KDE Blogs 

ftp.suse.com and first mirrors now carry the "KDE supplementary" package repository for SUSE Linux 10.1. "supplementary" is one of the unsupported playgrounds of SUSE packagers for providing newer application versions like KDE 3.5.2 with KOffice 1.5.1 for past distribution releases. See this wiki page for a list of other YaST repositories, most of them provided by the openSUSE community, and read this fine tutorial how to add them. Read More

The KOffice objects-manipulation library is progressing nicely; since my last blog (2 weeks ago) I have added and fixed lots of things. Not nearly 2 weeks hacking worth, though, with LinuxTag in between. Read More

Seeing a body of the size of Gouvernment of Canada do the right thing can be a reason of pride. Statcan introduced web-based census this year. But they had a limitation as to what browsers can be used. Needless to say, Linux browsers were ruled out by default. I'm pleased to advertize that they timely fixed the false problem. Read More

Just got back from a nice trip to California. Mostly Berkeley and San Francisco. Pics from this trip are here. And yes, this blog is related to KDE. :-) The clue is in the photo set.

It seems Konqi got a bit fed up of being the KDE mascot these days. I spotted him this morning on his new workplace: he got hired by my wife to hold the hat of Clara, my daughter. Read More

SUSE Linux 10.1 has been finally released including Xgl preview, NetworkManager, AppArmor 2.0 and XEN 3. Learn more about it reading the Product Highlights and studying the first incoming reviews and screenshots galeries. This release forces you to choose your desktop. Guess what I think is the better desktop and more polished one: KDE 3.5 including all the neat Novell projects like KNetworkManager, KPowersave, Kerry Beagle, OpenOffice.org/KDE and of course YaST system configuration which together make it the best available KDE desktop. Read More

Once upon a time, I believed in fairy tales. Later, during my software engineering education, I came across a fairy tale called "capabilties detection". The tale's main content was that it would be possible for a software to query for available capabilities in some kind of backend. It told about a mythical protocol called X11, which would allow an even more mythical software called an X11 client, to query an almost unbelievably mythical thing called an X11 server for the availability of what the tale called extensions. Read More

Yesterday, I went to the IV Jornada Software Libre conference at the Universidad de Las Palmas sponsored by the Canary Islands government. There were some interesting talks, and much discussion in between. I gave one called 'Software Libre is Inevitable' in the morning. Read More

Ok, so finally I'm back online. When I came back from LinuxTag last sunday, my development box didn't boot anymore :-/ It took until today to get it working correctly again (RAM, mainboard, power supply were suspect). Finally the RAM was broken, now it's replaced by nice 1 GB RAM. Read More

OfB: Scott, perhaps summarizing what you've said before, can you give us a roadmap for KDE multimedia? Where is KDE Multimedia heading? Where is the place of KDE Multimedia in the future of KDE? Scott: Well, I suppose roadmap is probably a pretty good analogy -- since there are a lot of ways to get there. Right now those of us in that are more active in KDE multimedia have tried to lay out a set of requirements for multimedia frameworks; they need to support audio and video decoding, routing that to the appropriate places (sound card, sound server, etc.) and probably some basic recording features. Then we've tried to evaluate what's available to us and how we can make use of the things that are available to best support KDE as a desktop. We learned a lot from aRts, so we're trying to make sure that the options that we're considering will be viable long term; but also we don't want to be explicitly tied to a single framework -- at least not yet. So what some of us started on at aKademy was a framework for abstracting away the basic features -- playing stuff, mostly -- of the media frameworks and making that pluggable. We're pretty sure that we'll have a few implementations around and we'll be able to make a decision on what should be the default at a later time. Read More