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Kurt promptly provided me with a nice surprise. There are(!) GUI (even KDE) applications that print labels. But... what's in a name! I know about KBarCode since long (and, being old, don't remember exactly since when). But given all the bar-code centered information in all descriptions I've put my eyes on in relation to it, and given my lack of interest in bar-codes presently (and in the past), it's, IMO, not a surprise that I didn't know it did labels. Read More

If you, like me, have trouble with slower reading text lacking capital letters, but still want to be up to date with all that buzz, there are good news: "Deaaronify" service has been started :0) Read More

KDE Remote Desktop Connection now has a roadmap for KDE4 development. We still have a lot of work to do (well, just about everything on the roadmap :-)), but at least we have a plan for what that work is going to be. Read More

For the Kubuntu Power Management spec I've made a new power management applet. This is a fairly simple frontend to HAL's power management features and replaces the ageing klaptopdaemon (the alternative kpowersave already duplicated much of what was in HAL). Thanks to Sebas for starting this off. Read More

I use linux since 1994. I pride myself into thinking I know well what kind of tool linux can be. I am accustomed with (and get quite thrilled about) the notion that I will learn something new every day of my life, right until the last one. Read More

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