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As you may have noticed, Chris Lee started a blog and a thread on kde-core-devel about KDE's next build system. I was there on IRC when the discussion spontaneously started --- as usual, it must have been someone ranting about automake/autoconf/libtool. Read More

While documenting KOrganizer incident dialogs, I was bugged about some small details. In the spirit of doing something about it instead of complaining, created some mockups to express these ideas. I noticed that you can't select the resource to save the event in the dialog. It seems an important feature to me. Also, the incident description is buried in the end of the dialog. It is hard to know it is even the place to write the description, as there is no label. Here is the original image (correction: this is not the original image, this is a previous mockup. The original image does not have a "Description:" label above the details edit box): Read More

OpenSolaris is here. :-) Check it out, it's really cool.

On Wednesday, we will have our first Open Software Usability Get-Together at the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin. Rationale: There are many OS project members in Berlin, wishing for usability advice. And there is a strong usability scene who might want to contribute to OS projects. So why not starting a monthly get-together to introduce them to each other and encourage a long-term collaboration :-) Read More

I'm ready now to disclose some informations about what M2 is. M2 is a generic systems management and deployment framework for KDE. Over the last weekend, I have evaluated some new idea that may be added to M2. Read More

I've been following Ashley and Richard's conversations about the new Smoke proposal for KDE4 and I have to say it all reminds me exactly why I have grown to loathe bindings. First, let me say that I have loads of respect for both Ashley and Richard as they are extremely talented developers. Both of them helped me enormously with the now discontinued Qt# bindings. With that said, I think KDE bindings developers and enthusiasts are completely missing the mark for a possible future KDE/Qt binding roadmap. Read More

Over on the kdebindings mailing list Ashley Winters has started thinking about doing a version of the Smoke libary using the Qt4 meta object system. My best summary description of Smoke has been 'a moc on steriods', so designing a better Smoke by extending the slots/signals idea to cover an entire api does seem a logical step. Read More

I haven't blogged for a while... I had the pleasure of having Andras Mantia with me here in Brazil. I showed Rio de Janeiro to him, and Buzios, a very nice beach place, before he went to a free software conference in Porto Alegre. I bugged him about making Quanta better for DocBook editing, and he fixed some entity quirks, but other than that, it was leisure time. Read More

I spent the last few days, discussing with various people about M2 and what we can do with it. The current stage of the project is: not yet ready for public consumption, I still have to make it more generic, currently it's coupled to my own setup. And some part of it need to be clarified so it can be used be other people. What it is I can say for now ... I'm writing this blog just to tease people out of here. Read More

What does it take to join KDE development? Entertainment? Delicious Food? Wonders of Nature? Or meditation? In case you wonder what these images are, I finally got around to upload my pictures from the KDE PIM developer meeting which took place Achtmaal, the Netherlands, two weeks ago. I put the full gallery here, thanks to the kind Fruit Salad crew for providing me web space without the bandwidth worries of my own ADSL. If you feel left out and also want to enjoy the pleasures of being a KDE developer, why not join the community? Google has a wonderful incentive for students all over the world to join open source development called Google's Summer of Code that is just waiting for you to submit the abstract of your first addition to KDE! So far the promo-talk. However, despite being half-joking, the message is real: if you like KDE (and you do, or you wouldn't bother reading the developer blogs :)), why not help us out and become part of the community? We can always use talented artists, documentation writers, developers, marketeers and testers. Take a look at the KDE Developer's Corner and start contributing! I for one am looking forward to seeing your part of this wonderful desktop in action. And perhaps next time you will be the one spinning the wheel. ;-)