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It looks like the upcoming 3.4 release will have a gorgeous new default look and feel to it. Stephan Binner produced a "sneak preview" live CD with KDE-3.4RC1 called "Klax" (375 MByte size for the iso image), and OSDir now features an excellent series of updated screenshots. Read More

Tonight on KDE eye candy watch... Basse produces a rocking new Konqi image for the logout dialogue: Then follows it up with this cute little number for the About KDE dialogue: Read More

How was I living without snow all this time? This stuff is amazing! The essence of beauty. Truly the best things in life are all around us, why do so many dislike such a lovely gift from nature? Read More

Adriaan has posted some ideas for a "UofKDE". I had been thinking along the same lines for developers, only without the first year stuff (which I guess I assumed that people already had by the time they started thinking about becoming a KDE developer). My list is below - I'm currently working on the Doxygen stuff, and some of the other material already exists, although some of the stuff we do have needs to be re-arranged or updated. Read More

It's a boring day at work. Nothing special to do, just waiting for the time passing by to go home in the evening. I can't wait getting home, so I can continue working on the feedback wizard I came up with a few weeks ago. Read More

Do you own a TV is the poll I've just set up on kdedevelopers. Many geeks, including myself, find little need for mindless entertainment when we're quite busy enough doing useful things. Now time for sleep while I let bittorrent download tonight's episode of 24.

Brad Hards brings up a twist to the whole kpdf, "to DRM or not to DRM?" question. Would kpdf infringe Adobe's copyright on the pdf spec if they did not include "reasonable efforts" at implementing DRM? Read More

Okay so zack and i where at lunch talking about KDE 4. One item that came up was the idea of a simple editor part. Currently KOffice has the KoShell, but imagine having something with the Kate interface that could edit images, text, simple rich text, sounds, etc... This would by no means replace KDevelop or Quanta, but it would provide a neat unified interface for users to edit files. Konqueror currently gives us this same behavior for read-only parts. It has made KDE a very useful and consistent desktop environment. My wife never knew she had an image viewer until one day she accidentally clicked on it. Konqi gave her all that. Would this help new users and KDE consistency by having a unified simple editor? Read More

With IBM selling their Thinkpad division I have to wonder what the best type of laptop to get once my current Thinkpad goes the way of its predecessors (stolen, destroyed by aeroplane cargo men etc). Fortunately Betty bought me this laptop as a birthday present at the weekend for 50p down the market, I'm fairly confident it will last for years. It even beeps which means its a real laptop. Read More

I'm not going to argue the morality of DRM - others have done that, and another opinion won't really change anything. However those arguing against the specific changes made to KPDF by the authors might like to consider that Adobe owns the PDF specification, and claims ownership of the datastructures and operators defined in that spec. The copyright permission is conditional on making "reasonable efforts" to implement the restrictions (see the PDF specification, Version 1.5, section 1.4 for the condition and Table 3.20 for the specific restrictions). Read More