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This week openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4 has been released. As previously announced it doesn't contain ZMD anymore. From my point of view the inclusion of first KDE4 packages and the installation of four KDE4 games in the default KDE selection is more exciting. :-) Another interesting application you may want to install and try is Dolphin/KDE4. With Alpha 5 we should have all KDE4 modules in Factory. Until then has the KDE:KDE4 build service project all modules available (and in atm two weeks newer version than included in Alpha 4). Read More

KDE is moving from X11 only to be a good citizen on Windows and Mac Os X. For those who like to code on Mac Os X, here's a bit of good news for you: icecream in KDE trunk now supports Mac Os X machines as compile servers. This means that compile jobs can be distributed between Mac Os X machines with the same Xcode version. And if somebody goes the extra mile to make a Linux-Mac cross compiler, even between Linux and Mac Os X nodes. Read More

After a discussion followed by someone renaming a class in subversion; 10:54 < b> ok this discussion has lasted long enough -do as you think best 10:55 < Thomas> yeah, I'm going to paint my next bikeshed purple with yellow spots of varying diameters ;) 10:55 < i> Thomas: OMG! Pics! 10:55 < Thomas> LOL! Read More

(warning, lame marketing attempt following) I am happy to report that Wengo (the company I work for) has finally released version 2.1.0 of the WengoPhone, a GPL licensed, Qt4 based, cross-platform softphone featuring SIP based VoIP, multi protocol IM support (thanks to libgaim libpurple), SMS sending, PSTN calls and much more. Read More

As some might have noticed GMail was updated this morning. As usual this broke the standard view Konqueror, but only if you use the recommended method of spoofing as Firefox. Read More

Thanks to help from danimo, I've grabbed techbase's nice MediaWiki Oxygen web skin and turned it into a regular KDE web/news site skin in Poland (the result: kde.org.pl, dot article). What means that unlike on techbase, which is aimed at more collective editing, kde.org.pl has left hand menu as well wiki tools are accessible and visible only for logged-in users. So it is more like kde.org. Read More

Once in a while we had an interesting pool about the Preferred Scripting Language where the result showed something of a concensus that Python and Ruby are the primary preferred scripting languages (from within those small list of possibilities the pool offered). Read More

People like clowns, they are funny! A clown figure is the image of a very clumsy person, sometimes even stupid. They wear oversized clothes, huge shoes and have ridiculous makeup. They do things way too stupid for normal people to even consider, their jobs is to be whereever there is a need to from someone to laugh about. Read More

Who doesn't want to enjoy the good things in life longer? I'm talking of course about the battery life in your laptop. Intel released PowerTOP this week, a power monitoring tool for Linux. PowerTOP helps you identify which processes on your system keep your processor from going to deeper sleep states. Deeper sleep states consume less power and make your battery charge last longer. Visit www.linuxpowertop.org and give it a try!

In between porting some of my older KDE 3 C++ over to Python and Qt/KDE 4, and also fixing some bugs in Guidance, I've had a little play around with QtJambi. QtJambi is Trolltech's new bindings generator and bindings for using Qt4 on Java. Or to be more accurate I should say that the bindings are for the Java Virtual Machine, and not just for programs written in the Java language. One of the interesting features about VMs is that they don't have to be tied to a single programming language. You can run all sorts of different languages on the Java VM or the .NET / Mono VM. Now, one of the not just interesting, but really /cool/ features of VMs is you usually don't need huge slabs of binding code if you want one language to call code written in another, provide both languages are running on the VM itself. To put it simply: you can use QtJambi with a whole swag of different languages that run on the Java VM. Here is a little example of the Qt analog clock example written some other weird and wacky language: (anyone know which?) Read More