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Just one more day (till tonight midnight), and the KPhotoAlbum splash screen contest is over. I am truely impressed with the amount and quality of submissions. Have a look at http://www.kphotoalbum.org/splashscreen.htm Read More

Why is it so complicated to walk on stopped escalators? Is it because it feels like walking back in time? Or are the riffle telling the feed not to move? Or is just because you're loosing your rythm? I don't know - fact is: most people I watch avoid stopped escalators if there is a normal staircase next to it.

After more than two months of frantic development, a new Strigi release is available. This release has so many desirable features that you cannot help but upgrade. The numbering (0.3.8) is leading up to 0.4.0 which will be released around the time of Akademy. There I hope to start working on KDE4 integration. Read More

On the #qtruby IRC channel kelko thought up a simple way of adding blocks as targets to Qt::connect() calls. After some more discussion rickdangerous suggested also adding a simple method that would work like 'signal_connect()' in ruby-gnome, which just takes a single signal name argument and a block. I've just added the code to both the Qt3 and Qt4 versions of QtRuby. There are three variants that allow you to replace the usual SLOT(:foobar) with a block. Read More

From time to time I do a fresh trunk compile to entertain myself on the logs (as I have no time to do real development at the moment). So this is the top list of warnings about deprecated functions: Read More

I think this doesn't require too much words. ;-) PS: She is a girl. ;-) PS2: And the texts are in Hungarian...

I found Celeste's recent post interesting as it took to breaking out the different tasks that are currently lumped under the menu. As I read it, I found myself stepping a bit further back and rephrasing the tasks as questions. Here's they are, in blather-rific format, in hopes that they may serve as a bit of food for thought: Read More

How to make a chouimat Ingredients: 3 parts competetiveness 5 parts crazyiness 1 part leadership Method: Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add fitness to taste! Do not overindulge! Read More

This was actually supposed to be a follow-up to my tests of startup performance of various desktop environments, primarily KDE of course :). In fact I even did most of the benchmarks some time after the startup ones, but, alas, I'm much better at writing things that computers are supposed to read than at writing things that people will read :-/ (some volunteer to write good user documentation for KWin's window specific settings, BTW ;) ?) I even meant to make a somewhat more extensive analysis of the numbers, but having never found time to write that, I decided I should publish at least a shorter variant with all the numbers and some conclusions. You can do your own analyses of the numbers if you will. Read More

This is a small blog about layer masks, so that Sander can hopefully use it for the documentation (documentation, yay!). Basically, a layer mask is a mask that you place on your paint layer. This will literally mask areas of the layer, so that the content underneath shows through. You can paint on it with greyscale colors: the more black the color, the less the layer under it will shine through, the more white, the less the layer under it will be shown. So complete white will let nothing through, complete black will let everything through. Basically, it's a bit like selecting a piece of your image, and then cutting it, so that the selected bits go away. So what is the use for a mask here? The big advantage is that it is non-destructive: if you decide that you masked out the wrong part of your layer, you can easily remove the mask and start anew, something a lot harder (not to say near impossible, especially in between sessions) with regular selection-cutting. Read More