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Let me share some hints for openSUSE 10.3 which just came to my mind: If you use GNOME and eg don't like the yast2-gtk package selector or miss the powerful Qt package selector, install the yast2-qt package and set in /etc/sysconfig/yast2 the WANTED_GUI variable to "qt". If you want the Crystal-style YaST icons back, replace the yast2-theme-openSUSE with the yast2-theme-openSUSE-Crystal package. If you miss the photo wallpapers, they have been moved to the desktop-data-SuSE-extra sub-package. For really old wallpapers, think SuSE Linux 9.1, install the gos-wallpapers package. And this seems to be the biggest complaint of some people: you can make the Geeko of the KDE start menu roll its eyes again: kwriteconfig --file kickerrc --group General --key KickoffDrawGeekoEye true">

Today, after ten months of work, openSUSE has 10.3 been released. :-) Francis did an excellent coverage of everything new so let me just relist his Sneak Peeks: Greatly Improved Boot Time, with Stephan Kulow 1-Click Install, with Benjamin Weber New Package Management, with Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Compiz and Compiz Fusion, with Matthias Hopf and Jigish Gohil KDE 4, with Dirk Müller SUSE-Polished GNOME 2.20, with JP Rosevear 1-CD Installation & Multimedia support, with Michael Löffler Virtualisation, with Frank Kohler A Plethora of Improvements, with Andreas Jaeger More screenshots and more detailed version list are available in the wiki. Get it here. Read More

While the Plasma APIs have been in flux (and is beginning to settle down now). I went about implement displaying the wind speed in metres per second as requested by a KDE person. It converts mph to m/s or km/h to m/s. This will become a configuration option once the applet code is started. Read More

So, Akademy 2008 will be in Belgium! Yay \o/ ! Some of you might have known this already if you'd have read the planet closely (troy leaked it already...), but still I'm terribly excited to be able to say it officially :) After all, I've been asking about Akademy (the yearly KDE Developer's Conference+Hacking/BoF sessions+eV General Assembly) coming to Belgium for like 4 years already... The location will be the De Nayer Institute in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, and the pictures I saw of the building we'll be in look pretty awesome.

As you probably know, I work on KOffice. Have been doing that since before the first release and I did most of the (flake)libs and KWord work in the sprint to the upcoming Koffice2.0 release. Read More

Kubuntu Gutsy Beta is out. The upgrade from Feisty is under-tested so if you are running Feisty please follow the upgrade instructions and let me know how you get on. The other part which needs testing is Strigi, it has a nasty habit of using up lots of CPU and of course disk space, do try it out and let us know if it should be kept on by default. Read More

Howdy KStars fans, Just a quick note to let you know that we are now in BugKill mode: no more new features for 4.0, just polishing and bugfixes. Here's what KStars looks like these days: Read More

I like man pages. So today I wrote a little script called kdedoxyman.sh that uses doxygen to generate API Dox in man page format from our KDE source code. To use: % cd trunk/KDE/kdelibs % ../kdesdk/scripts/kdedoxyman.sh -d /path/to/kde/share [...Wait...] Read More

The Linux Foundation organizes this year's OpenPrinting Summit in Montréal. I will be there on Monday and Tuesday, trying to represent KDE.

Sometimes, usually on weekends, I award myself the luxury of checking websites that might have interesting stuff to read. Yesterday one of these sites has been Dell's IdeaStorm portal which probably all of you know because of the Ubuntu/Dell stories. Read More