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I'm "back" from CLLAP 2006 (quotes around the word back because it was a 15 minutes drive to home) (ed. 2006-05-26: I started to write this on 2006-05-24...) Although the conference was international and addressed to governments, the expo that accompanied it (and in which we had a KDE booth) was very small. Read More

A note to the KDE translation teams: Ubuntu's web based translation tool Rosetta is now complete for Ubuntu and Kubuntu Dapper. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-May/000082.html This is the first release which has KDE imported into Rosetta so KDE translation teams now have the option of using Rosetta for their KDE translations. Read More

As you've no doubt read on Adriaan's blog, the KDE Four Multimedia Meeting kicked off today. Previously known as K3M, we decided to extend the name to reflect the other KDE Four developer meetings that will be held later this year and give them a more common naming. Read More

Yay I got my SoC project accepted! So what is it: avKode - A Phonon backend for FFMPEG It is basically killing a horrible interface and an error-source called xinelib, and going directly to the source. This also enables more powerfull features in the long run such as capture and encoding. Read More

I've been meaning to post about this for literally half a year now. But a recent thread on kde-core about improving the GUI for searching in KDE applications has finally pushed me into action. Read More

The release candidate for Kubuntu 6.06 LTS, also known as Dapper, is out now for your downloading pleasure (please use bittorrent). The LTS stands for Long Term Support which means the Ubuntu team and Canonical will support it for 3 years on the desktop and 5 on the server. The focus for the release has been fixing all the bugs, and while we havn't got all of them it is feeling really polished. Read More

Bad News: As mentioned in a previous blog my notebook's harddrive did pass silently yesterday afternoon. This was my main KDE development system. Good News: I decided to use this opportunity to purchase a new HP Pavilion desktop system. Yes, the new system will have lots more processing power and RAM, but I'm really excited about the 19" flat screen. I'll eventually put a new harddrive in the notebook for other purposes. But for now, the tired old-soldier is patiently awaiting further instructions. Bottom Line: No KDE development for a least a week.

Bad News: As mentioned in a previous blog my notebook's harddrive did pass silently yesterday afternoon. This was my main KDE development system. Good News: I decided to use this opportunity to purchase a new HP Pavilion desktop system. Yes, the new system will have lots more processing power and RAM, but I'm really excited about the 19" flat screen. I'll eventually put a new harddrive in the notebook for other purposes. But for now, the tired old-soldier is patiently awaiting further instructions. Bottom Line: No KDE development for a least a week.

KOffice 1.5.1 has been released and as usual there are rpms for SUSE Linux available: either as directly built against the distros' packages for SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 (these packages were btw built within the progressing openSUSE Build Service) or as part of the KDE supplementary repository for SUSE Linux 9.2 to 10.1. Read More

Aaron tries to wake back up the old (and perpetual) discussion about freedom in software. I can't agree more with his perspective. It will make well over 8 years now that I continuously preach, to anybody patient to listen, the social importance of the essential notions of collaboration ingrained in free software. Read More