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With our project OpenUsability, we (1) will provide a booth at the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe/Germany, June 22. to 25. As usability people, it is our mission to make things more usable and to put a smile on each (inter)face. Therefore, we are also planning to make the LinuxTag a 'better place': On our booth, we will have sofas, free coffee, tea, and other drinks, possibly some relaxing music.... :) Read More

Some progress has been made on the Qt 4 front this week. I've implemented a simple QHttp based version of XMLHttpRequest that will ultimately be bound to KJSEmbed/Qt4. This will mean that the scripts will be able to access web based XML services such as news feeds, weather reports etc. I've now also got a working build environment to begin helping with the kdelibs porting effort. A couple of hints for getting Qt 4 working with the KDE 4 branch: Read More

Thank you Chris for your work on this live-CD. MCNLive! rocks Chris ... can you put my face on PlanetKDE?

I watched Star Wars Reveletions and here my impression: the pictures and the graphics are amazing ... too bad the story and the actors weren't at the rendez-vous ... but it enabled me to kill 45 minutes of a boring day ... so it wasn't so bad in the end :)

I have mentioned it before, and I will repeat it here again: any commercial software vendor pondering to sell his product or service on the Linux platform is horrified by the complications he has to deal with. As you might know, I am involved with FreeNX, the project to make remote GUI access fast. FreeNX is based on the core NX libraries and utilities which are developed by NoMachine.com (a commercial company), but released under the GPL. Now, releasing code under the GPL, and for free, doesn't sustain a commercial company. What NoMachine does for a living, is to compile their code and bundle it into an "NX Server" product, put some good propietary addons into the bag and sell the thing, while still releasing the core parts as GPL-source code. Their source code is an invaluable gift to the Free and Open Source Software communities -- but it requires an experienced user to compile, install and use. NoMachine's server products are easy to handle. FreeNX makes the source code gift from NoMachine usable for a broader user base. NX and FreeNX are pretty cool, because they can help you to gain remote access to your own company desktop while you are "on the road" or working from a home office -- and it works amazingly well even over a dial-up modem link. Or they can help to create and run a Linux (and Cross Platform) Application Server Farm for Thin and Fat Clients much more efficiently than by using traditional means like LTSP. NX and FreeNX provide the fastest remote GUI experience that is out there, and the most secure one (using SSH) over the internet.] But this is not an editorial about the technical merits and features of NX. I'd rather take it as example to hightlight another topic: the pains any ISV has to take upon himself if he decides to support the Linux OS with his products. Look that the download site of NoMachine.com, look closely on the list of NX Clients they offer (for free as in beer, I should say -- NoMachine only charge for their server licenses): Read More

Aaron's last blog entry was a real eye-opener to me. I didn't know KFlog before. I'll tell a friend of mine about it, who "has to" use Linux at work (and he likes it) but who uses MS Windows at home... guess why? He is a glider/sailplane pilot, and told me there is no feasible software on Linux to use for his hobby. The fact that "KFLog is the only flight analyser program available for Linux to be recognized by the FAI IGC" will surely help to convince him. (FAI is the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, and IGC its International Gliding Commission.) I wonder if KFlog could be useful for paragliding too? I'll find out, sometime.... Read More

I am not always the optimistic kind, but "today was a good day". A lot of code was added to ksvg2 and kdom that I can feel content with. It is never a good feeling to leave code lying there that you know is hacky. So yes, lots of refactoring of views, parts, zoom and pan etc. Then also some fixes for clipping, which seems always tricky. Read More

Well, I decide to give blogging a go ;-) There are so many interesting things going on right now (qt4, kdom stuff) that this may be the best time to start. Hopefully this way we ksvg devs can also improve the external communication, since we unfortunately did not give many updates in a while, while lots of coding did take place. Hopefully we can start by updating svg.kde.org a bit :)

Well, I put an offer on a house today... rather nervous. I expect a counter-offer tomorrow; hopefully by Monday I should know.. In KDE3.5, you will be able to set Konsole's tab text color via the tab menu. I'm thinking about adding the ability to change the color via an ESC code. I'm not sure if I should mimic the ESC[0;#m and/or create a new code say ESC[0;RRGGBBy. It is rather easy to code. Read More

Hey, ruurd, I was going to post this as a comment, but blogger's login crap was giving me problems. Anyway, I have several data aware KDE widgets in DataKiosk I hope to introduce into KDElibs with KDE4. They include some widgets that DataKiosk shares with KDEPIM and some that are entirely new to KDE including one that mimics the MS Access Relation Combo. They are written to be generic enough to use for any QSql driver. Read More