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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

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. :)