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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).

Finally I have had some more hack time and this morning I got the last of Creole tables supported. There is still a problem with how I am doing the delimiters of the table pipes when it contains a wiki link. I should be able to fix this this weekend. There are also problems with nested lists, but this is something that I hope to fix this weekend also. Read More

I've tried before, the installer always fails for me. But, I'm getting fed up with Gentoo (finally), so I decided to give it another try. Surely this time would be better... Read More

The release event went swimmingly with a whole bunch of useful discussions and talks. Since then I've been in Canonical Tower looking down upon London. With feature freeze coming closer for Hardy, exciting things are in development. I've been working on porting system-config-printer to Qt, so we get magic printer setup when you plug in your printer. Yesterday came the first alphas of Adept 3, a rewrite for KDE 4. Today nosrednaekim popped up with some sources for a compiz setup tool for those who want maximum bling. And iRon is looking at bullet proof X for KDM. Read More

Just decided to write some info here as more and more people are interested in joining the KDE project, at least as active users that want to provide valuable feedback. In particular they are asking about various most-used applications like KOffice or KDE-PIM/Kontact. Read More

As of now [*], I hereby declare that KDE4 kind of supports viewports[^] (that is, the implementation of virtual desktops that Compiz and probably practically nobody else uses). Which means it possibly still sucks a bit here and there [x], but it's at least as good as in GNOME. In fact, after little checking[!], it appears that it is a bit better (try e.g. dragging a window in GNOME pager with Compiz running). Strange, I remember loads of people complaining about KDE, but not a single case about GNOME - maybe I just haven't noticed, or GNOME has less features that can break in the first place, or maybe that's what we here call 'one-eyed the king in the land of the blind'[-]. Anyway. The good news for KDE developers is that they don't have to care - viewports are mapped to virtual desktops by libraries[#] and only the pager seems to need few small tweaks. That in fact seems a much better solution than the KDE3 way of actually really trying to support viewports (I think I feel shame remembering I supported this and thought it was a good idea - one never stops learning). Which means a backport to KDE3 would be problematic, maybe I'll try for openSUSE11.0, but I'm not very confident that's a good idea. We'll see. Read More