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I have been quite sucessfull with my secondary development projects this week. The problem of the KDE packages in Debian has been fixed, thanks to the swift response of Fathi Boudra. Read More

I like how the dot article stresses Kubuntu as the perfect platform for KDE4 development. While I can't say much about it (only knowing that David spreads his "install that list of packages to make kubuntu useful" txt file to everyone complaining about broken compilations while SUSE had a "KDE Development" selection since about forever) I'm relieved that the dot article did not touch openSUSE's position as the perfect platform to use KDE. Read More

As we (Dmitry and Johnathan) work out the new templates bugs and use cases, I decided to apply a patch provided by Jason Keirstead from more than 1.5 years ago that would satisfy one of our most requested KMail features: HTML Signatures. Read More

Kubuntu Edgy has been released, download it now! Thanks to nixternal for the pretty release announcement. With this release our community continues to grow, with great power management work from Sebas and Lure. Sime shuffled around System Settings for the usability review done by el. Read More

openSUSE 10.2 Beta 1 has been announced marking the begin of the feature freeze. The release schedule btw fits this time nicely with many upstream releases: we have Kernel 2.6.18.1, X.Org 7.2rc1, KDE 3.5.5, KOffice 1.6, Firefox 2.0 Final, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Final, Python 2.5 and PHP 5.2rc on board (other changes). cups 1.2.5 is ready for late inclusion in Beta 2. When openSUSE 10.2 will be released in early December a 2 year lifetime will begin, months more than other free distributions offer. Read More

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