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KDE has always been a community that I saw myself very happy with. Open, friendly and cheerful to newcomers. To improve that, and not to diminish the quality of coding while doing so, #kde-devel is better used for coding only, and suggests #kde-cafe for a socialisation channel. I promoted the use of that channel in the past. Read More

Today is day one of FOSSCamp. FOSSCamp is an unconference, which means there is no set program. The program consists of writing entries into the empty program grid. This is refreshing approach which seems to work rather well for one particular use case: recognizing and fixing problems. Read More

So this blog title is "KMail and bikeways in Germany". You may wonder what they have in common. You may wonder whether there will be an eloquent Aaron-style nice little story behind that. Read More

Today I took the plunge and merged the Solid network management infrastructure into KDE SVN trunk, where it will soon be released as part of KDE 4.1. Here's a summary of what it includes. Since what follows is Long, Save Planet[KDE|OpenSUSE] and read more for details. Read More

Just like last year the KDE-family did provide us again a gsoc-slot to work on Improve ISO OpenDocument support (in KOffice, particularly in KWord). Not only did the number of mentors drastically increased but personally I also had the feeling the number of very good proposals did. To be allowed to read all of them was such exciting that I found myself spending hours over hours on the huge list reading lots of proposals again and again just for fun. To be able to see such a pool of impressing ideas and developers was already reason enough for me to participate again as mentor rather then as student. Thanks to google for this unique opportunity! Read More

In two and half weeks the likely biggest Linux Event kicks off: LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. Four days of exhibition and more talks (the organizers say 240, German/English mixed) than ever before. I plan to be around all the time. :-) Read More

Just want to point out four improvements of the YaST Qt package selector in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 that were missing too long, much requested (at least by me) and now added :-) : Read More

...that's what my friends all call me. Actually they don't but since I am a huge fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd and this blog entry is closely related to the previous one I am (ab-)using yet another of their song titles. Read More

Ok, we all know, blogs are the new mailing lists, so here just some quick comments from my side on all the release-cycle stuff. About being in sync with releases of other projects: I am caring for our buildsystem which uses CMake, so the releases of CMake and KDE matter to me. I want to provide a stable (as in "not chanigng too often") build environment. If project A (KDE) depends on project B (CMake), it doesn't help project A anything if it's releases are in sync with project B. Why ? Because, well, in order to have a stable environment I don't want to force developers to have to update their cmake from non-distro packages (the binary cmake packages provided by Kitware work flawlessly on all systems I tested so far, btw). This is frustrating ("damn, which package do I have to update today to make KDE build again ?") and takes away a lot of time (not for a single developer, but accumulated for all). So, before we (KDE) require a new version of CMake, I personally want this not to happen before that version of cmake is shipped by the most common distros (i.e. a few months after its release). So I see also a value in not depending on always the latest and greatest releases of other projects. Read More

[image:3453 size=original nolink=1 node=3453] I've worked a bit on the scale dialog for Krita. Neither the old one from the 1.x series nor the new one in current KOffice2 alpha releases were good enough. I've mailed a bit with Ellen which only confirmed that it is indeed a difficult dialog to get right. Read More