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Boudewijn, the Krita maintainer has his first krita-latest.cmg on offer. It seems to be a resounding success to him, with the download number approaching 300 within the first 24 hours already, and some dozen feedback mails. He even found bugs (and fixed them too) which could not have been found without users actually starting to use the current Krita snapshot for real -- by kliking on the krita.cmg file. (Yes, we are also aware of some bugs which are due to the .cmg file -- missing libraries, missing symlinks; these will be fixed with the next krita.cmg). Boudewijn had success reports on Mandriva, SUSE 10, SuSE 9.3, Kanotix, Debian (with kde 3.4, so fairly adventurous debian users) -- but not all could actually import files. Since the package uses a compilation done on a KDE-3.4 system, there seem to be problems on running it on KDE-3.3 systems (So much for our own ABI backward compatibility, no? Uhmmm... or we better blame GCC for this, because it breaks the ABI of code compiled with each new minor version release). We will try and compile one of the next versions on a 3.3 system, and see if that helps (need to find or setup one first). Due to the success, Boudewijn is now a bit concerned, that the 2 Gig downloads caused by his krita.cmg may after all be giving his provider second thoughts. That's why we are looking into providing a klik://krita-latest shortcut via the klik server, that will fetch the copy of the krita bundle from another source than boud's server. Read More

Not only has IRC channel #klik on Freenode.net seen quite some influx in recent days. We now also run two new mailing lists hosted by KDE, both related to klik. Dirk was so nice to create them on very short notice for us: Read More

Hello World This is my first blog, now if I only knew how to get it posted on planetkde.org :-) So what am I up to - KimDaBa as usual, but I'll tell you much more about that later, first I need to ensure that this gets posted - stay tuned.

said George Staikos on the kde-promo mailinglist. So it seems that the August edition of NewsFactor magazine quoted some of our members of KDE community like Chris Schlaeger and Thomas Zander in an article titled "Revisiting the GUI Admin Debate". As I am not able to get that magazine here in the Netherlands I asked George for some proof. Read More

Seems like my Dot story on klik has kicked off a little avalanche.... One thing however that keeps it from growing right now is a DNS problem with the klik.atekon.de ISP provider. The klik server's IP address is 134.169.172.48. To work around the DNS problem, you should add the following entry to your /etc/hosts file: 134.169.172.48 klik.atekon.de This will help for installing the klik client scripts: Read More

Today, we'll have another Open Software Usability meeting in Berlin, 20.00, at relevantive. Today's topics: World Usability Day On November 3rd, it's the World Usability Day. We are planning an event in Berlin which will mainly address Open Source Usability. We have to discuss organisational things, such as finding a room, who volunteers, what talks and workshops to offer. CMS Usability Guidelines Once more, we will address Content Management Systems in order to specify User Interface Guidelines for CMS in the long run. After inspecting Typo3 a few weeks ago, we'll have a look at Mambo today and we'll set up relevant chapters of the future guidelines. On OpenUsability, there is a project for this purpose as well as a wiki. CMS for HTML Protoypes Furthermore, we want to clarify if CMS can be used to quickly produce HTML prototypes and click dummies which can be used for usability testing. Hope to see some of the Berlin guys there :) Read More

Barry Hawkins blogs about his reasons why he thinks working on free Java implementations is a good thing. Being a long time JavaLobby subscriber I have read several pieces of pro and contra and enjoyed several flamewars in the articles' trackbacks or forums :) Read More

Today I was asked on IRC (#kde-nl) if we have a decent wifi manager in KDE. KWifiManager does not work for him (hi rikva) as it has no support for WPA. To be honest I think we do not have a decent wifi manager in KDE currently. On KDE-apps.org you can find quite some tools. Some of them are really aging like KWirelessMonitor and KWlanInfo. When digging even further on KDE-apps.org you can find KiFi. Read More

In the few weeks since I'm back from malaga, I got a new contract consisting of writing a control application on an emebedded device (a lpc2138 based one). And no I don't use Qt on this. The reason is I only have 32KB of ram and 512KB of flash on the board. so I must write all the graphic primitive, a nice change from those multigigabytes desktop systems ... This remind me of my old Color Computer 3 :'-( I miss this computer ... Read More

This weekend I've been finally able to rest for a while. On saturday morning I went to get my car to be repaired but the person that I needed doesn't work on saturdays. On the afternoon I planned to send the aKademy awards to the winners, but it seems the post offices are closed on saturday afternoons... great. I'll send them on Monday afternoon after getting out of work. Read More