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Since some months the accessibility feature of khtml is a lot more aggressive; in 3.4 only sites that specify shortcuts hijack the control key, so you probably never saw the feature this blog is about. In 3.5 pressing ctrl, and releasing it again will show a lot of little windows all over your page on the spots a href is located. The little window has the same yellow background color as a tooltip and shows 1 character. Pressing that character will activate the link. Sounds great for people that don't want (or can't) to use the mouse, and as a workaround for the entirely unintuitive ordering of using tab to access the links. Read More

I've got myself a new toy: a Soekris net4801 Here is a nice gallery of images for it. In the more distant future it is supposed to take over the position of the firewall on my home network, but right now it is fair game for doing geek stuff ;) Read More

Hmm ... I should wish things more often. I complained about the lack of any usable memory reporting tool on Linux, and only a couple of days later I discovered exmap. Unlike e.g. top with its number of useless memory usage values, exmap has only three of them. Read More

I started working on some C# bindings a couple of years ago called Kimono, and got it to the 'proof of concept' stage. It uses Transparent Proxies to funnel every call to the Qt api to a single SmokeInvocation.Invoke() method. Inside Invoke() it looks up the method in the Smoke library's runtime, marshalls the arguments and calls it. I've just adapted the code generation to work with the Qt4 classes, and checked the code into trunk/playground/bindings/kimono. Read More

Last Friday I had my first free day. And what did I do? Likely not what normal people would do. I participated on Friday and Saturday the Berlinux 2005 event. Berlinux took place the second time under that name and location and has only regional impact - but it's growing. I took some pictures with still the same old shitty camera. The KDE booth was (wo)manned by me, Ellen and Ossi. As usual for these events, I didn't find time to attend the talks - except my own about KDE 3.5 (no slides available as I used none). Spent most time at the booth answering questions or talking to other exhibitors. But I didn't fail to attend the social event with tasty buffet and the GPG key signing. And just before departing I paid a ransom to free a Geeko from BSD slavery (task: spot Geeko on the pic). Read More

One other improvement was introduced by probono yesterday: the beginning of a recipe maintainer interface on the klik web server. klik started out to provide a means to install additional software packages into Linux system running from a Live CD (Knoppix, Kanotix). It is now extending its reach, to make its compelling ideas available to more users, on more distros, and also to developers. Read More

Finally got around to fixing some issue with Konsole with the latest kdelibs4_snapshot. The menus work and you can create multiple sessions/tabs again. The actual terminal widget still needs some TLC. Anyway, Konsole is at least useable. I haven't really looked at Qt4/KDE4 much. Read More

One of the improvements to klik that has taken substance over the weekend is this: each future .cmg created on the client side by executing the klik recipe for the bundle now includes "file.list". This enumerates the input files and their URL source that where used to cook up the final .cmg dish (hrmm..., maybe we should have named it "ingredients.list" to stay in tune with the recipe theme). This is in the interest of making it easier, even months after using a .cmg for the first time, to track where the files came from. It will also enable current and future klik recipe maintainers to get their job done more easily. Read More

This weekend saw some more progress in klik development. Before I write about the details involved, let me first re-iterate some very simple facts about how klik works. I think it is required, given some of the emails I received, and some of the questions asked in IRC. Read More

[21:25] <uga> chouimat|laptop: shame to know antonio larrosa went closed source =( [21:25] <uga> antlr-2.7.4-8.noarch.rpm [21:26] <chouimat|laptop> uga: ROFL!!!!!!! [21:26] <thiago> lol