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With the great intro provided about Plasma Packages to get Apple's Dashboard Widgets running, it follows a screenshot that shows SuperKaramba - yes, it works with legacy *.skz files. btw, SuperKaramba example that uses KHTML to display content :)

Akademy 2007 organiser Kenny went to Belgium a few days before FOSDEM to scout out the Akademy 2008 location. I started a poll to see what current thinking is on best application programming language. Surprisingly high Java support.

Additionally to the migration path for PIM applications there are similar options for the actual data access facilities, i.e. the addressbook and calendar plugins traditionally used to access PIM data in local files, groupware servers and so on. Read More

Thiago has set up the KDE Summer of Code 2008 ideas page. Thanks! I've put some ideas on there (far more than I could possibly mentor), and I'd like everyone else to do so too. The reason is that ideas are fairly cheap, and we need to get students inspired. From previous years, some of the best ideas came from students (not from the mentors' list). In addition, just about every idea on the "list" had a submission (which was sometimes just the name of the idea). Read More

Kubuntu-KDE4 got its first alpha today. Lots of bits to tidy up but for the most part it works. Qt 4.4 beta is in my PPA for hardy, thanks to fdoving (still liable to break existing compiles of Plasma). Read More

So, after Saturday's FOSDEM KDE Group Picture, perhaps it's now time to give a slightly fuller account of FOSDEM 2008 (with pictures). Since most of my pictures from the main tracks were too blurry anyway, I'll just focus on some of my pictures related to the KDE FOSDEM 2008 presence (leaving out some pics of individual persons and overview shots). Photos have only been resized and cropped where somewhat appropriate. Perhaps to do for next year: buy a lens which captures more light, or a bigger flashlight :P (Shooting at ISO 1600 is rather noisy :() Read More

... can take many forms. Some less exciting than others: [image:3297]

So, as I said previously, I'm at FOSDEM right now, sitting in the KDE boot, with some Amarok guys, Joos demo'ing all around, Marijn working on KDE and Adriaan hacking on the KDE4-branded SOLARIS thin client. Read More

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