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Hot on the heels of the Calligra sprint in Berlin I attended another sprint in Berlin. This time the KDE UX sprint where we discussed many interesting topics (see eg. Aurélien’s blog) The two sprints tied nicely together for me as in the Calligra sprint we had a presentation of some usabillity testing on our current ux. This testing was done by Anna, a usability student from Finland. This confirmed what we already knew: Our current ux has quite a number of problems. So at the UX sprint I talked to Celeste, Thomas Pfeiffer, Björn Balazs and Peter Sikking on how to come up with a better user interface. Read More

After asking the KDE e.V. for funding, I can now finally say I'm going to the Platform 11 sprint in June and to Desktop Summit in August. I would like to thank the e.V. (hi there Claudia!) and everyone involved in organizing both events for making these trips possible. Besides being my first international trips, these are going to be my first plane trips ever too :) I plan on taking a few hats with me to Randa and Berlin, in hopes that they can provide valuable contributions: my KDE developer hat (kdelibs and kdeutils), my KDE on FreeBSD hat (there are even going to be two of us there) and also my buildsystem hat. Read More

11.04 is nearly here. If you haven't tried the beta yet you only have a week to go to make sure you catch any last beasties in this release. KDE Platform 4 is now in a pleasingly stable state so if you haven't tried Plasma or KDE Software for a while and are finding the alternatives a bit too different in their UI changes do give Kubuntu a try. Read More

The first quarter of 2001 was quite a ride. Especially, there was a lot of Free Software stuff going on, not all of it was KDE-related. It included legal matters, Free Software politics, marketing, conference preparation and other activities. In the great tradition of quarterly updates that I am starting today, allow me to entertain you with what happened... Read More

Companies often store their customer information in databases managed by customer relation management tools. SugarCRM is one such popular (and open source) system, built on the extremly wide spread AMP stack (Apache HTTP, MySQL, PHP). Therefore its main user interface is web based, i.e. accessible through standard web browsers and thus also relatively platform independent. Read More

Today KDEPIM 4.6 Beta5 is tagged and released. Once the mirrors catch-up you should find the source code in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/kdepim/4.5.95. Also, I know some distros will be providing their users access to this new release for your testing pleasure. Read More

Even if you are certified Qt developer already, I definitely do not recommend to stop but continue the certification effort. One extra point is that for someone like me preparing for exams means having a closer look at technologies I do not use so extensively everyday, e.g. QtScript. Nothing beats the developer's practice of course but learning for exams is almost as good excuse for taking the time as preparing Qt presentations. You have a chance to accidentally learn something relatively new and unnoticed. Read More

Did that get your attention? Good, it was supposed to. Now get back to making KDE 4 rock in whatever way you are able and resist the temptation to put 'KDE 5' in your blog title to get some clicks. KDE 4 is not going anywhere in the foreseeable future because GNOME just increased their major release number.

Ubuntu App Developers Week has IRC talks on developing /on/ Ubuntu (rather than developing bits of Ubuntu itself. Of interest to Kubuntu and KDE folks is "Widgetcraft: The Art of Creating Plasma Widgets" by Harald Sitter today at 19:00UTC and "Creating a KDE app with KAppTemplate" Jonathan Thomas tomorrow Tuesday at 19:00UTC. Friday at 17:00 sees "Phonon: Multimedia in Qt" with Harald Sitter. Read More

Note in bold: no official plans here, however many continuously maintained software projects start with N+1 version development long before N version is discontinued. So yes, I really think the current works at UX level are "the" KDE 5 development. Read More