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The splash screen contest started yesterday just got more exciting. You now have the chance of winning $100. see contest info

I wanted to write down my experience with how good KDevelop 3 is for KDE4 development since a long time, but never had the time for it. I used it since I started to work on KDE4 porting, and I can say that it is usable with some shortcoming and rough edges. First of all you have to use the upcoming KDevelop 3.4, not the latest stable release. This is an improved version of KDevelop 3.3.x, with big changes in debugging - it is supposed to work better with Qt4, but there are some issues left - and autocompletion. It also has better cmake support, which is important for KDE 4 development. The KDevelop 3.4 can be found at /home/kde/branches/kdevelop/3.4 in the KDE subversion repository. Once you have it you have to generate a KDE 4 project file for it. I use as an example an existing project, namely Quanta which is in kdewebdev module. So check out kdewebdev from trunk and run cmake in the source directory by specifying the -G KDevelop3 option, which will generate a KDevelop3 project file. I use the following cmake command: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path_to_kde4_install_dir -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull path_to_source_dir -G KDevelop3 Read More

Today Christoph Moseler managed to push me over the edge. Several times people have complained that the KPhotoAlbum splash screen was a combination of ugly, ugly and non relating to KPhotoAlbum. So far I've managed to tell people to go and take a hike, but today I gave up :-) Read More

Since I'm on a blogging kick, here we go again: There's a hard balance in the Open Source world in answering "I'm interested in...but where do I start?" mails. I think one thing that invariably people that write them don't realize is that you're doing really good if 10% of those turn into contributors. 10% actually sounds way too high. 2% is probably closer. Actually, thinking about it, I've probably written a few hundred of those and I can only think of maybe 3-4 that translated to patches coming in. Read More

After having worked the whole week with an icecream farm at Rob's place, I couldn't cope with the fact that my other pcs (two older linux machines, one windows macine) are mostly idle... So I started the creation of a "OpenSuSE 10.1 Icecream Slave Live-CD" (nice name eh ;-) Read More

As previously blogged, openSUSE 10.2 will have a redesigned KDE start menu created by the KDE and usability team at SUSE, after doing usability testing with other start menus. We now have a working prototype, code-named 'Kickoff' (started during world soccer championship, obviously), which is currently being tested with real users in the SUSE usability lab. At aKademy 2006 in Dublin, Coolo will give a Start Menu Research talk about what we learned during this project. Also, we are preparing a web-page to document our research. Click on the screenshot for the whole Kickoff sneak preview experience: Read More

While my account on kdedevelopers.org exists for quit a long time, I just got the feeling that it may an idea to blog a bit about the progress done lately on Kross, the scripting framework and in what direction it moves with kde4. Read More

We had a KSVG meeting last week, I made a small report here: http://www.rwlbuis.nl/photos/ksvgmeeting/

Reposted from the Dot: Didn't knew about that. On the other hand its still the only information that looks relevant. The official kde.org site does not give any hint on the status of neither Kat, nor Tenor; the latest information I found is dated 2005. SVN activity is at a low level (latest update 4 month ago). Read More

This week I'm at the Ubuntu distro sprint in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt. If you're in the area do drop by and say hi.