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So, by writing now I am keeping my last promise that my next entry would be about the project that I have been working on. However, maybe I should have written earlier than exactly 2 months later. Read More

Every time a new KimDaBa user shows up, I hear the same sentence over and over again: This is exactly the software I need, I just wish I had found it a long time ago. Read More

KDE 3.5 Beta 1 packages for SUSE distributions versions 9.1 to 10.0 are available. These packages are unsupported and completely untested. We are nevertheless interested in package related bug reports over at openSUSE because KDE 3.5 Beta will be also the desktop of SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 1 which will be published next week. A few packages like kdemultimedia, kdenetwork and the translations are still missing but will be added once they are built. Read More

Time to reveal a few more of the little tricks around klik... This time it is "How do I fix a klik AppDir bundle if it does not work the way I want it to work?" Read More

Huzzah! (would friend Aaron say), klik.atekon.de is again found by DNS. kliktestbox:~> nslookup klik.atekon.de Server: 195.20.224.234 Address: 195.20.224.234#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: klik.atekon.de Address: 134.169.172.48 That's since about 30 minutes ago. Hopefully it stays like that. After all, there wasn't any problem since the server went online, more than a year ago. Read More

Ariya sent an email to the KOffice list today passing along this link to an interview with the program lead for MS Office 12's new UI. All I can say is WOW. This is stunning stuff. A colossal change and, IMO, a great one. They have taken an incredibly complex app and eliminated all of the menu's without eliminating the functionality. They've also made it so that none of the functionality is hidden. Read More

I've quite often thought of getting my own webspace. But what next? cms, blog or wiki? which software to use? what fits my purpose? Bjoern yesterday pointed this site to me: Read More

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.