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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. Read More

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

Boy ksim was in a mess, fixed the obvious issues with it over the weekend. I somewhat fail to see why ksim is implemented as a kicker extension, wouldn't it make more sense as a normal stand-alone application? I guess I should see if I can make the disk-log-widget-thingy scale to full width, I use the "Aliens" GKrellMM-theme (who comes up with these names?) and around the disk-log-widget-thingy I have purplish uglyness. Read More

Since I'm not so good in thinking of innovative titles I have decided to stick with the current one. In turn, that obliges me to rant a little. The subject of my rant today is kwallet. Thanks to kwallet I can now use secure passwords such as "@&fR(e6FSdkf%" and "n#hkghgHGJkjf^$z" which would otherwise be impossible to remember. This is good. The bad part comes when you start to rely on this. The password for my blog account is equally cryptic as the two examples above (still good), but kwallet REFUSES to remember my password for the login page. I have a somewhat of a love-hate relationship with the thing anyway since it DOES insist on popping up on every Groklaw article that I read. Read More

i think that the Universe has been trying to tell me something. since the beginning of the year one thing after another after another kept coming up to keep me away from KDE development. then yesterday i realized that i didn't really care much for or about KDE anymore. so today i wiped KDE off my main box and installed GNOME from CVS. i'm totally excited about this object model thingy and feel that youthful exuberance in my fingers once again. i can't WAIT to give the underscore key a good workout in the months to come. au revoir, KDE, i've found my true GHOME. i suppose this will be my last blog here. it was fun. luv, aaron. Read More

I took a semi-break over the last couple of weeks and went hardcore back into coding on Sunday. Cleaned up Kopete's filetransfer API a bit (ok, removed one whole function), fixed a Gadu bug, and then added mail notifications to Yahoo. Not really sure what to work on next, but I get to run Linux (and therefore KDE) at work now, so I hope I can code there more. Read More