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The openSUSE KDE team is holding a Bug Squashing event to work through the KDE bug reports in bugzilla.novell.com this weekend. Among the goals are reporting non-openSUSE specific bugs to bugs.kde.org and closing duplicates to reports within bugs.kde.org or bugzilla.novell.com - hope to see you! :-)

Dear LazyWeb ... erm, I mean DoItYourselfWeb. As you may or may not have noticed, KWin now again defaults to compositing enabled, if possible (the self-check will possibly still need polishing a bit, but that's why it's enabled by default now, right; and the little trick for detecting too bad performance needs some testing too). This is true for both to-be-KDE4.2 KDE trunk and to-be-openSUSE11.1 packages. Read More

When I heard that Nokia was giving away N810 devices on aKademy, I wondered how long it would take till I saw the first code changes. So, code changes to support the ARM architecture or the use of KDE on a PDA. Today I saw three (and wrote two of them): Read More

As there seem to be people who continue, despite being told about dependency errors and packages that cannot be upgraded, to install newer KDE packages (and then wonder about a broken desktop) I want to point out this important service information for users of the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop repository in the openSUSE Build Service.

Yet another blog entry that comes after some time, so usual the apologize for the silence (in the rare case you missed me, of couse). As also written in the KDE Commit Digest of two weeks ago, I started working again on the multimedia support in Okular. Read More

I added system-config-printer-kde into kdeadmin. This is a Kubuntu application that saw a very early version in Hardy and is now usable to do various printer settings. It's always nice to add new applications and fill in gaps in our offering. Plenty more to do should there exist somewhere out there a free software developer interested in printing :)

Until now I've always been using my own built Qt packages when building KDE packages for maemo. Initially because the Qt packages in extras-devel where missing some vital parts for KDE (mainly SSL support I think) but after that because I just had them installed, and it worked. But now I wanted to change this, and use the extras-devel provided Qt, as in theory that shouldn't matter, after all they are build from the same sources, with nearly identical configuration. As it turned out, this was actually quite a bit harder than I thought it would be. Read More

Many of us know this: You are on KDE version "from yesterday" and suddenly, everything breaks. Maybe someone broke the kompile or it is just a bunch of bad code that went in before your checkout and prevents the window manager from starting. Read More

Zonker has posted on openSUSE News and his own blog our decision that openSUSE 11.1 will be the last release to include the KDE 3.5 desktop. This is a compromise how to handle the KDE4 transition after long discussions with many users. Read More

I only discovered today that the n810 doesn't have any swap file turned on by default. It has only 128Mb of memory, which is quite easy to fill up. And when you fill up the memory you don't get a 'consumer friendly dialog' telling you that your machine is full. No instead of anything helpful, the machine will behave slowly, erratically and then ultimately crash. And after is has crashed you will often find that it won't boot anymore and you need to restore your root partition from a backup. Read More