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So far, I've only accessed QObjects, slots and UI files, we need to do better to be able to do anything useful as the Qt 4 API has a lot of methods that aren't accessible that way. To do this, we'll use Javascript prototypes. A prototype is basically the object we can consider an instance to be 'cloned' from (philosophy people can think of it as the platonic ideal of the object) - from a purely implementation point of view, it's enough to know that it's the first place the interpreter will look for something that isn't implemented directly by an object. Read More

two days after the release of kbfx silk in which we try to simplify the backends and front ends, we got a nice comment on kde-look. actually this was really unexpected. Read More

The highlight of our Foton company Christmas party was playing with a Wii for the first time. We got one rigged up via a projector onto the wall, so there was a nice large image, and then put the sound through a little stereo so it had a bit of punch. The game we tried first was Wii tennis, and it was amazing to watch people moving around and using the controllers just like bats in a physical real world game. Read More

You think that you know every game that KDE ships? How about KNetWalk? It's a nice little game - not just for system administrators. The chance that you have it already installed is high, it's in the kdegames module! It entered SVN in May 2005, received bug fixes, got ported to KDE 4. But only the upcoming KDE 3.5.6 release will fix the biggest bug: the non-appearance of KNetWalk in the K menu. Have a nice play...

Here we are. Some people told me a blog would have been a nice idea, so let's try this adventure, I'm sure it will be fun :-) I'll talk about my KDE development, about okular, and of course about any other thing that I might want to talk about. It's my blog, isn't it? ;-) Of course, don't expect too much from me, as I'm not a so great talker like many other people around ;-) As a first entry, I'd like to thank the fantastic KDE community and all the people in it: the support you can get is great - thanks!

Today two Sun employees, Michal Pryc and Steven Xusheng Hou, published a comparison of four desktop indexers: Beagle, JIndex, Tracker and of course Strigi. The work is really extensive and is meant for Sun internally as well as feedback to the developers of the software. Read More

One year ago, some people from linaccess, barrierefrei kommunizieren, KDE Accessibility and Usability (including myself) passed a weekend on testing the usability of FLOSS accessibility solutions - you might remember our reports from the Accessibility meets Usability weekend. Among others, the Gnopernicus screen reader was usability tested by two blind users. Short after the test, the development of Gnopernicus was (at least partly) stopped for the benefit of Orca which relies on AT-SPI technology. Read More

Thomas Leonhard, author of Zero-Install, has written an excellent article about "Decentralised Installation Systems". I don't agree with every little detail of it, but it is definitely worth a read and worth some serious thoughts.

I decided to leak a far well-guarded secret. It is about quick'n'dirty-testing of font embedding in print files. Pay attention: I use kpdf as the KDEPrint "preview" application. By default, your system most likely uses kghostview. Read More

The Akademy 2007 call for papers is out. If you are doing something cool that's KDE or cross desktop related, this is for you. Don't think your project isn't important enough to contribute, it is. Doing a talk is not hard, and it's very satisfying, let us know what you're up to. Read More