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In recent months I wrote various blog entries (no, they were rather "rants", and even tagged as such; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) dealing with Ubuntu's crippled CUPS 1.2 configuration. (I'm not complaining about the feedback -- but I was rather surprised how many emails on that topic I received; also how high a number of abusing messages by anonymous writers sought to annoy me. Seems (K)Ubuntu followers have a higher ratio of "fanboy" type users than most other distros... :-) ). Read More

Recently, I remembered this button: [image:2103 width=200 class=showonplanet align=center] Peter from the KOffice team seems to know what it is about. When he started to rewrite Kivio, the KDE flowcharting application, he immediately informed the usability group and asked for input regarding the user interface. Even before the first line of code was written - and ergo nothing could be tested. This was a good decision out of two reasons: Read More

Boy, did I nearly miss the news! Was it because of the soccer world championship? Anyway, the news rocks. I wonder why it was not picked up by any of the major news sites. (Heh... I'm sure they will now.) Read More

Michael Larouche writes about the new KDialog api, and how it is simpler to understand than the old KDE3 one. It reminded me of one of my favourite talks at the 2004 Ludwigsberg aKademy, when Mathias Ettrich discussed similar usability improvements in Qt4. I'd like to describe a couple of features in QtRuby and Korundum that make such constructor code clearer still. Read More

I recently saw a good saying; if I have 4 hours to chop down a tree, I'll spent the first 3 sharpening my ax. All KDE hackers I know are pretty bright and the above will sound true to them; having well working tools gets you better results, faster. Read More

For most people the KDE Four Multimedia Meeting (K4M) was concluded on Sunday, May 28th, almost two weeks ago. Sebastian put up his picture gallery during the event, Claire has put up her pictures as well. Read More

We knew that some big companies like Adobe or Google developed some of their applications for MS Windows with the Qt toolkit. But they didn't take full advantage of Qt's cross-platform sweetness. Until now. Google released yesterday Google Earth Beta 4 and if you look closely at their download page there is a Linux version available. This is not using some Wine wrapper as Picasa before but is a native Qt 3 application. Time for other companies to wake it? Hello Adobe! Read More

Some might have seen the summary before, because I posted this blog last week, but pulled it again because I wanted to double check that my recommendation is sane in MSIE. Turns out my assumption was right so here it is again: Read More

I wrecked my wrist nine days ago. My doctor says I will be able to use it again in a week. Hope he is right. I would cross my fingers, if it wouldn't hurt so much. Anyway, there are some exciting things I wanted to write about, so I'm blogging single-handedly now. Read More

I've been giving some of developer.kde.org a bit of love. In particular, the "Joining Us" page (http://developer.kde.org/joining/) is now hopefully a bit more useful on how to get involved in various aspects of KDE development - not just coding, but all aspects. There is a lot more to do - hoperfully I'll get some more done over this weekend. Read More