Skip to content

KDE Blogs 

Friday, 16 September 2005

Linux.com: Kexi is lightning fast in comparison to OpenOffice.org Base

Read more in this article. It's a comparison with Kexi 0.9 from may 29, also read some my explanation.
Friday, 16 September 2005

The pinnacle of usability

Just saw a Yes/No dialog (in KDE, I specify, to avoid confusion) with tooltips installed on the Yes and No pushbuttons. The tooltips read "Yes" and "No" respectively. I'm flabbergasted!
Thursday, 15 September 2005

Bug reports

(Yes, blogs are slowly becoming what mailing lists always were anyways... It's my secret theory that blogs were invented by people a) discontent with their visibilities on dedicated mailing lists and b) not willing to mix their greatness with the commoners ;-) Read More
Thursday, 15 September 2005

Hello, Fellow Planet SUSE Bloggers :)

Pipitas  | 
planetsuse.org is now syndicating my blog. Thanks James, for taking my feed to your part of our world. -- Hello, fellow planetSUSE bloggers :) Maybe it was this rather interesting bug that helped proof that I have somehow some relationship with the Green Geeko Distro. Read More
Thursday, 15 September 2005

KBiff 4ever

Fab  | 
This nifty mail notification utility has popped up at KDE-apps.org now! Kudos to Kurt Granroth for maintaining this cool piece of software!
Thursday, 15 September 2005

My leaving the bug reports discussion

Wow! I'm glad I'm not in Calgary tonight, or Aaron might have come down to my place and beat me up ;-) ) Anyways I will refrain from wielding back at him my (past century) sarcasm and irony weaponry. Read More
Thursday, 15 September 2005

On measuring memory usage

Oh boy. Gwenview uses 83% more memory than Kuickshow (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9847 - the last comment as of now). BTW I especially like the "83%" part - it's just one case and the measurement is imprecise, but it can't be "about 80%" or "almost double". Reminds me of all those "hair 74% stronger" ads. Anyway. Read More
Thursday, 15 September 2005

reorganisation

Chouimat  | 
I took me more than a week to be back on the right timezone, process all the emails,voicemails from various persons, and I'm still not fully 100% operational, but I'm getting there ( I hope). And while I was processing all this "stuff" I realised that I wanted to write something, and this something doesn't mean it's a piece of software, it can be anything. Since I'm notin top shape yet, I have no clue of what this something can be ... maybe I will take 2 asperines and go to sleep tonight and I will have forgotten this .... or maybe not
Wednesday, 14 September 2005

How Can Coders Give Access To Bleeding Edge Development Binaries To Help Their Non-Techie Contributors?

Pipitas  | 
How can KDE developers find ways to make binary packages of bleeding-edge code directly available to be run by usability experts for early feedback? And if you are less interested in cooperating with usability people (like mornfall ;-P ), you may still ask yourself: How can KDE developers make their bleeding-edge packages available to beta-testers? How let translators see (in their actual, lively GUI context) the strings they work on? How to enable art designers to actually *run* a program they are contributing icons and other artwork for? How can these groups of non-technical KDE contributors (who are not typically compiling KDE every night from the latest checked-out sources) get a full preview of what will go out to our users on Release Day? How can this happen long before the final release, practically 5 minutes after the code was written and compiled, and long before there are official packages created by everyone's favorite distro? Read More
Monday, 12 September 2005

A good laugh?!

El  | 
Need a funny start for this week? Try Microsoft tries to recruit me by Eric S. Raymond.