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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

Reviewing some of the new code that has been added to kdelibs for 3.4, I've noticed a few old problems recurring. Some of the new classes are missing d pointers, this will be a pain in the future and should not have happenned. I strongly urge anyone writing stuff for kdelibs (or interfaces that plugins etc. will talk to for that matter) to review the doc on binary compatibility I link below. Read More

Launching today for those of you lucky enough to have KDE 3.4 installed is... Get Hot New Wallpapers! Using the excellent Get Hot New Stuff platform and its KDE library KNewStuff I added Get New Wallpapers button to the desktop configuration module. It looks like KDE Look man Frank has now added the feed from kde-look.org so you can get the current 10 latest, greatest and most downloaded wallpapers at the touch of a button. Read More

Everyone else is doing it so why can't we? Today Kopete jumped on the Hot New Stuff bandwagon by letting users fetch and install new emoticon themes from the Configure dialog. Read More

Finally, something worth blogging in KStars-land: The Object Details window is getting a facelift. Before and after: The layout is much less cluttered, and all of the data fields now use kde:KActiveLabel, so the text can be copy/pasted with the mouse. Best of all, there's now a user-customizable thumbnail image of the object. If you click on the image, the following tool opens: Read More

Please, raise your hand if you'd like: Color syntax highlighting in KDevelop's code completion? Icons in the entry list corresponding to the entry type ... ctor, dtor, method, member, etc, etc? Some sorting by entry type so all ctor's come first, dtor's next, etc, etc? The ability to specify what parts of the entry are "completeable" eg, if I'm completing a method decl I don't necessarily want to key the return type? If so, then the following changes will need to be made to KTE Completion interfaces: Read More

In France you can get prosecuted for reporting security problems. I think this is a good approach to security. After all, recent studies funded by Microsoft have shown that Microsoft Windows is more secure than Linux because Linux had more security patches applied. It is obvious then that we can improve security on the Linux platform enormously by actively discouraging people to report security issues. This will result in less security patches and thus a more secure computing environment. It will also give us more time to work on fun stuff. Read More

Matt and I are doing a little retouch of KDevelop's code completion. First, on Sunday, Matt made a change which prompts KDevelop to complete much more often than in the past. Before, KDevelop would only complete when it received a textChanged signal from KTextEditor and the current chars were "." or "->" or "::" ... Now, completions are computed for all chars that are not whitespace or empty. Read More

As a follow-up to my last blog, here comes some detail about how to use KNewStuffSecure in your application. Shortly again, the idea behind it is to provide a way to upload and download digitaly signed resources, thus making it possible for the user to check the real source as well as the integrity of the downloaded resources on one side, and on the other side it allows automatization for processing the uploaded resources on the server side. Read More