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While compiling KDE once again I found some time to work a little bit on icecream and revived Frerichs star view. This is a cool thingy, especially when there are many hosts, where the 'gantt' view reaches its limits. Have a look by yourself and enjoy the hypnotic effect of looking at colored bubbles. You will perceive compilation as faster than ever before ;-) Read More

the bug db is getting out of hand. we have millions of LOC, hundreds of apps, and goddess knows how many users at this point. we need to have a triage team. KDE Quality seems the right place to cherry pick people for it, but i think some education may be in order first. when i get back from my weekend sorte i'll try and write my long-awaited follow up to the WhatsThis HOWTO on Bug triage. but what i'm really wondering is this: would people show up for an online Bug Triaging workship ... say ... on irc, #kde-bugtriage and walk a bunch of people through the process, answering questions, offering reassurance and providing praise (or blame ;) as we go ... hum.

Apparently including the number of bugfixes. :-) Matt and I -- being the two resident (and fairly active) Texans in the KDE project had a bit of fun going back and forth on the top spot for bug fixes this last weekend. He's currently ahead by two, but more of mine were from actual commits, so I think those should count double. Read More

If there are any artists feeling they can make some icons, please please do! Application of interest is aKregator (kdenonbeta/akregator) I think one of the app icons may be a little green alligator =) But thats only a proposition, you may choose something entirely different.

I just looked at the mound of stuff I have in my local CVS tree, in addition to the bits and pieces that I have scattered around the KDE CVS tree and I started thinking, "Where did all these projects come from?" I've got quite several going on. They are: Read More

getting back to development is nice. very nice. kicker is in shreds on one of my machines. the non-KDE app button dialog has a nice, spiffy new (standard) look to it. and i'm a few steps closer getting away from the "main" panel being a hard-coded fact-o-life. loading applets via appletproxies will also likely be hitting the bit-bin, after discussion with John Firebaugh and others. its a nice idea, but causes it's own problems while not providing a complete solution anyways (e.g. kicker still crashes due to the bad applets. look at all the BRs on it!). i must also say that smooth zooming icons look so much nicer than icons that jump from small to big (assuming you've got the right icon sizes around in the first place!). Read More

On http://www.nearwildheaven.com/GNOME/ this article presents the latest and greatest in Gnome GUI improvements. Do our users love this sort of 'pissing contest' between file save/open dialogs or whatever? Do they prefer to admire the subtle differences between the dialogs in Swing/Gnome/KDE or even Windows file dialog boxes? If I personally had a choice between giving up the KDE dialogs in favour of this new Gnome style to avoid confusing users, do you think I personally give a toss? KDE and Gnome are just toolkit apis, and as soon as they get this sort of nonsense behind them the better in my opinion. Read More

i slept on the living room floor last night. it felt good. a large body pillow on hardwood. mmmm. the computer played music to my sleeping head all night and the cats enjoyed not having to jump up onto the bed to harass me. Read More

Come on people, the stuff that's going on lately is just plain funny: osnews posts the april fool's joke from dot.kde.org while adding "we had some people saying that this is April's fools news, but these claims are false. OSNews does not follow this tradition in general.". That made my day. Brilliant deduction, excellent coverage and top-quality flamewar as a result of a joke. That's funny. Havoc's and Miguel's "open discussion". What better way to solve technical problems than to bring them over to the tech-savvy people at slashdot? Don't get me wrong, it was interesting but the choice of the medium was just plain funny. On the other hand at least every second person posting on slashdot knows someone who knows someone who saw someone coding and that's exactly the type of expertise everyone is missing when making important decisions. Did I miss a memo where blogs were made to be decisions making places? I'll be putting some web-services classes in kdelibs soon. Got a problem with that? Post it in your blog so that we can discuss it. Come on, that's funny. Novell uses Qt. I don't think I've ever seen so many people so close to heart-attack. Things like that make bingo parties on Brooklyn seem innocent. One silly rumor and people went nuts. I mean, next time do what I do, install one of those wheels that you see in cages with hamsters where they run all the time. Oversized one, of course, and whenever you get all worked up, just start running in it. And bam, with two more rumors like that we solve: bad physical shape in the community and energy crisis. Hmm, that's such a brilliant idea that I think I might get a patent on that. With the stuff patent office is doing lately having "developers run in oversized hamster-wheels" a patented idea should be a no-brainer. In other news, Aaron is coming over next week and we're going to have a hackfest at geiseri's place. I'm saying it in my blog because Aaron doesn't know that he's coming yet so I figured I might notify him. Especially that considering the distance he has to take his rollerblades out right now if he wants to get here by next Saturday.

So I'll be talking on GUADEC this year. I found out just yesterday because Michael has sent the notification to a wrong address (thanks Glynn for forwarding it to me). The abstract is available at http://www.automatix.de/~zack/guadec_abstract.pdf. I think it's going to be very interesting. I'll be discussing currently available standards and I'll be talking about ones which we still have to work on. IPC and configuration frameworks will be a big portion of the presentation. Read More