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This evening there was a great firework directly in front of the castle in Nove Hrady where we are sitting and hacking. That's a stylish ending for a great week at a stylish location. After having sunshine all the days before it begin raining tonight. Seems like it's time to go home. Many people already have left and I'm going back to Germany with the KDE tour bus tomorrow morning. We accomplished a lot of things here. The KDE e.V. membership meeting finally managed to pass the new bylaws, we had a great conference with lots of interesting talks (The highlight certainly was Kalles talk about KDE history with lots of funny and some embarassing pictures) and we had lots of time for hacking, discussing and having fun. One very nice thing is that there were lots of kdepim developers here. The applications and also the developers are moving closer together. This gives kdepim an increasingly strong identity. Even Don and Marc got well along. There is not much reason left for conflicts. That's not surprising. Beer diplomacy works. Kontact is progressing. I integrated KitchenSync and fixed the about dialog with help from Simon. KOrganizer now provides its configuration as KCModules which can be included in the common Kontact configuration dialog. Matthias was ferociously hacking on KConfigureDialog which will automatically integrate all the config modules for Kontact including plugin configuration. It will also serve as a convenient way for other applications to provide a configuratin dialog. David worked on the toolbar problems and Tobias did a lot of work on libkabc and KAddressBook. Reinhold reorganized the KOrganizer printing support and the KMail guys got some improvements and bug fixes into KMail. There still are some issues, but most of them are solvable before the 3.2 release. The biggest problem currently is that the kroupware branch still isn't merged into HEAD. I hope that Bo will take this over and integrate the missing code, so that Kontact will become a fully usable client to Martins Kolab server. As a fallback we still have the option to make a separate kdepim release after 3.2 when the merge is finished. I also spent a lot of time on KitchenSync. Lots of cleanups, integration into Kontact, a new backup/restore part, bugfixes and now I'm trying to get the Qtopia Konnector to work again. But I'm still not sure if KitchenSync will be ready for 3.2 release. Let's see what the next few weeks bring. Josef hacked on KNewStuff and I talked with Frank about providing some of the cool stuff on www.kde-look.org via the "Get Hot New Stuff" feature. This also seems to work out well. Now I'm tired. Thanks to all the people organizing this event and all the KDE contributors who were here and made this meeting such a great success. See you next year :-) Read More

I'm proud to announce quick and miserable death of my Maxtor 120Gb HDD. "Physical destruction of HDD heads. Unrecoverable." Very well, now I can relax and have my dose of Windows XP (wheww) while the HDD travels to Moscow and back and guess what, nothing kde-related in the meantime. Bad one. Read More

here my todo list for the next month: whiteboard plugin ... embedded stuff plugin including palmos interactive fiction plugin distcc monitoring plugin ok not much code for now. but the deign are done so now can program them without to much difficulty. Read More

I've just committed some basic support for enums to kjsembed. This means that enums published by QObjects using the Q_ENUM declaration can be used by scripts. At the moment, the constants are properties of the proxy object itself rather than the class, but the basics are there. Read More

I've been converting Kopete's Oscar protocol to KExtendedSocket over the past week or two. Needless to say, it hasn't been without it's headaches, but I have finally conquered it!!! The testing that I've done so far seems to indicate that it still works the way it did before the conversion, although now I can't test it to make sure an issue I had with disconnecting is gone because of the KUtils stuff. I'm not quite sure I know what to think about the KUtils stuff, just basically because I feel like it limits us to using HEAD for kopete now. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't care too much since I use HEAD on a daily basis anyways. Read More

Ok, with the official presentation of Qt 4 the pandora's box called KDE 4.0 is open, and people start discussing possible changes. So here is my personal contribution of wishes (that I would be willing to work on, of course, at least if I am not the only one): Read More

people wash in on the shores of KDE as others are washing back out... if i close my eyes i can almost hear the waves of people lapping against the sides of KDE's CVS. Read More

(EDIT: changed the title. Thanks for the discussion, I am less confused now :) ) How many of you, when confronted with the Qt licensing option (during the 'configure' step of the compile) select the GPL as your Qt/X11 license? I had always done so, but I have come to understand that using KDE precludes this option. If you use KDE, the QPL is your only non-commercial licensing option, because a GPL'd library cannot be linked with non-GPL code. KDE contains lots of this. Here's a partial list, just of the core apps and libs: Read More

it's been awhile since I've written one of these. Mostly because I've been working on porting Kopete's oscar protocol to KExtendedSocket. It's used QSocket which is very limited in certain things. KExtendedSocket gives more control, as well as built in IPv6 support and proxy support. I wonder how many AIM and ICQ proxy related bugs I can close now. :D Hopefully it'll be in CVS in the next couple of days. Read More

I am thinking of adding a feature each week describing the state of CVS HEAD. I will report which modules build, which don't, and any glaring bugs or neat stuff. My usage pattern is pretty typical, ie. email, browsing, addressbook, etc. Read More