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I got an ADSL connection last week, but as my operating system was not supported, I was left to configure it myself. After around 12 hours fighting with my network interface card, I gave up, plugged-in another hd and installed an old copy of windows on it so that I could at least get the connection working via USB and read my e-mails. And so for two days I was kind of forced to use Windows 2000. Using it was not very pleasant, but in the end it was a good thing: it reminded me how great KDE is. Read More

All this reasoning about porting kde to windows will bring more people to kde linux is flawed. Granted it might bring some of them into linux or any unix for that matter but those are only those who like to experiment with new toys.The great majority of people doesn't like change in their life and believe me here when i say the keyword here is change For those who believe that they will change to linux because they have the applications on windows I ask you this: Did ever see what happens in an office when you change the wordprocessor from wordperfect 6 to ms office, or even something simplier than that Windows 95 to 98 to 2000? Users are lost! and some of them are even moronic enought to ask to have a course paid to help them use the new version of windows even if they use it for years, simply because it not the same version number, so they forget everything they know. Read More

Today, a lot of people have voiced their opinion on wether or not it's a good idea to port the KDE plattform to Windows. In other news, I whitnessed another uncessary crash today, that was due to a stale library that had an old interface. On load, it crashed and teared the application down. Read on to learn how to avoid those problems. Read More

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