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To be honest: While I really love the added functionality that subversion brings (offline diffs/reverts, atomic commits), websvn (or rather the viewcvs that we use on websvn.kde.org) just sucks for my use. Read More

After a relaxing and internet-free weekend at a lake (it's finally summer up here in Berlin!!), I've finished another chapter of the HIG: Document Interfaces (MDI/SDI/TDI). Screenshots and examples are still missing, but any comments and ideas regarding the contents are highly welcome. Note that you can click the 'Click to show rationale' links to see details. Read More

Today the second generation of the Kolab groupware solution was released. It's incredible how far this project has come. I still remember when Martin Konold first told us about his ideas about "How to escape from the Outlook trap" at Linuxtag three years ago. We were sceptical, because it was all vaporware back then and the plans were, well, ambitious. But now with Kolab 2 we actually have a solid all Free Software groupware solution with full KDE client support through Kontact and even KDE as a project has begun to use it. Read More

Last night I took a break from the computer to go walking around the waterfront with Bruce and Mara. I think we girls tried his patience sorely, as we stopped ever 5 paces to take yet another photograph of the lights across the harbour. I can only assume it's our incredible cuteness that makes him put up with both of us at once ;) Read More

I've had to travel for work, and during a particularly long flight[1], I managed to get stuck into a Qt4 renderer backend for Poppler[2]. I think I'm about a quarter of the way into it - my Arthur[4] backend can render some pretty complex PDF files[8], but the text/font handling is terminally broken, and I'm having good success with some images, but not with others. There are also some things (like patterned/tiled fill) that none of the backends currently appear to do completely, so I'm not sure how important they are. Certainly the next big step is to get the font selection and character positioning sorted out, so typical PDFs will run. Read More

I like Aaron’s suggestion to label more clearly the adoption status of the various drafts at FreeDesktop.org I also believe that at some point we must be able to say “this is something that is widely adopted and deserves to be a standard

Since today Kieler Woche started, here in Kiel, the largest sailing event in the world, and it's an extremely beautiful day, 20 degrees Celsius, a warm breeze, and clear blue skies, I decided to go outside (yes, outside, meatspace, I am not kidding you) and finally take long promised pictures of the KDE logo with our local tourist attractions as part of Cornelius' brilliant "KDE Everywhere" series. So here goes: [image:1176][image:1177] I've also submitted the UBoot one to kde-look. I wonder whom to send the logo next? Any volunteers? :)

Like many software developers I am a lazy person by nature. There is a theory which states that the primary motivation which drives software developers to work so hard is in fact, laziness. This only seems like a paradox until you think about it for a moment. Probably the single greatest moment in the history of laziness was the invention of the remote control. Such a sublime discovery could not have occurred but for the basic primal human need to be a lazy slob of a couch potato every once in awhile. Read More

The last 5 months I completed a traineeship for which I now need to write a report. Last 2/3 weeks I have been very busy with this report as I am planning to graduate of course :o). So no IRC, no e-mail, nada! Today I tried to read up on some mails. But I suggest that you resend your mail in case you urgently want to speak to me.

The European X Developer Meeting has been kept quite low profile by its organizers. Maybe because it is meant to be primarily for developers. Maybe they are just too busy with organizing things -- after all, it was announced at very short notice. Yet there is a very attractive program of presentations and discussions which should give a glimpse of the future of the modern X Window System extensions to all interested developers: Read More