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I gave today the presentation I prepared for the last few weeks for a work-related international conference. I'm pleased with how things went. Tomorrow the conference ends. From then on, I'll go in 6th gear on preparing for the trip to San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo. I will go there thanks to the very generous people at Ricoh. Read More

As usual we can't get a day without any "attacks" from troll about how KDE suck and how GNOME is the one true desktop. Some people are pleading for more interoperability between the 2 projects, which might be good that will depend if both projects are free to choose how they do it. If one is forcing its technologies to the other then this is WRONG. Read More

Congratulations to Novell for deciding, according to several reports, to open the development process for SUSE Linux as "OpenSUSE". Also for planning to spread it as widely as possible while keeping the boxed retail version with manuals/support. Looking forward to next week to play with a public SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta. Reading the comments about it the "criticising but uninformed" user type caught my eye again: those guys who once tried something or picked up an argument which is out-dated today but keep posting it because they are experts. In the case of KDE we know the "not based on Free Software licensed library", "KDE is slow" etc. people. In case of SUSE people state it would not be Open Source or Free Software (referring to YaST, it's GPL since last year) or not freely available for download (FTP installations exist for years) or as ISO images (also not true for last releases) or no single community support or package site would exist. Lord, give them some clue! Read More

So yesterday I finally switched the make_kget_cool to qt4 and some hours ago I finished to compile and install kde4. Wow! That wasn't hard as I thought. I started my work on a new sidebar that in the future will show nice animations effects when downloading files. Read More

I'm not the emotional type. But... In a very distant past, I was co-author to the "KDE 2.0 Development" book. One colateral outcome of this happening was that I got 5 copies of the book. My own annotated book is on my shelf, of course. The other 4 copies rested o a out-of-the-way shelf for the last 5 years. Now, my rational brain told me this is nonesense. Thus, I donated one copy to the library of my university. I was resolute into putting the other 3 in the recycling bin. But I couldn't, even if (I still maintain) I'm not the emotional type... Read More

Holydays finally! And a lot more time to develop :) And even if here it's too hot and humid (today: 40°), the last two days i spent a lot of time coding the two most requested features for kmobiletools: phonebook importing and exporting. Of course, the first step was to add a new contact, with a proper dialog that let select you what numbers to add, where to save and so on.. After implementing the api to store a contact, it's easy to store N contacts.. and so an entire KAddressBook :-) And the same thing applies to saving the phonebook to a file, or appending it to the KDE AddressBook, 'cause i already had the mobile addressees into a QPtrList. The result is still a bit unmanaged, but already usefull: you can simply have a backup of your mobile phone on a file by pressing a key, and put it back again in the mobile; or you can merge the phonebook in KDE. What we still need: something like metacontacts, so you can have multiple sources for each entry, and a way to handle duplicates. Also, i'd like to play a bit with OpenSync, since it maybe the real solution for integrating mobile phones data with kde. And tomorrow, stop syncing, and let's go to the sea :) Read More

KDE 3.5 Alpha will be tagged in three days and many applications in /branches/KDE/3.5 still show the version number they had in the 3.4.0 release. :-( I usually go trough all modules before releases and look for many applications whether there have been changes since last release and if the version number has been already increased. This is time-consuming and I don't feel that I should be doing it. Please maintainers of applications (or as fallback contributors to) increase version numbers regularly! Read More

It's seems for certain persons the concept of "Can you give more info?" as a reply for the classical :"Doesn't work!" or "It's just crash" is hard to grasp or even totally alien to their way of thinking. And the worse is when those persons are supposed to be Computer professionals ... in some case I actually wonder if they were gone to take a leak when $DEITY distributed the intelligence, anyway some are just ... I'm not sure if I have enough English vocabulary to describe them. Read More

Boy, what a week. I spent 2 days at the Krita Hackaton. I went there with the background that I know about KOffice and saw Krita ones or twice so I could contribute at least some technical and usability knowledge. What I found was that Krita is actually the most promising KDE application I currently know of. I did mostly usability consulting and some hacking to fix the rotating of the toolbox so you can drop it to be a simple toolbar, if you want. Didn't do much more hacking since I borrowed an older laptop and compiling was slow. Read More

I just realised that I'm feeling a weird and almost forgotten emotion ... I'm currently enjoying what I'm doing while working on M.2 and this realisation bring tears of joy to my eyes ... and I must admit that after years (ok let say something like 17) wandering the world and being eternaly bored it's scaring me ... maybe I won't be able to deal with this and go back to my bored self ... we will see :) Read More