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What a coincidence today happened. In the morning I used KDEPrint's 'poster' frontend to create a "poor man's poster" in A1 size from 4 A3 printouts. In the afternoon, a lady mailed me, asking why her KDE print dialog on Solaris didn't show the poster dialog, while her husband's openSUSE KDE did show it. Read More

Hacking on KDE 4 is fun. There is so much goodness in the development platform. This begins with all the nice stuff Qt brings, little things like the addictive foreach, the beautiful API, or the amazing performance, and big things like the rich-text system Scribe or the model-view framework Interview. One of my favorites are the dockable toolbars. I could move them around all day and watch the smooth sliding in effects. Read More

Preparations for Gutsy's release continue apace. #ubuntu-release-party is going a bit nuts. Many thanks to those who have helped test CD candidates, davmor2 gets the prize for most testing this round I think. Read More

... is what Parley started doing lately. Pretending to have some very basic limited intelligence. Extending that to some more still very limited and basic intelligence will be easy now that the groundwork has been done. And I hope it's getting better at pretending then ;) Read More

As some of you may have known, KHTML in trunk has support for the <canvas> element. Unfortunately, it was based on some very old and borderline insane Apple code, which meant that except for the nice graphics bits written by Zack, it was all wrong, and when it worked, did so mostly by accident. Read More

This week is KDE 4 hack week for me and some other colleagues at SUSE. We have thrown in some of our ITO time (that's a certain fraction of our work time we can flexibly spend on innovative projects which aren't necessarily related to our day-to-day jobs) to help making KDE 4 ready for release before the total release freeze comes into effect on Friday. Some of the KDAB folks were attracted by this idea as well and will also chime in and do some serious KDE 4 hacking. So hopefully we will have a well-working KDE PIM in KDE 4. It certainly will be a fun week! Read More

As Cornelius blogged, this week the KDE people at SUSE are spending our hard-won innovation time on polishing KDE 4. The vast majority of our new development time is now allotted to KDE 4, so to make sure that our efforts go in the right direction and to coordinate them with the work the rest of the community, we'd like to announce an inaugural openSUSE KDE IRC meeting happening tomorrow, Wednesday 17 October, in #opensuse-kde on FreeNode, at 1800 CEST. That's 1700 BST, or 1200 EST or the same time of day as the openSUSE project meeting if you exist in the shadowy planes of hacker-time. The agenda so far is to discuss how to make KDE openSUSE 10.3++ the best ever, how you can contribute via the Build Service, and how to use KDE 4 already. Read More

Some of you may remember my blog post "How to simulate a slow network (after all, QT_FLUSH_PAINT=1 doesn't work with Qt3)" from nearly two years ago. After all, I'm still getting a private mail or two every half year inquiring about it. That blog post did describe in some detail how you can use a command like Read More

Ontario Linux Fest 2007 I had a good time at Ontario Linux Fest 2007. This being the inaugural event there were some small annoyances like lack of plugs for laptops. They did have free WiFi and there was time for me to hack on the weatherengine while there. This conference has a mix of corporate and geek culture and slightly differs from OLS (Ottawa Linux Symposium) but it's likely to grow and evolve over time. Read More

Here's a quick example of why it's nice to have a script interpreter embedded in Qt: Plasma's KRunner has a calculator which used code borrowed from the KDE 3.x minicli. The old code started up the bc command line calculator then displayed the result - not exactly an efficient way to do things. I've just committed a change that makes it use QtScript and the code is trivial: Read More