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Just got a (link) to offer of the "Polish Walmart" called Biedronka (Ladybird) - cheap (~€290) laptop with Kubuntu. It has been customized for Polish users, e.g. contains Kadu, instant messenger supporting locally popular proprietary protocol.

Fresh from Planet KDE is the news that Polish supermarket Bledronka has an offer on Kubuntu Laptops. Comes complete with Kadu, "killer app in Poland".

This year I was again at LinuxTag, after I missed the one last year. LinuxTag in Karlsruhe was always very nice, the one two years ago in Wiesbaden somehow didn't feel that good, but this time in Berlin it was really great again. Read More

From the listening-to-users department, the openSUSE 11.0 Plasma desktop toolbox contains more useful options as in KDE 4.0 but still many users want to hide it. Try this with our KDE packages on openSUSE 11.0 RC or equivalent from the build service: stop plasma (kquitapp plasma), search in ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc the "Containments" config group with the "plugin=desktop" entry, add "ShowDesktopToolbox=false" there and restart plasma. :-) Read More

Just a short late summary: LinuxTag 2008 was fun and interesting, met some new faces both from openSUSE and KDE communities and many familiar ones. I have uploaded some pictures mostly of the openSUSE and KDE booths. The German "KDE 4.0 auf openSUSE 11.0" talk which me and Will gave on Saturday in the openSUSE track had about 150 listeners, the slides are uploaded like the others on the LinuxTag page in the openSUSE wiki. Read More

Here's another tip for those not yet on subversion 1.5 (which supposedly comes with the goodness below integrated). svnmerge.py makes merging branches back and forth a little less painful. Most distributions have a package for it, it can be in svn-utils or something like that and sometimes it's simply called svnmerge without the py. Whatever. Say we have this great new project in KDE/kdeedu/foo and now we decided to branch it because the soc-foo project will be worked on during feature freeze... Read More

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde Quite some time ago, Pino gave me a great tip (hm, maybe advice is of use occasionally)... Use Modeltest from labs.trolltech.com to validate QAbstractItemModels. It's as simple as including modeltest.cpp in your CMakeLists.txt, add #include "modeltest.h" and when constructing the model, hand over the model pointer to a ModelTest instance. new ModelTest(myQAbstractItemModel, parent); Then you'll have a hard time starting your app for a while, since ModelTest is somewhat picky (but that's what you wanted, right?). Once you manage to get past all the ASSERTS checking for correct parenting and the like your model will have been a bit refined. In the end I think it's quite a good idea to go through this hassle to have a valid model. At least it helps getting rid of some obvious bugs with models. So be sure not to forget beginInsertRows and friends :) Have fun. Read More

Today I'm writing in my role as a member of the program committee for the Akademy 2008 Contributor's Conference. We have received a lot of great proposals for presentations and are still in the process of selecting and assembling a program. So speaker notification will be delayed by something like a week. Read More

liquidat has posted some notes on what was presented regarding KDE-PIM on LinuxTag 2008. As people started to ask about native look, let me add three more screeenies, all from May 2008. Read More

The Ubuntu Develpers Summit finnished a week ago in Prague. Unlike conferences, summits have written output in the form of specifications which form the basis for work on Kubuntu for the next six months. You can find the Kubuntu ones on this wiki page. Read More