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ok, after more than a month of swearing and improving my religious vocabulary (in French Canadian swears are religious words) while working on a palm project. I will have some time to finally finishing the palmos support and some other embedded stuff for kdevelop. Here the todo: Read More

One more thing. I'm getting emails about DBus because my name appears in the AUTHORS file, so : KDE is not switching to DBus I hardly did anything for DBus Yes, I do have Qt bindings for DBus pretty much finished. I still have some things that have to be worked on in them but since they're not too high on my todo list right now I can't bring myself to commit that code Yes, a bridge between DCOP and DBus would be technically possible, but I don't think we will ever go for it. It'd be just another layer Creating a DBus library that is source compatible with libDCOP would be possible with one assumption - that assumption is that the application/library using libDCOP doesn't access libICE directly. I've never seen anyone doing that so I think we're pretty much safe on that KDE is not switching to DBus. DCOP is great I think that's it. Now back to coding and repeat after me : neural networks don't work, nice concept but nothing more, well maybe... but that's not KDE related :)

Worked a bit more on KJots last night. I'm nearly finished with everything I'm going to do with it for 3.2, then I can move on to finishing up work on KsCD, then I can move on to TOM and KMail headers, attachments and folder properties. Insert regular bug fixing obsession sprees and the unpredictable random distractions in there and that's probably my KDE life from here to 3.2. Read More

I needed a short break from coding on the two projects that I've been working on for the last few days on so today I added support for both PPC AltiVec and AMD 3DNow instructions to the KCPUInfo class. Basically for completeness. Now take a deep breath and read the part that says "for completeness" again. I think it's a little funny how for most people just mentioning 3DNow, MMX, SSE or AltiVec is enough to recompile whole kdelibs and spend two days looking for speed differences. KDE is not at a point where assembly level optimizations would matter a lot. geiseri is working on a rather neat DCOP cli optimization. I've been playing with udev a little bit. In case you didn't notice - once you plug a device to your machine (be it usb, bluetooth or any hotpluggable device) KDE has no knowledge of it whatsover. If you ever connected a scanner or a usb digital camera you know what I'm talking about. With udev we could get that working. Pretty much all udev does is intercept the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug calls and creates nodes. The plan is to make udev emit a signal saying that a device XYZ has been connected after creating the nodes. It's pretty trivial. The hard part is to do it in a desktop agnostic way. DBus, DCOP and on embedded devices simple scripts - they all have to be supported and to have a more complete device database available. I'm so happy kernel is getting there to finally do things like that. Oh, and finally to kill some time I finally started my "Transparency in KDE made easy". I was sick of all the questions about it and decided to write a whitepaper on it. I'm not yet sure where or when I want to publish it. Read More

So I'm excited; JuK is down to zero open bug reports. I think this is the first time that this has been true since about 2 days after it went into CVS. Read More

I recently noticed that handling of "Daylight Savings Time" (a.k.a. "Summer Time") did not work for any southern-hemisphere locations in KStars. I fixed it in HEAD and 3_1_BRANCH yesterday, a bit too late for 3.1.3, unfortunately (it will be in version M_PI if there is one ;) ) Read More

Hi everyone, It's fun to have this platform for developers and so I thought I'd put forward an idea I've been trying to promote for some time that seems to not get much traction in the community. Often I get a request that reads like can you add auto completion support for [your favorite scripting language here]? I dilligently reply "I don't actually use that language and we have a policy that these must be done by people who use them and can test them. However Quanta is set up so that users can add a language using XML." Now, please allow me some small degree of indulgence here... but isn't it weird that given these facts Read More

What would you think about a Jogger interface for kdedevelopers.org? For those who don't know Jogger, it is a Jabber component that allows you to post diary entries via any Jabber client, such as Kopete for example. To see it in action, you can see one installation at http://jogger.jabber.org. Read More

So okay, what do I want from a MUD client? a) Necessities a1) Complete scriptability (better in Ruby or Perl, then Python, custom languages won't do) a2) Bindable keys. Thats crucial since typing commands when you can bind it is a straight road to rip. a3) Triggers. While present in most clients they need be fast and easy to add. a4) Support for encodings other than Latin-1. a5) MCCP, Mud Client Compression Protocol, saves up to 95% of traffic. b) Fancies b1) Automapper c) My ideas c1) Battle screen. More on this later. Read More

lots of stuff is happening to kexi lately. (remember kexi is the database "frontend" in koffice). first of all kexi is now (after jowenn's commit) provideing konqueror like tabbing see http://blogs.kde.org/node/view/108 for a screenshot. Read More