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I've just created a new product called "Oxygen" in bugs.kde.org. It has 4 components: style, window decoration, icons and sound. So please use these in the future if you know the bug belongs there. I'll be adding known bugs from our wiki in the coming days Read More

Congratulations to Tom Patzig, currently serving in the openSUSE KDE Team, for the first release of Kepas: "Kepas is a KDE4 file transfer tool. It discovers your local LAN for buddies (KDNSSD) and lets you transfer files or Klipper entries from a tray icon or via drag'n'drop with the Kepas plasmoid." Please give him much feedback what to improve until 1.0! :-) Read More

disclaimer: as usual this is a personal opinion and I am not that sure that everything was like I describe it now cause of some side-conditions. The last friday started just like one of those usual normal january-days not worth to be mention. Over the day I even got the impression its still one of those months where it's not worth to wake up in the morning and leave the warm and bright home to move into the cold and dark world outside there. Read More

Attending the KDE4 Release Event has been insanely great. It's so good to finally meet people I've only known via email and IRC. We have an incredible community, and now I feel much closer to it than I did before. Read More

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