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This morning my phone was really busy ... each time it was the same person asking for the local computer shop ... and each time I told her that it was the wrong number. But here the fun begin ... Read More

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In Linux land we have an awful lot of choice in distro's. Choice is good as it ensures you have a better chance of getting exactly what you want. In something as big as a linux distro (more often then not it ships man CDs worth of data) I feel that the effects are not helping people out anymore. Choosing your distro is just based on too many things. How hard is it to upgrade packages? Can you upgrade in a year time? Is the directory structure easy to understand? How easy is it to maintain your hardware? Is all the hardware supported? And on the other side of the spectrum you have security patches and package management philosophies. Most people don't look at that when choosing a distro, but in my experience there is something wrong with each distro I saw. And I bet its because the different distros don't steal enough from each other. Stealing package tweaks from other distros because they give a better user experience is a good thing. Read More

In today's exciting episode of "The KDE-PIM Features Branch" we have Monur's KMail tagging patch that "...introduces custom tagging support for emails..." Johnathan's KMail Templates patch "...There is a new special folder "templates"; messages can be copied into here just like any other, or saved here using the 'Message - Save as Template' menu option in the composer window. This folder works similarly to the "drafts" folder; double-clicking on a message or choosing the "Use Template" option on the popup menu starts the composer on a copy of that message, but does not of course delete the original template message..." From me, in the Kontact Summary: - Appointments RMB menu to Edit and Delete - To-Dos RMB menu to Edit, Delete, or Mark Completed Find all these goodies in $SVN/branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+. Read More

In the scope of OpenUsability's GIMP student project we are planning a usability activity in Berlin between October 31st and November 2nd. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the every day work of professional graphic artists, web and icon designers. We'd like to visit you at home or in your accustomed work environment, ask some questions and watch you do your usual tasks. All in all, this is not going to take longer than 2 hours. Read More

I just could not stand it anymore. I had to have new features in KDE-PIM. So now we have $SVN/branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+. For those who want to play/test you'll find that KMail has templates (thanks to Dmitry) and the Kontact summary is getting some love. I hope some proko2 features also make their way into this branch. No telling when these features (and others I hoping to add) will make their way into the official KDE 3.5.x releases.

Most development I do lately is not directly visible in KDE's source repository, but rather development for other projects connected to or interface with KDE. Since I am a Debian user, a very happy one :), I am following the debian-qt-kde mailinglist, to know about issues our Debian packagers might encounter. Sometimes this requires just adding some information to a bug report, sometimes it requires doing some research in bug tracking systems and code respositories and sometimes it requires coding. Read More

Do you use find? Of course you do, everybody uses it -- often. It's a nice and quick program for finding files on your disk. A downside to find is that it does not list files embedded in other files like .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, email attachments, and other files. Now there is a version of find that does exactly this. It's called deepfind. Read More

Here it is. I finally found the time to set up a quick survey regarding Gwenview usage. Your participation is greatly appreciated! Gwenview survey

I used to use my trusty original Macintosh in the 80s to learn new programming languages. Every year or two I'd get some a Mac version of something like Lightship Scheme, Allegro Object Logo or AlphaPop Pop-11 and a few books about them, and then work my way through learning stuff. One of my favourites was a nice GUI version of Ralph Griswold's Icon programming language. I was sad to read on LtU that he has recently died. Read More