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My last but one blog entry prompted several people to write me personal mails. I was away and offline for most of the weekend, so upon return I was glad to see a friendly personal note from Dave Neary who pointed me to his own blog on the matter, and also to Jeff Waugh's. Read More

Lately I've been looking at various Linux photo management apps in preparation for writing a comparison. After some struggling I managed to get digiKam working under Slackware. The hotplug scripts are a very nice touch. When I plug my camera in, hotplug launches a usbcam script that sets the permissions on the device for the current user and launches digiKam, which immediately connects to the camera and shows you a window of thumbnails you can import from your camera. Read More

As Bram noticed in his blog, I haven't been working much on KOrganizer lately. That's for several reasons: Lack of time (as usual, since I have my day job at university, and several other hobbies), I needed some time off KDE after the release and all the time that I spent on writing the groupware resources in the last few weeks before the relase. And Recently I started rewriting the whole Recurrence stuff in libkcal so that libkcal now (not committed yet) supports everything that rfc 2445 defines (multiple RRULES, EXDATEs, RDATEs, EXRULEs, even multiple EXRULEs, arbitrary combinations of the BY* components, etc.). It's not yet completely finished, but it looks really promising. (And no, don't worry, I won't submit it during the NL meeting and break everyone's kdepim during a pim-meeting) This new recurrence backend is implemented in libkcal, so when you load a calendar with arbitrary recurrences, the events will show up correctly even for recurrence types that korganizer isn't able to edit. The UI to edit recurrences are a completely different topic, and if I were in NL this weekend, I'd certainly talk to the usability guys/gals about the recurrence editor. The current one has several problems or shortcomings: Read More

I was thrilled to read what Boudewijn has to say about new features in the upcoming Krita (released as part of the KOffice suite, 1.4.0). One thing he said is even better: "I’ve also toyed with the idea of asking the OpenUsability people for a review of Krita’s UI — the problem here is that we have some very clear ideas on what we want to change almost immediately after the release and that may impact the usefulness of a review." Read More

Trolltech seems to be hard working to smooth out every imaginable point of criticism and to be the best Free Software team player: It ensures with the KDE Free Qt Foundation that Qt will be always available for Free Software developers. Upcoming Qt 4 gets polished with daily snapshots based on everyone's feedback. Qt 4 will be also available under GPL for Windows as already for Linux and MacOS. Trolltech sponsors developers to work on KDE and also hires from the KDE camp. Trolltech invests now into improving the Unix infrastructure like the X server. Likely with Trolltech influence additional to normal Qt documentation also the Qt book is available for free. It continues to support KDE and meetings like the Unix Accessiblity Forum or upcoming KDevelop conference. Trolltech arranges and sponsors Qt development contests with nice prizes. Trolltech developers participiate and help with the initial port of KDE to Qt 4 including making changes to Qt 4. Thanks to a new investment round announced today, Canopy and SCO got kicked out from Trolltech ownership. And no, I won't argue about the LGPL as business plan for a company having a library as main product. Read More

Stephan, you forgot to mention that Trolltech also supports the upcoming KDEPIM meeting in the Netherlands.

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