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moving blog

Thursday, 2 July 2009
Just in case anyone is following me on kdedevelopers.org, I moved my blog to http://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn.

A QtWebKit KPart is no answer for a KDE browser

Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Disclaimer: I have no desire to re-ignite KHTML vs WebKit arguments. Rather, the purpose of this blog post is to hopefully enlighten a technical question. Over the last few months I've heard many KDE developers in various forums bemoan the lack of a working and stable WebKit KPart. The motivation behind this complaint seems to be that KDE folk want a WebKit browser option for KDE. Thus the naive solution is to just get the WebKit KDE KPart in shape. Given this motivation... the solution is wrong IMO. Read More

Working on KOffice

Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Today is the first day of my employment at a wonderful company called KO GmbH. KO GmbH provides services around software dealing with office documents, notably KOffice. I'm excited to have found such an inspiring job working in Free Software. Read More

KDE Wiki Meeting Report

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Two days of KDE Wiki Meeting are over. Danimo, Frank, Lydia, Dominik, Milian, Thorsten and me met in Berlin with the goal to get some more structure into the KDE Wikis and provide a plan for the future, where to put content. I'm happy to say that we accomplished this mission. Read More

Tutorials Day Logs

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Tutorials Day rocked and logs are now available for those who missed it. Talks covered Ruby, Amarok Scripting, Artwork, Packaging and Kubuntu Karmic.

User-Centred: Stop Continual Web Failure

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
KDE needs as an entire project to support a Web browser that everyone can use in 2009. That's the simple message behind this blog entry and my talk at LinuxTag on Saturday. Read More

Packaging KDE applications for multiple distributions in the openSUSE build service

Monday, 29 June 2009
If you look at for example kde-apps.org or kde-look.org, there are numbers of various KDE applications, utilities, styles, decorations and what not. Various contributors post there their work for others to try and use. This is the place where new software or other contributions often look for their first users. Read More

Should Qt and KDE apps written in C# be considered Free Software?

Monday, 29 June 2009
Richard Stallman is giving a keynote talk about Free Software at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit and I am very much looking forward to hearing what he has to say. However, I just read this short post Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#, and to me what it is saying seems incoherent. Read More

Tutorials Day in a Few Hours

Monday, 29 June 2009
See you in the IRC channel in a few hours for interesting tutorials on a range of topics.

Progress on Marble Plugins (GSoC)

Sunday, 28 June 2009
Here is a short update about Marble Plugins. Let's have a look at the weather plugin. At the moment it can display the weather condition as well as the temperature, but as the backend already holds all the other weather information it's easy to present more. Every weather stations also got a priority, which results into the displayed stations being nicely selected. Read More