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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!

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

Today M2/ARRRGGH reached a new point in his young life. I managed to get the remote management ioslave and the server part of the protocol working. I have a lot of work to do because the protocol is currently plain text. In the next few days I won't a lot of time to work on it I have some contracts to finish ... if only I could have enough money to work all the time on m2/arrrggh ... but that will never happen. Read More

I miss Snapple ice-tea. For some reason they don't seem to have it in Norway. They've got Snapple lemonade which I don't like at all. Right brand, wrong product. And the whole approach to cooking seems to be different here. For example last week we were making pancakes. We got a wrong flour at first (it was too fine). So I and Simon went to the store to find better one. Me being me, I grabbed some girl, dragged her to the right aisle and asked her which flour is for making pancakes. We took the flour she pointed out but noticed that there wasn't a difference between the one we had at home and the one she told us to get. Since the girl I just asked was a little chubby (which is why I asked her in the first place, I figured she knows a lot about pancakes) I decided to ask a skinny girl. She said we should get the same flour the other girl did. So we decided that we must be wrong and bought what they advised. It, of course, turned out to be the wrong flour. I was crushed. Read More

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