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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

It looks like one of the recurrent problems of people using KDEPrint's more advanced features is with "number-up" printing, combined with "print duplex when I have a simplex printer" (yes, you can turn the stack of paper round and feed it a second time through the printer; hope and pray it doesn't munch it). This then piles up like here: Read More

Yes..the moment we release KBFX slik is down to hours. and we are working on the release and .getting the packages ready for you to download and install . and to give you a hands on experience of some things KDE4 plasma can bring you. While we finish up the work over here. we have a written a small booklet for you to read, about the up coming release . You can download the booklet in PDF format => KBFX Read More

Since many of you already noticed the lack of subversion updates, and also of the homepage too, i guess i should write it here too. Yes, development is currently suspended (again). I've some university exams until 15/02/2007, so probably there will be no more updates until then. I must anyway tell you i'm quite disappointed. After all these years, kmobiletools still is a one-man project. It's shameful in my point of view that if someone is busy, for study, work, real life, or (why not) a girlfriend, the entire project freezes. Even if i'm studying, i'm still here to encourage and give some references to a brave developer, so there's no point in totally stopping development. Also some time ago i received some mobile phones kindly donated (look here), so there's also this resource available. It's open source: no secret development, no private servers.. everything is on the public kde svn, so why not keeping an eye on it? So this is the point: i'll be back soon, but in the meantime, try thinking on helping this project too. Read More