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Yes, first part of my QKW patches are merged with first few (most hardcore/lowlevel) KDElibs directories. Beside Kexi, that's what I am playing with since march 2003. Everyone is invited to contribute. Read More

Do you remember my blog entry about the software developer who put days of effort into a new version but then failed to raise the hour to properly announce his software (btw, meanwhile he has stopped its development without clear rationale)? Something similar can be watched in parts with some KDE software. Read More

I just added features regarding the C# bindings to the 3.4 feature list. As 95% of the major work towards the new super spiffy Qt# bindings is done, I figured it was time to set some goals for getting all of this in shape for a KDE release. For those curious about the current state of my bindings (as opposed to the other C# bindings efforts) this kind of stuff is working now. For those confused by all the myriad twists and turns of the various C# bindings efforts here is a short history: Read More

Time passes by too quickly for me to remember what I fixed the last week within icecream. But for the RPM changelog I need to know, so I looked for some tool to create Changelog files from cvs history and found the perfect one: cvs2cl.pl Read More

I thought this would be a good moment to blog. So you ask .. why? Well, I began rebuilding kde from scratch, and I reached to kdepim. Yes, you guessed. I spent the last 2 hours fixing the build, and still haven't fixed it :) First it was unsermake problem, now kconfigs don't build, dirs don't get build in the right order... So I got no e-mail, no konvi, addressbooks ... to sum it up, I'm un-PIMized, disconnected from the rest of the world Read More

So, I suppose I should chime in with an aKademy post too. I did two presentations there -- the latter with Christian from GStreamer / Fluendo. Search / Metadata talk Both went well, in my opinion, though the first had a frustrating number of technical problems. However it seemed to generate quite a bit of thinking and publicity. It was entertaining to see it show back up for our news syndication thing at work. It seems like of the talks at the conference it may have generated the most mainstream PR. And also it was exciting to flesh out some more of the ideas throughout the week and to start to turn them into an API. There are a lot of cool ideas there and I think that we're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of the interface possibilities that are opened up by a "searchable web of relationships" inside the desktop. Read More

I'm Happy, ..because it's finally working: Crossfading for amaroK's GStreamer-engine. Two weeks of deep hacking, no less, to get this beast stable and smooth. Now we have an implementation of a n-track crossfader design, with unlimited number of channels for mixing, and configurable transition time. Each input pipeline is running in it's own thread, connected to an output pipeline, which is also a dedicated thread with its own scheduler. Read More

I promised I would improve my blog rate, so here I start. The day started interesting: Got a mail from Martin Pool asking why we forked icecream and it took me a while to give a good enough answer. In short: We didn't fork, but wrote something similiar from scratch using distcc code. Will still be interesting how this story continues though. Still the thing that turns around in my head the most right now is this: I leave for two weeks greece next week and got already in this dangerous "doesn't really matter if I start with it now" mood. I still would like to make the icecream scheduler use even less blocking file operations and have the client send local jobs notifications async, so updating monitors doesn't block Simon's configure runs. The notification of monitors is right now blocking too (one thing that made the aKademy cluster behave so much different than the one at SUSE: the number of monitors), but Michael is not yet sure if he wants non-blocking TCP or UDP (I guess, if we go UDP, we need some way to reset the state of monitors). For those interested in KDE 3.3 release schedule: I return at 27th to full work, so I target that week for tagging/packaging and ~5.10. for KDE 3.3.1 (I now that's roughly 7 weeks since KDE 3.3.0, but I hope you agree that I deserved some kind of vacation) Read More

So aKademy is over for most people, only the aKademy press staff continues to publish stories based on content collected and interviews conducted in Ludwidgsburg and it will take some weeks to close all financial transactions. I only read positive comments until now so don't let me ruin the "perfect" impression by listing what didn't work or other than planned. :-) Read More

After reading this blog http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000292.html I thought I'd try out Instiki - it's a simple to set up wiki which can also export to an html website. Recently I've been using KJots to handle 'random notes' and todo lists, but what I really like to have is an outliner like 'Acta' that I used to use on my Mac a few years ago. Acta didn't do anything fancy - it wasn't trying to be a presentation package or a word processor that could also do outlining. But it was dead simple to use, and you could link in MacDraw figures if you needed any sophisticated diagrams. Read More