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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

The 17th of this month was a historic day. The US President has now acquired un-controlled, despotic powers. Everybody can be declared "an unlawful enemy combatant". Everybody! US inhabitant or not. Innocent or not. Without ever seeing a judge or a court. Just because the President deems so. And if that happens, you'll be defenseless against torture. Because that's is now legal too. The bill has been rubber-stamped by the Congress, with only minimal opposition by some democrats. Read More

The Kubuntu Edgy Release Candidate is out. After Ubuntu added f-spot we couldn't be outdone and added Digikam to the default CD for camera goodness. We also upped KDE to 3.5.5. Read More

It's about time: my photos from aKademy are online. :) With aKademy being over for over two weeks already and the next aKademy in Glasgow already announced that's long overdue. There are not many KDE-related pictures in there because I didn't carry my camera with me during the first few conference days. I tried to compensate at the end by taking pictures of Aaron Seigo handing over the big Konqi to Marcus Furlong to thank him for organizing this excellent aKademy. Read More

Few OSS projects have a distinct usability community - and even in large projects like KDE and Gnome there is only a fistful of trained usability contributors. Why so? For an article which will be published in the German Open Source Yearbook 2007, I spent the last weeks comparing and analysing usability efforts in different OSS projects. Here are my top-four factors influencing usability in OSS: Read More

The secret is lifted and Akademy 2007 will be in Glasgow, organised by me and Kenny. We'll be holding it earlier than previous Akademies, hopefully that means we'll be able to get some students from the US who haven't been able to attend before. We had our first local team meeting last week and it's very exciting to have a bunch of enthusiastic helpers. With debconf in Edinburgh and Guadec in England this means we'll have the three largest free software projects having their conferences in Britain next year, an exciting trend (and even cooler, two of them are run by Quakers). Now the fun starts of opening bank accounts and organising a conference, anyone who wants to help with sponsors especially welcome. Read More

One picture tells the whole story: (link) Big thanks to the friendly KOffice team, in particular to Cyrille who deals with the time-consuming tasks related to the release! Kexi's going to jump from 1.1 to 2.0 version next time, so even the version numbers will be synced among KOffice apps. Read More