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Last night I have been lurking around at the KDE Artists website and saw a lot of cool contributions: Adrien Facelina 1 2 3, The-Error 1 2 3, Michael Doches 1, Lee Olson 1, Sebastian Sariego B 1 2 3, Will Hardy 1. Nuno Pinheiro, Danya (from Flat* and Monochrome iconset fame) and Robert Wadley are working on the KDE icon set for OpenOffice.org (beware, this page is a hefty download and also a bit outdated I was told). We now see artists stepping up to work on al sorts of artwork stuff lately. Derek Kite of KDE Commit Digest fame asked for help on a new lay out for the Digest. Read More

Alex Dymo has organised a KDevelop Developers conference, and I'm here in Kiev for a week with other KDevelop hackers. We gave a full day of presentations yesterday about all aspects of KDevelop and our future plans. I gave my second public talk ever, about ruby support and the QtRuby/Korundum bindings. It didn't go too badly apart from my iBook not working with the projector, and everything crashing in the middle of demoing the KDevelop ruby debugger. Oh well. I mainly need to get the hang of KPresenter - I wasn't as nervous as in my first talk even if I'm not exactly slick yet. Anyway, it was great go out to another part of the world to encourage Free Software. The audience were interested in what we had to say, and asked some good questions. At the end we took lots of photos of everyone behind the conference banner. Read More

this latex package is awesome and it make great presentation. Since today I'm recovering from canada day I decided to program something different so I started to make my own beamer theme for KDE presentation. Read More

I'm a bit late, but I also want to share some of my impressions from LinuxTag last week. As always it was fun. It's always nice to meet with other OSS developers, be it gnomes, X devs, the mplayer guys and of course, our KDE fellows :-) A big thanks goes to the people who organized our KDE booth, so especially to Joseph Spillner this year. We had four nice boxes there, two running SUSE, and two running kUbuntu, both very nice although quite different distributions. SUSE is good for exhibitions since a lot of the visitors are using it and so if they have problems it's easier to help them if you have the same system at hand. The kUbunto installations OTOH were more up to date. On all machines there was also amarok and kaffeine installed, kpdf and kdevelop had to be installed afterwards. There were a lot of questions related to KDE PIM: KMail, Kontact, so ideally there should always be at least one KDEPIM person around. As usual the top question was "what's new ?" I think at the booth there should always be one box running KDE HEAD, just to be able to demonstrate new cool stuff. And of course there were questions about KDE 4. I tried to do my best, talked about the split of the Qt lib, the lower memory requirements and the fewer symbols to resolve, multimedia, arts, gstreamer and NMM and usability. The announcement of the cooperation between Wikipedia and KDE was quite impressive to me. Is this now really the beginning of a new era ? Wikipedia contains really a lot of information, available freely on the Internet. All this content is created by small contributions of individuals. Which company would be able to create such a big pool of knowlegde itself ? NMM, the network multimedia middleware seems also to be taking the lead in well, network-enabled multimedia stuff. Stream video and audio seemlessly between different devices, different operating systems, it stays synchronously, the are no gaps, really impressive. And all these things can now be used by free software applications. This opens up completely new opportunities, maybe superior to todays commercial software. Has it ever been possible for individuals to create things made up from such powerful components ? ... standing on the shoulders of giants... Last but not least a list of people/projects who were not at LinuxTag: Read More

Fedora is being called a community effort by RedHat. Despite that and demand it doesn't create decent KDE packages. Their KDE still defaults to the ugly and buggy "BlueCurve" style of the past "BlueCurve" age which tried to give GNOME and KDE applications a similiar look. Nowaday's joke is that KDE's default style "Plastik" looks more similar to Fedora GNOME's "Clearlook" style than "BlueCurve". Read More

Wikipedia has just won the most important prices german journalism in two categories -- the Grimme Online Awards. I am proud that we have teamed up with such a cool project. I wish I could contribute more time to Wikipedia. Another price went to BILDblog, one of the most important watchblogs that I know. Congratulations to you all! Read More

As it turned out yesterday, even ferrets like KDE: But unfortunately they make KDE apps crash sometimes, so KDE can't be certified as ferret-proof yet. Which brings us to the fact, that the research field of animal-centric computing was neglected for too long. What tremendous opportunities we have here! Just compare the numbers: There live trillions of animals on planet earth, where the homo sapiens population is ridiculously small. You can't seriously talk about world domination if you don't take this into account. Read More

Isn't it nice? FreeNX hurries up! There are things for which I care more than for most, simply because I feel that they are bent to drive the world as we know it to become a much better place. One other such thing is FreeNX Read More

This is just a short note to congratulate physos and everyone involved for the great new look docs.kde.org now has. Even after all these years, KDE contributors continue to amaze me in terms of the quality of the material they produce. Read More

Hi, maybe you know it already, but I just learned it last week from Carsten at LinuxTag: if you have an email account at gmx, enter "webdav://mediacenter.gmx.net" in konqueror (or any other KDE application), and you get access to the mediacenter area of gmx. IOW one gigabyte storage available for free at your fingertips, thanks to the marvellous KDE ioslave architecture as comfortable to use as your local harddisk :-) In the authentication dialog just enter your complete gmx email address and password, and that's all. Wasn't that easy ? Read More