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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

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So my Dot article about klik is now online. It has had already 40 comments within 2 hours, mostly positive. It contains a concrete, workable proposal how to accelerate KDE development: accelerating it by bringing our non-technical/non-coding contributors more closely to the "bleeding edge" code. We can do this by handing out bleeding edge binaries of KDE application development snapshots to our non-techies... Read More

Last night I figured I would do something useful and go through the Suse 10.0 rc1 installation. It is a very pretty and straightforward installation process provided you have the CD media to install packages. One button label, which was EVERYWHERE, bothered me a bit: Read More