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I am 2 parts intrigued, 3 parts baffled, and 5 parts just plain gobsmacked by the breaking news that Apple will be switching to Intel processors. The times, they are a chang'in! Questions... Read More

For a long time, KStars had a non-functional "Add Catalog" button in its configuration window. Now, it finally works: You can specify what data fields are present in the catalog, and in what order. The pair of listboxes constitute the first use of drag-n-drop in KStars. :) Custom catalogs are easy to add to the program; hopefully we'll see some catalogs on GHNS and kde-files.org. Read More

As the title says, Acid2 is now passed. With the help of Hyatt's Safari patches, Ivor Hewitt(*) and I have finally made Konqueror pass Acid2 as only the second browser. Read More

So I arrived this morning in Porto Alegre for the FISL. Morning's been nice: we've met the Trolltech representative here and had some productive conversations. I am looking forward for some talks tonight, including one by Scott Collins. Read More

I couldn't complain about excessive number of bug reports for Kexi. Yes, writing 43252352nd text editor, drawing app or a frontend for media player can be more cool, especially if somebody's coding session is just for fun after boring day at {work|school}. Read More

I've just got hello world working with QtRuby and Qt 4: require 'Qt' a = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) hello = Qt:: PushButton.new('Hello World!', nil) hello.resize(100, 30) #a.mainWidget = hello hello.show() a.exec() The setMainWidget call is commented out because that method doesn't exist anymore. I still need to get signals/slots and on the fly metaObject creation working, but pretty much everything else is there. So bring on qt_metacall()! I'm hoping its array of void * method args with be a good match for the pretty similar void * array of args in the Smoke runtime. I spent about a day getting working the code generation of the Smoke library against the Qt4 headers, and it now has a grand total of 352 classes which seems a good start. I haven't included any of the Q3* compatibility classes or methods - I'm not sure if they're a good idea for ruby. It took another short day to get the QtRuby runtime to compile - it wasn't too bad. I ran the sources through qt3to4 first, then just hacked away fixing anything which didn't compile, and commented out anything to do with signals/slots. Qt4 does actually seem that bit tidier that Qt3, which is a good start. This Qt code: QAsciiDictSmoke::Index methcache(2179); ... Smoke::Index *r = classcache.find(className); ... QObjectListIt it( *l ); // iterate over the children QObject *child; Read More

We've put together some ideas for Google's Summer of Code. I think there's quite a few interesting entries there and we tried to make sure that there is a nice set of initial ideas. Personally I'd love to see people coming up with their own ideas (which is why I particularaly like the "framework/application addition" entries). If you never ever coded with KDE, don't worry, we'll assign mentors to you who will help you through out your project. Read More

Would I tell you this? No, I'm fair and don't try to cheat you. Whoever tried Novell's Linux Desktop 9 will know that it has no default desktop, you have to choose either KDE or GNOME during installation and there is no indication what to prefer. Is the GNOME camp simply uninformed or do they have dishonorable intentions? I keep reading from them and hearing from them like in the "101 Things to Know about GNOME" talk at GUADEC that NLD's default desktop would be GNOME. Read More

Tomorrow a small batch of us will congregate in northwest Germany for the second Appeal meeting. There's been quite a buzz around the subproject since the first meeting at Easter this year. Most folks know that it's an intentionally small focus group for usability and visual design and a small number of new technologies in KDE (mostly those that are applicable to usability and visual design) and well, that's the gist of things. For me the most interesting part is having a group where the contributors from those previously mostly divergent efforts are put together and are working as a team. I summed up some of those thoughts (though not directly connected to Appeal) in a previous entry. Read More

Oh man, these last few weeks have been rough. I got a new toy, but that is an entirely different blog all together. So here is the lowdown on what I got working with KSJEmbed in the last few weeks: Read More