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The first big thing today was the release of KDE 3.5.1, made possible by the hundreds of dedicated contributors which make up the wonderful KDE community. Especially the translators did some great work, so KDE 3.5.1 is available in the incredible number of 63 languages. Read More

[.. as this test is for German-speaking participants only, I'll proceed in German] Teilnehmer für Wikipedia-Usabilitytest in Berlin gesucht! Um die Einstiegsschwelle zur Mitarbeit an der freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia zu reduzieren, führen wir im Rahmen von OpenUsability nächste Woche (6. bis 10. Februar) Usabilitytests mit der deutschen Version der Wikipedia durch. Dazu suchen wir TeilnehmerInnen! Read More

The 3.5 branch of kdebinding doesn't compile and hasn't for a while I believe. It seems like the development of korundum/qtruby has moved to http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/. I wonder why? I copied some of the files from the latest release of korundum to kdebindings and it seems to compile (further) then it did. Read More

Exactly three years ago I was busy writing my diploma thesis - it was about a help system which showed the user directly in the application where and how to perform certain tasks. This type of help is called contextual or context sensitive help. Read More

The last few days saw a couple of threads on the dbus mailinglist about topics we KDE users got used to love in DCOP. For example how to start browsing for interfaces on applications connected to the bus, in D-BUS terminology called introspection, how to know which session busses are currently active for a user and how to work with users session busses from the system bus. Read More

I've spent the last few months on the behind-the-scenes architecture of KStars. Since the port to KDE4 was going to be a major overhaul for us anyway, we decided to simultaneously do a major refactoring of how the data catalogs are represented in KStars. We're now using a hierarchical Composite/Component model, and it's working well. Read More

Why does this even mean?!?!? |./!+# |.i.| #+...| If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a tengu. I'm always in the right place at the right time, and am quick to avoid people that I'd rather not be with.

I know it sounds silly, but editing text in KWord used to be some sort of a drag; it was annoying to select text with the mouse, for example. In the upcoming 1.5 release (not all fixes have made the beta) there are a set of changes in how KWord allows you to manipulate text. Tell your friends and family; this release is going to stun a lot of people! Read More

Well, if you want that, you can have it today for trunk/KDE/kdelibs/. The cmake ( http://www.cmake.org ) developers have been so nice to setup a dashboard for KDE: http://public.kitware.com/dashboard.php?name=kde If you build kdelibs/ using cmake, simply enter "make Experimental" and the results will end up there. As you can see, I just succeeded building kdelibs/ on FreeBSD :-) Read More

In my previous entry, I mentioned that there are still too few usability people involved with OSS usability - both in the scope of OpenUsability as well as in other efforts like the FLOSS Usability group. Read More