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[image:1931 size=original] OSDL Printing summit group photo. Maybe I'll try to add names tomorrow.

Hi, well, since it seems some discussions are nowadays done via blogs, let me say something as reply to [http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/cmake-sadness.html | CMake Sadness] by Aaron. So, building KDE is a huge task. Building KDE 4 is a much harder task than build KDE 1, 2 or 3. Why ? Because with KDE 4 we support more platforms and more compilers. With KDE < 4 we had only UNIX-like platforms with mainly gcc. With KDE 4 we have UNIX-like, OS X (listed separately because it is a bit different: frameworks, bundles, etc.) and Windows. Under Windows MSVC >6, mingw and msys is supported. This is much more than the autotools were every able to do. Read More

V for Vendetta is so good. Aaron and I went to see it yesterday. On the way there we went to a really great (and cheap) vegan Chinese place and stopped by an arcade (remember those?). Coming back we got asked for money under a bridge. The irony of having people ask for money from two trolls under a bridge runs deep. Read More

Want to go to a woop-ass desktop developers conference and don't have the patience to wait till september? On July 17-18 the 2006 Desktop Developers Conference (DDC) will be held in Ottawa located in visa-friendly Canada. OSDL DTL has partnered with the DDC organisation team and will be providing financial assistance to cover travel costs of a number of selected speakers. THAT CAN BE YOU! You still have till the end of the month to send in your speaking proposal to DDC. Let the world know about the groundbreaking developments that you are doing. Read More

I have been away from the blog sphere for some odd 3 months. Unlike most I don't have the excuse of being too busy, I have a rather different excuse. I have been out of the country and mostly away from internet during that time :) Read More

Congratulations to everone involved for the KOffice 1.5 release and especially Krita - finally a usable painting and image editing application with professional color support: You can find rpms for it for SUSE Linux 9.2 to 10.0 in the supplementary/KDE YaST repository. For SUSE Linux 10.1 packages jump over to ftp.kde.org as no "supplementary" distribution for 10.1 is set up yet. If you encounter crashes, ftp.kde.org hosts debuginfo rpms for 9.3 and up. Read More

The KDE Commit-Digest, written by Derek Kite for many, many issues is back... only this time, i'm producing it :) So, here is the first issue of my new digest: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-09/ Read More

Today I went back to the college where I got my Bachelor's degree a couple of years ago. This time to watch a good friend's graduation talk. It's almost impossible to compare school systems between countries, so even while the EU has unified on Bachelor's and Master's degrees it's hard to say where they are in other countries. Read More

Some amusing advertising has come to my attention this week. The first instance of such was all kinds of bad, and provided by the catering company that's used at my office. Now, bad advertising and ill-conceived food scheme are nothing new for them, but they hit a new low this week -- the "Volksburger". I'm not one of those with a fancy cell phone that has a built in camera, so I've reproduced the sign with a bit of quick gimping for your viewing pleasure. Read More

On friday, after a lot of anticipation, my Macbook Pro finally arrived :) It was a reward for contributing to webkit(http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=44). It is the first Apple computer I own, using one or two for work is not the same:) After playing around with it, it is clear that it is a very nice machine. A lot of other laptops look clunky and big next to it, especially my old (windows) laptops. One of the things I like most right now is the media centre and being able to use the remote, that is obviously something really nice to demonstrate :) Read More