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Hiya, here's a very simple way to get a performance number for KDE: $ time konsole -e sh -c exit This gave me the following numbers: 0.75 seconds on a notebook, Sempron 3000+, SUSE 10.0 0.80 seconds on a desktop, Athlon XP+ 2000, Slackware 9.1, KDE compiled from svn 1.0 seconds on a notebook, Intel P4 M, 1.8 GHz, SUSE 10.0 1.0 seconds on a notebook, Intel P4 M, 1.8 GHz, kUbuntu 5.10 Read More

22c3 has started, finally °°° Antenne and me are busy preparing our Paper Prototyping Workshop on Friday. [image:1706 align=center class=showonplanet]

KDE now has a Community at OpenSolaris. And Steve Christensen had made KDE available for download from SunFreeware as well. It all happened yesterday, which was my birthday. I got some nice birthday presents this year. :-)

As if you did not hear already, KOffice is more alive than ever. Its honestly brewing with activity. Krita has gotten more new features in the last couple of months then are set to go into Longhorn and the commit rate is growing each week. It shows; there has been commercial interrest in making KOffice stay ahead of the curve. There now is a competition for ideas with a prize for the best or top-3 totalling $1000. Read More

I'm a usability guy, so my first concern with any feature or application is consistency, I guess all you guys and galls know that rule of usability, its the most important one. So, when in one day a couple of questions came up on how to scale a KPresenter object but keep the aspect ratio of the object, and how to disable the grid while scaling, well, I got thinking and I started looking into what all the KOffice applications did. In short, each one invented its own way of doing things. Which, as my introduction states, is not good usability. Duh! I kicked off a research and a proposal based on that to the KOffice mailinglist, and a couple of days later, the KOffice team now has a nice set of what I call interaction policies. All the features that make sense for manipulating objects now have been defined and given a modifier key. So holding shift down while moving or rotating will disable the grid and guides in all KOffice applications. Consistency is good. Read More

Simple as should be: Merry Christmas for everyone... No exceptions... :-)

What should one do if someone spreads FUD about a part of open source. Lets try the "why?" question. So one bashes qt on #maemo, channel for this GTK based platform used by the N770. Names are mangled if not me. Read More

Work was having a clean up and I got my hands on a bunch of old videocards: 2x nVidia TNT2 (one with TV out, with is handy), 2x S3 (old school AGP, so I'll have to reassemble my old Pentium 2), 1x Diamond something (AGP 1.5v & 3.3v) and a Rendition chipset based Diamond card (PCI!). This expands the number of chipsets and configurations that I can use to test the displayconfig part of Guidance. I whacked the PCI card into my other computer along side the AGP card that was already in there and it quickly exposed a problem in displayconfig. (Only one card appeared on the hardware tab). Another interesting thing was that the BIOS chose the PCI card to use during boot. While the existing xorg.conf file still worked fine and used the AGP card. Maybe displayconfig also needs a way of choosing between two cards, even for singlehead configurations. Read More

Well, holidays have started, and it is about time since the last months of work were very busy. Now I am taking a small break from ksvg2 hacking to work again on KOffice and Karbon, fixing bugs and small annoying problems. I think I'll wait with large redesigns/ui changes until after the next release though. Read More

Here in Holland we have a 'chipknip' (chip-wallet) that is a very cool invention where you basically carry around electronic money and pay using an 'ok' button instead of giving out cash and collecting too many coins. Read More