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So, given that I'd be on a holiday next week, I thought it would've been a good idea to do an upgrade of my Debian install on my laptop, in the hope that it'd use less power. The good news was that it seemed like it did, with slightly lower temperature (I guess due to tickless timer on AMD64 in the 2.6.24 kernel). The bad news was that I couldn't even try to quantify it at all: all my battery-measuring tools wouldn't work at all anymore. In particular, no KDE Battery Systray icon anymore, leaving me without any indication at all about how much battery I have left. Hoping it'd be just a KDE update fluke, I checked my other favourite power-related tool, powertop. Unfortunately it also failed to show any relevant information about power usage... :( Read More

I got a new laptop recently, a Thinkpad R61, works decently well (no suspend, sound settings are strange but otherwise all good). However now I have three computers (new laptop, desktop and laptop-held-together-with-duct-tape) it leads to the issue of how to move over settings and keep them the same on all three. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell KDE to keep its settings on a remote server and download them when you move to a new desktop. Today I wrote a quick mockup application to investigate the idea. It keeps Konqueror's bookmarks in bzr and uploads them to Launchpad, then from another computer you can grab them again. Of course there's a hundred issues to solve this properly, it shouldn't be a separate app but integrated with the KDE config framework, it needs to know when to sync and what to sync (no passwords unless its to somewhere very secure), apps need to know when to refresh their settings and some settings, like Amarok podcasts, are stored in hard-to-sync binary databases. So just an idea for now, code is in Launchpad, let me know if you want to pick it up. Read More

Good evening from Osnabrück; Tom shares some facts from the day 1 with you, so all I have now (before putting my hand on svn commit) is some graphics. Recently (except for updating opensuse) I have switched from winnt5 to winnt6 on my notebook (thanks Adriaan!). Read More

See http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/kde_3_5_8_on Seems it's possible to give OpenSolaris a try now where a recent KDE3-version is up and running there. Thanks for that SUN/Moinak :)

For many Nepomuk is a rather abstract thing. So I will not try to explain it as a project again. I will just show what I have been up to. Randomly... Read More

Why I failed before: I have no idea. Maybe the password mails got lost in the spam filter or I was just blind. Who knows. Important is that I am not using blogger which clee will like to hear (although I will be missing the WYSIWYG editor). Anyway, I got it now and I can start blogging about Nepomuk. Late, I know. I always tried to keep away from it but in the end, today there is no way around it. It simple seems the best way to inform people about my work. Read More

Great quote from Danimo's Chaos radio express interview when the topic Akonadi is discussed. Since I am one of the developers invited to this year's KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, I am currently trying to improve my knowledge of Akonadi. Read More

So finally i have some visual progress to the wiki editor. Right now it is more of a wiki viewer, but its progress :) [image:3236] So far the basic character formatting is working great. Thanks Thomas, Tobias and Hamish for your help. Tables are next. Well see how that goes. It looks like it will be harder because I don't know the table size up front. I think I can create the cells on the fly, but well see. Its not clear how to create a table from the docs. Lists look easy though. Nesting lists are still broken, but that is a parser issue and not a rendering issue. Read More

What a surprise we had today! A coworker came to my desk and told me 'Guess what Nokia has done.' I thought for a bit and tried to infer Nokia's move from my colleagues demeanor. 'They decided to use Windows mobile on their telephones.' was my guess. As you all know by now, the right answer was much more interesting and much less gloomy. Read More

So there's a lot of speculation floating around about the recent Nokia acquisition of Trolltech. There will be a lot more information to unfold in the coming months. The first thing I noticed was the price tag. Around €105 million. (I'm going to convert all Norwegian Kroner values to Euro since that's easier for me and most readers to think in.) That seemed low, based on some nebulous not-grounded-in-anything, notion of what I supposed Trolltech was worth, so I did a little digging. Read More