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I have now extended a certain myscreen feature kde-wide... buzz ratings! Check the charts at http://myscreen.org/buzz As this is the first calculation, naturally the "change" indicator is flat - however, I will probably run the calculation once a day. Read More

I have been busy working on Datakiosk and am nearing a new release. I know many folks are a bit puzzled by this application, so to dispel the wonder I have cooked up a pretty cool demonstration of Datakiosk thanks to Klik. This new release will add some pretty significant new features. Read More

The weekend thusfar has turned out to be pretty productive. Sunshine, KMenu work, SVN access.. I got a lot done, and I still have a few more waking hours! This has been the first weekend in a few months I havnt had to travel or work, so I am enjoying every minute of it (and spending it WORKING anyway :) Read More

I finally got to Castelló after a 1 hour and 30 minutes delay waiting to get in to the plane at the airport. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll give a KDE user talk at the iParty, at 16:00 . I initially plan to show some apps in depth (as well as some "tricks" or "hidden features" on some of them). I'll show konqueror, kontact (+kolab), kopete, amarok, digikam, kimdaba, klick, kstars (to show how to see the sun eclipse that will be seen in Spain next monday) ... is there any other application or some idea of what you think that should be shown? Read More

A few days ago probono started blogging... and I didn't know or notice. Creative as he is, he called the thingie "klikblog"... ;-) If even I didn't know, how should the world at large? So let me quote in full his entry for today (hrmm... no, it was yesterday in our part of the world): "NewsForge asks to Send in the Skype clones, so here they are: Which do you like best, klik://skype, klik://gizmo, or klik://wengophone? Or do you prefer KDE’s klik://kphone? klik://kiax or klik://minisip maybe?" Read More

... they did it! Yesterday, the first "Restzeitampel" (remaining time traffic lights) was put into operation in Hamburg, Germany. Typically German, they outmatched the approach I described a few weeks ago by adding the hint "Green in [seconds]" . Strange enough, they write Green in red! Read More

For those that use KDE Automated Test Report located at http://kde.icefox.net/tests/, I have created a new script that generates a different report. It is a Ruby script, playground/base/kdetestscripts/create_module_reports.rb, that displays every file and the errors/warnings for that file on a per module basis (kdelibs, kdebase, etc). Read More

So Tom's story hit Slashdot. A lot of responses, from simply requests to almost flame-like comments asked KDE4 to simply be fast. I feel urged to comment on that: Qt4 gives us a major speedup in first place. The KDE3 codebase that we ported to Qt4 is already faster than "Kanzler" (this seems to be a general positive thing about Qt4, see also here). As Aaron has indicated quite a few times during aKademy, Plasma will not only bring a nicer look, but also unify applications that have previously been separated, resulting in a faster-loading, tighter integrated Desktop Environment. KDE 4 will have eye candy, but it will still work nice and fluent on computers without modern gfx cards. Also, every decent 2D-gfx card will soon be accelerated by Exa, resulting in improved graphics performance. The granularity of libs will be a lot finer, resulting in applications that only load whatever they need. But with preloading and all the other fancy magic in modern memory management, memory whiners that base their analysis on top & co. should be careful about their results anyway. And finally: There is no hidden agenda or ally with graphics card vendors whatsoever, so we have no interest to make KDE slow, the contrary is, of course, the case. After all, we are also using KDE, and nobody of us likes to wait, either. Conclusion: Yes, KDE 4 will also be about speed, it will hopefully be even speedier than KDE 3, but that's something that future development will show. Read More

OpenOffice.org 2 has been announced as available in Release Candidate 1 shape. The SUSE-RPM is 126 MByte to download (if you include German language support). Happy installing... Oh, wait. If you install these, not only will your download time have to be accounted for, the action will also overwrite your current installation of OOo2. (OK, that might be a pretty safe bet. After all, it will replace a previous Alpha or Beta build of OOo, and likely will not do any harm.) But upon installation, it will expand to over 300+ Mbyte and 3000+ files in 300+ directories on your harddisk. And you will not be able to just copy the installed application from your office workstation to your notebook to your home computer to your Knoppix CD.... Read More

I got very nice word from Jure Repnic that the books started to get to destination. And Jure says "... I hope we se a similar book for KDE 4 ...". I surely desire so. If only time... Read More