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In addition to usual chatting about whether and how is Kexi utilised under KDE I would like to hear about others, what in the context of the Desktop Summit means GNOME users. Read More

Recently there was an post on Hacker News about collective nouns for birds in English. I run loads of virtual machines on my computer and I wonder what they should be called - 'a herd of virtual machines'? I have the mediocre Windows 7 Home Premium, and I wonder if that should be called a 'A badling of windows' after the phrase 'A badling of ducks'. Read More

When I upgraded my KDE-setup to 4.7.0 I run into the problem that when starting the brand new KMail based upon Akonadi that the Nepomuk-feeder started to index my imap-folders. The Nepomuk-feeder is used to enable offline fulltext-search. A rather cool feature but the drawback is that it's needed to index all my mails. That can be a rather time-intensive operation if you happen to have a large imap-inbox like me has. In total I've approximated a few millions mails in there. I rarely use fulltext search and especially not on my imap-account. So I was looking for a way to disable that feature and to prevent the Nepomuk-feeder from running through those mails. With the help of a friendly Akonadi-developer I found a way I like to share with you. Read More

I'm experimenting with providing a CI (continuous integration) server for KDEPIM. For a while I've been running a cronjob that triggers a cmake script. This script then polls the repositories for 24 hours and every time a change was detected a build was performed. The results from this was feed to http://my.cdash.org (kdepim, kdepimlibs and kdepim-runtime). Read More

When I first got involved in KDE, I was very disappointed that none of the release parties were ever close enough for me to visit. There weren't very many in North America to begin with and most of those were either on the west coast or the midwest. It is hard to really feel plugged-in to a community when your only interaction with everyone is on IRC and e-mail. Read More

The European Space Agency is organizing ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011. And Marble and KStars have just been accepted as mentor organizations! Thanks a lot ESA, this is terrific news! The students application period starts today! And the schedule is tight: The deadline for applications is on July 27th, 11:00 AM (UTC) - that's about in a week! So if you're a student and if you'd like to participate then please hurry up and check the FAQ - especially the paragraph about eligibility pick a project from the ideas page (or suggest your own project) fill out and submit the application form for students. If you have any question, you can refer to the documentation center or write to the public SOCIS mailing list. If you have a question regarding Marble or KStars ideas just ask on our mailing lists (kstars-devel@kde.org and marble-devel@kde.org). And remember: In space no one can hear you code.

Recently I've been working on the smoke-gobject bindings in the evenings and weekends. Although I'm working on other things for my job at Codethink during the day, I'm sufficiently excited about these bindings to be unable to stop spending my free time on them. This is at the expense of working on the new version 3.0 of QtRuby sadly. I'll try to explain on this blog why I think the Smoke/GObject bindings will be important for the parties attending the forthcoming Desktop Summit to consider, and why I'm giving them a higher priority than Ruby. Read More

Have you considered contributing to the Marble (Virtual Globe) yet? The Voice of Marble contest is about to end in 8 days, so you could make use of your weekend by contributing: Read More

KDEPIM 4.6.1 is hereby released. You can find it in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/kdepim-4.6.1/src You'll need both kdepim and kdepim-runtime, and please make sure to have the most recent Akonadi, Soprano, kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4.6 and friends. Also shared-desktop-ontologies (SDO) 0.6.x is required -- kdepim 4.6.1 will not build against newer versions of SDO. See the list of bugs we fixed since 4.6.0. I don't know yet if we'll make 4.6.2 release, as KDE SC 4.7 is fast approaching.

I haven't written any posts for a few weeks, so I figure it's time for an update. I, along with a bunch of other people who hack on Qt, attended the Qt Contributor Summit in Berlin. This was a very useful event, since it brought together a good mixture of both Nokia developers and external developers - as I would have hoped, KDE was one of the most common afiliations. One of the main things I wanted to do during the event was get together with the people responsible for the Qt SSL code and ensure that the plans for Qt5 will meet the needs of KDE (and others who want non-trivial SSL usage). Read More