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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

As announced I summarised the results of our Accessibility meets Usability weekend in a (long but interesting) report available on OpenUsability (PDF). We did usability tests with several KDE features for partially sighted people and the Gnopernicus screen reader for Gnome. The goal of the usability tests was not to achieve statistical data, but to gain an understanding of the needs of the represented user types. Read More

After a long time I have updated my Distributor KDE Patches Collection during the last days. It now contains the latest release or release candidate tweaks and fixes of the most actively patching distributions like SUSE Linux, Kubuntu, Mandriva and ArkLinux. It should be of interest for maintainers of applications in KDE modules, packagers and users which are curious how much distributions patch the KDE releases. Read More

Short reading hint: this week's issue of Distrowatch Weekly features an interview with Andreas Jaeger, the project manager of SUSE Linux about the 10.1 release process and more.

I've been blogging about the library flake a little over the last weeks; its a library thats going to be the graphical object handling library for KOffice 2.0. The Wiki page shows the full set of features, but the first feature there lists: Read More

when I left the office today, I wrote todo's on two post-its - one to stay there, one to process during the weekend back home. hmm - I just put my notebook out of the bag and what happened? The office post-it was sticking on my notebook, while I left the one for the weekend at the desk.... the annoying part about it is that I can remember exactly two out of the three items that were written on it. eletronic todos are so much more useful!!!

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