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Update: The fontconfig packages linked from this post seem to cause KDE bug #116176 with KDE3.5 packages. Well, I warned you. Biggest at least in terms of slowness and memory usage. Yes, I'm talking about fontconfig checking all fonts and building an in-memory representation at application startup, as already mentioned in the KDE performance tips page. This fontconfig problem has had a noticeable impact on memory usage and startup time of KDE applications. But that has come to an end now it seems. Read More

Into hell. That is where I went this weekend. Those of you who've been around me a little bit understand that I suffer from migraines. A lot. Well, yesterday I suffered like I've never suffered before. It began in the morning with an unusual headache for me. Unusual, because it was not a migraine, rather it was a regular headache across the full forehead and seemed familiar to rebound headaches I have experienced from time to time. This headache persisted throughout the day until it turned into my old friend --a full blown head splitting migraine-- in the early afternoon. Read More

The IT news site Golem.de has picked up the topic of klik now. It is very obvious that they actively tested klik themselves (although they do not write so), not just paraphrased other people's writings, and that they were mainly intrigued by the klik://enlightenment option. Proof: a series of 8 very nicely done screenshots. Read More

I never liked the idea that girls are technically less interested than boys or get less into technology. But this user survey we are conducting really keeps frustrating me!!! Background: Two weeks ago, we started interviewing people on how they organise their documents and files on their hard disk. We asked random people who showed up for a web usability test, that means our participants covered all types of internet users between 18 and 50 years. Read More

probono has introduced a new feature on the klik comments website. It auto-creates a right-hand column with current quotes from Google search results: sites and Blogs linking back to the klik website. Read More

This is a first little highlight of what klik is able to do. Previously, the autogenerated the klik://enlightenment package didn't really work, because usually your $DISPLAY is already occupied by KDE, yes? Enlightenment-17 being a window manager, it wanted the exclusive access to an X server display, but the :0 one was already the realm of the host's KDE. Yes, we could have gone for :1 -- but which user would have discovered it running there? Everyone would have thought it didn't work, and some would even have sent bug reports. (Hey, and if the above klik://enlightenment link didn't work for you, go back to my previous blog entries, or to the Dot story and read up on how to install the klik client.) Read More

The website Podcastinfo.nl, an initiative by Bernard Flach, mentions Amarok as an excellent player which comes default with podcasting support.

amarok podcasting rocks, but it's not only big in .nl, Fab! Deutschlandfunk (Cologne) and Deutschlandradio Kultur (Berlin) are two german nationwide broadcasters that deliver lots of informational content. Both recently introduced podcasting for some of their shows. On their page about podcasts, they introduce podcast reception with iTunes AND amarok. Go for it! Read More

I've now prepared 2 klik-able kdeedu packages. I compiled with "--enable-debug=full". One of the packages is stripped to save space and bandwidth. However, I recommend you to run the one with debug symbols included. This way a meaningful backtrace or konsole output is possible: Read More

The klik-enabled kdeedu-3.5 packages compiled from today's Subversion checkout are now up for download. (We do not offer yet a working klik://kdeedu link, though). They have passed some initial testing on SUSE-9.3 (with KDE-3.4.2), SUSE-10.0 and Kanotix 2005-03-DVD. They should be working fine on all KDE 3.4 systems. The package uses a $KDEHOME of $HOME/.kdeklik so it does not interfere with your standard $KDEHOME. It builds its own $KDESYCOCA, so startup needs some time. Let me know of any additional systems it works on (I am currently learning how to prepare this -- I need your feedback), as well as the exact error messages that pop up. Read More