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Lily Aimée Adam, 2955g, 51cm, healthy, impossibly lovely. Publicity shot here. Righteous.

Plasmoids have been creeping into different parts of KDE... The E-Team lately spotted two of them. So maybe check out KDE-Edu to get a real hot calculator made by apol. The gui is in need of some love, but it's already very powerful since it uses KAlgebra behind the scenes (yay, scientific calculations on your desktop). [image:3267] The other one I quickly hacked together, using artwork that leeo did for the icon originally. Being reminded by aseigo to seperate engine and applet, I had a glimpse at how engines are created, decided it's easy enough, so the engine is there too now. It can easily be extended to give tons of data, so I'm open to crazy ideas, if you want it to spit out more data, just tell me. Font config works, but some layouting might do good. And feel free to come up with an improved design and especially layout. As I have little time lately and rather want to get Parley in trunk into a working state again, I won't update the plasmoid much. Junior jobbing anyone? Great place to start, I already have a couple of ideas... drop by in #kde-edu on freenode. Read More

When logging out of your desktop session, you want all programs to shut down quickly. Strigi is one of the programs that can linger while it is analyzing a file. I've done some work to improve this latency and have measured the current latency after some improvements to analyzers that can potentially take long on some files. Read More

The openSUSE News story has the same title and I don't want to repeat everything here, just add some bits: The new KDE Four Live CD will hopefully work also on some computers whose broken BIOS had problems finding the boot code in certain sectors before. Read More

Here's the first blog in my life. KDE PIM meetings are for hackers like a bottle of water in a desert. Finally time to hack, hack, hack and only sporadic meetings. And those meetings about development topics. This meeting took place from friday 2008-02-01 till 2008-02-03. This time I remembered to take vacation for the friday. At 10:00 am, I departed from Alzey and arrived shortly after 14:00 in Osnabrück at Intevation who hosted this meeting (thanks!). Some guys were already there. I finally got to know Thomas who had shown me <a href=http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started/Set_up_KDE_4_for_development#KDevelop >how to use kdevelop for KDE 4. I used this day to get KDE compile on my notebook. We left the office at 1 am. krep On Saturday, I gave a presentation about my pet project, simplified debugging. I showed how you can increase your productivity by using a combination of add_trace and krep. My pain points are: Read More

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]