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KDE 4.0.3 is out and openSUSE packages are available at the usual place as is a new "KDE Four Live" CD. Just want to note that these packages are less pure KDE 4.0.3 with every day we near the openSUSE 11.0 feature freeze. Last week-end I started a "Plasma 4.0 openSUSE" work branch in KDE SVN to combine our local patches, upstream backports and own features. The goal is to ship a KDE4 desktop which has not less functionality than a GNOME desktop ;-) - means eg adding / removing of panels, a simple way of being able to move plasmoids on panels and the theme selector are in there. You can find this stuff already merged into our KDE 4.0.3 packages. Some outstanding tasks are using the Kickoff look of trunk and dealing with the desktop icon issue. Currently there are of course also some glitches to chase down during the bug fixing months until the final release. Read More

FOSSCamp is happening in Prague next month. This is a general free software get together with sessions on whatever participants want (it happens just before the Ubuntu Summit but is otherwise unrelated). A good number of KDE people are expected but more welcome. Jorge explains all. Read More

Ok, so because the old notebook is starting to fall apart (it is probably around 5 years old or so) I need a new one. So, I want to buy a new notebook, nothing too fancy: 14 inch, non-glossy, Intel Core Duo, Intel Graphics, Intel WLAN, 1GB RAM, price at most 800 Euro. I guess it's obvious to everybody reading this that I'd like to have fully Intel chipset because of the free drivers. This will actually be my first non-AMD CPU I buy new since 1994 or so. Read More

Today's Kubuntu Hug Day looks at bugs in Launchpad with comments regarding the KDE bug tracker. Join #kubuntu-devel and #ubuntu-bugs to help out.

As every year, one can see all kinds of articles related to today's date everywhere, ranging from quite amusing ones (it's a pity I knew what day it was when visiting dot.kde.org) to really old boring ones without anything interesting in them. I guess many people are running out of ideas or something. Rather that doings things like that, I think such people should simply stay serious. Like myself, I'm a pretty boring person usually, so I won't join the crowd, but I'll rather try to fight back by trying to be serious. Read More

Google have extended the Summer of Code 2008 student application deadline until April 7 so if you were busy last week or concerned your application wasn't good enough, now's your chance to get it in. Read More

Spent some time today getting the OpenChange resource for Akonadi up and running again. I haven't really done anything to improve it from where it was a few months ago (OK, September 2007, when I was on holidays), but it lives again. Read More

In my last blog, the screenshot showed a broken image. Thanks to some very fast work by Tobias König (tokoe), it now works. That picture of Konqi was uploaded to the server using Outlook, and downloaded using OpenChange and Akonadi, before being rendered. Read More

Based on reactions to my previous blog entry I'd like to add a bit of context regarding the GSoC idea of implementing a GLib/GObject based client library for Akonadi. The whole architecture of Akonadi is based on the idea not to depend on any specific library but to make the data storage access protocol, and D-Bus for out-of-band notifications, the only requirements for clients. Learning from the non-adoption of DCOP and KIO, both also out-of-process service infrastructure projects, due to the lack of visible alternatives to the respective KDE based client libraries, the developers of Akonadi acknowledge the need to at least a second, independent, client library implementation. Read More

Student? Love KDE and/or openSUSE? Want to get 0x1194 bucks for improving them? Then check out the openSUSE Google Summer of Code ideas page or suggest your own project. There are a number of projects listed already which would improve KDE on openSUSE and upstream. As well as getting paid, it's an opportunity to work on a real world project, and learn from the experience of some leading KDE and openSUSE developers. Read More