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Seele found that KDE got caught on thedailywtf. Thanks to this, I learned that there exists something called "kflickr". The other KDE mention there seems to involve kdeprint. Well, I grepped for those rather tongue-in-cheek error messages in the kdeprint code but I couldn't find any trace. And the icon is all wrong. I guess it rather has to be some automatically passed-up message coming from CUPS or maybe a bad interaction between the KDEPrint system and the usage of some distro's weirdly configured printing system. Read More

Since the Osnabrueck IV meeting where we came up with the core of the Akonadi concept and design, the implementation and fleshing out of these concepts hadn't progressed quite as quickly as we would have hoped. We're all madly busy with real-world concerns and other KDE stuff, so that wasn't really surprising. To finally lift it off the ground and get it to a stage where hopefully more people can start to see the potential and contribute, we decided a few days of meeting face-to-face and hacking around the clock would be best. To keep it effective, we only wanted a small group of people who know the PIM stuff (old and new) intimately. Initially Nuernberg, Germany was to be the location, what with SuSE/Novell, Cornelius and Will there, but that didn't work out for logistical reasons. Ingo, who has recently moved into a larger apartment, then volunteered to host the meeting in Aachen. Cornelius and Will couldn't make it, in the end, so it ended up being Ingo, Volker (who lives in Aachen as well), Tobias and myself. Details and pictures after the jump. Read More

Yesterday (K)Ubuntu Dapper was released. The final version. I'm sure it is a great release, and most users will find it highly satisfactory for all their needs. However, this blog is not all huggin' 'n luvin' for Dapper. It is a rant. I want this to be a wake-up call. It will sound negative to most of you. So be it.... Read More

No, the Portland Print Dialog isn't about design by committee. It's about letting the platform provide the print dialog (as opposed to the toolkit). If you run a GNOME desktop that will probably mean a Gtk Print dialog. If you run a KDE desktop that will probably a dialog based on KDEPrint. Incidentally, there already is a Portland file dialog, and no it isn't designed by committee either (give it a try!). Read More

Since I've already written a very long on-topic entry today, I feel I can get away with an utterly off-topic personal entry, and a shameless plug. After years of translating fiction from English to German, writing articles and being a romance magazine editor, my wife managed to sell a couple of short stories to an American e-book publisher, and they were released on Monday. They've indicated that they'll be wanting to publish more of her stuff. I'm insanely proud of her and happy to see her succeed at what she loves doing. It's cool that she chose my last name (with an added "s", since the Americans always append that anyhow) as a pen name, after refusing it when we got married. ;) Check out her website for details. Gotta love a woman who writes smut for a living and codes her own CSS. :)

As some of you know: When I implemented text-shadow for KHTML back in 2004, I added the ability to draw multiple shadows, because it was just a minor addition in my implementation, but one that meant we followed the entire spec. unlike Safari. Read More

My new HP Pavilion desktop system "jiffy" arrived yesterday (exactly as FedEx promised). Fedora Core 4 Linux installed painlessly without even 1 hiccup last night. Today I am putting the finishing touches on the system: installing extra RPMs; configure printing and scanning; etc. Read More

For the past few months (or should I say years) I'm trying to get rid of this feeling that I'm born in the wrong era or maybe aeon and in the current society I'm more than worthless ... it's hard and since this morning I'm asking myself why bother trying to improve myself and feel better if nobody care about me anyway (ok it's not quite true it seems there is at least one living being that care about me ... only because I feed him and clean his litter box ... so basicly he's doing like everybody else he uses me ...) and something that really piss me off is some people take me for granted for their development projects even when I'm not sure about the viability of it ... this is really helping me to feel better about myself Read More

With commit 546830, KDE says good-bye to one of its longest friends: DCOP. The technology has served us well for 6 years, to the point that has become one of our most proeminent features. Many KDE applications are given an edge over their competitors by supporting advanced functionality through DCOP: you can tell a Konqueror page to evaluate a JavaScript code snippet (think document.write...), tell a Kate window to raise itself, Kontact to check email or Kopete to send an automated message, etc. Read More

I eagerly await the delivery of my new baby... err... my new desktop system (the system is a "he" and we've already named him jiffy). According to the FedEx tracker, jiffy will be delivered tomorrow. I'm having the heebee-jeebies waiting to do KDE-development again. Sure the computer is good for email and web surfing and keeping your checkbook, but the real fun is using the computer for software development. I'm sure we all agree with that. Read More