KDE Blogs 

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

Feisty is available for download. Canonical's servers are going slow so use a mirror or bittorrent. Or, you can use the super new distribution upgrade tool, if you're up to date with edgy-updates you should find Adept pops up a prompt to upgrade to Feisty when you fetch updates. Must of the work in this release is behind the scenes with various apps ported to Qt 4. The new partitioner in the installer is a big improvement in reliability over QtParted. Network Manager by default is an equally big improvement over the old network app. Our OEM installer looks shiny and bling for all those machines due to be sold with Kubuntu on them, thanks to Abattoir. The Kubuntu help documentation has a big improvement in organisation, thanks to nixternal (who also did a smashing job on the release announcements). One of the smaller changes is setting Konqueror to use Firefox as the user agent for Google which makes GMail and Google Calendar suddenly fully functional. Stefan S turned up on IRC one day and wrote a funky new logout dialogue. There have been a number of small improvements to Adept, mostly to support the upgrader and to make us compliant with the universe-by-default spec, thanks to manchicken, Vladimir and others for that (there is a slight worry of branching too far from Adept trunk, so I want to merge back as soon as it's sane). Packages for KDE 4 are available as well as the latest CMake and Qt 4.3 beta (the -kdecopy packages). Guidance gets a funky Wine config module and improvements to the power manager, thanks to Sime, Sebas, Lure and Yuriy. Lots of work done by Tonio as usual including the new default kicker layout. Thanks also to Trueg who put up with me poking him about K3b 1.0, which we got included in time. We had some troubles with Qt and Chinese characters, which is why Qt 3.3.8 isn't in, (well spotted freeflying). Read More

As the result of a long discussion on kde-core-devel, I summarised the suggested application and system shortcuts for KDE4: Standard Keyboard Shortcuts About Shortcuts and Accelerators [The table isn't formatted yet - are there volunteers to make it look like these ones? I really hate tables in MediaWiki...] Read More

I found a nice name for my openSUSE-based KDE 4 Live CDs/DVDs: "KDE Four Live" - which has also spoken a nice second meaning. :-) It has been three weeks since the initial announcement, but still two weeks to go until KDE 4.0 Alpha 1, so I updated the DVD to another random SVN snapshot. The refinement and up-to-date keeping of the KDE4 packages in the openSUSE build service continues. A new KDE4 wiki page describes our goals, the packages and their usage. Read More

Some 18 months ago I decided that I wanted to upgrade from my desktop to a laptop. The machine was really slow, but the most important thing was that I intended to be able to travel with my main machine. So, I bought a really cool looking and pretty fast HP laptop. I didn't want to spent too much on a laptop and this one fitted the bill. Soon after I found that HP does not equal quality; the machine needed a bios upgrade, which actually came out some months before I bought it. But naturally I only found out after installing Linux on it and there is no way to upgrade then. The power supply has been replaced twice in those 1½ years and now the hinges broke so I use duct tape to keep the screen from separating from the machine. All in roughly 18 months. Hint; don't buy HP guys! Read More

As you may know, I bought myself a laptop, which I felt compelled to bring with me during my latest vacation to unload my digital camera and for the occasional late night hack. Read More