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Another day, another set of interesting talks out of the over 200 here at FOSDEM. First, I had a look at what the KDE guys at OpenSuSE are doing for KDE 4: plans to ship KDE 4.0.1 (or better, .2 as soon as it is released), whith some concerns about eg KDE PIM. Was also nice to know that they are working on porting the KDE 3 applications developed by their developers to KDE 4: KNetworkManager (using NetworkManager 0.7), Kerry (using a Xesam interface, thus more generic), KPowerSave, etc. Read More

As promised I am going to try to present the work I have been doing over the last couple of weeks in a less developer centric way. Bascially the idea is to have an intermediate step in moving from the traditional facilities for addressbook and calendar to the future ones based on Akonadi. This intermediate step should allow developers to migrate both applications and data acesss methods (e.g. groupware server access) one by one, so that new applications can already make use of all the possibilities of Akonadi while at the same time allow existing applications to adapt at their own pace. Read More

So, not only is it FOSDEM this weekend, I also organized a group photo for the KDE related people who are here. We went to the small field of grass in front of the KDE devroom. Luckily, the sun just started breaking through the clouds, so there was nice lighting (unfortunately I forgot to switch my ISO back from 1600, so it's a bit noisy nonetheless). Here's a very small version (WiFi is a bit slow here, so no big version yet)

As Franz already wrote there are a couple of exciting free software events coming up. From March 4th to 9th there is CeBIT, the world's largest computer trade show. KDE will have a booth there. If you want to help to show KDE to a broad variety of visitors there, don't hesitate to contact kde-events@kde.org. It's interesting, it's fun, and it's a great help for KDE. The KDE e.V. is able to help with travel costs if needed. Read More

No, the title is not recycled from my previous blog entry but it is very closely related. Last time I wrote about Akonadi based KResource plugins, this time I am writing about KResource based Akonadi resources. Read More

For those that missed it, Microsoft recently released some of the specs relating to their office suite (http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx). Naturally, they probably aren't everything we'd like to have (various people have suggested that they aren't complete, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't something omitted, more likely because of incomplete records than because of deliberate omission - the PR downside to deliberate omission becoming public would be a disaster). Read More

It's FOSDEM this weekend, a huge gathering of free software enthusiasts all in one place with dozens of talk tracks. I'm giving a packaging tutorial on the Sunday at 16:00 in the cross desktop devroom (note different time than advertised). Read More

TagLib 1.5 is out. As always, file any bug reports that you happen to run into in the bug tracker. As there are specifically a couple things that I intend to implement (wav / aiff support as well as support for ID3v2 tags in RIFF chunks) I expect a 1.5.1 (or 1.6) to be much faster in coming around this time. Read More

It's this time of the year when all the events seem to happen at almost the same time: the upcoming week-end Dirk and Will will be at FOSDEM and give a talk "KDE 4 on openSUSE 11" on Sunday morning in the openSUSE Developer Room. The week-end after I will be at the openSUSE booth of Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. The week after is CebIT, visit the openSUSE counters at the Novell booth and check whether Martin presents KDE or something else. I plan to do a control visit on some secret day too. ;-) Also in March, Novell BrainShare happens where Zonker and Adrian will offer the suits an introduction to KDE4 (session IO140). :-)

I was inspired by Alexander's blog about text based presentation software. This has always been a sore point of mine. See the problem with most software is they are focused on making it pretty but not the content. This imho leads to a wasteland of bullet points with no flow, and people who just read their points right from the slides. Read More