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An e-mail out of the blue and within an hour of a reply saying I liked the idea, Akademy is hosting the Text Layout Summit 2007. This will be a really exciting event for the specialist but important area of text layout. The one last year in Boston has an impressive list of attendees from Qt, Pango, KWord, DejaVu, fontconfig, Scribus and others. It'll be really great to have KDE developers mixing with those from other projects just as we will have on the Tuesday at the Edu and School Day. Register by Monday is you want us to book your accommodation. Read More

Just to keep you informed: the KDE sysadmin team is working on migrating our svn server to subversion 1.4. If you look for an howto on this you will find "dump and load" - aka svnadmin dump old | svnadmin load new. Nothing fancy. So I started this on my workstation (having had it pimped in april I thought it's good enough) and waited... 13 days. Now I need another day to load the revisions of that 13 days into the repository. Read More

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