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It has been over a month since the last version and it's still a month until KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 so it seems a good time to create a new Live CD with the openSUSE KDE 4.0.66 snapshot packages. It contains some Kickoff/Plasma features I have been worked on in the last weeks like the resizable Kickoff or adding/removing panels. Noticeable absent is my patch to move plasmoids on panels which is not in trunk (yet), you can by all means expect it to appear in our packages before openSUSE 11.0 gets released. :-)

Taking the idea of this entry from this album of Queen, I am going to show you some of the new stuff you will see in Okular for KDE 4.1. The development is pretty active, also on other parts that bring benefits to Okular. Read More

I've received 2 emails asking for more blogging and info about current klik2, especially since FOSDEM 2008. Unfortunately, I don't have much time these weeks for 'FOSS-work', due to pressing 'work-work' duties. Since about October, I'm entangled deeply (too deep, if you ask me) in a major project that leads me to spend 5-6 days a week in Frankfurt (250 km away from home), with 12-14 hours a day on a customer site. Now compute: how much time does that leave me on evenings (in the Hotel) and weekends (at home), given that one-way travel time Stuttgart <=> Frankfurt is about 3 hours, and daily travel time inside Frankfurt is about 30 minutes? Read More

I appologize to everyone thinking WTF? at the following, but I have to blog about it, otherwise I'll explode :) This is the reference for our current payload: -rw-r--r-- 1 coolo suse 36966400 13. Mär 09:42 coreutils-6.10.tar 8.61user 0.05system 0:08.66elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+11936outputs (0major+2007minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 coolo suse 6110179 13. Mär 09:45 coreutils-6.10.tar.bz2.9 Read More

Say hello to our new baby daughter, Vivian: She was born on Feb 25th. Her middle name is QiHui, which is Mandarin for "bright angel". Haiyin and I are very happy, and not a little tired! Read More

It is one case to walk through 7000 pages of rather technical documentation and to try to extract something useful out of it for a concrete question. It is another thing to look at the actual XML produced by the Microsoft Office 2007 suite. Read More

In 4.0 plasma had support for writing applets using Qt's built in javascript interpreter QtScript, but the facilities have been fairly limited. In KDE 3.x KJSEmbed gave us reasonably complete bindings to the Qt and KDE api's, allowing us to write applications such as a web browser in 10 lines of javascript. I'm glad to say that some plans that were discussed at the KDE conference in Glasgow are now a reality and Kent has released a qtscript binding generator based on the one used for QtJambi. The result is that we will very soon have good access to the Qt API from qtscript. Read More

If you've been scanning KDE commits lately, you may have wondered about heavy activity on an experimental KJS branch, KJS/Frostbyte. Well, while it's still not 100% done (there are a couple bugs, and not all goals have been met yet), it's complete enough that I am comfortable to blog about it. Read More

Yesterday I made an excursion to CeBIT. Despite some major names missing and three halls staying closed it's the world's largest IT fair - and my legs remind me today of my marathon. Many halls were rather boring, the ones where the World Cyber Games took place were in opposite rather crowded. Dunno why watching others playing computer games is popular. Or the spectators were all their girl-friends who had free entrance on World Women Day. AMD wins the biggest bag contest. And many exhibitors seem to want to win in the 'Germany's Next Top-Hostess' contest. Read More

I recently upgraded from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy, and all went well apart from one thing. Konqueror began putting up a crash dialog everytime it accessed a site with Flash, making it pretty much unusable. In fact until I had this problem I didn't realise quite how many pages on the web use Flash. Read More