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Hi, in the screenshot you can see a different kpager than the one you know. [image:1667] So, what's different ? This kpager is built from the same sources, but neither using autotools, nor unsermake, nor scons. It's built using cmake ( http://www.cmake.org ). Here's how I did it: Read More

We got notified from the Linux Format (a printed magazine sold in UK newspaper stands) that they give their Hottest Pick award to klik. -- Woooohoo! The January 06 edition carries a 1-page article about klik, which is a very nice read. (bfree bought the thingie at probono's request and made a scan available to us). Read More

One of my long standing feature requests now seems to come true: tabbed email processing. Not with Kontact or KMail, though. It is with Thunderbird. But it is not yet in the official release. It is just a patch, created by Thunderbird hacker Myk Melez. Two days ago he blogged about it. Read More

... at the Berlin Open Software Usability Meeting, tomorrow evening, Wed, Dec. 7th, 20.00 h, at the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin, Marienstr. 11. Back from my wonderful vacation we decided to have a less serious usability session tomorrow, and inspect several everyday things such as cashpoints, metro maps, usb sticks or coffee machines. Along with it, we'll have some Plaetzchen, and possibly Gluehwein yam Read More

No, not really. But it's quite close (and it actually also depends on how you twist the benchmark ;) ). When my desktop machine could start KDE in less than 4 seconds I was curious what would the situation be with this slow laptop, the one which started KDE in 5-6 seconds at aKademy. But that was with almost no fonts installed, no XIM, no wallpaper, the simplest splash and other tricks from the KDE performance tips page. Well, now it can do it in the same time even without that. It leaves GNOME few seconds behind and gets very close to Xfce startup time. Read More

If we now spend 1/3 of time in the dynamic linker, of course it helps not forgetting to run prelink. Here's the second bootchart for KDE again (and the Xfce one for comparison, although that one doesn't really change). I wonder if we can call it a draw for now :). Read More

[13:17:58] <Seli> boy, this machine sucks ... how am I supposed to benchmark anything if it fires up KDE in 3.7 seconds? Yeah, right, it's kinda stupid to work on performance when the machine is so fast that even sysprof sometimes doesn't produce enough samples and the machine has no support for CPU throttling or anything like that :(. I'll need to transfer the build from this AMD 2800+ to this slow 900MHz laptop I used at aKademy for the performance talk. Note that while I cheated a bit at aKademy, this is normal KDE startup. Still with warm disk caches, but fc-list says 249 fonts, I have a splash (the SUSE one, that is, ksplash is not exactly fast), I have a wallpaper, and while it is a bare KDE it is fully usable. And adding Konqueror, KWrite, Konsole and some of the default systray apps to the startup still keeps it slightly below 5 seconds. I'm curious what the laptop will do. Read More

Seems I scared some people with my 15 fonts story. So no more worrying, a SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 (pretty standard system) can be pretty quick: That is with 280 fonts - and as you can see my bash is up after 4 seconds. Of course this works only if your kdm will preload your data in the background, which it already does in 10.0 though. Read More

Sorry for the slight abuse of the blogosphere, but I did post this request (twice) on kde-devel, and got no replies. I'm having trouble getting my custom widgets working in Qt4 designer; read on if you think you might be able to help, or if you want to learn more about how to use custom widgets in the new designer. Read More

Last month nookie was on irc and we were talking about the msn clients out there. all of them functioned really well except for the look and feel of it. gaim is good but it looks as ugly as gnome it self. then we have kopete which works well with yahoo and other protocols but not so well with msn ( i think we have to blame Microsoft for that. kopete is wonderfully done.). Then we have kmess which is also really cool. but what all these clients lack in common is the themability the look and feel is fixed and there is very little the user can do to change the look and feel of the application.These day's we are planing things to write a client that is themable . but we don't really have an idea about how many people actually want some thing like this. Read More