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Something I read on aaron's blog just now struck a chord with me, and cut through my morning head haze nicely. We are the renaissance geeks. Some of the stuff we do is indescribably technical and abstract, but it all has the end of increasing general utility, that is, by letting people use their computers in ways that grow their happiness and productivity. Read More

On Friday I'll fly to Milan for the upcoming Oxygen coding sprint. The objective is to get the Oxygen style into shape so it can be imported into kdebase. There is a lot of work for us to do, but Nuno and David are there for the artistic side and Riccardo (ruphy) and I will be coding on the spot. In addition Thomas will try to be online as much as possible from his home. Read More

A couple of days ago I was hanging out on IRC, doing some work on a new Gui widget for KWord. Now, creating Guis is the most boring and annoying thing I can think of, hence the IRC. It still beats kpat as that is mouse-only and RSI is not on my wanted features list. Read More

For Google Summer of Code Sven Langkamp was assigned the project of adding different kind of selection visualisations for Krita 2.0. Being his mentor is very easy as already now before gSoc has even started officially he has completed 2 out of 3 items in the project description. Krita 2.0 is now capable of showing selections as: Read More

Adam Gierek's report on Innovation (INI/2006/2274: "Putting knowledge into practice: A broad-based innovation strategy for Europe") has been adopted in plenary this Thursday 24 May with amendments. The report is probably the largest document related to innovation since launching the "Lisbon Strategy" in 2002. One of the most interesting points for those who follow battle over standards and patents is a definition of open standard: Read More

With apologies to Public Enemy, but KDE has now got recognition of its usability, in that KDE 3 officially meets ISO 9241. We might not be the best at marketing it, but more and more people are finding out for themselves about KDE's goodness by picking it up themselves. Read More

I hope it surprises nobody that KDE 3.5.7 packages for openSUSE exist: the wiki has a guide how to upgrade. And in case that you belong to the 25% who accidentially installed another desktop ;-), a second guide explains how to install KDE. Thanks to Apokryphos for creating both.

I just ran into this video from a couple of weeks ago where Eben very eloquently puts the finger on why the Novell/MS deal is happening and how its bad business for Novell. Read More

When KWord 2.0 is to be released we expect it to be on top of Qt4.3 which is in beta right now. As you may know the new text engine for KOffice is based on the one in Qt, which is new in the 4 series. Naturally, the engine in Qt is not feature complete at all for all the complex stuff that an application suite like KOffice needs. Read More

Today Olaf published the second checklist in the scope of the HIG Hunting Session - it is about Text and Fonts. Just like last week, we ask users of the KDE 4 Alpha release to review applications along checklists and report infringements in the bug tracking system. More details in the weekly dot article! Read More