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This morning Patrick complained that he had no picture of himself while he was at the cebit. So here comes remedy. I stumbled across some other random KDE related pictures also... Read More

I've been playing with using KIO::get() to make queries on the DBPedia SPARQL endpoint, parse the XML result set and convert it to be used by a Plasma Data Engine. I'll explain how it works as I think it is pretty useful and makes it very easy to link up applets with Semantic Web/Desktop data. Read More

A few days ago I asked in the blog "where to buy a 14 inch non-glossy notebook with Linux in Germany". I received quite a few responses and emails, thanks a lot for the support ! :-) Now I (almost completely) succeeded and a notebook is ordered. For those of you looking for something similar, here are the details. Read More

Last week HP announced it's Mini-Note PC with preloads of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Our heros of the Mobile Devices Team have worked the last weeks on that. The Mini-Note is available in different configurations starting at $499 (that would be only 313 Euro if applied for Europe without surcharge). All editions share the form factor, the nearly full-size keyboard and the nice display (1280x768). So I had to lend one from Mobile Devices team and play with it. :-) Read More

Seems like I've been bad. At least bad enough to get kicked from planetkde.org. No clue why actually. edit: I'm back, thanks to Chris Lee for running the planet in the first place :)

Kubuntu and variants Release Candidate is due out this week and next week is the final thing, so its solid install testing until then. We need people to download the daily and daily-live CDs and install them. Upgrades and netboots also need testing. See the ISO Tracker for what needs doing, the test case for the all new KDE 4 and the old KDE 3 procedure and join us in #kubuntu-devel and #ubuntu-iso for coordination. Read More

So after a few emails of feedback on MyPoint i have made a few changes and updates to the tool. The big change is that I changed the wiki formatting to trac's flavor of markup. While I don't like it's flavor as much as say media wiki trac is what I use at work and play. The major gain of this that it is easier to collaborate on content with coworkers. Since MyPoint's focus is to make it easier for developers to make presentations with developers tools I thought this was a wise choice. Read More

I'm currently at the KDevelop sprint at the Trolltech offices in Munich, Germany. We had a productive weekend of talks to bring everyone up to speed with the current state of KDevelop, and while what's going on under the hood is very exciting, it currently suffers from a kluged together, buggy and incomplete UI. For the first day of the programming several of us are working on improving the user interface, and it's making progress slowly but surely. Stay tuned for a screenshot / screencast when we have it looking just right :)

This is the draft design for a new widget API for plasma, it will be appearing on techbase later, but here's what we're thinking. General Notes The intention of this API is to provide a very simple way for users to create plasma applets. The API can be used both for scripting and from C++. For the simple javascript API, this API will be all that is provided allowing us to run untrusted applets as they will not have access to any dangerous facilities. Read More

It sounds as though exciting things are happening at the Milan Tokamak Plasma sprint, with an api review and the Widgets on Canvas changes happening at the moment. Meanwhile, I've been having my own 'mini-sprint' this last week in Gran Canaria. I've ported the digital clock as well as the analog one, along with the web applet, plasmoid viewer and data engine browsers apps, and the time data engine to Ruby. Read More