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So I was working on kdelibs over the weekend, trying to clear up a few problems with the D-BUS implementation in KDE. I found that the KMainWindow interface worked almost perfectly out of the box (it would have worked perfectly if I hadn't used a dash [-] in the object path in the first place). Read More

The Apache foundation steadfastly refuses to include support for the OpenDocument filetypes to its distribution despite the mimetypes being registered with IANA. Appearantly the ASF doesn't agree with the OASIS IPR policy seemingly unaware that the OASIS OpenDocument TC has switched to a most liberal IPR policy (Royalty Free with restrictions on possible licensing conditions) earlier this year. Read More

I installed Kubuntu Dapper now from the Live CD to the harddisk. The hardware is very "low end": Intel P IV 1.80 GHz, 256 MByte RAM, 20 GByte HD. But it should be good enough to check the printing capabilities of Dapper, and see how the packagers modified the CUPS setup away from how CUPS.org's defaults. After all, the complaints and calls for help I received must have a reason... Read More

Since I also got pinged on IRC yesterday by one of the Ubuntu print software packagers; I'll continue tomorrow with investigating a newer package version. He told me he had built new CUPS 1.2.1 packages for testing, and I agreed to look closely at them and report back. I'll download those and continue my testing (and ranting) based on these packages. Read More

I've just got my first Ruby D-BUS app pretty much working, it starts up, outputs convincing looking messages, and then crashes kdbus. I only started yesterday and so it hasn't taken long to get the D-BUS api pretty much wrapped. I still need to do some work on the QDBusAbstractInterface::call() method, as it uses C++ templates and doesn't translate easily into Ruby. Read More

What has implementation of database table schema (design) altering to do with Undo/Redo implementation for Table Designer? In case of Kexi, everything! Read on to learn why. Someone has nicely [w:Kexi|explained] on Wikipedia that "Kexi is positioned to fill the gap between spreadsheets and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development." True, and moreover it's components can also act as a set of data services for other KDE apps. With every release Kexi hides from user (and developer) more and more boring database-related details. Recently, one of them is editing (altering) table design. Read More

I much enjoyed the Berlin Dapper Release Party yesterday at DanielHolbach's place in Berlin Neukoelln. He even served my favourite drink: Schonk - Club Mate with Rum =) Unfortunately I had to leave at 1 o'clock when the party just started to become really good and crowded to meet some friends who had come over to Berlin from back home. I crossed half the city by bike, and when I finally got there, they were tired and wanted to go to bed. Read More

In an effort to get to know better the needs of developers are from the Human Interface Guidelines, I solicited several groups of developers to participate in a survey which ran for two weeks in May. The outcome was very good with 52 participants providing their comments and suggestions. Read More

Kubuntu Dapper CD download finished now. Took long enough to complete.... I'm booting one of the spare machines here in the office, a very cheap desktop workstation (Intel P IV 1.80 GHz, 256 MByte RAM, 20 GByte HD) into a full KDE 3.5.2 desktop system right now... Read More

This week saw the release of KDE 3.5.3 (bugfixes and carefully chosen new features) and also the openSUSE Build Service, although still in Alpha phase, becoming productive as it now creates and offers the KDE and KDE applications backports among other stuff. Read More