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Jabber seems to be growing again lately. Yet, Kopete seems to have no real userbase in Jabberland. I always wonder why I don't get any real feedback. There are hardly any bug reports, hardly any wishlist entries. Compared to the other plugins like ICQ or MSN at least, although that might be an unfair comparison. Read More

I don't like the fact that I have to be coming up with topics for those entries. I think I'll just start putting dates for them. People who want to know what I'm doing will find them anyway. I haven't done anything too interesting today. Worked on KSpell a little more. Cleaned it up a little and closed two bugs, from which the more interesting is that you can now check HTML/SGML/XML and Tex/LaTeX documents with KSpell and it will automatically skip the tags/commands and it will spell check only the actual contents. It should make spellchecking in such applications as Quanta and KTextMaker/Kile a lot more friendly. I'm trying to come up with a new layout for the spell checking dialog. If you're missing something in our current implementation let me know. Oh, and you can safely skip the fact that you want to be able to select a language right from the dialog. I have two reports about that and that fact alone is one of the reasons I'm planning to redesign it. Maybe our usability team will make itself useful ;) I put an image of me in my hacking corner here or simply check my photo gallery. For some reason people who have never seen me imagine me differently. Not sure if that's good :) Also not really KDE, more my-life, related, still a great picture. I wasn't really supposed to be posting it on the net, but I liked it too much. Read More

For my first post, I thought I would give a short heads up on recent activity in KStars. Jasem Mutlaq recently added telescope control to KStars, which is just fantastic. Definitely has been one of our most-requested features. Read More

so, i'm back, as people were moaning that i don't keep this up to date, in any case i need to get back in practice now that kdedevelopers.org has appeared, still waiting for my approval though, wonder whats taking them so long... Read More

Well notices now highlight the nick in their randomly picked colours. reved the version to 1.3.8 to allow for the per server prefs. That's it for ksirc today, it's too hot out. Read More

Did you hear that Ralf Nolden is starting work on a new KDE3 development book? Wahoo! It's going to be under the FDL, natch. Following Holger's suggestion that the book be a constantly updated guide to everything KDE, I propose it be titled "The KDEnomicon" :) Read More

This is a test post from KBlog. If it works it will be ready for CVS. Currently there are issues with the post manager. The selection dialogs need some refinement. Read More

I am planning on doing a feature which will list all the Kde developers who are paid by someone. Here is an incomplete list. Waldo Bastian by Suse Zack Rusin by Automatix ( there was someone else too) David Faure by Trolltech Andras Mantia by Eric Laffoon Bo Thorsen by Klaralvdalens Datakonsult AB Read More

This seems to come up fairly frequently with people who talk to me about Kiwi and its goals and the seeming redundancy when compared with JuK. At the risk of possibly offending wheels (which is completely not my intention), I do have a few reasons to continue developing Kiwi, and these reasons are all valid to me. Kiwi is something that I like working on because it doesn't have the same design code-wise as JuK does. I like wheels, and I think he's a damned good coder, but I don't agree with all of his decisions about JuK's design and codebase.Kiwi isn't actually behind JuK when it comes to features. JuK has searching, and tagging. We have global keyboard shortcuts, passive popup notification, and a DCOP interface. (No idea if JuK has any of these features yet, but it didn't last time I checked.) Of course, personally, I think that we have a better infrastructure for future growth, but that might just be my pride talking.We've finally abstracted out our backend API so that adding new Source types (internet radio, portable MP3/Ogg player, audio CD, etc) is going to be a snap. wheels' aim for JuK is to make it a "media playing jukebox" which is a noble and admirable goal. But I want something as easy-to-use as iTunes, with extra care and attention paid to the UI and a clean design with optimizations where they're needed.I want usable, well-designed (API-wise and UI-wise) software that does exactly what I need, and JuK fails this, not because it's a bad program or because wheels is evil, but because JuK isn't my project and wheels isn't me.Now, those are my serious reasons for continuing development on Kiwi. There are, of course, a few silly and not-so-serious reasons for continuing development. We have a half dozen CD burning apps, why not a half a dozen music players?I like having a project of my own where I can't hurt anybody else or step on peoples' toes.Binary metadata caching is for weenies.When was the last time that you wanted cheese-covered french fries covered in bacon? Ok, it doesn't really have anything to do with Kiwi or JuK, but I'm hungry. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?Lists suck.So, there you have it. Just for the record, wheels and I did discuss the possibility of merging Kiwi and JuK, a Long Time Ago (TM) but I decided against it. I was excited about it at first, and I thought it would make a lot of sense, but after talking with my fellow Kiwi devels, I had to turn the opportunity down. The way I see it, JuK and Kiwi both have plenty of room to grow, and nobody loses, because we both suck less than Noatun. ;) Read More

DCOPWidgets are widgets that are accessble via dcop. You can load a UI file that was built in designer and then access it from any lanuage that can talk via dcop. Read More