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I finally committed to CVS the new OSCAR protocol implementation. It uses libfaim from Gaim. Gaim developers have been very responsive so far, they applied some things I've sent them and were patiently answering my questions. I decided to rework buddy handling so things are in a state of flux right now. Also there's no documentation whatsoever, I'll write it once I'm happy with the api. After looking at Cornelius' KPrefs, I started working on KConfEdit again, which is going to become the KDE GUI config editor. I'm abstracting parsing at the moment. I've sat down and tried to come up with things a tool like this would need and now I'll be reworking internals to achieve those goals. So KConfEdit should: Read More

I managed to get a first pure-KJSEmbed application working last night. It's only a basic text editor, but it creates its own KMainWindow and has acess to the action collection. Combined with the signal/JS function code I added recently I think we're almost at the point where KJSEmbed can be used to create real applications rather than just simple wizards etc. Read More

I get to go to n7y! HOORAY! Seriously... this has got to be one of the coolest things to ever happen to me. How many people think that the result of their after-school coding efforts are going to end up getting to go to a conference in the Czech Republic? Read More

Ok here my todo list for kdevelop: -finish the palm support .. Including documentation and uploading to the device. -Dreamcast support (planning) -Openembedded buildroot support -Interactive fiction support (useless but cool todo ;) ) Read More

I discovered KDE had the option to rename files by clicking on the icon name (vs selecting them and then pressing F2). I'd like to have this turned on by default, rather than off, as it would address the #1 complaint I've received regarding single click mode. I suggested such on kfm-devel and kde-usability, and will be doing further testing w/RLUs (real live users) shortly... Read More

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