KDE Blogs 

See http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/kde_3_5_8_on Seems it's possible to give OpenSolaris a try now where a recent KDE3-version is up and running there. Thanks for that SUN/Moinak :)

For many Nepomuk is a rather abstract thing. So I will not try to explain it as a project again. I will just show what I have been up to. Randomly... Read More

Why I failed before: I have no idea. Maybe the password mails got lost in the spam filter or I was just blind. Who knows. Important is that I am not using blogger which clee will like to hear (although I will be missing the WYSIWYG editor). Anyway, I got it now and I can start blogging about Nepomuk. Late, I know. I always tried to keep away from it but in the end, today there is no way around it. It simple seems the best way to inform people about my work. Read More

Great quote from Danimo's Chaos radio express interview when the topic Akonadi is discussed. Since I am one of the developers invited to this year's KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, I am currently trying to improve my knowledge of Akonadi. Read More

So finally i have some visual progress to the wiki editor. Right now it is more of a wiki viewer, but its progress :) [image:3236] So far the basic character formatting is working great. Thanks Thomas, Tobias and Hamish for your help. Tables are next. Well see how that goes. It looks like it will be harder because I don't know the table size up front. I think I can create the cells on the fly, but well see. Its not clear how to create a table from the docs. Lists look easy though. Nesting lists are still broken, but that is a parser issue and not a rendering issue. Read More

What a surprise we had today! A coworker came to my desk and told me 'Guess what Nokia has done.' I thought for a bit and tried to infer Nokia's move from my colleagues demeanor. 'They decided to use Windows mobile on their telephones.' was my guess. As you all know by now, the right answer was much more interesting and much less gloomy. Read More

So there's a lot of speculation floating around about the recent Nokia acquisition of Trolltech. There will be a lot more information to unfold in the coming months. The first thing I noticed was the price tag. Around €105 million. (I'm going to convert all Norwegian Kroner values to Euro since that's easier for me and most readers to think in.) That seemed low, based on some nebulous not-grounded-in-anything, notion of what I supposed Trolltech was worth, so I did a little digging. Read More

So now I am trying to put the output of my wiki parser into a QTextDocument. I am struggling with the QTextCursor though. Things are not acting at all as I would think they do. I think its because I am constantly using insertHtml() everywhere still... Read More

This weekend it's time to announce it. Finally: klik2 development has reached our internal "Milestone 2". Remember klik? That project that aims to make Linux end-user software installation and usage more easy than on any other platform? "Grandma-proof", if you like? By making to 'install' an application as easy as copying a single file to a USB thumbdrive or to a different computer? By implementing application-level virtualization, encapsulating each end-user program into a single file, following the 1 application == 1 file principle? Read More

While idly browsing through Wikipedia, I came across something very cool: the McGurk effect. Just read the Wikipedia page, and try it out with the linked YouTube video. I found the effect rather weird to experience :) (You can watch YouTube without creepy Flash plugins using ffplay/mplayer and the Konqueror YouTube servicemenu. The HTML for the YouTube site apparently got changed recently, so you'll have to manually patch the servicemenu script according to the last comment in that page).