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Ricoh USA just delivered to me (as representing KDE) a nice color laser printer (CL4000DN). It looks very impressive and it prints like a fairy tale charm. The hero in this is George Liu, Linux engineer at Ricoh, believes in KDE's technologies and wants Linux to succeed (printing aspects withstanding). He energically advocates Linux at Ricoh. Read More

Featuritis is a condition in which the functionality of an application increases with each revision (and such, complexity increases). The functionality that aggravates this condition is usually that which a single user (or group) requests (or is given) without consideration of the implications it has on the rest of the users, interface, and experience the application is meant to address. Read More

/\ndy Hunt one of the pragmatic programmers interviews Caleb Tennis, author of the new book Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby in this podcast. Caleb has just done a long overdue new release of Qt3 QtRuby and Korundum on the RubyForge site, although we haven't announced it yet. I hope to do a first relealse of Qt4 QtRuby in the next couple of weeks, and put it up on RubyForge too.

KDE 3.5 Beta 2 has been announced and the full range of testing possibilities is available: My small "Klax" Live-CD has been updated to KDE 3.5 Beta 2 and KOffice 1.4.2. The CD made news on Distrowatch and led to some screenshots on OSdir.com. For building from source the "Unstable KDE" edition of the Konstruct script has been updated. And there are packages for SUSE Linux 10.0 and 9.3 available (packages for 9.2 and 9.1 do also exist and may be uploaded if there is demand and once the KDE mirrors have fetched the current distributions' packages). And of course KDE 3.5 Beta 2 will be also on SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 which will be published on Thursday. Read More

I spent last week in the Canary Islands seeing a company called Fotón Sistemas Inteligentes in Santa Brigida, Gran Canaria. I stayed with Gonzalo, Marianne his girlfriend and their 11 cats and their very 'woofy' dog. They showed me the mountains with spectacular views of the island, although it was a bit windy high up. It really is a very pretty place. Wednesday is a public holiday in Spain, so Foton had a barbecue Tuesday evening on the roof of their offices. They did some 'Sardinas' for me just like the ones we had at the Malaga beach party - nice! Everyone is very friendly and I'm really looking forward to learning Spanish, and working with them. Read More

... is so useful for UI design. Other than a GUI builder it allows for quickly changing input widgets and even whole dialog sequences without programming efforts. It is fast, efficient, and you can put many elements next to each other - till your table or whatever pad you use is full. Still you can easily overlook everything without a zoom that decreases the font sizes. Read More

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

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

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

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