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The main openSUSE users' mailing list are a demanding bunch who know what they want. Over the last few months the KDE group have been asking them what they still miss from KDE 3 in KDE 4, and one of those things has been the ability to add a submenu of the main app launcher, whether Kickoff or traditional, to the panel as a button in its own right. Read More

The decision on the matter of the (not)preselected desktop in openSUSE has been made. You can read about it in the mail announcing the decision, I would like to just offer a KDE view, from Will and me. Read More

Well it is officially the end of GSoC. This update brings you the wrap-up of what happened in the project, what got done, what didn't get done, and what is next on the wonderful world of automated code Refactoring in C++. Read More

One big risk with git is forgetting which branch you're working in. Several people solve that by putting the git branch in their shell prompt. But often they do that by calling git branch and parsing its output, which is quite slow, especially in big repositories (we strace'd it, and it really opens and reads a lot of files). Read More

There has been some confusion about Google data capabilities around the KDE 4.3 release. The 4.3 Feature Plan has an entry for that and it is marked as "Completed". What it meant is that the Google Data resoures by Adenilson Cavalcanti would be available at the time of the 4.3 release, however it got, understandably, interpreted as being part of KDE PIM in 4.3. Read More

So Elvis Stansvik and I have been working on table support for KWord. And simultaneously I've been working on improving the MS .doc import filter for KWord. I've improved the generally font and paragraph import enormously, but in this blog I'll focus on the table import. Read More

Just recently my blog got syndicated by Planet OSGeo. So I'd like to take the opportunity and say "Hello" to all readers and I'd like to thank for the warm welcome! As a Marble and KDE developer I had been at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit last month (and that made me miss the State Of The Map unfortunately). I enjoyed this conference a lot and I would like to thank especially the GCDS Team which did a terrific job and made this event a full success. Read More

Recently Aurelien Gateau of the Canonical Desktop Experience team implemented the Message Indicator for KDE and Konversation. Now if you get messages when you're away from your computer or not looking at IRC it'll put them into the message indicator when you can happily not get distracted by them (unlike popup notifications) but can easily find them when you want to. Read More

The week before last into GSoC, and this is how things are: Sadly I had very little time to work on the project last week because I had to be out of town for the most part. Despite of this setback though, there was a significant improvement, which is the user review widget. What this means is: Screenshot time! Read More

Do you want to write something about KDE's memory usage? Simple, just follow these steps: Launch KDE. Run some random tool for measuring memory usage, preferably top. Pick a column you think you know what it means. If you can't decide, just pick one, preferably something with big numbers (big numbers look better, remember). Complain that the numbers are way too big. For higher bonus, compare it to something else, preferably something that gets nowhere near KDE's usage of shared resources (=libraries, mostly, but not only). ??? Profit! Really, it's as simple as that. So many people do it, you can too. See, for example, this review of KDE4.3. I have nothing against the review itself, since, I admit, I mostly skimmed over it, only two things caught my attention. First one was getting it backwards who copied from who the filtering feature in Present Windows compositing effect, which slightly amused me, and second one was the part talking about resources, which didn't. Read More