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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

It's seen that getting a drinkable coffee is nearly impossible to get here in n7y... the beer is good so ... but drink a beer with his breakfast is not very good for the stomach... anyway the czech girls are very nice so who need coffee then? Read More

It has finally happened: i merged the make_it_cool branch for kompare into head. Now all i have left to do is kill that branch by removing all files in it. I just hope you will enjoy the changes, i know it is still buggy but i'm working on that here. If you find bugs in it just report it to bugs.kde.org and not here, i might miss your bugreports if you post them here. Read More

At last. Krecipes is in kdenonbeta now. No more complaints about delayed anoncvs servers :-) Oh, and we're heading for a 0.3 release very soon. With some very nice new features: Read More

Letting Qt applications user aRts as their sound backend. Short introduction: currently most of my KDE related time is used to help newbie Qt and KDE developers. When one of the user of www.mrunix.de, a German Unix/Linux developer board, had a problem with Qt sound (didn't have have NAS installed), I decided to try implementing an aRts backend for Qt. Read More

Okay, my bags are packed and my papers in order. I jokingly remarked to my wife that all i need to do is a short stint by boat and i will have gone by land air and sea to get to where im going... Read More

I haven't added any blog entries for a while now. I'm in Germany, eagerly awaiting n7y. The basic functionality of KConfEdit is there. I think it's pretty much ready to move it to kdeadmin. I disabled the saving of configs because I don't want it to be doing that till I'm confident everything is working fine. I got the new ui made by Aaron in KSpell, it still needs some slot connections (most notably the Suggest stuff). In my spare time I'm playing with my pet project: Gadget. It's a services/search oriented application, completely plugin based. If right now you're going: "a what?". You need to look at Sherlock or Watson applications. It havily uses kjsembed. All the plugins are written in javascript. I might add a native interface after I'm happy with the javascript one. Why would you want to use javascript in plugins? Because it's super easy. With kjsembed you can load Designer generated ui files, connect signals to your js slots, load read-only kparts and use dcop - all in a very few lines of code. Cool stuff. Quite possibly I'll add support for Sherlock plugins, but for that XQuery would be required. Rich has got an alpha XPath implementation and Tim expressed interest in such a beast as well, so maybe the three of us can come with something nice up. Read More