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Kate now kind of works, I can actually use it again for hacking on itself, even if ioslave are here still a problem, but at least it works with files given per command line. More amazing is that painting now is again back to usable, beside some artefacts while scrolling, but hey, not hacked that much on such stuff since long :) Read More

Bram kindly submitted the interview with Will Stephenson on the Dot. But I forgot to mention that actually Sander conducted the interview. So all cookies should go to Sander!

I feel sorry to restart blogging after a long time with a rant, but I'm still working on the translation and I also started working as Gentoo dev, so I haven't had time to work on KNetLoad/general KDE apps. Read More

Aaron's got a better laptop. Hey, that isn't very spectacular in itself. But what thrills me, is that the first thing he has worked on with that new asset of his is......... (drum-drum-drum-druuuummmm!) .... FreeNX, or rather its client libary, nxc. Read More

Last week we had our local Linux event of the year called Grazer LinuxTage which is part of an Austrian wide series of events called Linuxwochen. This year I decided to do a talk about KDE and not about Qt programming as the years before. Read More

Today is the sixth anniversary of my first KDE patch. I was a fix for the development version of KOrganizer which made it not crash on startup. This was during the time of porting to KDE 2. It was exciting and fun to make the applications work with the new libraries, quite similar to what's now going on with KDE 4. Energizing :-) Read More

Ok dudes, now I finally started a blog at kdedevelopers.org. Working on Akregator, a tool that many people read blogs with, I am not really an early adopter when it comes to blogging myself ;-). Well, there is the Akregator blog where we blog from time to time what's going on in Akregator development, so check this out if you're interested. Read More

This week I've moved all the KDE application icons from crystal to hicolour. Hicolour is no longer the KDE 2 icon theme, that was renamed to kdeclassic. These days hicolour is the fallback icon theme used by all desktops that follow the freedesktop.org standard. KDE knows to always look in crystal because it's the default theme for KDE but over at Gnome they have a different default theme and couldn't find the KDE icons needed for the application menu. So remember always put your application's icon in hicolour if you want non-KDE users to be able to see it. (Actually applications outside KDE's CVS should probably put all their icons in hicolour incase KDE moves to a different default icon theme.) Read More

Hi, guess this is good news for people liking Kate and co, it now works with the kdelibs 4 and qt 4 port we started in the kde4 branch. It is still far from usable, as I guess some stuff in kdelibs still needs finetuning, as toolbars, menus and co are horrible broken and my layout managment is not that well working atm, too, but it is still a good start. Porting the part or the Kate app wasn not too hard, and big parts of kdelibs seems to went easy over to qt4, too, beside some hairy stuff like xmlgui which will need more work from people knowing what to do ;). Given the fact that Kate app porting using the QT 4 compat stuff did not take much longer than 1-2 hours last evening and 2 commits and even does do something, the compat features of qt4 are not that bad. But me still thinks it is very inconsistent to have QStackedWidget in QT4 but not Q(H|V)BoxWidget, but only the Q3(H|V)Box stuff, as I think automagic boxing is a cool thing to have instead to use the layout stuff per hand for such easy tasks ;) Read More

Earlier today I came across an article that made me smile. A quote first: "Gnome will join OSC's Community Advisory Board and work with the OSC to promote the open source desktop."       (from the article) Another one: "...the (Gnome) Foundation will hope to raise the profile and acceptance of its interface as a standard for open-source systems throughout Europe. Gnome's rival KDE has a significant hold on Linux desktops in Europe, so the move also advances Gnome's chances of gaining market share."       (from the article) What does it mean? Well, to me it means three things, two for sure, and another one not-so-sure. The first sure thing is: KDE is leading the way for the Linux desktop adoption, which is expressed in the growing movement away from the MS monopoly. And you can see the recognition in the quotes above, as well as in various poll results and studies. Read More