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It's been a while since I had baby photos to show, Felix grew just too quickly. But we two have a lot in common, and the latest addition to the list is the love to his sister: Read More

I haven't been doing a lot of KDE stuff recently (happy user, although I'd be happier if I could find some extra time for development...). Instead, I've been doing some "real" work, and also going some OpenChange work. [For those that tuned in late, OpenChange is an implementation of the Exchange RPC protocols on both the client (i.e. "Outlook") and server (i.e. "Microsoft Exchange") sides of the network protocol] Read More

Interviews I did some 30 second video interviews at Akademy in Helsinki. You can download them to get a feel for the people and place of Akademy. Unfortunately I've been unable, in the limited time I've devoted to it, to convert them to Oggs, ffmpeg doesn't want to do it. I've also been unable to find a simple HTML5 video gallery script that would make a simple HTML page with the videos embedded. Do let me know if you have the answers to those. I recommend Frank's interview for an insight into what our board spends its week doing. Read More

With Akonadi most operations are running behind the scenes, carried out by background helper processes called Akonadi Agents. While we do have respective progress monitoring in KMail2, users will eventually take advantage of fact that they are no longer tied to specific applications. At which point they might want to be able to check on the status of these background processes without launching some front end applications. Read More

Brazil's copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use Chile becomes first country to guarantee net neutrality Software Now Un-Patentable In New Zealand What is your country is doing for you ? Read More

So it's no secret many people are not liking the font rendering in KOffice (they often say KWord, but it applies to all of KOffice). As it has been suggested a couple of times you need to turn the global font hinting down to slight to improve the rendering. I know this is unacceptable to some as they feel the system fonts look worse. Now, hinting or not is a religion and personally I like no hinting, but I respect that other people feel differently. So what we need is a way to make font rendering in KOffice only slightly hinted while respecting the users wishes for every other thing. This is however not possible in Qt as we speak, but it might be in the future. Read More

The tasklist I submit to Google was very realistic, but don't know I why didn't suppose to meet any small bugs need to be solved. Almost all the Community Bonding Period I spent on setting developers environment. Newest Qt, Phonon, DCOP, ... , KDE-Edu. Then, once I compiled everything and I had hoped that everything is fine. Some hours of sleep and then great crash. KDE couldn't start. I was trying under Debian, Kubuntu and Mandriva. Same effect. Over three weeks of downloading, compiling, installing new distros etc... Endly, with help of Anne-Marie and #kde-devel Community I found out I could solve it. They provided me a solution to configure my environment easy and effortless. Huh, thanks! When coding period began I was ready to work. Beginnings are hard. Read More

Qt on ARM is, literally, a sign of certification ;) Thanks to Trolls for the opportunity of getting certified at Akademy!

Today openSUSE 11.3 is released, concluding 8 months of intense and enjoyable work. This release has been especially enjoyable for me, as it was the first openSUSE release where the community KDE team really took the driving seat and made decisions about what to include, updated packages and intensively tested. Instead of just being a slave to a feature list this release, I was more occupied in enabling, advising and reviewing others' contributions. I'd like to say "Excellent work!" to the whole openSUSE team here in Nuremberg, Prague, the rest of Novell and to every openSUSE contributor who has tested milestones, reported bugs, learned how to use osc and

In case you use Icecream (the distributed compile system which makes your coworkers' machines compile KDE for you :)) and happen to be using a glibc >= 2.11.2, you might notice that you are not able to send compilation jobs to other machines while still being visible to the scheduler and receiving jobs from other hosts. Read More