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Here is a recent announcement from the OpenPrinting workgroup, hosted by the Linux Foundation. It didn't receive any widespread publication, AFAICS. But it deserves to:   OpenPrinting/LinuxFoundation: "We are Hiring Students/Interns for Implementing the PDF Printing Workflow" Posted by: Till Kamppeter Date: August 29, 2007 09:08AM Read More

it took me nearly 2 months to go through 7 years of code. and I came to the sad reality that only 5% of it is reusable and interesting even the embedded firewall product is not that interesting anymore since it's based on an ancient technology (namely freebsd 4.x) so I decided to ditch it too, no more new version and no support for it since I don't have the setup for doing it. What I will do is to take the knowledge and some of the cool concept I got while designing it and reimplement them using something more modern, here my goal is to not let die the best thing (even if sometime it was a pain in the ass) I managed to do in the past 7 years. Read More

Who am I? Good question, next question please. But seriously, my name is Frederik Gladhorn and this is my first post on the planet, if everything goes well :) I have started taking over KVocTrain some time ago. KVT had some rough edges and still does. "Bug 108568: kvoctrain interface is very confusing, can't figure out a thing" Is by far my favorite. Closing it will almost make me sad... Edu people probably know me by now from bugging them on IRC. I have been working with Jeremy Whiting to get the keduvocdocument lib into shape, letting him do most of the work actually. The result is quite satisfactory, as KAnagram, KHangman, KWordQuiz and KVocTrain now have a XML file format that is actually readable for humans too. After that was done, I used the chainsaw (as Pino) noted to go through the KVT code the last weeks or so. I'm quite satisfied with a much cleaner and easier to use interface. Now KVocTrain really longs for a nice shiny new Oxygen icon. Usability suggestions are welcome as well :) Another thing to quickstart people using the program is a wizard which also got redone last week. The obligatory screenshot of the new language selection dialog: This will probably only make people happy who know the old way of setting up languages in KVT... it makes me happy ;) Frederik

Will it be a GargleBlaster? (the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick) Well maybe not. And in the end WORDINATOR gets killed by terminator. All of these and many more were supposed to be new names for KVocTrain. Some less serious. But the (KVoc)Train will not roll on for ever. This is a call for new name suggestions! Come up with a great new name for the new KVocTrain! Please add your favorite name for a vocabulary training program to the comments section or visit in #kde-edu!

One of the goals of Kubuntu Gutsy is to have Strigi installed by default. Unfortunately the existing panel app was a line edit embedded in kicker, which took up loads of space. So I made it into a systray applet. Read More

[disclaimer: this is a personal opinion and meaned to be sarcastic!] So, germany was voting with "yes" for the Microsoft XML2007 format. That may not new for those that did follow the worldwide ISO-adventure and that believe in the power of black suitcases. Read More

This will be my blog about KVocTrain and my kde hacking in general.

Did anyone miss a news splash these days about openSUSE 10.3 not shipping KDE 4.0 as default KDE desktop like some other distro? Or maybe not as we have not been telling everyone the last half year that we would. No, we didn't have a crystal ball but experience with our long time existing KDE4 packages. "So much for" knowing what we're doing. ;-) Read More

Python language bindings for KDE's libraries, PyKDE4, has landed in KDE's subversion repository. Jim Bublitz has been working behind the behind the scenes on PyKDE4 for quite some time, and now PyKDE4 is stable enough to enter its new home in subversion. The last of big sweeping changes to the code, like licensing notices and module layout for example, have been done and PyKDE4 is in good shape for those who want to get in there, port their applications or create new ones and help shake any bugs out. Now that KDE's libraries are mostly settled, changes and improvements to the bindings will be incremental in nature and not too disruptive for Python developers. Read More

+++ klik development taken up some speed, progressing rather nicely now +++ stop +++ currently working on version 2 of klik client/runtime environment +++ stop +++ moved all development activities to Google-Code +++ stop +++ klik2 will no longer use shell/bash for the client runtime code, but python +++ stop +++ loopmount from klik1 (with all its limits and (f)ugliness) is gone -- fusemount is the new king +++ stop +++ klik1 did binary-patch away absolute paths embedded in its images -- klik2 will use completely unmodified .rpm and .deb and .tgz packages as ingredients +++ stop +++ klik1 expected to be run on a debian-etch-alike host linux system -- klik2 will run on any distro that complies to the lsb 3.(1?) specification +++ stop +++ klik1 mixed commandline with gui components (xdialog, kdialog, zenity) in one single bash script -- klik2 will sport a clean commandline interface and expose an API to write "native" gui frontends (Gtk, Qt, KDE, Tcl/Tk, PyKDE, PyQt, ncurses,... $whatever) +++ stop +++ klik1 was alpha, proof-of-concept, ugly, hack-ish... software, but worked (if the recipe maintainer found time to do his job) -- klik2 will become stable, polished, cleanly designed... and will work even better (and therefore attract more recipe maintainers, with more time too :-)  ) ++++ ++++ first screencast of current klik2 in action (proofing how cool, easy-to-use and 'grandma-safe' klik2 will be once it is ready) in a Google klik2 Video (58 seconds) ++++ Read More