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I just wish to weigh in on debacle to clear up some mistakes. First of all I would like to say I agree with Zack. The annoying part is not that Apple don't cooperate as much as they could. They are actually helpfull in answering questions and tries at least to separate OS X specific features in the code (allthough they fail miserably at it). No, our problem are users who think Apple does more and underestimate the effort it takes for us to implement patches from WebCore. We are doing this for free and for fun, all we really want is appreciation for our effort. Read More

KDE sources now blacklist gcc 4.0.0 because it miscompiles KDE but that shouldn't be a reason to do no compilation benchmarks, or? :-) My test machine was an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB and SUSE 9.3's gcc 3.3.5. The other gcc versions were pure gcc. My first test was to compile Qt 3.3.4: Read More

It's a sad thing to read intelligent people uttering frivolous and unsubstantiated affirmations, harpooning around with caustic near-to-arrogance addressings and pulling a Demostene from the "height" of their perceived more inner understanding of the "grand scheme". Read More

kdedevelopers.org hosts different content categories: polls, stories and blogs. As user roles "authenticated user" (working email address, hello spammers) and "KDE developer" (has to be manually verified as such) exist. Every "authenticated user" can submit stories to the story submission queue on which "KDE developer"s have to vote about whether they should be published - in practice nobody does. Stories even don't appear on the kdedevelopers.org homepage anymore, for story publications you better go to dot.kde.org. Read More

You can't even imagine how I hate that question. The truth is "most probably never". I just read the article on /. about Safari supporting the "all crack Acid2" test and people raving how great it is for KHTML. The truth is that KHTML will probably never get those patches. What's most probably going to happen is that one of us will simply reimplement it from scratch (and at the moment the reality is that if it's not going to be Allan or Germain it's not going to happen). Read More

This conference isn't about talks and it isn't about hacking sessions. Instead it's about small birds of a feather meetings on a lot of topics. Everything from KubuntuRoadmap to GraphicalInstaller to GettingInvolvedInUniverse are discussed with groups of 2 to a dozen people. That's the BrainDump stage. Then the BoF leader writes down the notes into a Spec which is the DraftedSpec stage. That then gets edited by the professional proofreaders in a room called Sublime 3 making it an EditedSpec. After that is has to be checked over by the most elite Ubuntu people, making it an ApprovedSpec. Finally, after the conference, we go and implement the spec sometime before the next release, making it an ImplementedSpec. Previous releases have had release goals, the idea behind making specifications like this is so everyone can see exactly what the plans are. Of course just because there are specifications of what we would like to get done doesn't mean it will get done, which is where the community comes in, Specs should be generally available after the conference I assume, last one to implement is the looser. Read More

With the release of the 5.0 series of the Linux Live scripts and KDE 3.4 packages being available in Slackware-current I thought it was time for a quick update of my "Klax" Live-CD. Maybe it would have been quick if I would have known the differences to the 4.2 series and omitted some pitfalls and own stupidity. :-) The result are two flavors of "Klax" - both based on Slackware-current and using Linux 2.6.11.7: Read More

So because of events outside of my own wilful control I have been mandated to render every computer in the house booting or recycle it. Now past the fact that there are about 20 some computers in the basement, and that some of them have operating systems I wrote long ago in school I have some keepers that are in dire need of help. So if anyone has some help/hints/boot disks please send them my way. Basicy the systems on the rocks are: Read More

Most of this morning was spent writing the plan for the next Kubuntu release. It's a very long plan as we have a large number of ideas for making Kubuntu into the finest operating system there is. With any luck that will get approved tomorrow. Somewhere amongst the writing I went to a session learning about HCT, Canonical's groovy tool built on top of their version control system Baz which treats patches as if they were branches. It can also pull in sources from CVS or SVN so I think I'm right in saying that it can branch CVS, which is fun. Read More

Today at Ubuntu Down Under I failed to attend GrumpGroundhog (making packges from latest CVS/SVN for developers to be able to get the latest KDE or whatever), and UniverseSecurity (find some trustworthy people who can join the closed security lists and keep universe secure). I did make it to Edubuntu which is a request for easy remote user administration which sounds like it could benefit greatly from Kiosk. Then me and amu further discussed gcc 4 fun with Doko, it should be just a case of changing Qt (and arts) as a dependency then everything will have to be upgraded. Whether or not KDE actually works when compiled with gcc 4 remains to be seen. ServerInstallation turned into a discussion of server administration and why Cobolt went bad and webmin smells, a promising looking replacement was demonstrated. After lunch we spent as long as we could discussing Kubuntu before my laptop battery ran out. Then it was time to look at language packs which are quite broken in Kubuntu (it ships with all the translations for Gnome). Ubuntu does nifty things with stripping out .po and .pot files, putting them in Rosetta then experting from Rosetta to make language packs. Or something like that. A scheme was worked out to create kubuntu language packs and I think I convinced the Rosetta dudes that the way KDE stores its .po and .pot files is actually quite sane. Finally the artwork session looked at a possible new icon set which looks a lot more glossy (a la MacOSX or clear-e). Could KDE and Gnome share an icon theme? Seems unlikely but certain people may try. Of course it's not like certain KDE developers don't have devious plans for their own new KDE icon theme. Night all. Read More