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2005 is over - and it was a very eventful year for OpenUsability.org: We had our first booth at the German LinuxTag, visited numerous developer conferences and Linux days to talk about usability and to provide live usability support. Also, we haven't frightened the KDE developers too much so they once more invited us to aKademy ;-) In September, we started our first regular regional OpenUsability Get-Together in Berlin, and are close to getting an e.V. Read More

I haven't had much time this fall to do much actual KDE development. So the number of tasks is starting to accumulate. I might have time to do one or two the next couple of months so I would like to give you the opportunity to give feed-back on what you feel is most important. Read More

Announcing something which has been cooking already last year but got delayed by POTS bandwidth shortage over the holidays: VMware released a player for free with which you can run pre-built virtual machines. Somehow their virtual machine center offers under "Novell" only SLES and NLD images. :-? I created an image which contains a standard KDE desktop installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, upgraded to KDE 3.5 including KOffice 1.4.2 excluding non-KDE applications. It's a fully working installation so don't forget to install and try some additional KDE applications - and to run the security update when you're asked to. ;-) You can download it from developer.kde.org archived either as 588 MB flavor for Microsoft Windows or 537 MB for Linux. Read More

Or at least many people apparently think so. One just has to love all these people believing that KDE could definitely perform at least as good as Windows 98 (but preferably better of course) if we developers weren't just so damn lazy and finally fixed it during one of our coffee breaks. Coffee (or tea in my case) in one hand, magically snapping fingers on the other hand, probably. Read More

Edinburgh was busy last night for the worlds largest Hogmanay party and we saw in the new year with enough fireworks to cover the whole of the castle and Castle Rock in thick smoke. Read More

I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It's in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we'll merge it to HEAD. I'm planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I've spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element). Read More

This year, the chaos communication congress was productive for me: I finally manged to summarise the results of the user interviews and Konqueror usability test we did in August. Download: Report in PDF [2,5 MB] Read More

One month ago I presented some ideas for an application repository. This interface would give users an unrestrictive way to search and explore software installed on their system within several contexts. The system is one part of a response to dissastisfaction with the KMenu. The other parts of my solution include an interface to quickly launch applications and a "smart" system to help the user relate data and applications together as tasks. Read More

Whoa... for the first time KDE4 /trunk/qt-copy, kdelibs4_snapshot, and kdebase all compiled without errors. Thats frightening... :-) now to test if it is usable at all... ;-)

As a KOffice core-developer I am certainly very interrested in how OpenDocument is gaining traction in the state of Massachusetts. After all, KOffice is one of the contenders for the eyeballs of state workers after ODF becomes mandatory Jan-1-2007. Read More