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Too many KDE folks refuse to use http://techbase.kde.org/ because it breaks blocks of code. You can however make it usable. A hint just for you: [jstaniek] btw, I've improved http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM a bit, and have 'windows port' column [jstaniek] does not use oxygen wiki style which actually causes usability problems with blocks [marc_kdab] oh, you can switch the style? [marc_kdab] how? [marc_kdab] that could actually make the wiki readable :) [marc_kdab] hates fixed-width formats in websites [jstaniek] marc_kdab: ah, so I should blog about this; too many folks complain... and I talked to danimo @ akademy but... well... [jstaniek] (same for websvn, btw) [marc_kdab] yes, and the apidox [jstaniek] marc_kdab: login -> my preferences (on the topbar) -> skin tab -> monobook [marc_kdab] oh, sigh, login... [jstaniek] marc_kdab: y, you can set permanent login [jstaniek] hacked his wiki page with readable breadcrumbs, eg. "News->Kexi Releases-> Kexi 2007.1" and forced reasonable width (http://kexi.pl/en/News/Kexi_Releases/Kexi_2007.1) [marc_kdab] ahhh :) [marc_kdab] mediawiki look [marc_kdab] files a request for mediawiki to remove styling :) [jstaniek] the oxygen style is great but also breaks mediawiki skin rules a bit - e.g. we have even no kde logo defined for the web site... :)

As one of my colleagues notes, this statement holds true on its own. However, for those like me too blind to see some things, there are two things about Flash you should know: Read More

I've spent some time recently trying to get Konqueror's JavaScript debugger in a shippable form for 4.0. The debugger was changed heavily from the 3.x version in a SoC project, making ground for much nicer UI. Unfortunately, it also barely worked. Read More

I've just checked in the start of a new class - KCabinet. Its in playground/libs/kcabinet for the morbidly curious. I'm not sure if it is really going to be right for kdelibs - need to get it a bit more mature before needing to make that decision. Read More

The Bazaar team released version 1.0 of the world's finest revision control system. Congratulations to them all. I think the best explanation of the power of Bazaar is the workflows page, you can use it in the old central repository mode if you wish but there's a number of others ways of doing revision control and bzr's strength is that it works well with all of them. Read More

Two weeks ago I moved again and it took until yesterday that I got internet access again, now using cable. This actually rocks, it is really fast, 6 Mbit/s. I still can remember, I think it was in 2001 I still had an analog modem with 100something kbit/s. That's really an incredible increase in speed in just 6 years ! Read More

After my previous blog about openSUSE News numbers I became curious and installed StatPress. Of course the site is mostly visited by SUSE Linux users (~53%), followed by just under 30% MS Windows users (XP outnumbers Vista by factor 7). But the positive surprise is that 40.4% use Konqueror to visit the site beating all Firefox versions by 0.3% (Internet Explorer 6+7 sum up to 12%). An outstanding number: 96% of the visitors use Google as their search engine. Among the most popular search terms are "opensuse 11[.0]" and "kde 4". :-)

You may (or may not) know that Okular can read the Oasis Open Document format (aka OpenOffice.org text format or OpenDocument). It doesn't render the document exactly as oowriter would, but it is quite a bit faster to start up :-) I tried to open an encrypted document with it though, and it failed. A couple of evenings later, and I have a patch that "fixes" Okular. Read More

Torsten, the evil marble-mind tries to take over the world, but that's old news (pun where?). He talked me into getting hot new stuff support into Marble. That was real easy... except of course that marble has all this custom stuff to be a pure qt app. Well it works now. You can get a very nice map of crustal ages of the earth there now. Don't ask me what it actually shows, I guess the legend has to be adjusted a bit ;) Read More

Defining more than one pattern for a Build Service project finally works after some bugfixes by Michael. :-) [image:3152 size=preview hspace=50] Above you see how we use it in the KDE:KDE4 project, eg "KDE 4.0 Build Dependencies" lists all packages you need to have installed for compiling KDE 4.0 from source.