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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

Some of you may have heard already that I am moving on from SourceXtreme, Inc. Due to the stress of being involved as a partner in a small company I decided to set it aside for a while so I could concentrate on my mental health and KDE development again. Read More

In KWord the main library is called kwordprivate. So doing a recompile after changing something inside of kword cmake has this nice gem: make kwordprivate/fast install/fast Works nice in general, except for this fantastic dependency problem: Read More

LWN has a very interesting article summing up Michael Meeks' work on improving shared libraries loading as a part of his work to improve OpenOffice.org startup times (his paper linked from the article is worth reading as well). And the dynsort and hashval optimizations that improve the data used while dynamically linking are finding their way into glibc as the --hash-style option. Read More