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This morning I woke up and heard the slushing sound of the occasional car and bike driving past through the perpetual open window of my bedroom. Oh, rain again, was my first impression. Sliding open the curtains required just my arm above the covers and I could then see a darkish-gray sky. Ugh, I'm staying in bed a bit longer. Read More

Theres been lots of talk and speculation what a new KMenu would look and act like. I presented some background research as well as some of my own ideas at aKademy in August. I had sketches, diagrams, and notes of what a new system could look and act like, but nothing too visual which didnt require reading my book (literally a notebook full) of notes. Read More

It's getting winter here. I drank my second "Glühwein" today and the day after tomorrow the "Christkindlesmarkt" at Nürnberg will open, one of the most famous Christmas markets on the world. Bicycling is only mildly fun because it gets your fingers, toes and ears frozen, but all in all I like this time of the year. Dark evenings at home provide the opportunity to do some of the things you always wanted to do. In my case that's finishing some tasks I accepted as board member of the KDE e.V., continuing on establishing OpenSync as the one unified syncing solution for the Linux desktop and preparing to get back into KDE PIM coding. This all is promising to be some fun :-)

Yes, that's right, I am once again at my favorite telescope in northern Chile. Getting a metric assload of data, which should keep me busy for a while. Normally, I would say at this point that it's nice to get away from winter and experience a summery Southern November, but I happen to live in Tucson, AZ, so I am actually missing the best weather of the year! :p Read More

Redefine yourself with this interaction architect job title generator. My favorite: Information Deity Runner up: Digital philosopher

From the KOrganizer coding style guidelines: "A null pointer is 0, not 0l, 0L or NULL. Once again, this is C++, not C." Hmmm. If you get bored sometimes, try to compile with gcc something like "void foo( int ); ... foo( NULL );" and see what happens. And then what happens with "foo( 0 );" (and yes, I remember fixing a bug in KDE caused by this). Ok, NULL is not what it really should be, but C/C++ have many small weird things (ever wondered why binary operators | and & have so stupid priority? It's called backwards compatibility lasting for more than 30 years). Moreover, I wonder, why are symbolic constants C but not C++?

Most people have lots of different ideas during the day. Some are good ones, some are, well, not so good. But sometimes you realize that one of your ideas was special, just the right thing at the right time. Exactly this was my feeling when I realized that it was a realistic opportunity for KDE to join efforts with OpenSync. Solving the problem of syncing data between desktops, applications and mobile devices once and for all suddenly became a reachable goal. The path to the one unified syncing solution for the Linux desktop lay clear ahead. Read More

I want to use KPresenter. Really, I do. And of course, this being a presentations software, I want to do with it a presentation. By its very own implicit definition, a presentation has to be attractive yet simple, suggestive yet discrete. But mostly, it has to be aesthetically pleasing. Beautiful. Well, KPresenter's default templates are darn ugly. All of them. The only ones remotely usable are the KDE3 one and, somehow, the KDE2 and KDE1 ones. And... ugly surprise, the KDE2 and KDE1 were made by ... me! Back in 1999 (this is in antiquity, for who doesn't care to do the math). If 2/3 of the acceptable templates of KPresenter are made by an aesthetics-challenged, artistically-incompetent semi-doct developer aeons ago, we're really in bad shape. Read More

... you're bored :) so I browsed the web and I found this interesting website (ok sort of) http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/ and http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/ so my Hobbit name is Gorbulas Bumbleroot of Fair Downs and Elf one is Angrod Celebrindal Read More

KDE 3.5 RC 1 has entered the supplementary/KDE repository on ftp.suse.com and its mirrors. If you previously missed YaST definitions next to the packages hosted on ftp.kde.org, here you go. openSUSE.org has instructions how to add package repositories to YaST. Don't forget to turn on "Refresh" for the installation source if you run SUSE Linux 10.0 so you will not miss any future updates.