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I've spent a lovely week in the English enclave of Costa Adeje in the south of Tenerife with my girlfriend and without internet access. Today I moved north to La Laguna, a city where they actually speak Spanish. Here they were celebrating Software Freedom Day with a demonstration lab setup in the city centre running Bardinux, one of the local derivatives of Kubuntu. Read More

Even if Coolo says they have the cutest baby on earth, I have to disagree and post a proof of it. :) Our little daughter is with us since a year, we had her birthday yesterday. Read More

The image below shows the next generation KMLDonkey 2.0 from SVN running on KDE4. The whole port was done within around 3 days - KDE4 rocks :)

We had a Plasma meeting yesterday. One of the things discussed was to move the weather engine bits into KDE trunk. This is now done. Richard Moore is planning on taking a look at a bug in the UKMET BBC datasource. Once that issue is fixed. I plan on finishing the ion. I will be adding to the Techbase Wiki information on how the dataengine works, how the data formatting should be done so that each ion can be used by anyone's own weather applets. Read More

I've loved reading the articles about whether or not the Microsoft OOXML document format should be an ISO standard, as opposed to the ODF ISO standard for word processing documents. In particular, Miguel de Icaza's heroic defence of his position against over 500 rabid anti-microsoft Slashdot posters. I admire someone who can think for themselves against entrenched opposition (eg Richard Stallman or Miguel de Icaza), and I don't actually care whether or not I agree with them or not. Read More

Today I experienced two moments of bewilderment, the second one mixed with dismay. At first, when I googled for something unrelated, on one of the returns I saw a forum post where someone said "Icaza himself says that OOXML is superb". Well, first I was amazed, then I shrugged, and wrote it off as a troll, and continued with my other tasks. Two hours later I remembered again. Read More

KVocTrain is dead. Welcome Parley! You might already have noticed when synching kde-edu yesterday or today that the KVocTrain folder has gone and been replaced by Parley. And not only the name has changed. I was able to close quite a few bugs while rewriting the better part of the old KVocTrain. One bug that was very annoying was closed yesterday by simply enhancing the gui a little. It is a feature that Jeremy implemented in our rewrite of the kvtml (Parleys file format) lib. In the old KVocTrain one could have three languages (see screenshots). Let's say German-English-French. Read More

One of the nice aspects of being a software developer is that sometimes users come up with using your software in creative ways you never have thought of. They discover surprise features. I particularly like these because they show that you have great users and they often also are a sign that you took some right design decisions. Read More

I've never [image:2980 align="left" size="preview" hspace=4 vspace=2 border=0 class="showonplanet"] seen Xinerama combined with Compiz/Beryl/XGL (or AIGLX) in action. This morning, when checking out a printing-related blog, I stumbled upon a little YouTube video showing exactly that. It does look amazing indeed. Read More

I don't know about you, but there's this hugely annoying behaviour of QDockWidgets. Since Krita 2 uses them, I tend to run into it a lot. The symptoms are simple: if you have a floating dock widget and Krita loses focus, the dock widget gets hidden. Read More