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Wow, it's amazing what a little venting can do for your motivation!. I ranted about how certain people were pissing me off and that I just didn't have motivation to work on Kopete a whole lot anymore. Well, after ranting, I feel much better! Being in your last semester of uni and taking only 9 hours of class gives you lots of free time to work on free software. :) (and I prefer to use it doing something other than playing video games, although Halo has become rather addicting) Read More

So, finally my first blog entry... Lately I was doing a lot of work on KCModule and related classes like KCMultiDialog that uses KDialogBase and KJanusWidget. It's all pretty nice and cool what functionality they provide but I think the interfaces can be a lot better for KDE 4.0. While working on it and hitting limits everywhere I sometimes have ideas on how to improve the interface but it's not possible in the 3.x cycle. Read More

Here's the mandanatory blurb about having not posted a blog in awhile: "I haven't posted anything here in awhile, sorry bout that" And now on to the bulk of the content. :) (It's going to be rather long) Read More

so after weeks of flakiness with our sourceforge mailing list, I finally requested a kstars-devel@kde.org mailing list, which we have been happily using for a few weeks now. It's great! Unfortunately, we still aren't being archived at lists.kde.org, despite 2 emails to webguy@theaimsgroup.com and one to sysadmin@kde.org (all of which were unanswered). Does anyone know from experience how long it takes to get listed at lists.kde.org, and if the complete archive since the list started will be available? Read More

I haven't updated my blog in quite a while. The car accident, moving to a new place and a lot of work didn't leave with me a lot of spare time. People have been complaining about the speed of kabc (or rather the lack of it). I wrote a few simple tests. Run them a few times and started looking at the profile data. I was quite happy with what I found. There are still things I see as bottlenecks but we're getting there and I'm quite confident we can make kabc very fast. Aaron asked me to profile libkcal. It's going slowly, because I'm lacking good tests. In kabc, I knew where most of the slow paths at least may be, in libkcal I have no idea. We'll see how it goes. Martijn was also telling me that something has to be done about Kopete's memory footprint. Today I also grew tired of the way we render large jpeg files. Which pretty much means that sometime this week I'll allocate enough time to fix bug 39693 (and a lot of other bugs that are related to the slow/memory consuming jpeg loading). If there's one thing I'm very unhappy about is that I didn't switch KNode's article viewer to khtml before the feature freeze. It still uses KTextBrowser which is simply bad for KNode needs. I also have to fix the in-place suggestions in KMail and KNode composers. I promised coolo to do it like two weeks ago. I've been toying around with the idea of adding Makefile.am checker to kde-emacs. Most of the errors seems to repeat themselves all over the place, which is already a good reason to automatize it. You'd M-x kde-emacs-check-makefile and it'd make sure your makefile follows our standards. Read More

So yes, another step back in the Krecipes usability. SQLite is nice, easy to install, easy to code... but in two (or 3) words: "it's crap". Slower than a cow trying to climb up a ladder. Read More

So, with revision of 1.25 to kdelibs/khtml/khtml_popupmenu.rc, Stephan Binner removed a function from the context menu in KHTML that I happen to use quite frequently. This commit was the one that took away the 'View document source' action from my right-click menu in Konqueror, and I can't begin to tell you how unhappy that makes me. Read More

Recently, a discussion about KApplication::random() popped up on kde-cvs. People were asking to move this in a Math tool class. This reminded me of something the KDE-Qt integration group in n7y discussed as a "would-be-nice-to-have" thing. But let me first describe my POV: IMHO KApplication was way to long the place to store everything but the kitchensink. I'd love to get rid of KApplication in KDE 4 if that is possible somehow (or strip it down to a minimal layer that provides no new methods. The motivations: Read More

I hope this becomes a loose series of various things that I would like to change for KDE 4.0. The code may appear in kdenonbeta/kdeutil where I keep utility classes for the KDE namespace. Read More

So, I've spent the last 3 days porting the Redmond KWin decoration to the new kwin_iii style API in my spare time. In case anyone actually cares, here's how it broke down by the day. Read More