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On Jan 4th, 1999, the kde-common/accounts file was created by Stephan Kulow, but the idea is attributed to David Faure (no blog). After threatening removal of accounts for people who didn't report in, the kde-common/accounts file was created with 180 names. Read More

It's no overstatement to say that last week was one of the worst in my entire life. First, Saturday night, both of my bikes were stolen in front of my house (sometimes, Berlin sucks!). On Tuesday, after a business meeting in Munich, our airplane was cancelled. The substitute airplane had less rows than the original one making us feel like anchovies in a can. Even worse, on Wednesday, my hard disk crashed leaving a number of bad sectors where my home directory used to be. Hah - what a luck I did a BACKUP two weeks ago! Read More

I finally gave up on getting qt-copy from /work/kde4 to compile. I ended up editing Gentoo's 4.0.0 ebuild so that it installs into /usr/qt/4. Unlike the 3.x ebuilds, they decided to be FHS 'correct' and not use /usr/qt/4. This makes having both Qt3 and Qt4 installed at the same time problematic. Anyway, the edited ebuild is on my site. Read More

Thanks to Geiseri for working hard after his return and the Drupal guys helping to bring the Developer Journals back online. Happy blogging! :-)

Appologies to readers of planet.ubuntu.com, the return of kdedevelopers.org has done funny things to the RSS feeds (and planet.kde.org is even more broken). Edinburgh got taken over by anarchists the other weekend. We had to board up Subhi's new internet café to protect the rather fancy SIP phone setup he has inside. Read More

Over the last weeks I have been spending time on KDEPim and KMail in particular. Various usability and feedback issues have been fixed that bothered me before and I find KMail to be a lot more pleasant to use, fixing bugs beats working around them any day! Read More

I realize now my previous blog about khtml2 lacked explanation and introduction, sorry for this :| The idea is not that WildFox and myself can do better than khtml on the html front. In fact we know more about svg than html. So the idea is not to add new functionality to khtml, but keep the functionality like it is. Read More

The final round of voting for the 2005 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards has begun. KDE is nominated in no less than eight categories. What I especially like is that individual KDE application are nominated together with the top open source projects. KDevelop is competing with GCC and Eclipse in the development tool category. Kate runs with Vim and Emacs for the best text editor. Kontact is nominated with LaTex and OpenOffice.org for the office award. That shows again that KDE is not only a nicely integrated desktop, but also provides a fantastic environment to create world-class software projects. The final round closes 28 July 2005. Vote now! Read More

I thought I'd let the world know how I came to be managing a bit of the Google Summer of Code thing on the KDE side. I certainly had not expected it. And I think it's useful for contributors to know how they can join and help: it doesn't take much, just some free time and willpower. I won't lie, though: knowing the right people and being "in the loop" helps. Read More

I promised to report on the khtml2 progress, on behalf of WildFox, since he didn't find the time to report himself, having to go on a well deserved holiday :) Basically a lot of code is "ported", and Niko started on a lot of RenderObject related code. Because of this, a lot already shows up in screenshots, like lists, tables, general text, divs. etc. Have a look at these screenshots (I am not able to put them inline, since most are too big... ) : Read More