft. To accomplish this goal they are throwing around bucketloads of money and FUD to get content providers to use the Microsoft malware Silverlight exclusively. Read More

Please mail me if you see him. Video by motion on a Logitech Sphere.

Isn't it funny if you browse around the web and keep on to run into all those Eee-PC clones out there and note that nearly all of them are running KDE@Linux. Yet other examples I did run into are the Acer Aspire One and the ultra-mini PC. Both are running Linpus (a for small displays optimized GNU/Linux-distribution based on Fedora 8 ) with the "Friendly KDE desktop environment" :) Read More

Just got a (link) to offer of the "Polish Walmart" called Biedronka (Ladybird) - cheap (~€290) laptop with Kubuntu. It has been customized for Polish users, e.g. contains Kadu, instant messenger supporting locally popular proprietary protocol.

Fresh from Planet KDE is the news that Polish supermarket Bledronka has an offer on Kubuntu Laptops. Comes complete with Kadu, "killer app in Poland".

This year I was again at LinuxTag, after I missed the one last year. LinuxTag in Karlsruhe was always very nice, the one two years ago in Wiesbaden somehow didn't feel that good, but this time in Berlin it was really great again. Read More

From the listening-to-users department, the openSUSE 11.0 Plasma desktop toolbox contains more useful options as in KDE 4.0 but still many users want to hide it. Try this with our KDE packages on openSUSE 11.0 RC or equivalent from the build service: stop plasma (kquitapp plasma), search in ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc the "Containments" config group with the "plugin=desktop" entry, add "ShowDesktopToolbox=false" there and restart plasma. :-) Read More

Just a short late summary: LinuxTag 2008 was fun and interesting, met some new faces both from openSUSE and KDE communities and many familiar ones. I have uploaded some pictures mostly of the openSUSE and KDE booths. The German "KDE 4.0 auf openSUSE 11.0" talk which me and Will gave on Saturday in the openSUSE track had about 150 listeners, the slides are uploaded like the others on the LinuxTag page in the openSUSE wiki. Read More

Here's another tip for those not yet on subversion 1.5 (which supposedly comes with the goodness below integrated). svnmerge.py makes merging branches back and forth a little less painful. Most distributions have a package for it, it can be in svn-utils or something like that and sometimes it's simply called svnmerge without the py. Whatever. Say we have this great new project in KDE/kdeedu/foo and now we decided to branch it because the soc-foo project will be worked on during feature freeze... Read More

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde Quite some time ago, Pino gave me a great tip (hm, maybe advice is of use occasionally)... Use Modeltest from labs.trolltech.com to validate QAbstractItemModels. It's as simple as including modeltest.cpp in your CMakeLists.txt, add #include "modeltest.h" and when constructing the model, hand over the model pointer to a ModelTest instance. new ModelTest(myQAbstractItemModel, parent); Then you'll have a hard time starting your app for a while, since ModelTest is somewhat picky (but that's what you wanted, right?). Once you manage to get past all the ASSERTS checking for correct parenting and the like your model will have been a bit refined. In the end I think it's quite a good idea to go through this hassle to have a valid model. At least it helps getting rid of some obvious bugs with models. So be sure not to forget beginInsertRows and friends :) Have fun. Read More