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One of the cool things about Qt that seems to be ignored is the QLayout classes. Most of us are content to use simple things like QHBox and QVBox layouts to get what we want. But what happens when you need more complex behavior? Well the trolls gave us the ability to create new layouts with a trivial amount of code... Read More

It's great to see the progress fontconfig does performancewise after such a long time without much progress. And it's great that Dirk and me are referred to as "perf guys" in the fontconfig changelog now :) Read More

KDE 3.5 has been released (press quote: "The newest version of KDE will have users happy that vendors have recently decided to keep supporting it"), the really last feature release in the until now three and a half years successful KDE 3 series. KDE 3.5.x will be the versions most users will use for likely more than a year (time until KDE 4 release + time until distributions pick it up + time until users upgrade). And KDE 3.5 will also be the version on the next year upcoming business desktop products which currently still ship KDE 3.2. Read More

Jan Muhelig from OpenUsability.org did a usability review of Guidance with Sebas back at Malaga. The report is now up at OpenUsability for those who are interested. I like to think that I know something about usability. I've been studying/reading about it since the mid-90s and applying it to the software that I design and construct. I thought Jan had some very good comments that we'll be soon putting into a future version of Guidance. After working with the code for so long you get blind to its usability faults. :-) It is really good to have someone who is still "fresh" go in and have a good look at what can be made better. Read More

Strange that there are still many people who care if a mailing list changes Reply-To header to point to the mailing list (usually called Reply-To munging) or not. Like if that matters ... I'm not even sure which mailing lists I'm subscribed to do or don't do that. Read More

I haven't blogged for a while again. To some extend because the things I'm doing at the moment have little to do with KDE. First of all, yes, it's true that I don't work for Trolltech and that I'm back in States. For now I took a leave of absence to work on some other things. Right now those other things are physics; superstring theory to be exact. I'd like to finish my research, write a paper and then we'll see what I'll be doing. Read More

I've been staying with a customer for month now and lives/work in a cubicle landscape - rather different from working from home which I'm used to. After approx one and a half month I got to talk about digital images with one of my inmates, and I told him about KimDaBa. First, that is rather extraordinary that I manage to work almost two month with a guy without having told him anything about KimDaBa :-) What is much more extraordinary is that he previously worked with Bibble Labs, and is close friends with the owner. Bibble is an image processing application that works on Linux. WHAT ARE THE ODDS? Well a new camera has been on my wishlist for a long time, but this opportunity was just too great, so I bought myself a new camera, and will try to see how KimDaBa can work together with Bibble. Read More

I like fanmail, I get them occationally, it makes me feel loved. This guy might need some guidance in the correct direction though. hey jon.whtz up. i m frm india. i m a IT engineering student.i wanna b a hacker.will u plz help me.plz reply me.i would like 2 join u.plz reply me. thnx

After a fight with nature and facing certain death in the face I am safely back home in the warmth with a nice cup of tea. What appeared to be fun and exciting this morning turned out to be more then a little too much. From nice autumn weather to 20 cm of snow in one day. Suffice to say that the only viable mode of transportation tonight is walking. Bicycles are normally seen everywhere here in Holland, but today you will not get 100 meters without falling flat on your face. Cars have an advantage with extra wheels, you'd think. Well, not really they don't have any grip either and going to fast means you will end up hitting the sidewalk. Read More

The other day I spent quite a lot of time at work working with timezones and daylight savings in an application. This application interacts with an airport system to get the times at which the planes arrive and so, it has to do some calculations for timezones and DST. Read More