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It's nice to not only see increasing popularity of KDE but to also see applications for KDE prosper and getting the recognition they deserve: last five dot stories are all about KDE applications people have written stories about. :-) Read More

The FLOSS-Usability project is a strong initiative to bring developers and usability folks together. Their first "Sprint" took place in February in San Francisco and it was a amazing workshop (image). Eugene Eric Kim then brought up the idea of usability mentoring or caretakers who support the projects if the developers want it. This "matchmaking" was and is one of the basic ideas of OpenUsability, so that we decided to put our efforts together. That's in fact georgious news, because the Floss-Usability initiators have so much speed and they are very excellent in getting people together and keeping things rolling. Read More

Today I just decided to go work outside, it's a very nice sunny day, not too cold and not to hot also (about 20C), so it's perfect to work on the balcony drinking a nice cold German beer ( make that several) and the forecast for next week is also good so I think that the I will move my office outside a lot this summer ... since I'm working from home mostly contracting work, I can do it. I wonder if I ever get a new job I will be allowed to do it ... Read More

Sometimes you learn surprising things while you drive a car. Last time this happened was on Thursday evening. SambaXP conference had ended in Goettingen, and I gave Tridge a lift to the Frankfurt Airport. For me it was only a very little detour on my way to Stuttgart. Tridge had a 30 hour journey back home to Australia in front of him (21 hrs of pure flight time). Read More

I've pretty much got my dynamic DCOP to SOAP bridge working now. There is a DCOP interface called 'SOAPGateway', and it has a addService() slot which takes two args; the name of a DCOP service and the URI of a .wsdl file defining the SOAP service. The .wsdl file is parsed and a suitable DCOP service is generated, with slots for each SOAP method call. Read More

I took the test and those are my results: Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I'm really curious how our british folks can master this, or if they simply feel insulted ;) (Hey folks, I seem to speak 5% non-american english, must be Denglisch... )

Being online for less than 3 days, subversion already shows the rapid pace in which KDE development happens. Starting off with revision #409210 after conversion, Stephan Binner just made commit #410000, by fixing ugly-looking disabled icons (by using setIconSet instead of setPixmap ). Maybe we will soon see a run for milestones like in the german wikipedia? Anyway, way to go KDE! Read More

Perhaps some people remember the article about HP selling laptops with a KDE desktop on it. Acer is selling Linux laptops now. Distribution used is Linpus Linux 9.2. It uses the "Friendly KDE desktop environment" as its default desktop :) Read More

seems everybody want to be a soutpark characters these days.

Spotted by Loki aka Pascal. Pascal is one of the FOSDEM dudes. Honestly all these FOSDEM organising people are really doing an amazing job and should get more credit. Pascal especially kicks ass. Not only does he provide a lot of rpms for the SUSE community... But also at this years FOSDEM he guided a group of 20 KDE-hackers through Brussels to a secret hacking location :) (FOSDEM closes its doors after 18:00). He was dead tired I remember but determined to bring us there. Thank you Pascal! Read More