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Long time since last blog post.. But i've been quite busy with KMobileTools 0.5 beta1 release. Pre-release time was a hell.. i had to rewrite the whole theme for the homepage (looks really good now, anyway :P ) and some new reference pages, since a lot changed since 0.4. But post-release was busy too: trying to get the best visibility as possible, writing here and there, but above all answering to all the emails, bug reports, and feedbacks. Well.. sometimes it's annoying, and it takes a lot of time, but hey.. we love our users :P Even if tired, i'm very satisfied by users interest, and so i was a bit more motivated than before on bugfixing. Now it's still a bit early for beta2, but seing a lot of code fixed, i feel it's not even too far... So just a polite reminder: beta1 has still old and annoying bugs, try current svn instead. I was also working with Marcin Przylucki for the Season of KDE project regarding mobile filesystems. We started with obex:/ protocol, rewriting it in place of kdebluetooth (outdated) one. It started working good, and it has also write support, now. Also, i implemented a more complex url syntax: obex://transport@device:port/ where transport can be Read More

So, after a long period of nagging by Cyrille and others, I finally got myself a blog. The idea is that I'll occasionally post something about a new Cool Krita Feature, or other stuff I might want to talk about. I think one of the first things I'll write about, once this gets syndicated on Planet KDE, will be the result of our SoC (ooh, suspense!).

The Formula One is more exciting than any since Hill retired. But to top this, RTL decided to field test new commercials during the "break" 10 gaps to go. In case you missed it, you should look at this - especially if you're male :) Read More

Wanna chat directly with other cmake users ? Ask questions ? Exchange your experiences ? Share your cmake scripts with others ? Let the world know how much you like cmake ? How it made you understand your buildsystem again ? How it brought the fun back to hacking ? And how it finally brought world peace ? ;-) Read More

There is an article over at linux.com which predicts that the Portland initiative will fail to reach its goal of "unifying the Linux desktop". Unfortunately the author somehow missed that "unifying the Linux desktop" is not the goal of Portland. Read More

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