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Wow, it's been a long time since my last blog entry, exactly 10 weeks and 4 days... A brief summary of the last weeks would be: a great time at a couple of talks (at the 802.party in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz and at the Technological Park of Málaga), some great time working on the digikam-web interface and related things, and boring time being until late at work (my advice: don't have anything to do with gsoap). Fortunately, today I've started my holidays :) and although usually I would use that time to develop something, this year I'm going to travel with some friends around Spain, so I guess I'll have little internet access from next Saturday on. Read More

KDE 3.5.4 was released today and the openSUSE Build Service has unsupported rpms of it: SUSE Linux 10.1 YUM repository (32bit and 64bit) SUSE Linux 10.0 YUM/YaST repository (32bit and 64bit) SUSE Linux 9.3 YUM/YaST repository (32bit and 64bit) Btw, we need more mirrors of the Build Service repositories. Please read how to mirror and get in contact with ftpadmin@opensuse.org if you are able to help. Read More

I just got a spam call from some telemarketers called Eurointerview who are based in Germany. They seem to think that because they're not in the UK the telephone preference service doesn't apply to them, and presumably that because they're calling the UK the German laws don't apply either. If anyone has any spare junk mail they don't want they could give it to them at: EuroInterview GmbH, Hansestraße 69, 48165 Muenster, Germany. Phone: +49 (0) 2501-968-0, Fax: +49 (0) 2501-968-190, E-Mail: info@eurointerview.com.

We have founded yet another KDE project over at the openSUSE Build Service. It's called KDE:Playground (SUSE Linux 10.1 repo view). Its purpose? To allow the SUSE developers to test development versions like the current Beta releases of Amarok, Basket, Digikam and Gwenview. You can even find today's KOffice 1.6 Alpha in there (until now only 10.1/i586 rpms built, 10.0 rpms [without Krita] will follow).

We have a new "pass-by-value" check in Krazy written by Andreas. It is the first plugin written in C++ (and not perl). And it requires Qt4. So, we had to do a bit of tweaking of things on the EBN. Seems to be working well. Read More

So I created work/konsole4-ui to work on porting Konsole to XMLGUI (and LiveUI?). I'm also using as a test area for some ideas and code cleanup. So far so good, I got the session menus to work. The shortcuts are an issue I have to look into again. Things will be much better when I can actually run KDE4 so I can test session managment, config files, etc... Read More

With the release of Trolltech's java bindings it kinda feels like Christmas. I wanted to point out some more presents under the tree... Look closely at the dockwidgets on the right of the image. See that? Recent versions of Qt 4.2 snapshot include a new Ideal like feature. When you drag a dockwidget completely on top of another an Ideal like tabbed bar is created. This is done entirely within Qt and any application which uses QMainWindow will have this functionality. Pretty cool, eh? :) Read More

After the schedule some days ago now also the abstracts for this year's upcoming KDE Contributors Conference are online. Let me point to the talks of my SUSE colleagues about Network Status Support in KDE and How to Use It and our team project Kickoff - Start Menu Research on which we spend much time during this too hot summer. Latter will be also topic on Novell Open Audio soon. Read More

Do you remember my complaints about KDE or KDE apps mentioned nearly zero times in CHIP? Now looks like the magazine has been improved in the area. At least the current 08/2006 issue. There's even a "KDE or GNOME, what's better?" article. Read More

Thanks, Lennart! Very well written pleading. Avahi is not the only victim. Ubuntu's "no ports open!"-policy has (along with some other, similar decisions) also badly hurt CUPS, and considerably reduced out-of-the-box usability and comfort for users. CUPS servers use UDP broadcasts to announce available and shared printers to their potential CUPS clients on the same LAN. CUPS clients use a setting of "Browsing On" in their cupsd.conf to make them notice these broadcast UDP announcements. Note, that this setting on its own does *not* make a cupsd announce his own local printers (that would require to additionally specify "BrowseAddress"), and does *not* turn it into a CUPS server!. Read More