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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 :-)

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

A powerful feature of the "Klax" Live-CD, inherited from its Slax and UnionFS base, are "modules": you can download a module like Gimp or Firefox and either load them into the running Live-CD on the fly or by adding them to the /modules/ directory on the CD (without the need to remaster the whole compressed file system) before burning the ISO image. Today I created KDE translation modules for 17 languages (chosen by amount of native speakers, share in Web content and KDE translation progress). I want to explain you how you can create within 3 minutes a Live-CD supporting your favorite languages. Read More

hi, kde 4 quick porting went on, people are working to get kdelibs in better shape, kdebase follows. Still lots of problems are around, as many layouting stuff is broken, ioslaves still have problems and so on, but at least you can see the progress ;) Read More

I know you all heared rumours about different numbers, but it prooved yesterday: 128 is the real magic number. OK, the story is much longer, but here is the summary: I just love cycling and trying to watch heros in action I browsed through the channels my DVB-S receiver gives me. Read More

Kurt has an interesting point on a common api for basic desktop usage, hidden under some stuff I basically agree with but don't think it's easy to solve: A minimal desktop API for applications that do not use DE libs directly. In fact, Matthias, Scott and me discussed a solution to a similar problem back in Nove Hrady. We were wondering how to enable the use of KDE widgets in Qt applications. Read More