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We've found this little cat 2 days ago.. he seemed too little to survive.. but after 2 days he seems strong enough, drinks a lot of milk, and scares my dog :) Just hoping he'll continue like this...

So, in typical blog-o-riffic fashion, since I seem to be back in the world of the blogging, here I go with a set of largely unrelated KDE/geek-ish notes: Have a HDD about to die. 200 GB. Mostly media. Doing a bad cluster scan on it took about 18 hours. At then end what did I know? That the files that I already couldn't read are corrupted. Woohoo. I've taken three days off just to relax, watch a few movies, do a bit of coding. First time I've used vacation days for such in a long time. Another thing that I haven't done in a while -- just picked something annoying me and fixed it. I've hated it that every time I go to empty the trash on my desktop that the right mouse menu takes like half a second to come up, so I implemented menu caching and preloading. Seems to work well; we'll see if I can get it into the (frozen) 3.5 branch. The kde-usability list seems to be on the mend. There's been a concerted effort in the last couple of weeks to try to give the list a bit of direction (and less of a comment box / peanut gallery) and it seems to be working a little. Let's hope for the best. I've written up some guidelines and run them by the usability folks, and those will probably go live in the next couple of days. I've moved the whiteboard back into the livingroom. Yes, I own a 90 cm x 120 cm whiteboard. And it's now in my living room again. I've been coding on a few prototype sorts of things that will probably at some point find their way into KDE and sometimes you just need space for sketching and I'm definitely not a UML man. During the time off I watched a few films. Crash was disappointing; it helped to once again invalidate the Oscars in my view. It's a collection of semi-contrived racial memes with a conflict, transposition, redemption, rinse, repeat cycle to it. Afterwards I watched Bulworth again for the first time in years; much better commentary on race and politics in the US and still one of my favorite films. Jackie Brown disappointing too, but mostly because I'd seen all of Tarantino's other films. This concludes the test of the emergency blather system. Had this been an actual emergency, well, you hopefully wouldn't be reading my blog. ;-) Read More

The short version: My computer was broken and I haven't had mail since the 19th of March until today, sorry if you were waiting for me to answer some mail, I'll try to do so as soon as possible. Read More

Hello, I am new to this blog thing :-). I am the main developer of Gwenview and also hack on KIPI. We'll see if I can produce some interesting content for a while... Read More

I've been working lately on Gwenview UI, experimenting various changes, trying to make the application simpler to use. One thing that did not satisfy me was that nobody seemed to grasp the way to switch between browsing and viewing modes. Have a look at this screenshot and try to guess how it's supposed to work. Read More

I was going to post something here when I noticed Martijn's post titled I should blog more often, and like him, I think I should do the same. My last post was in January, and there have been a lot of things happening in the meantime that even I'm surprised to find I didn't post about them. I'll talk in this post briefly about past issues, and I'll talk in the next one about the unfortunate events of last week. Read More

I've recently been working on 'Meduxa', a Kubuntu based version of KDE for the Canary Islands schools. Last week I went to the Medusa HQ, just north of Santa Cruz in Tenerife to meet Agustin Benito the project director to work with him trying to decipher the XDG menu spec in order to customize the KDE menus. While I was there Agustin arranged for me to give a talk at Universidad de La Laguna about Ruby RAD with KDevelop/QtRuby and Rails at short notice. I thought there would be about 10 people there, but much to my surprise a whole roomful of 50 or 60 people turned up. Read More

Today apparently was board-gets-back-to-coding day. Since I was elected into the board of the KDE e.V. last summer in Malaga most of my KDE time is eaten by non-coding jobs. But today I had one of my productive days and got a lot of done on kxml_compiler and kxforms. It was a nice surprise when I noticed on the kde-commits mailing list, that Eva also was heavily committing code working on Konqueror/Embedded. Five minutes before midnight Aaron joined the fun with a Kicker patch. Huzzah! We are back to the roots. The board is still coding. Read More

Well, kdelibs4_snapshot compiles and installs with cmake. Almost, anyway... I had to remove kstyles/keramik since the genembed seg faults... ... and after installing kdelibs4_ss... % /opt/KDEDIRS/trunk/bin/kde-config --path Segmentation fault Urgh, I would rather have something NOT compile than have it seg fault... Read More

I should have been doing some serious work during the last 30 minutes, but.... ...I came across this weekend's Opera9 build (no. 181) and decided to make a new klik (*) recipe for it. Read More