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Charles Nutter writes in his blog The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. Our charge? You guessed it...we're being hired to work on JRuby full-time. Read More

After being a bit disappointed that Bluez-utils 3.x simply doesn't accept old pin-helpers, like kbluepin from kdebluetooth, i thought about the best solution for this. Of course, we should develop a new pin helper, which can communicate with bluez over dbus.. and with kde4 supporting dbus it will be very easy.. but in the meantime, you can enjoy this patch. It modify the standard pin agent, so that, instead of giving it the pin as argument, you can give it the path of the pin-helper to execute. I'm using it in the new version of the live cd of kmobiletools. Hope you like it!

In KOffice 2.0 (based on Qt4/KDE4) we long ago decided to remove the old text engine and base our new one on scribe which is a part of Qt4. This looks like a simple job; but there are a lot of features an application like KWord needs that are not supplied by Qt. An example of this is numbering paragraphs. That is, Qt supports simple numbered paragraphs, but not nested and certainly not with all the features that the OpenDocument Format specification supplies. Read More

openSUSE 10.2 Alpha 4 has been released and it includes the new Kickoff start menu for KDE: As you can see we changed some things because of the usability tests performed with the prototype: some users didn't find the search functionality, so we made it appear more prominent. Users didn't use the built-in menu help, so we removed it completely. Users didn't discover "Lock Screen" on the main slab so we moved it into the "Leave" tab and decided to put additionally the lock/lockout applet by default into the right panel corner. The "All Applications" browser gained an all-columns back button for easier browsing. Read More

... for the Germans around, especially Berlin-based ones: Call for Papers and Participation - WUD Berlin 2006 2nd World Usability Day (WUD) 2006 in Berlin ZIELSTELLUNG Dieses Jahr findet zum zweiten Mal der weltweite "World Usability Day" unter dem Motto "Making life easy" statt. Von den Veranstaltungen in über 70 Städten war der Berliner WUD im Jahr 2005 mit mehr als 100 Besuchern ein großer Erfolg. Read More

This evening I ported a widget I wrote with HTML and javascript to Qt 4.2. I wrote this widget last year. It can show a timeline into which you can zoom by scrolling the mousewheel. This is useful for a number of things like calendar information, browsing files by creation date or size and as shown in this application, for looking at SVN commits. Read More

A left handed person asks on Slashdot about the difficulty of using a touch screen when the scrollbars are on the right hand side. When Alan Kay and others developed the original WIMP interface at Xerox PARC in the 1970s their systems always had the scrollbar on the left. For some reason Apple chose to move the scrollbar to the right, and everyone else, except NeXT just copied them. Read More

This blog is the first of a new series which goal is to make the world a better place using laughter ... so here today's joke :D Bill Clinton is placed against the wall, and just before the order to shoot him is given, he yells, "Earthquake!" The firing squad falls into a panic and Bill jumps over the wall and escapes in the confusion . Read More

A few weeks ago, I complained about the possibilities to align and group elements when designing KDE dialogs with Designer. But in order to make Designer better meet our requirements, we first have to define what KDE dialogs should look like: We need to define guidelines. Read More