Categories:
Tuesday, 18 October 2005
The underdog, ApiDox and love for KWord
Zander
|
It apparently is pretty hard to write api-dox for your new classes, as is show by recent blogs from ade and Boudewijn. I fully agree with Boudewijn that it is the least interesting thing to work on, but I have been around long enough to know that dox is just like sex; even having a little is better then nothing at all. And when its good, its really really good, inviting you to give back as good as you can..
Read More
Sunday, 16 October 2005
Install Hell
I finally decided to replace my sick hard drive, which had been hobbling along for months. I decided to take this as an opportunity to try out the new SUSE 10.0. I've been a happy Gentoo user for a few years, but I've heard good things about SUSE and wanted to try a distro that would "just work". cue foreboding music...
Read More
Saturday, 15 October 2005
KDE buildbot preview now available
As Adriaan de Groot alluded to in one of his recent blogs, I've been working on a automatic builder for KDE. With much thanks to ade for hosting this, and for assistance in getting it set up, I can now tell you that the builder is up and running on http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org:8010 [Yep, kdelibs is broken right now]
Read More
Friday, 14 October 2005
Save the musiK!
Uga
|
In case you haven't noticed, there's a nice cute little menu in amaroK's playlist which mentions the horrible word "delete". Yes sir, delete, as in "remove completely from your harddisk". The option is side by side with "remove from playlist" option, so loosing your files by mistake is so easy. (nobody reads warnings nowadays, and everyone knows that).
Read More
Thursday, 13 October 2005
Can we learn something from GNOME startup time analysis?
I mean these analysis: http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/
Tell me if I am wrong but has KDE something to gain in this department?
Using mmapped data structures and/or RAM-disk? Using Suspend-To-Disk-Like trick so most, once prelinked, libraries can be saved to disk and restored on next startup just in one second by loading one large file?
Read More
Thursday, 13 October 2005
Kubuntu Breezy
Jriddell
|
Kubuntu Breezy is out. Grab it while it's fresh (and make sure you use a mirror that has synced).
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/breezy-release.php
There's some fun stuff in this releases, best of all is Adept the package manager. At long last .deb distributions have a decent package manager. It needs some extra features, usability review and a cut down version along the lines gnome-app-install but we have the ability to do all that now quite easily.
Read More
Thursday, 13 October 2005
The name game
Krake
|
Since it is currently en vogue to ponder about the use of the KDE name, I have no other joice to join the fun ;)
While the focus has been on the topic of applications, it also applies to developers: when can a developer call himself a KDE developer?
Read More
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Compactons, rain and coding style guides
Finally, I've chosen the subject to research for my DEA (the investigation that precedes the thesis of a PhD). The title is "Computational analysis of the propagation of compactons in non-lineal transmission lines". I don't know much about compactons yet, but I'm looking forward to start working on that.
Read More
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
World Usability Day @ Berlin
El
|
[image:1534 align=center width=300 class=showonplanet]
Our site for the Berlin event in the scope of the World Usability Day on November 3rd is up:
www.usabilitytag.de Layout and Design by tina and holehan.
Read More
Sunday, 9 October 2005
Go Faster Lights
Jriddell
|
This nice machine got dropped off yesterday for some AMD64 goodness and uberfast compiles.
But if that wasn't fast enough, turn down the ambient light and it sports triple shades of go faster LEDs through its groovy transparent box.
Read More