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We were discussing about the pro/cons and ideas around this. There is a wiki page, feel free to comment. Here

I was working on render_list.cpp the other day and decided to complete our set of CSS2 list-styles. I just wonder if anyone anywhere has ever used the armenian and georgian styles, or even the various japanese "alphabetic" types? The really crappy part of all these styles is that the CSS2 standard doesn't say how they should be handled or rendered. They just list the 3 first entries or so, if they even do that. Read More

Chapter III of the crusade is done. Kopete now supports displaying KABC pictures both in the metacontact tooltip and in the contact list itself. Further integration with specific protocols avatars and this property is coming. How it looks by now?

I just committed my "Photo Book" part to cvs, it will be in KDE 3.4 unless I'm flamed. It's neat I think, and it probably fulfills a lot of wishes too. What the hell is going on here? I'm not supposed to be committing new features! Really now, KParts is an amazing (and complex) API. The kind of stuff you can do with it with just one-liners is incredible... the problem is finding the right one-liners. Read More

After upgrading my kdepim to HEAD (nicely, I did a PKGBUILD for archlinux that grabs and builds it). I started to fill my kabc pictures with the nice kde:KPixmapRegionSelectorDialog from Antonio and other developers (This dialog should be used in Kopete to select the MSN display picture for instance) (yes I coded a similar one too and then realized it was already commited). Then I modified the nice applet kickpim (I can't live without it) to show the kabc pictures. Kopete contact list should be next victim. Even KMail's quick address selector is a good candidate. Any place where you look for a person quickly is a good candidate if you can match faces instead of reading the name. Read More

Damn, now even I have blog. Like I used to renounce mobile phones (until 2001), but have come to accept them as a usefull form of communications, I might learn to embrace blogging as well. Read More

This is my first online journal ever. Some of you call them "blogs", but I don't, because the word is too silly sounding. I actually did some coding today: Image Galleries for Konqueror! (Also note the photographs of fellow developers in compromising positions). It's just far too easy to do stuff like this. KParts really are that amazing, and the really cool part is how we get stuff like network transparency for free! Due to my incredibly short attention span, we'll see how far I develop this before losing interest. Read More

When iChat was released and I saw the contact list with big face avatars I remembered inmediately that humans can recognize faces much faster than reading a name. Since that moment I wished that KDE could drop text everywhere it is not needed and start using faces (w/text as an addition if it makes sense). As I don't have too much time to even hack in Kopete because University and thesis, my time got limited to build HEAD and read all the lists. Read More

This is an attempt to establish awareness of KDE programmers for problems that might arise on large installation sites. I am expiriencing them at Uni from time to time, where several hunderts of clients run a FC1 based KDE installation. So I decided to start a little series that might be an eye-opener for people that usually only code with the computer as a single workstation in mind and as a reminder for those who know about the difficulties that may arise in corporate environments. Feel free to continue this series in your blog or send ideas for more "enterprise development problem" quickies my way. Read More

I went to another great Canberra Linux Users Group meeting last night. Alex Satrapa did a demonstration of setting up Samba with OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, etc. Of course, doing a Samba demo in front of Andrew Tridgell (who is a fairly regular attendee, and a KDE user) resulted in a few comments, and a short cameo when Tridge explained what is happening with Samba 4. Basically there is going to be a single deaemon, listening on about 10-15 ports. In addition to supporting some of the multiple streams required for the fileserver side, it will have the ability to act as an Active Directory server, and SWAT will be built in (perhaps on the grounds that every server design eventually evolves to include HTTP :-) ). After watching a 2.5 hours setup by someone who'd done it twice before that day, clearly it needs to be easier, and the integrated daemon should help that. Read More