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A week ago I discovered a feature so obvious in that plasma thingy, that I just need to share it. You can put your favorite vocabulary trainer into your favorite panel. You knew it, I bet. Do it 8) Proof: [image:3387] I even poked at it a little so it only takes up a quarter of the panel instead of half of it. Now I already spent more time on this (I just wanted to see how hard it would be to create a plasmoid... but throwing it away seemed like a waste as well...). So if you've been looking for something fun and small like improving Parloids, let me know! Opening files (yes, this includes Parley, KWordQuiz, Kanagram and KHangman ones) should work now. Read More

Well, was a huge journey for usr this time. 2008.1 was not only an updated 2008.0, but since early design, was clearly that we would try do a big step on our development. Just to mention what arrived since 2008.0, we're integrated Manbo labs work, which means now we're have a real common core system between us and Turbo Linux, we're integrated PulseAudio on whole distro, which was a bold move and even not been so perfect yet, for me proves at all that was the right decision, and of course, we did most of possible fixes and insanities on KDE 3 !! I can tell, we sacrificed polish a kde 4 environment, today in contrib, due our heavy tasks to make KDE 3 as best as possible. I can't measure the stress of hunt and do changes like we want, and some couldn't be solved to last moments, but i can say was one of the best KDE deployments the Mandriva KDE team did ever. From the screensaver to the kicker changes to menu changes, all small patches and fixes almost impossible to be noted, but which took hours from us to find, or even touch in monster codes like kicker one, and integrate new features. As i promised myself, the day we gone gold, would be last day i would see KDE 3 in my personal work machine, so now i'm using in production KDE 4.0.68 over 2008.1 base and i guess you know why ... So congrats to everyone that did a wonderful job on Mandriva Spring and we finally break the curse :-D Read More

We implemented some very interesting features for openSUSE 11.0 to make the installation easier and faster: giving it a green face making the configuration automatic switching from bzip to lzma for rpm payload put images of default patterns on the DVDs move online update to the desktop applets improved package management speed Yesterday I installed 11.0 Alpha3+ (which is a snapshot of Factory burned on DVD) and it definitely felt fast and easy. So today I decided to give 10.3 another try to measure where exactly we improved or if it's just placebo. Read More

At times when we have only 512MB Compact flash, we always had to download the pictures off the camera, but with these affordable 4GB cards, it can take a while before we see the need to download. So here is my favorite.

Qt 4.4 RC 1 now available in my PPA https://edge.launchpad.net/~jr/+archive for Hardy. Don't run a dist-upgrade when you add the PPA, you'll get other random packages which are in there. 4.4 fixes python dbus and QtDbus, yay. Read More

Now what is that supposed to mean? The "real" Nepomuk? Well, you did not actually think that I would introduce an RDF store into KDE just to save some tags and ratings? No, the "real" motivation goes way beyond that and it is time to hint at it. Today I committed the PIMOShell to the Nepomuk playground (To the right you see the PIMOShell main window showing all xesam:Music resources). Read More

Well, not yet. I am currently at Graz airport, about to begin a journey to Austin, Texas, where I will be attending the Linux Collaboration Summit. Special thanks go to the Linux Foundation for covering my travelling costs and KDE e.V. for the hotel, specifically Ian Monroe who took the burden of doing the hotel reservation. Read More

Last weekend I visited the seventh Linux info day at Augsburg, organized by the local Linux User Group and held a talk about KDE 4. It was a nice event and the talk was well received. There is a lot of interest in KDE and people are generally excited and looking forward what we will bring to them with the KDE 4 series. If you are interested have a look at the slides of the KDE 4 talk (in German).

The fact that day by day, new people try to use free software or free operating systems (like GNU/Linux) is a good thing, and we all know that. Something is supposed to help in the process is also the set of the various communities: GNU/linux distributions, applications, etc. Though, this is also something really delicate, where everybody invloved should (IMHO) be careful in what is shown towards the new comers. Read More

Imagine you have a family - so something like one wife, 1.5 children and a dog - and you decided that it's better to feed them at least once per day and to provide some kind of home to survive during the cold days. Read More