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By now everyone has heard of Sun's foray into Open Source Solaris. Groklaw has an interesting run down of the incompatibilities between the CDDL and the GPL. I find the whole thing tremendously interesting, but when you really think about it and the possible implications for Linux, it is not all that exciting. Sure, Solaris 10 is a hell of an operating system by most accounts, but at this point I think of it like the hoopla that surrounded Apple's release of Darwin. That too, was one hell of an operating system, with all of the doomsayers heralding it as the end of Linux... Well, a few years later not so much. Heh. Read More

I'm going to have this shot, and we will see how much sense I make at the end of this journal entry. Or for that matter, at the beginning. Mmmm... Anise. Anyway, continuing, in my two week long operation to track down the Jitter Bug, I got very close, but, alas, all I did was provide enough information for someone that actually knows (slightly more about) how khtml works. Do I get half credit for that? My next is something to do with RTL. I hope that Allen doesn't get to it first. Yes, you heard me Allen, that one's mine. I only claimed it because I have already seen how some of that part of khtml works. I'm also the one that made the test-case. Fixing khtml bugs consists of reading code for hours/days/weeks and after a while, changing a line or two, and wondering "what will this do?" -- really. Sometimes, if I feel really confident, I even think "maybe this will make a change to the better." Usually it doesn't but if you're lucky you might have learned a little about how khtml works. Who is to blame for the following code?: Read More

So I got bored late in December and decided to just write something that would be fun. So I started hacking on what became Impresario. Impresario started as a very simple window manager. Based on Qt4 it was supposed to be a very lightweight window manager that I could use while porting other parts of KDE to Qt4. Read More

What I find missing quite often is ability to take context specific notes. For example: when I'm reading some spec, html documentation or emails I often want to create a transparent box over something noting "this is important", "this is not true" or something along those lines, taking some personal notes as such when editing code, So "desktop composition" is something that an application author could put on top of any widget which could induce the above described behavior. Read More

The SVG wallpaper contest is over. My favourite didn't win, I really liked KDE Celtic. Some people have queried whether KDE's SVG icon engine is ready for such use, and actually it probably isn't. It's too slow especially on intricate but beautiful designs such as Gear Flower. Read More

We can see an attempt to reuse mdbtoos by OpenOffice.org v. 2.0. Thanks to Martin Ellis' contribution we have recently more than nothing done (also by reusing mdbtools, not commited yet) in this department within Kexi too. Read More

It's seem that audio subsystem and application developer all want neat and advanced features and effect and it's good when you are able to play the song! I don't fucking care about fade in or fad out ... I just want to play my fuckings files!!!!! Can we have something simple that work 100% of the time? I think I will go buy an old P2 -400 put a big ass hardrive copy all my music over and install BeOS on it and use it to play my music because the currents linux offering SUCKS but REALLY SUCKS!!! Read More

Lately I've been busy with many different projects, and deadlines are approaching. On the 2nd of February we enter full feature freeze and there are many things I "need" to have done by then. Too make things worse I go on ski-vacation on the 28th, and also have deadlines for my real (non-hobby) projects in February. Read More

Ok, this is just in: The town of vienna is migrating to Linux. Contrary to Munich, they are doing a "soft migration", which means they will only migrate 4.800 workplaces to Linux out of 7.500 which will be running OpenOffice.org independant of the OS. This is a lot more cost-efficient for them. They have no migration pressure, as their support contacts with Microsoft are running until 2010, yet they do want to migrate. Read More

Over Christmas I wrote a new recipients editor for the KMail composer: [image:808] The old one was really annoying because of two big problems: First, when having multiple recipients the line edit used for the To/CC/BCC fields wasn't really suitable because it only showed a part of them and when trying to get an overview about who gets the mail, you had to scroll around a lot with the cursor keys. Read More