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The best description I ever had about technical people was this sentence: Technical people find it completely satisfactory to reply to any statement a single sentence: "That's false!". But this yes/no type of communication was not what I was aiming at with the subject. Its about being able to discuss subjects in the digital realms. Typically email and IRC. Read More

Current kwin_composite branch can finally do some simple effects. The obligatory screenshot: [image:2493 size=original] (I'm good at impressive screenshots, am I not?) This screenshot shows the animation for a newly appearing KWrite window. This time no manual hacking in of the effect, this is what is in SVN. The window is smaller because ScaleInEffect makes the new window appear as scaling up to its size and it is transparent because FadeInEffect makes the new window appear as fading in. And just in case anybody wonders why the animation is not moving in the picture, then that's of course because it is just a picture. I admit it is somewhat dull that way, but I haven't figured out how to do better (well, I didn't trying that hard, anyway). There is the source if you want to see it for real. Read More

I've seen it before, but yesterday the thought stroke me: What use does the condom box outside of the laundromat next to the Hauptmarkt have? I have my theory (and the single student in the laundromat in my neighbourhood that looked as if she was bored and open for a chat kind of proved it), but I ask myself: is it really justifying such an open box? After all you might appear pretty needy if you go outside and buy a couple :) Read More

The Open document format is meant as a specification that is open for everyone to see, use and expand upon for now and for a hundred years in the future. That is its main goal and its succeeding in that goal admirably. Especially governments love that principle which breaks the chains of vendor dependency. Read More

Thanks to Dmitry, the KMail in the $SVN/branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+ branch now can do Custom Templates. Look in the KMail configuration, under the Composer page where you'll see a "Custom Templates" tab. Read More

I just stood back and watched in awe today. Bug Squashers from all over the world came to the rescue of the PIM developers on #kde-bugs. Over 100 bugs gone. Wow! The Bug Triage Days are a fantastic idea and a wonder to behold. Read More

The recent couple of distro release posts on the Dot touch a nerve with me. One could say that publicity is all good - after all, don't we in KDE want the world to know how many quality distributions include KDE? Read More

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