KDE Blogs 

Jakub Stachowski, who just committed a significant performance improvement to KConfig parsing, which, with previous improvements of his, made it about 4.5 times faster than the initial KDE4 version, and slightly faster than the KDE 3.5.9 one.

NLnet provided new KOffice logos (and it sponsors ODF development). Kudos for that! To help readers of the announcement, let's note that application logo is not always equal to its icon. Read More

openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 has been released including the new beautiful installer, an incredible fast installation and package management, KDE 4.0.3 and 3.5.9. With this Beta the media layout changed: no 1 CD install media anymore, just the KDE4 Live-CD and the DVD which allows to choose between KDE4 and KDE3. This beta marks the generic feature freeze so there was a rush to get everything in which led to the delayed release and some problems like most noticeable the Live-CD installer not working. :-( So if you plan to do an install better download the DVD or use the network installation CD. Read More

I've just published the Building KDE on openSUSE guide over at the openSUSE wiki. It makes it insanely easy to build latest KDE 4.1 in a minimal number of steps, but the goal is not just to make it easy, but to give people the tools and the skills to go from just building KDE to developing it. If you're the type of person who always stays up to date with the latest alphas/betas, or are a Power Bug Reporter who wants to report bugs with full debug output and maybe try applying a patch from a developer or twiddle a few bits yourself, this is a way to get the freshest KDE 4 Plasma or Amarok around. Read More

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