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I wanted to try out Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 running under VirtualBox on my iMac before I went to the Berlin Summit. I've already tried using Unity-2d on Ubuntu, and I thought I if I had some real experience with Gnome 3 as well, I could have a bit more of an informed discussion with our Gnome friends and others at the Summit. Read More

So, to make it short, I'll be also in Berlin at the Desktop Summit, from Saturday to Wednesday evening. So if you have wishes, questions, want to contribute to the KDE buildsystem or CMake, just look around for me :-) There'll be a KDE buildsystem BoF . If you want to attend, please enter here when it is suitable for you in this doodle poll . Read More

Another year, my first Desktop Summit, plenty of things to do, gstreamer training, help organization, even be a referee in a geek football match. Crazy days ahead. Leaving sunny Florianópolis right now !!

You can now set a custom calendar icon and have it shown in each agenda/month view events. Before: Now: Makes the view much more pleasant to look at when you have dozens of events, and you don't have to memorize which colours belong to which calendars any more. Read More

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.