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The FOSDEM 2008 organizers now have published their 'speakers interview' with probono and myself. If you are interested in some background about the current klik2 development, it may be serving as a good general introduction into the concepts.

I am sitting here in a Cafe on Münster Airport after an exciting weekend at the KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrück. Being a first-timer I was really looking forward to it and I wasn't disappointed. Although my travelling to the event turned out to be quite adventurous because my connection flight from Frankfurt to Münster got cancelled due to strong winds and the airline had to re-booked me on a train ride for the rest of the journey. Read More

Meanwhile I have switched the Cafe to one inside the security area and from Cappuchino to Schneider's Weiße :) One import think about KDE developer meetings is that they are not only about getting work done, but also about getting to know each other better. Read More

Due to too little testing, the Milestone 3 release announcement is postponed until Wednesday. It may actually happen even later, should I have no time to really do it on Wednesday evening, due to my work-work obligations. Read More

For those that missed Aaron's Plasma tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008, the good news is you can now view it online. You can have slides, ogg video, or ogg speex: Slides 1 OGG part 1 OGG part 2 SPX part 1 SPX part 2 [Sorry if someone already noted this]

A list of good stuff that I was involved with in the past week: The PIM team (mostly Till) posted the KDE PIM 3.5.9 Features List. A huge list of exciting, new features that will be released with KDE 3.5.9 resulting from the merge of the enterprise branch. Read More

Tsk to marketing types who bring negatives tones to otherwise peaceful Planets. I like to walk cheerfully over the world so here's some top reasons why Kubuntu is good for KDE. Read More

So, given that I'd be on a holiday next week, I thought it would've been a good idea to do an upgrade of my Debian install on my laptop, in the hope that it'd use less power. The good news was that it seemed like it did, with slightly lower temperature (I guess due to tickless timer on AMD64 in the 2.6.24 kernel). The bad news was that I couldn't even try to quantify it at all: all my battery-measuring tools wouldn't work at all anymore. In particular, no KDE Battery Systray icon anymore, leaving me without any indication at all about how much battery I have left. Hoping it'd be just a KDE update fluke, I checked my other favourite power-related tool, powertop. Unfortunately it also failed to show any relevant information about power usage... :( Read More

I got a new laptop recently, a Thinkpad R61, works decently well (no suspend, sound settings are strange but otherwise all good). However now I have three computers (new laptop, desktop and laptop-held-together-with-duct-tape) it leads to the issue of how to move over settings and keep them the same on all three. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell KDE to keep its settings on a remote server and download them when you move to a new desktop. Today I wrote a quick mockup application to investigate the idea. It keeps Konqueror's bookmarks in bzr and uploads them to Launchpad, then from another computer you can grab them again. Of course there's a hundred issues to solve this properly, it shouldn't be a separate app but integrated with the KDE config framework, it needs to know when to sync and what to sync (no passwords unless its to somewhere very secure), apps need to know when to refresh their settings and some settings, like Amarok podcasts, are stored in hard-to-sync binary databases. So just an idea for now, code is in Launchpad, let me know if you want to pick it up. Read More

Good evening from Osnabrück; Tom shares some facts from the day 1 with you, so all I have now (before putting my hand on svn commit) is some graphics. Recently (except for updating opensuse) I have switched from winnt5 to winnt6 on my notebook (thanks Adriaan!). Read More