KDE Blogs 

Today Cristian blogged about a (good) article on Linux.com dealing with label printing on Linux. But despite all the good info contained in that piece, there is an extremely disappointing aspect to it: that article misses to even mention in passing the leading application for printing labels on Linux. It is a KDE application. Its name is kbarcode. Their homepage has some enlightinging screenshots. It comes with a good documentation. Why, oh, why is it that some of the most shining gems that were grown in the KDE ecosystem do not enjoy any good visibility in the wider software world? And what's even worse: why do some not even have any visibility in the somewhat "inbreed" Open Source / Free Software szene?? Read More

While I have been a KDE developer for ages, this will be my first KDE conference and I am even one of the few lucky ones that had their talk proposal excepted :) Read More

Hi, well, imagine you find something in cmake which doesn't work or there is something missing. Now, luckily enough, cmake is Free Software, BSD licensed. So, you can just have a look at the sources, write a patch and send it to the cmake developers at cmake@cmake.org . Read More

If you develop like me, you will most likely have a lot of 'change source' 'compile' 'test' roundtrips. Each roundtrip will need a 'make install' to actually be able to see your changes. So, after we optimized linking by dumping libtool, installing is the place to look. In KDE4 we use cmake, and its slow on installing. See this bugreport. Apparently someone had the right idea to not install things twice, but for some reason that got implemented using a diff. So my 6Mb kwordprivate.so gets ready byte by byte and compared with the installed one. Ugh, that can't be fast if they are indeed the same. Read More

In this fairly long article I discuss my attempt to simplify file and device management in KDE, while avoiding some of the draw backs of the current media:/ io-slave. The Challenge Read More

Exactly one year ago Novell announced the openSUSE project to develop its Linux distribution, which is also the base for the Linux enterprise products, in an open way. I was one of the first to download Beta 1 of SUSE Linux 10.0, shortly after I switched the sides (btw there are several open jobs at SUSE in Germany). Read More

Those of you who are tired of battling with binary graphic driver blobs will be pleased to learn about Keith Packard's announcement today. The Intel® 965 Express Chipset represents the first product family that implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics. Read More

I have been feeling down for the last few days since saturday to be more exacts. First I got a fun call from a friend about his new project and once again he take me for granted, the problem is I have a really strong gut feeling against this project, I don't know what it is but something feels wrong about it ... anyway it's probably only my imagination ... Read More

I have updated the KDE VMware virtual machine which I have been offering for some months now. It now contains the SUSE KDE 3.5.4 packages installed on a SUSE Linux 10.1 base. Additionally the by default installed applications are updated to their current versions in the openSUSE Build Service and KOffice 1.5.2 is added. As said previously, don't forget to run YaST Online Update once in a while, or install the 'zen-updater' applet to be notified about updates. ;-) Read More

Red Hat is looking for a diverse group of people to take this survey entitled "what do you think of us?" What about your help?