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Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be, Eating breakfast or dinner, Or snack lunch in the hall. Finland, Finland, Finland. Finland has it all. Akademy has been lovely. Good people, good talks, good sessions. Read More

Hello everyone ! Last week I finally decided to spend some time on the UI of the tool, and you will see on this screencast that there has been some changes ! Read More

Coming live from Akademy over IRC later today (Finnish today anyway) is Kubuntu Tutorials Day. Alan Alpert from Nokia will teach you about Qt Quick and QML. You will need to download and install Qt Creator binaries before the tutorial. Qt Creator from the archive is not new enough. Read More

Proposed by chrome developers - two entries and submenu are removed. Reduces mouse clicks and movements.                                                                      

Do you remember the tabbed toolbar thing that was once born in Kexi? It's an attempt to optimize the UI when collection of actions depends on context. This part of development goes well, even while there is no framework for use by other KDE 4 apps. Those still use the KDE 3 technology, i.e. KXMLGUI leading to rather big menus. Read More

Besides maintaining Ark, I also spend some of my KDE time reviewing and applying patches for other projects as well. This weekend I had some free time, which was dedicated to applying some Kopete patches and pushing some KDE-FreeBSD patches upstream. Read More

Akademy started with a pre-conference welcome drinks evening today. Lots of KDE developers old and new. There is a Flickr group for Akademy 2010 but it seems I can only post 6 photos to it, which is a strange restriction. Read More

Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be, Pony trekking or camping, Or just watching TV. Finland, Finland, Finland. It's the country for me. as in previous years we are proud to sponsor Read More

Hi guys, Maybe it's a bit late to talk about what I did last week, but anyway : After fixing some bugs in the transformation tool, I decided to add the possibility for the user to change the center of rotation. It was a bit tricky, because I wanted to express this rotation (around the current center) as a composition of a rotation around the original center of the selection and a translation (which is possible). Consequently, a succession of rotations around different center can be reduced to only 1 rotation around the original center and 1 translation. I used complex numbers for the calculation (quite convenient for 2D transformations), and I was pleased to see that complex numbers were standard C++ objects. Read More

It is quite normal, in Free Software initiatives, for people to come in, help out, become proficient, maybe even moderately famous, then eventually move on or drop out. Often life gets in the way, parenting, post entry level jobs and growing responsibilities reduce the available time something fierce and once one is no longer really familiar with the code base, it becomes hard to make an effective contribution in those short time and motivation windows that open up. Somewhat ironically, since a large part of my job revolves around KDEPIM, this is very true for me as well. Over the last two years or so, apart from lunch discussions over architectural issues with my colleagues, I've been able to do little more than ensure things build and work on OSX, my current main platform. Much to my delight, this has recently changed. After many years, our efforts to build and transition to the Akonadi platform are coming together lately. Although we've decided to delay by a month, relative to the normal KDE 4.5 release schedule, with KDEPIM, we are nearing production quality of all of the components of Kontact now. KDEPIM from 4.5 branch is fully based on Akonadi and usable for my normal business and personal email, calendaring (Kolab, of course) and contacts management. In this current phase, there are a myriad smaller things to notice, analyze and fix (or give someone else enough information with which to fix). Many rough edges need to be filed away and regressions in the functionality and usability identified. Especially for the later it's really useful to have been working with Kontact for many years and to know the history behind why certain things work the way they do or whether those reasons still make sense. I find this to be very satisfying work, as it allows me to throw in my experience and my odd hour of hacking time and make a meaningful difference. This got me thinking that it would be awesome if we could re-activate some of the other old KDE hands to help make our next generation PIM infrastructure and apps all that they can be. So this is a call to arms for the KDE veterans, whether they've worked on PIM in the past or not. You all know KMail and friends very well, you know deep down you really wanna be coding again, at least a bit, and you all want KDEPIM to rock the world again. The platform and tools are excellent to work with, these days, and the code base is pretty clean and modular. The community is large and friendly, it's an enthusiastic and highly motivated group that is a joy to be around. So saddle up, you weary warriors, and ride with us once again ;). Read More