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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

Following the call to ask for maintainers for those applications that do not have one, here is a post requesting maintainer for two applications from the KDEWebDev module. The first one is KImageMapEditor, the HTML image map editor application that can be embedded in Quanta Plus or used as a standalone application. It has only a few open bugs, and some automatic porting was done for KDE4, but requires more work. It was basicly not maintained through 3.5.x cycle, aside of keeping it working. The second is KFileReplace that has a wider target audience, and this fact shows up also in the number of open bugs. It is not web developer specific application, but it found a home in our module, mostly because I took over his maintainership after it was abandoned on SourceForge and we found it to be useful. It suffered a rewrite during KDE 3.4 and 3.5 and got several enhancements (thanks Emiliano), but it needs a new maintainer now. The biggest job is to go away from using processEvents which causes nothing but trouble. Using threads or at least timers would be much better. Both applications need an updated homepage as well. Anyone interested in these apps should contact me or us at the Quanta developer list. Read More

It didn't take long from me setting up my RSS reader til KPhotoAlbum's news section could be read using such a guy, Now point your RSS reader at http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news.rss