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...is a media player for my TV :P Basicly I can't seem to find what I am looking for. All I want is a small set top box that I can plugin, or use wifi to play mp3/oggs via my entertainment system's stereo system, and a way to put my large collection of avi,mpegs, and vcds on my nice TV screen. Read More

Today I renewed with the room where you cook meal, the kitchen. I was kind of tired of only cooking the same stuff over and over again, so I decided to let my creativity free, there other place than in front of a keyboard a geek can have fun ... So I experimented something differents with eggs, the standard and boring chicken foetus, and some leftovers in the fridge. So I come with something quite tasty and good in about 10 minutes. Scrambled eggs with italian saussages, blue cheese, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and spinash pure ... yummmy and easy to do

I spent practically all of today working on Noatun make-it-snow. My fun was cut short when I (re)encountered a rather serious akode bug. It's some sort of race condition related to creating a playobject, and then, uhm, trying to get it to play. Read More

Recently I became part of the exclusive invite only club of KDE Dot News editors. It's surprisingly time consuming to proofread and filter all the articles into a constant stream of high quality news for the world to learn about KDE from. The submitions queue gets some oddities from spam to rants to an article about how to start kppp, and various completely off-topic stories. Then there's questions like do we link to theKompany when they release a new proprietary product (if it's KDE related) or a new commercial GPLed product (yes) or to Linare with their cheap laptop which happens to come with KDE (I let that one through but has anyone heard of these Linare people? what is their distro based on?). The Dot doesn't tend to cover program releases, that's what kde-apps is for, the trick is to accompany it with an article or review. Anyone who wants to write an article is very welcome, we're always looking for more. Read More

Just wanted to share this with you, someone on #kde-devel discovered it: http://kdedevelopers.net/ I, for one, welcome our new Air Purifier overlords ;)

Hans Oischinger talks about how he found it hard to learn about programming the Qt/KDE api. All of his comments apply to ruby Korundum programming; in ruby you can use slots/signals, KConfig XT .kcfg files, Qt Designer .ui files, KXMLGUI .rc files, DCOP, KDE::Parts (KParts) or subclass KDE::Command (KCommand). But the problem with total ruby/KDE integration is that the docs, if they exist at all, are for the C++ api. Read More

At first, as this is my first posting to kdedevelopers.org, I'd like to introduce myself. To avoid writing the whole stuff again, please take a look at this page. Now, after you know who I am, I can start... As noted on the page above, I'm working on effects in Kexi. This really is for the eye-candy department. On the shot you can see a nice gradient that fades with a background pixmap and a label that has a drop-shadow below the text. Looks nice, eh? Read More

Well, Konqueror (khtml) has been proven to have the fastest free HTML renderer available for Linux. So why is it that the people on slashdot refuse to not only mention it in the "article", but with the default settings and no user account, I can't even find a mention of it on the entire page (with the comments). Read More

I have long time not blogged but now that KDE 3.4 Beta 2 code-named "Keinstein" (blame me for the name) was released this week and with it the feature and i18n freezes in place this might change. :-) Also this week Slackware 10.1 became available. A small hobby of me is to test distributions (see history). My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0 as book appendix, which I quickly had to replace with Walnut Creek Slackware 3.0 CDROMs because I needed ELF support. Since then I didn't use Slackware anymore, so it was time to revisit. Read More

This week I'm rewriting the kicker handbook and I'm wondering how one jazzes up documentation about the absolute basics. How do you not send your audience to sleep explaining the concept of a taskbar? It's fairly obvious but it has to be documented somewhere. We can't expect the mac users to pick things up by themselves. They might start to make a habit of it, and anarchy would ensue. Who would we torment? Read More