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One of our users suggested that it would be useful to have some mechanism by which members of the KStars user community could meet and interact, either a mailing list or a web forum. I totally agree. I know there are many people using KStars, and there are lots of reasons that they would want a way to talk with each other, share custom content that they've made, rant about their most hated bugs, whatever. Read More

... is that usually came with a not long enough wire :-) After some hours spent in front of my home computer, even been a extremly good Stanton headphone, i've become tired of make my chair pass with his wheels over the wire again, and again, and again.. Yes, no damage of wire, it's all working, but i really want a wireLESS one finally. The problem is as i live in a building, and like sound is a not so gentle volume, i think that people at my side would not like the weirdo sounds after 22:00, so i need the phones for the sake of neighbours sanity. "We want freedom, to do what we want ... we wanna get loaded: ( Easy Rider moment on Primal Scream seminal song "loaded", album Screamadelica ). In my case, i want freedom ... to go to my refrigerator without taking out my phones ! Ah, for reference, at this right moment is playing "Bad Base" from B.T.B.

Pretty Things One of my coworkers (Thorsten -- also does some work on KArm) saw my background today and suggested that I should put some of those that I use (which are generally from my own photos) up online. I've since obliged him. The thumbnails from a couple of my favorites are below: Read More

I've been a buzzy little bee for the past few weeks. I would have posted a few days ago, but it ended up turning in to a DOT article. I started my new job a few weeks ago. Yay for working at home, but I'm having trouble leaving work at work and actually "going" home. Last night I came home from class at 2300 to make phone calls and write emails until Justin reminded me I was "home". Its easy to roll out of bed and go to work, but hard to leave the keyboard at a certain time and stop being a IxD for the rest of the night. Read More

FOSDEM at the weekend was great, there's something really exciting about having all the different Free Software communities together. As well as the KDE talks I went to see mjg59 talking about ACPI (but sadly failed to catch up with him regarding Kubuntu laptop support), the debian-installer talk, Automated Display Configuration for X and making SuSE packages. We sold out of KDE merchandise and gave out 800 Kubuntu CDs. I even managed to get a bed on the sleeper back home defeating the best efforts of the staff at Waterloo. Read More

Some of our recent additions to the klik recipe database are real little gems. No, I'm not talking about the various KOffice-1.5.0 Beta 1 bundles (which will soon be updated to give you an easy way to testdrive and bug triage Beta 2). Read More

I found this really nice project called Metatheme. From their website: "MetaTheme is a project dedicated to unification of appearance between different graphics toolkits (currently GTK2, QT and Java)." Read More

I'd like to thank J5 making the D-Bus 0.61 release. For those that don't know it yet, I've been the maintainer of the Qt bindings for almost two months now -- half of which as a Trolltech project. Read More

Lubos woke the dormant Portland project by creating a first implementation of a possible desktop adapter API. Having some experience due to my work on QDS I volunteered to put some work into it as well, especially KDE related backend code. Read More

Just a short note that I have experimented with svg embedded inline in xhtml. Taking the code from webkit+svg, I did a prototype bundling khtml2 and ksvg2 on top of kdom, and making sure the svg elements use render objects this time. I also used just one backend, which uses the qt4 painter. Even though I did not get to implement all features (markers, text), it clearly shows that inlining of svg in xhtml is very possible! Here are examples of rendering of xhtml+svg docs: Read More