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I like to get my head round the latest and greatest in 'shiny new ideas', but I'm having trouble with umm 'digesting' this one. I can't think of any rational objection. I personally don't eat meat, although I do eat fish, so I'm not really a vegetarian. But I just can't visualise pre-packed meat in the supermarket labelled 'tender young car accident victim', or 'well preserved old granny, good broiler'. I suppose professional marketing people would be able to think up less offputting messages. Maybe there could be a signed note from the recently deceased on the package saying how great they were to eat, and how it might save some animal being slaughtered. A bit like the genetically modified cow in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy episode, who was could talk in order to sell her good eating properties :)

The Kubuntu Release Candidate is out. This is your last change to test and complain before our first release next week. Feedback so far has been good and #kubuntu has been increasing in numbers enough that it's hard to keep up. Both OSNews and golum.de carried screenshots. Read More

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