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KDE is used all over the world. We have a truly international community. Our desktop is translated to 79 languages. KDE is everywhere. To express this better I thought it would be nice to put our beautiful new logo on a voyage throughout the world. The first stop is Berlin. Here is a sneak-peak. The full set can be found on kde-look. By the way, all photos are real. Read More

I've started looking into porting KJSEmbed to Qt 4. To begin with, I've recreated most of the Q_CLASSINFO demo I posted recently using the Qt 4 equivalents. Listing the slots of an object is even easier than before, as is finding a marker interface: Read More

So, as some of you may already know in the coming weeks I'll be moving to Norway. I'll be taking a fulltime position at Trolltech. A large part of my responsibilities there will be making sure that X11 is again a state of the art technology. Trolltech is committed to making the Open Source desktop stand out among all other solutions. Read More

Today we announced this little project I've been working on. Ubuntu has been stealing the lead with the non-business distribution recently so it's time to take it back for KDE. We are the first distribution with KDE 3.4 and the live CD is a great way to test it out. Still plenty of work to be done to catch up. Not all the KDE 3.4 modules are in yet, the artwork still has to be tweaked and all the little applications that make a distribution easy to use (package manager and update watcher, network config etc) need a lot of work. Please do come and join us, the mailing lists are at lists.ubuntu.com and we're on #kubuntu on freenode. Many thanks go to KDE of course and also the KDE Debian packagers. Please try out this preview and leave us feedback on the wiki page. Read More

12°C today, and this marks the beginning of the long downward spiral into summer. English summers are awful, the raindrops form out of the air all around you. The drops hit you and you wake up hours later dazed and with concussion. Read More

I just released v. 0.6 of dataKiosk. The major changes include editing support via a new configurable form. It also has some handy new editor widgets that are factory created depending upon the field's type. The new widgets include a MS Access alike combo table dropdown foreign key relation editor. For those of you who are interested you can check out the new extragear homepage for screenshots and/or grab the 0.6 release bzip2 tar.

A couple of updates on the code completion changes. In current CVS code completion can: Complete in TRY/CATCH blocks... Complete on vars declared in if/for/while... Lots of other fixes... And I have this working although the patch is up for review and not in cvs: There are a few issues, because it relies on richtext and the problem is I have to strip out some chars programmatically which becomes a problem for apps who use katepart and completion entries with legitimate richtext chars... Read More

KListViewSearchLine is a great class - I just added search capability to to kdcop with 2 lines of code and a little bit of work in designer! First filter Read More

Here's a fun pipedream overheard on #kde-devel. Very exciting I think you'll agree. Yes you freedesktop.org skeptics, you'll agree too. KOffice developers will agree too even though they don't know about it yet. Read More

It's interesting to observe KDE development these days. Since the 3.4 code was branched from the main line, the repository is open for new development again. For past releases this meant committing frenzy with new features flying in, development branches being merged and all the creativity bound by the feature freeze breaking loose. This time it's different. It's quiet. It's the silence before the storm. I know that there is new and interesting code around, but it doesn't seem to find its way into the main development line yet. So what's going on? Read More