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Here is something new (at least for me), a blog written in 30.000 feet over greenland. I'm going back to beautiful downtown Bridgeport Conecticut, for what hopefully will be my last stay with a customer. Heck when I return from the customer in about four weeks, then I've been hand holding them for a whole year. Read More

In the recent KDevelop dot interview I noticed a very astute comment by someone named borker: "One of the things I've loved about picking up Qt/KDE was how quickly you can make non-trivial applications, but I found learning Qt/KDE was a weird reverse... rather than writing code first and then learning the complexities of the build process later, as required, I found myself needing to come up to speed with the build process first and then write code. Not being overly familiar with the GNU tool chain didn't help speed up this process either. I found it to be a frustrating blocker to actually writing code and it wasn't helped by most of the available tutorials being great on coding advice but very slim on build advice, so when I wanted to go from 'hello world' to something a bit more 'real world' I ran smack into the build system and all my momentum died completely. Anything that could help a beginner like me out in the way of teach as you go type stuff would be great." -- link Read More

Hi. After few months of coding finally this sunday I have some thing to write about. in the new version of kbfx "Code named kbfxPlasma-kde3" but don't confuse this with KDE4/Plasma I have a good reason to call this plasma ( look here >>> http://www.kbfx.org/siraj/preview/test.htm"). yes..it's water effect with some coloring and which I think looks bit like plasma?, lets try to see what kind of new features are going to be available on kbfxplasma..so what's this Utility thing? well Kbfx now supports a data interface where it loads it's data from plugins..separating GUI from Data..and who is to credit for this amazing idea? well..it's our Aaron again! I thank him a lot for his Super duper idea! to make it real, we wrote the Whole KBFX from scratch..(from line one 10,000..(where it stands at this moment); Read More

One of the more unique features of Kubuntu is that it ships with a replacement for the standard KDE Control Center program, called systemsettings. Instead of using a tree in a sidebar on the left hand side of the window, systemsettings shows a large menu of grouped icons for the user to choose from. A lot of people like it (and some people don't), but pretty much everyone agrees that it can be improved even more. Read More

First of all; I'd like to say that CMake is a nice technology; its cross platform, and saves us from the braindead auto-tools, but most importantly it basically gets the job done. Read More

Strigi has reached the point that the configuration files for it should be more advanced than a text file with one directory per line. Because I have good experience with using XML Schema for mapping from XML to java and back using JAXB, I'd been looking for a good toolkit that does the same in C++. The requirements for such a tool are: Read More

Since everyone else is blogging on build systems today, I thought I'd join in. Overall CMake seems to be working out ok, but like anything else, it is not without its problems. One problem I had with it was fixed in the new release this weekend though - you no longer need to write: Read More

There are two basic settings for a mailinglist with regards to where replies go to. The one KDE uses is that replying goes to the list. An older standard is that replying goes to the person that send the mail. This distinction is very annoying to make each time you switch mailboxes. KMail already makes it easier for you by having a feature that a mailinglist can be associated with a folder. But that one is not very foolproof, and I like playing a fool when it comes to software :) For example; private emails I get normally go into my inbox, but I still need to archive them, so I move them to the mailinglist folder if they are appropriate. Pressing reply on such a mail will make kmail send my reply to the mailinglist. I already send some pretty embarrassing mails like that to publicly archived places. So, I don't use that feature anymore. Read More

Most graphics applications have a toolbox in one way or another. A floating window that contains a lot of tool buttons for, well, the tools in that application. Karbon was the first in KOffice to have one, Krita followed last year. KWord practically speaking already had one, but I personally saw the toolbar with 5 icons to insert new things never as such. Even while I was the one that made it stick to the left by default, its funny how that works. In KOffice 2.0 we plan to make the toolbox something that is used in all KOffice applications. Read More

In my cubicle at work, there is this dude (Hi Steve) who almost everyday complains that I never blog anything, so let me start doing that occationally from now on - I'm sure Steve will remind me :-) Read More