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New KDE Four Live CDs with KDE 4.4.1, and much more are up. They were built with openSUSE Build Service's KDE:Medias project and SUSE Studio and consist of openSUSE 11.2 plus all updates, KDE 4.4.1, upstream branding, Nepomuk enabled and Strigi disabled (because it's a Live CD). Read More

What's new, based on identica notes: Thoughts on deploying SQLite turned out to be work in progress. Valuable input from our distro friends. A special wiki page has been created. See the last item of this entry ;) KoReport, Kexi's rpt backend has undergone some refactoring to make it more generic. Fix number 1, charts working again in the designer. Working through the huge list of issues krazy has found with the kexi codebase, not glamorous, but necessary! Refactored the report renderers, and given better class name, to make the report library suitable for adoption over all of KOffice. Do you want well working MSAccess to Kexi converter? It's up to you - request it! KOffice now has a suite-wide reporting library! (placed in koffice/libs/koreports/) Kexi switched to "system" SQLite again. We want to play with distros well, but will check SQLite features at compilation to maintain high quality standards. (brought to you by Adam and myself) Read More

Rendering slides is a complicated business. Slides can contain tons of different features just like webpages can. People expect that presentations look the same in different programs. Perhaps not pixel-perfect but very similar nevertheless. Read More

With only a few hours a week to work on Konsole, I often view the logs and other reports for simple issues to investigate. The compile warnings were fixed sometime ago. Most of the simple Krazy and Apidocs issues were also fixed. The remaining Krazy issues would require some heavy duty changes. Read More

Today I'm leaving Tokamak 4, so I thought I'd write a post about what I've been up to while I've been here. The first day or so I spent getting my machine sorted out as trunk was causing some issues with my graphics driver leading to a hang in the DRI layer of the kernel. I also had a chance to triage some ksnapshot bug reports and look over some patches. The next day was largely taken up with talks about the current status of the various parts of plasma, kwin and related technologies. We got a little hacking done but not much as it was more important to make sure we're all coordinating our development. The remaining days became a bit of a blur, so in no particular order: I refactored the plasma javascript scriptengine to make it easier to use it with QScriptEngines that are created externally. This is required before we can integrate things like QML. Worked out what is required for QML integration to be implemented in a way that is compatible with our existing javascript bindings etc. This will require some small changes to the API offered by Qt for QML, which may be a problem. If we don't get those changes then QML is likely to be trapped outside the main engine which will reduce what it can do unless we write another set of bindings. Made some fixes to the webslice applet to improve error handling. Started work on an idea I've had in the back of my head for a while, I won't say too much about it here, but I'll include a pretty picture to whet your appetite: In addition to this I've taken part in lots of discussions on topics ranging from activities/contexts, scripting of animations, silk and more. I'd like to thank Will and the rest of the openSuSE team for making this such a pleasant and productive sprint.

Looks like Microsoft has released the PST format specification. I don't normally like to link to MSDN, but I'll do it this once: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff385210.aspx As usual with these documents, I recommend reading the PDF version rather than the HTML. Also, Firefox seems to handle MSDN a bit better than my (KDE 4.3.5) Konqueror. Read More

I haven't blogged about my development activities for some time now... So here come some news. We released KDE SC 4.4. There were no really big new features in this release buildsystem-wise. Nevertheless it was enough work. PolicyKit support has been added, which was quite some work, and all the new Strigi/Soprano/Nepomuk/Raptor/... stuff, which is still quite confusing for me, and which broke our buildsystem during the 4.4 cycle for a few weeks. But we got that sorted out too :-) Read More

Last week I went to Washington DC where I was meant to be giving a talk at CALUG. However the whole city was buried in a metre of snow so it got cancelled. In fact the whole government shut down. Good thing the US wasn't doing anything important last week or people would have noticed they had no government and anarchy would have broken loose, it would be like Belgium. The snow was mostly ploughed out the way by the end of the week in time for the KDE 4.4 release party organised by Celeste. The release party started off in true US style in a fast food burger restaurant where I ate Ostrich. Later it moved to a bar with a fine selection of beers of many interesting flavours, gosh it was like Belgium! Read More

Remember the last call? After less than 5 months we can see apparent success, and a lot more than a proof of concept. Click to enjoy the show Apaprently, Qt Lighthouse was used for porting the QtGUI module. Read More

I have fixed Exmap, my still favourite tool to measure system memory usage, to compile with latest kernels, and also to work on x86_64 (the latter was a bit of guess-work, but I think I got it right). KSysGuard seems to be getting close, and with Exmap unmaintained by its author :( I don't feel like doing this forever, but for now, it's still possible to get exmap from my home:llunak:kernel repository. And as I don't feel like trying to do cross-distro kernel packages in the buildservice, those not using openSUSE are left with either trying to package it for their other distro, or pick out the patches from the .src.rpm . Read More