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Over the last week and this weekend I've finally gotten around to making good on my promise to implement as much as possible of the suggestions in the excellent usability analysis of KMail's folder properties handling done by the OpenUsability.org (http://www.openusability.org) team. They've (again) done an outstanding job of analysing the weaknesses in the old interface and coming up with very clean and nice replacements. I love that about the Relevantive people, they don't just complain, they make suggestions how do improve things, and they explain their suggestions, so we can make an informed decision, and present them in a highly professional and digestable way. Have a look at the cleaned up folder RMB menu, for example: You can now move folders around the same way you move messages around, right from the RMB menu via a cascading menu (Carsten implemented that, btw.). Often used entries are towards the top. The folder creation dialog has been massively simplified, we no longer use the big properties dialog for that. Much better. The expiry settings have moved to their own dialog, which has also been simplified quite a bit: And finally, here's the one I like most, the massively cleaned up folder properties dialog itself. Compare it with the old one, if you have the stomach for it. :) Overall I'm very happy with the way this has turned out, and I hope these changes, along with Cornelius' excellent composer and address picker changes, make KMail a bit less overwhelming for new and casual users.

aseigo damn, you need to start a KDE blog aseigo theobroma has canllaith I need to start a KDE blog? aseigo damn straight =P canllaith Ok fine. Where do I sign up. Read More

After I tried to discover what's behind Konquerors new shiny Introduction page, I discovered a feature that I want to share: Konqueror now knows the metaphor of WebFolders, similar to Windows, but actually supporting more protocols. (Warning: Flash movie ahead :)) Read More

It's getting colder. KDE CVS now is in deep freeze for 3.4 beta 2. All messages are frozen so that translators can start to strive for the perfect translation in 79 languages. The day before the freeze saw some frantic activity of people to complete their last-minute feature or to sneak in the messages required for fixing certain bugs. On the kdepim front we got a new Kontact welcome screen and were able to break compilation because of our wicked intra-module dependencies. Read More

My notebook was returned from the repair-shop on thursday. On Friday it locked up hard again. Exact same symptoms as before. I know I shouldn't let a mere computer get me down, but I depend on this thing for finishing university. I haven't the money with which to buy a new one. I don't know how long I can use borrowed hardware. Read More

Today was string freeze day for KDE, over 500 commits were made and lots of people were desperatly trying to make the deadline for i18n(). I was struck down with a cold and couldn't manage much but did add some bits to Kontact's new about screen. Read More

[image:837,right] Today, I finished two the new intro screen that was fairly overdue already. It's meant to look fancy and be useful (to a certain extend at least ;) In other news I finally committed the new exchange wizard with hopefully all relevant strings. I'll be working on it tomorrow to make sure to have something working for the final release. Right now it simply does nothing, so noone is gets hurt, just a bit disappointed maybe. Read More

KexiDB is a database API that abstracts over the specifics of individual database backends. Following article is just to allow you to make a choice... http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KexiDB versus QtSQL (KexiDB) vs (QtSQL 4)

Shiney new about:konqueror in CVS today. KControl also updated. Expect the docs to be updated soon too. Is there a right-to-left script user out there who can tell me if this works properly on right-to-left? Read More

I remember back in the KDE 2 betas trying to find an editor that would handle the KDE desktop files. They where simple ini files, but I could never remember all the stupid little details of how the damn things worked. So invariably I would find one, copy it, and dork with it until it did something similar to what I wanted. Read More