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GUI updates in Guidance I was going through the usability report about Guidance a month ago and saw this comment at the end of the report: 4.3 Checkbox feedback When the user checks or unchecks the checkbox "Start during boot", the corresponding entry in the list on the left side is updated (e.g. from "yes" to "no"). This is hard to notice, since the mental focus is on the checkbox, not on the list. Therefore, a stronger visual indication about the change is helpful. Read More

Many of you have probably seen or read some of the emails being posted on the OSDL DA mailing list. Theyve been on slashdot, blogs, and forwarded to other mailing lists.. but what have they accomplished? Read More

Below is a Qyoto/Kimono C# bindings 'Hello World' program written by Arno Rehn. Arno has done some quick performance measurements and he says Qyoto runs faster than a QtJava app running using IKVM, which is encouraging. I wasn't sure whether or not the method calls going via transparent proxies would be too slow, but there are major advantages in not needing C bindings using P/Invoke for each method call. Read More

Ubuntu Docs Corey was trying to find KDE 3.5 and 4 screenshots on planet KDE. Of course KDE screenshots aren't news to most KDE developers so they don't get blogged about but the KDE 3.5 visual guide lists some of the new features. KDE 4 can be found at KDE4 - understanding the buzz, not much to see here I'm afraid most of the work has been happening on the libraries, that should be accelerated now that KDE 3.5 is out the way but don't expect fancy screenshots for a wee while yet. Read More

Seems Linus has started a new little flamewar :D Among KDE developers we have always stated that anti-GNOME flamewars are only among users, and while it is technically true. It doesn't prevent users who also developers in other projects to join them. I will just comment here and hopefully not contribute to the fire. Read More

I started to have a deeper look into D-BUS as I will require an IPC facility if I want to provide a Qt4 API of QDS and still access KDE services. So after I installed the dbus-1.0 packages, it played a bit the included tools, starting a session bus and watching output with dbus-monitor. Read More

i spent a part of this weekend working on the kde usability website. unfortunatly it doesnt get updated very often, and considering we have dated 'recent news' on our home page.. the content looks quite dated. Read More

As Harald and Adriaan already mentioned I spent this weekend with some 'testing guys' in Hamburg to evaluate the possibilities of automated usability/accessibility testing. Also from my side the meeting was a big success, and not only because of the food and the gluehwein, or because I finally saw the countdown+text pedestrian lights in real life ;-) Read More

... is love, peace and this little bugger. The iAudio X5 has all I really want: 20 or 30 GB of harddisc, a color display, and plays mp3, wma, ogg vorbis and even flac (and more, e.g. mpeg4 video, but I'm not sure I really can make use of this feature, given the tiny display). It has a high quality microphone build-in and can record to mp3. So that'd be a good alternative to an iPod, which I don't want since it's not capable of playing oggs. It provides USB host support and thus allows for plugging in cameras in order to serve as intermediate storage for camera data. The X5 costs 280 Euro cheapest for the 20 GB version or 330 Euro cheapest for the 30 GB version. Read More

[image:1671 align="right" hspace=4 vspace=4 border=0 width="407" class="showonplanet"] The weekend has seen some more work on klik. probono has re-enabled the nice "give-us-some-feedback-after-first-run" feature. It means that a kdialog (or an Xdialog or zenity equivalent) will pop up after you run a klik recipe for the first time, asking you for some feedback. After you filled it in and clicked "OK", you'll immediately see it has gone live on the klik server if you visit the user feedback page. Read More