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Hi everyone! Since yesterday our Marble Project has got a new mailing list for people who are interested in helping us to develop and promote Marble (and of course for people who use Marble to develop applications). If you're interested in signing up on marble-devel@kde.org you are invited to do so here . If you want to join us on IRC, choose #kde-edu on freenode!

klik developers are looking for one or more volunteer(s) to create (and possibly maintain) VMWare images that can be used with VMWare player (and possibly other 'virtualized OS' players) for klik bundle development and testing. Read More

I've been meaning to blog for a while, and finally managed to get there. I'd like to start off by pointing out the awesome work done by Urs Wolfer on Krdc (or KRDC, if you prefer) as his Google Summer of Code project. I sometimes wonder if it might not deserve a new name given how much new code has gone into it. If you didn't catch it, I definitely recommend reading last weeks Commit Digest for a description of the changes and some nice screen shots of the new user interface. Read More

My last blog outlining some of the upcoming klik2 goodness has attracted some rather surprising readers -- and even seems to have inspired some to do their own brainwork and come up with ideas how to implement the base paradigm of "1 application == 1 file" even more elegantly, and with less dependencies. Read More

Like many other things, okular used the sidebar KPDF had, adding tabs with new stuff (like the Review pane and the Bookmarks panel). Now, the problem is that the implementation for these sidebars was all but a real solution. In the past, and especially yesterday, our usability expert Florian pointed me the issues of it. Read More

I'll show you the current mount table of my openSUSE notebook: 02:25 lnx5000:~ > mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) /dev/hdc on /media/InfoStream7.5.00 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8) fusecram on /tmp/app/4/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/5/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/6/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/7/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/8/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/9/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/10/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/11/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/12/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/13/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/14/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/15/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fusecram on /tmp/app/16/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/17/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/18/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/19/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/20/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) fuseiso on /tmp/app/21/mnt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kurt) You wonder what these 21 mounts, using fusecram and fuseiso are? It's how my current testing environment of klik2 technology looks like. Read More

...or: Why has no consumer distro been providing updated packages for Ghostscript for more than a year? It's been more than a year that artofcode LLC and its lead developer, Raph Levien have revealed that bleeding egde Ghostscript will no longer be AFPL licensed, but will switch its Subversion-held development tree to the GPLv2 license. Read More

Ok, 22 days after, the bag is back ! All stuff inside, no damage at all, just the bag itself with some scratches. Interesting thing in that clearly luggage was open and all things changed position, even things that was inside a necessaire, like a deodorant, was drop on bag, and necessaire was still closed :-) I will not complain about the scratches on the bag, i had enough stress about whole thing last weeks, i'm happy enough to have all things back with me. Case closed !!

My freshly installed kde4-okular package (grabbed from the openSUSE build service repository, using the 'smart' package management tool) seems to be without PDF support. It doesn't even display PDFs for selection in the FileOpen dialog. Cheating the filter line, by entering *.pdf makes the files show up -- but open they don't ("unsupported format"). Read More

Here it is, KDE 4.0 beta 1. Finally. I won't describe all the new features this beta comes with, as there are better people (random example) able to speak at least 10 times than what i would be able to do :-P Read More