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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

Using the Kubuntu distribution, I've been a bit envious of the Python bindings guys, because the bindings are installed by default and frequently get updated. So it made my day when I recently did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to get KDE 4.3 in my copy of Jaunty and saw that the KDE Korundum Ruby bindings were installed. This is great stuff Kubuntu community! Read More

I'd like to introduce a little pet project of mine: Kustodian, which some people would call a ripoff of the mac dock or windows 7 taskbar. But I maintain it's a thing of it's own, but it indeed has some similarities. Read More

I started to publish on Twitter some days ago to not stay completely silent about the good stuff that is happening with KDE/openSUSE. Most of the time my posts even appear on other people's pages and in Twitter Search. According to the "Find People" function I don't exist though.