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Once in a while we come across rumors, urban ledgends and myths about all kinds of things. For example you might have read, heard or otherwise encountered wild claims about Akonadi's dependencies, maybe even as ridiculous as "depends on KDE". Read More

Here is another update on the progress of the KDevelop refactoring support SoC. Last week was pretty hectic for me. Sadly I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to work on the project, and even less to blog about it. However with this update I will list things that have happened these past two weeks. Among things that happened: Read More

Ubuntu's new translations coordinator David Planella is holding a Kubuntu Translations Love Day in #kubuntu-devel tomorrow (Wed 29th). Do drop by at any time and let us know all your i18n problems.

Occationally people ask if they can use Oxygen icons on their website or in their (non-KDE) application. The answer is that of course you can, it's all lovely free software, you just need to include the LGPL and credit the Oxygen dudes. I wrote this handy guide for people who want to do so.

Several people have wanted to be able to write Plasma PopupApplets in scripting languages. I'm pleased to announce that for KDE 4.3 you will be able to write them in Ruby and C#. Read More

Aurelien Gateau and the rest of the Canonical Desktop Experience folks have been working super hard to get the visual notifications on KDE and Gnome united as part of their Project Ayatana. This involves uniting the Galago and KDE VisualNotification DBus interfaces. Along the way freedesktop.org had to get fixed to make such cooperation possible. But now the KDE half of the changes are in (KDE trunk and Kubuntu Karmic) and Gnome apps running in KDE show visual notifications just like KDE apps. There's minor issues to be fixed and the other way round (KDE apps running on Gnome) still has some patches to be finished & crashes to be fixed but it works in a lot of cases. Read More

After spending an extra week after GCDS hiking around on La Gomera (another one of the Canarian islands), I finally got home and had time to process some of the photos I took during the desktop summit, so you can go ahead and take a look at them in my gcds gallery on my smugmug page (so if anyone needs a smugmug referral code you can also ping me).

The release team made a decision to branch the KDE svn for 4.3 in advance of the actual release. From the point of view of kdebindings I am finding it a highly error prone messy pain in the arse. Read More

Another week into SoC, and status update for anyone mildly interested :) So what has happened in the last week? Well I worked in the KDE hacking rooms at Akademy :). Read More

This past week has been quite interesting to say the least. Being at GCDS has been very interesting and educational. I got to know quite a few KDE(and some OSS) people, to chat and work with. It was pretty hard to start taking to people (most people are really shy in person), but after you get to know some people you know everything is for real(and they like to party too!). Read More