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I did a presentation on compositing managers at the local LinuxExpo last week. Using kwin_composite for demonstrations. And KWin actually did its job quite fine (although it had taken quite some effort to get it there, with KWin being almost ready for it for more than a week). What did somewhat worse was the human factor - having more than 20 shortcuts wasn't a very good idea and failing to show the final and best feature because the bloody modifier was supposed to be Ctrl was a bit embarrassing. Oh well. C'est la vie. The good thing is that there are more things to show. Read More

Ubuntu Open Week is happening again with lots of interesting talks and Q & A sessions with la creme de Ubuntu developers. Tomorrow at 21:00 UTC (and again on Thursday) imbrandon tells us all about Kubuntu and how you can help out with the groovyest distro around. Read More

New KDE Four Live CDs are online. The last week unmentioned problem with squashfs which led me to uploading a "DVD.iso" is history, now you can get the same content of a typical desktop setup in a 477MB ISO. Additionally I wanted to produce a DVD which contains all the kde* modules and koffice: to my surprise the ISO stayed within CD size with just 655MB. I guess the effort to have a more lean base system and patterns available in openSUSE 10.3 already pays off. So this time there are two CDs flavors available and no DVD. :-)

The first KMail hacking day is coming to a close. It has been a fun time -- working with many oldtime PIMsters and several new contributors as well. I noticed that KOrganizer was getting a little attention too. Read More

I've just got hello world working with the KDE4 version of the ruby korundum bindings. Here's what it looks like: require 'korundum4' aboutData = KDE::AboutData.new( "tutorial1", "Tutorial 1", "1.0", "KMessageBox popup", KDE::AboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" ) KDE::CmdLineArgs.init(ARGV, aboutData) app = KDE::Application.new guiItem = KDE::GuiItem.new( "Hello", "", "this is a tooltip", "this is a whatsthis" ) KDE::MessageBox.questionYesNo( nil, "Hello World", "Hello", guiItem ) Read More

This weekend we PIMsters are having a virtual meeting on #kontact; hopefully to give a lot of love to KMail for a potential KDE 4.0 release. Most of the KDE PIM applications are in dire need of attention and, in their current state, have almost no hope of being part of a KDE 4.x release. Read More

Lessons for Lizards is a community cookbook-style book project for openSUSE which started a few months ago (FOSDEM presentation). Most of the current articles deal with system adminstration, but there are also already two about KDE: "KDE Configuration for Administrators" and "Customizing KDE". Keep it growing! :-)

Just some minutes ago the next generation of SuperKaramba got Ruby support. That means, you are able to use Python and Ruby to write your karamba's now. To try it out, fetch+install latest kdelibs, kdebindings/ruby/krossruby, kdeutils/superkaramba and run the Ruby clock sample with superkaramba --usekross clock.theme Read More

A surprisingly large number of people seem to think that being in the EU means you can wander around everywhere without a passport. This alas is not so with the British Isles. You can not get in on the strength of one of those pink bits of cardboard with a photo pritt-sticked on top that the Germans call a drivers licence. Your laminated piece of paper that is an identity card will not suffice. If you are going to Debconf, Akademy, Guadec, Python UK or any of the other conferences happening on our archipelago this year and you are not coming from the UK or Ireland make sure you sign up for a passport toot sweet. Read More

On SUSE Linux 10.1 it was required, on openSUSE 10.2 you can deselect it during installation, for openSUSE 10.3 it was planned to be made an optional install but yesterday Andreas Jaeger announced: Read More