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If the title doesn't tell you anything, you'll be a lot wiser after reading this :) So I bought this new Vaio laptop.After checking that the really nice Vaio recovery tool does indeed leave any main operating system intact when restoring the pre-installed entertainment system, I was about to install the usual Debian/SID onto it. Read More

The Paris summit is now over and by the looks of the blogs the KDE developers are pleased with what happened. The specs we have approved are: kubuntu-launchpad-integration - Add a menu item to applicaition Help menus to take you to Launchpad langpacks-desktopfiles-kde - Let .desktop files get their translations from .po files kubuntu-laptop-buttons - get laptop buttons working with Ubuntu's acpi-support package kubuntu-power-management - an all new power management frontend, Sebas already has some code for this in Guidance kubuntu-edgy-docs - Help!, And those that are in review: Read More

You look at the code of this new KDE application and you immediately notice several of the mistakes that you made in your first KDE application as well. Sounds familar? Read More

As Roberto blogged about how he converted his blog into a blog/podcast hybrid using Talkr, I thought I should tell you about a well-hidden, half-finished feature in Akregator: Basic Text-to-Speech support. To use it, you need kttsd installed and set up, which does all the heavy lifting for Akregator. Read More

Just in case you didn't know yet: Dirk Mueller won the german championship ...as if hacking KDE wouldn't be enough ;-)

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