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This didn't seem to work first time, so I'll try again: I did a major reorganisation of the code just before the freeze hit. This caused a lot of breakage (eg. the wrapper classes were borked, as was KPart support), fortunately things are working again now. One important change is the use of separate classes to handle proxies for QVariant types and opaque pointers, this makes the code a hell of a lot easier to understand. Now that the structural stuff is done, Ian Geiser's SQL bindings seem to be basically working (though the QObject wrapper class needs a couple of bugs squashing) so the only thing that's left actually broken is the QPainter wrapper class. All in all, this code is looking good for the 3.2 release.

It seems we're coming close to a new release. When? Dunno, just give time to time for bugfixing. Krecipes 0.4 has quite a few additional features, so we cannot hold the beast anymore on the servers. Someone will have to download it soon before it explodes! Read More

okay so my old visor prism is starting to show its age... its big its bulky and after owning two newtons before that, its cumbersome to use... so im shopping. Read More

i'm having a coding frenzy at home at the moment while waiting for my adsl to be installed. amazing the amount of work you can get done when irc, mail and even sane tv listings are all unavailable. Read More

Last night I did a lot of bug fixes and janitor work on bugs.kde.org and others were also working hard to get some stuff done before the string freeze that hits us as of today. Still we (#kde-pim) realized that we are not quite there, which is why we will most probably release Kontact as version 0.8 with the following features disabled: Read More

The skinny: two people have reported that KStars will not compile for them; both are using Redhat 9 and gcc 3.2.2. The error message is: lx200classic.cpp:29: structure `eqNum' with uninitialized const members Read More

Today news sites repeated the monthly Microsoft execute says "Linux is insecure" articles. And while they are comparing apples with oranges (as Linux distributions ship with far more servers and network services than Microsoft offers), it's hard to deny the fact that Linux is also insecure. Essential and security critical packages like OpenSSH, LSH and OpenSSL had exploits in the last weeks and this should have convinced the last conservatives that it is not possible to write a complex server in C without having a remote exploit per year. All these exploits were caused by manual memory management that is relatively hard to avoid in C. But that's not even the point that I want to make, you can also have security problems in other languages. What free software (and also the proprietary competition mostly) lacks is a way to make securing your computer easy. Read More

It's snuck up on me. It's been growing item by item until it can go unnoticed no longer. Yup, my TODO list has become so long, I can no longer ignore it. So, I thought i'd write it down. I imagine that I haven't gotten everything I need to do on here, but here's some of it. Read More

So, I've been rather quiet on the KDE front lately. I've been busy, though. As much as it might shock and dismay a lot of you, I've been playing around with GNOME. I've even immersed myself in it, seeing exactly how their desktop works and taking notes of things that I like and don't like. The main reason for this is that I was reading through a thread on the Nautilus mailing list entitled "We're going all spatial." Read More

Time to redo the digest. I'm getting bored with what is produced, and frustrated with the limitations of static pages. Most complaints I receive are from developers whose work isn't highlighted. Read More