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Ken posted the group foto from the Ubuntu dev summit in Paris today: [image:2146 width=600 class=showonplanet align=center] http://bootsplash.org/14_3.jpg Even if I really needed the recovery weekend afterwards in Paris, I much enjoyed the summit. Guess this was the first time I attended a FOSS developer meeting that had such a tough schedule: Based on spec topics that were formulated prior to the meeting, the "BoFinator" planned our days to attend meetings from 9 am to 6 pm in which we discussed and drafted the scope of each spec. Read More

Progress. The new kdepimlibs module has some real content, finally. I moved the emailfunctions library from kdepim into kdepimlibs this afternoon. This means anyone who is developing for kdepim trunk will need to build kdepimlibs first. So, the order goes like this: build and install kdelibs4_snapshot build and install kdepimlibs build kdepim Tomorrow, unless there are major problems, I plan to start moving some bigger libraries. Starting with libkcal. Aaron, thank you for your inspirational thoughts.

What's up with all these teams being unable to score and then claiming the referee was unfair? To remind everyone: this game is not about standing still and wait for the referee to signal penalty shoot out. Having said that: the russian referee for Nuremberg wasn't really up to the unfairness of the match and it's sad that the rules do not allow the referee to watch on slow motions on TV - I'm sure we would have seen a red card in 8. minute and the match would have been another. Beside that: I'm really looking forward for the match on friday, this city is not the same if good teams play - and Germany is one of them this time. You can feel the proud and see it in all faces and on everyone's shirt.

If you're interested how the KDE desktop of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 looks like, Novell offers now a pre-release for free download. It contains all the functionality of the regular release, but is not the final product. Or have just a look into the SLED 10 KDE Quick Start or SLED 10 KDE User Guide (both PDF).

Only recently, thanks to KDAB, I got my hands on one of the brandnew MacBooks running MacOs X on the Intel dual-core CPUs. One of the main reasons to get it was to measure the effect the two cores have on ThreadWeaver's tests and examples. And what do you know - besides a little makefile fix and some adaptions to different dynamic library path setups, all of it runs fine - and amazingly fast. Exact measurements will follow lateron, but so far the results are very promising. Read More

There is now a public announcement for the hack fest hinted at in my last blog: KDE Four Core aims at paving the way for KDE 4 development for others and is sponsored by Novell/SUSE together with Trolltech. Rather short-term scheduled it was first planned to happen in Nuremberg, nearby of it or then in Prague already during in June but that did clash a bit too much with the soccermania happening in Germany at the moment. So now it happens in Norway with 24 core hackers who could make it in the first July week. Read More

[3] Enabling network printer auto-discovery (with new "snmp" backend of CUPS 1.2) My last two blog entries explained.... ...how Ubuntu users can restore the CUPS web interface to full functionality, and ...how Ubuntu user can re-enable the client-side printer browsing so they may automatically discover and use printers shared by CUPS servers on the network. This one will deal with restoring network printer auto-discovery goodness into their CUPS installation. Read More

Just wanted to say hi from Atlanta airport, where I'm waiting on my connecting flight to Barcelona, on my way to this years GUADEC. Trying to get my outbound e-mail working but port 25 seems to be blocked (or my providers SMTP after POP3 is messed up). The tech support of AccessAnytime couldn't find "Atlanta" in their system and weren't much hep either... bunch of clueless f*cks. Read More

Microsoft have been working on a PDF competitor, call XPS (for [w:XML Paper Specification|XML Paper Specification]). Basically, it gives you a way to represent a printable document (as in a traditional document made up of a number of pages) in XML. Read More

I released this week the current KDE SVN version as Kerry 0.2 Beta because not much progress will happen the next two weeks: coding part of a KDE improvement project together with the usability experts of my SUSE team started and a long-planned week of vacation (for recreation, while others will heavily hack in Norway :-) ). Read More