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Seems like the official launch of KDE4 generates quite some momentum all around. I got two surprise presents today ;) Michael Hofer started a Java app to practice Parley vocabulary files "on the road" - using mobile phones that is. Open xml formats are a good thing. See the project homepage at sourceforge: MobVoc. Lee sent me an update of Parley icons and I'm very very happy this time! The toolbar looks much clearer now (the icons are a bit simpler to make them easier to recognize in small sizes).

I want to bring to your attention the fact that the deadline for scheduling FOSDEM's devrooms is coming up soon. There are as of yet only very few talks proposed, I'd like to see some more ideas! We'll be sharing the room with the GNOME people on Sunday, where we'll have some talks that will be related to issues that are interesting to both of our audiences. That also means that if we don't have enough KDE talks, they'll easily fill in the gap for us ;) So, hurry up and add a talk proposal on KDE's FOSDEM Wiki Page (or mail me, or query me on IRC). More information about KDE's FOSDEM presence on the dot article.

Much exciting happenings here at the KDE 4.0 Release Event. Best of which is Trolltech adopting GPL 3 for Qt (and future GPL versions as approved by them and KDE Free Qt Foundation). That'll make the life of distros much easier. Read More

At the "Hochschule der Medien" (applied university for media (?)), which is really close to where I live, a Linux day took place yesterday. I only got there when most of the show was over already, but in time to listen to the talks I was interested in, given by the Amarok promo people (Lydia and Sven, the official amarok-beer-manager(titles are important, right?)) and a KDE4 intro by Lydia and Ingo (local KDE enthusiast) which was fun, with a diverse (rather small) audience. Afterwards we sat down in the S-Bar to have a few beers and talk some more, until we finally got the live stream working to watch Aaron talking. So thanks to those who showed up, it was fun. Thanks for the nice organization also!

I'll keep this short because my mental batteries are running a bit low. Yesterday Dirk, Cornelius and myself from SUSE travelled to Mountain View in California for the KDE 4 launch event at Google. So far we had BoFs on marketing, distributions (always fun), and now it's Plasma's turn. Apart from that we had a nice lunch - even if the food didn't quite satisfy all the hungry hacker appetites present. I've had fun meeting all the north american community members and hackers for the first time, spoken briefly on the phone to LugRadio with Aaron, and patched KUser to fix a bug the Slackware guys were experiencing. There's a nice vibe here, much like at aKademy, and to me the turnout proves that with good planning, it would be possible to hold an aKademy here in the future. Read More

Today, in one user forum, I noticed somebody saying that they use different virtual desktops for different things and therefore they'd want different panel for each desktop. Our bug #79531, more or less. One interesting note is that the user uses GNOME, but would be willing to switch to whatever provides this feature. Read More

As announced just minutes ago at the KDE 4.0 Release Event, Trolltech’s Qt to be licensed under the GPL v3 - both Qt3 and Qt4. Thanks Trolltech, this saves the distributors and everyone quite some license compatibility mess headaches. :-) Read More

View Album Finally RMS is here in Sri Lanka, just came back from his first speech which was held at our University in Kandy. looks. if you happen to be a sri lankan or in SL reading, this u can see him again at SLIIT (http://www.sllit.lk).

I learnt a something new about XML today, a part of the specification that deals one of the many edge cases that exist in every file format. To illustate this, lets take a look at a few examples. Why is this XML document well-formed : Read More

Today when I entered the office I found a welcome present in my mail folder that made my day: David Roberts had sent me a patch to put our Marble Earth directly into the spotlight of our G2V Main-Sequence Star (also known as "sun" among non-astronomers). That's totally awesome because this feature will allow kde-edu users to visualize things like seasons. This feature always has been on my personal TODO but I haven't been brave enough yet to start work on it myself because it deals with the (non-trivial) texture mapping code. So I'm thrilled to see that someone else has started to work on this! Read More