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Caution, rant ahead! I started working on an extension library for Qt applications which should enable them to use service or features offered by desktop APIs without creating link time dependencies on the respective desktop libs. http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/v/voyager/qds/index.html Read More

For those not following the mailing lists, the KDE_3_3_BRANCH (and ARTS_1_3_BRANCH) has been created in CVS from which the release candidate and the final KDE 3.3 release will be created. kdelibs/kdecore/kdeversion.h already states "3.3.0" and won't be touched soon again so you can do a CVS build without fearing a complete rebuild to get 3.3.0 Final. Coolo has created release candidate tarballs which are currently tested for compilation. They should be publicly available tomorrow (without binaries) when I will also commit an updated Konstruct version. The colors of the latest splash screen are said to be changed (to look less childish/cartoonish) and there seems to be a recent regression within Konqueror which immediately deselects text selections. Other than that everything looks fine and there are afaik no other showstoppers known (yet). Read More

A quick rant: I don't like the system tray getting full for no good reason. My system tray is getting almost as bad as the ones on a Windaes desktop where device drivers put their company's logos just because they can. Why do an increasing number of KDE apps insist on not quitting when I those their windows and instead stay around in the system tray. When I close the main window of an application I expect it to quit, this isn't MacOS. But Noatun, KGet, Akregator, KSCD, Kaffeine and no doubt others just hang around for no good reason. I'll let KMix off because it can actually be useful. JuK shouldn't be needed either since everyone should use the mediacontrol applet which is wonderful. Read More

I'm putting off writing my presentation for aKademy, and working on a really old KOffice wishlist item - bug:24399, which hopes for encryption. The move to the new OASIS format (aka the OpenOffice format) provides the requirements. Read More

Clee, I'm dead set against you (or anyone else) splitting up kdelibs. This is a poor idea for a large number of reasons which have pointed out before.

Aaaah, summer. :) The last few days I've been spending a lot of time on the balcony in the sun, hacking away or just developing my tan. Around this time of year it's really, really nice to live in paradise. I have hardly any commitments, apart from keeping my wife happy and the sun screen layer constant, thanks to some projects which have fallen through, so I can take it easy, get my bike repaired, work out some and look forward to aKademy. Oh, and get last minute bug fixes in, of course. If it weren't for that dreadfull surgery my wife has to undergo soon, life could hardly be any better. Read More

Whenever there's a KDE release, I like to draw up a "QA list" for KStars that essentially lists all of the program's expected behaviors (it's quite a long list). I then go through and systematically check each one. I typically turn up a good number of lurking insects this way, and the current release is no exception. Read More

Boy, I can't wait till the feature freeze is finally over. There are so many useful things that korganizer needs, and I even took the time to implement some of them properly. Only problem is the feature freeze, which doesn't allow me to commit these new features :-( Read More

So the Kontact bug squashing day was a big success, I think, with a lot of bugs closed over pretty much all components of Kontact. Quite a few people showed up and especially KMail seems to have a acquired a bit of a bug squad, which is just awesome. Michael Jahn, Tom Albers, Ismail Donmez and others have been doing an amazing job and KMail now stands -65 for bugs and -73 for wishes for the last 14 days, which must be the best fortnight in the history of KMail bugs. Keep up the excellent work, guys, it is very much appreciated. If we're not carefull, Kontact 1.0 might actually rock. :) Read More

I've been doing some work in the last few weeks to get Kasbar ready for the KDE 3.3 release. The code is now looking good, and doing this has given me some ideas for some major Kasbar enhancements for the next KDE release. I've fixed the progress indicator code - you now get a progress bar just below the icon label for any progress dialog. This works even if the window is minimised. The overall effect of this is really quite cool and I've found it works really well. I've also fixed the version indicator in the about dialog, and some minor display problems with the display of the license text. I've also fixed a problem that was reported with the positioning of the popup in some circumstances. To make up for the dull work above, I've created a branch in which I'm working on a massively souped version of Kasbar. I've already done a lot of work reworking the drawing code and added a number of new features: Read More