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Well I have been busy this week bothering Zack and fellow employees here. For the last 5 months I have been fighting with the concept of Java's Storable interface, and MFC's CDocument object. Both seem to fall very short of my goals... Read More

Collection of ideas on how to encourage more developers to develop with KDE. I have been doing developer support on mailinglists, newsgroups and web forums for about three years now. Support means helping developers solving development problems, especially for developers who are new to Linux, Qt or KDE. Read More

As the things that I am working on are not KDE-related anymore (and Blogger.com now allows comments :), I have moved my english blog to tjansen.de.

After a bit of a delay, I've finally finished off the KFile plugin tutorial. Please review and patch! The tutorial is up on http://developer.kde.org, as http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kfile-plugin/t1.html. I've had part of it up for a while, but not linked or built from the SGML source into HTML. Read More

As an exersize I have been exploring the feasibility of migrating from KJSEmbed scripts to C++... Anyone who has worked in industry for any length of time is completely aware of how those temporary solutions become not so temporary. Usually these over time get less and less maintainable, and more of a liability. I have seen this a few times with one off perl scripts that keep a system up and running, or a simple VB app that is used to order supplies from the mail room. In both of these instances they where a one-off temporary solution that lived on for years and years... the VB app was VB3 on windows 3.11 and the Win95 migration played hell on it... the original author was gone, and no-one knew how to get it to work with our other applications (written in Delphi, not much better). Read More

Every time I wanted to look at documentation, I started Qt Assistant for Qt API and Konqueror for KDE API. This annoyed me for quite a long time. I always dreamed about a program like Qt Assistant capable of browsing KDE API and indexing it. KDevelop had something like that for ages, it was an old documentation plugin. But it has two problems - it's index was really slow and unusable and the viewer could not be run standalone. Eventually I decided to fix that problems and now I'm proud to present KDevelop Assistant (kdevassistant). It is the only documentation viewer that is capable of browsing, indexing and full text searching various types of API docs in your system. Currently it supports Qt API, KDE API and Devhelp (GTK/GNOME) docs, support for new types can be added in a hour by creating a documentation plugin. Check out KDevelop CVS HEAD to get not only the best IDE in the world but also the best API documentation viewer ;). Screenshot: [image:458]

There's been some discussion on the kde-core-devel list this week about whether or not the KDE classes should be renamed for KDE 4.0. Should the class KMainWindow become MainWindow inside a KDE:: namespace for instance? Some people preferred it, and others thought it was a bad idea. Read More

You know that a framework is great when adding a new feature (like, say, searching in a listview) takes under 5 minutes. I got annoyed of never being able to easily find offending keybindings in the kkeydialog's listview so I decided to use Scott Wheeler's ListViewSearchLine widget to fix the problem. It just took me 5 minutes (including the update and compilation of a fresh kdeui from the head cvs) and I got a perfectly useful new functionality. All is so intuitive... Read More

So the JuK GUI hasn't exactly been stunning historically. There have been a few times that there have been plans to make it nicer, but they've never amounted to much. Well, I finally decided to try my own hand at it and had a little fun with Sodipodi. I think it's a pretty big improvement and if all goes well I'll have it checked in soon. [image:454] Read More

I hate packing my stuff but since I'm moving in 10 days I don't have any choice. This is the occasion to have a new start in my life, that was so boring lately. Anyway back to those stupid boxes