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Ubuntu Developer Week is under way with a whole week of IRC sessions on a range of development topics. Me and Aurelien are running a Write-Your-First-Plasmoid session at 20:00UTC today. See you in #ubuntu-classroom

KDE 4.3 is out, I'm vacationed, and now is a good time to explain share same of the things I would like to get done in PyKDE for KDE 4.4. Read More

To be honest I'm not all that happy with the current situation. Riverbank Computing, basically Phil Thompson, has done an excellent job developing SIP and PyQt over the last 10 years and providing a Free Software (GPL) version which PyKDE is built on. Phil has also done an excellent job of providing answers to my queries, basically as a free service to KDE and the FOSS community. Having two competing Python bindings for Qt is a waste of resources and is generally disruptive to the community at large. Seeing the future of Riverbank and the good working relationship between it and KDE jeopardised is not something that appeals to me. I am disappointed that no kind of cooperative agreement could be reached between Nokia and Riverbank Computing. Read More

Recently, let's say in the past year, I saw a growing number of email messages on the KDE lists with the following content only: +1 This is getting annoying for me. I get a nice notification from KMail about the messages arrived, and if I saw that it came to some folder that I'm interested in, I look at the message. And many times it contains nothing, but a +1. I can understand the urge to express support for an idea, a person, but please, think about it twice before doing so. These days it is not about abusing my / the worlds bandwidth, as we use more to share "stuff", it is about abusing the time of the readers. Read More

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