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Today is the third day of FOSS.in, the first day of the conference proper. The past two days have seen the "project days" for Gnome, KDE, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org and IndLinux. These are full day tracks, organized by the community, each packed with technical and non-technical talks. The KDE PD was a success, I think, our talks were well attended and people seemed interested in what we had to say. The whole event so far is a blast, just like last time I was here. The organizers somehow manage to keep a 2500 people event very personal, the whole team is extremely dedicated and nice. Read More

Until a few weeks ago, I had Kubuntu running on my Acer Aspire 5630 laptop (as described here), and was more or less satisfied. It looked great, hardware support was satisfying, but I was missing the incremental package upgrades that I was used to on Debian (so that things break one small piece at a time, not everything at the same time when you do an upgrade). When, after upgrading to gutsy, the laptop would lock up every few minutes for a minute or so, I thought it was a Kubuntu problem and took it as the reason to setup Debian instead. BIG MISTAKE!!!! Read More

Kubuntu Tutorials Day With KDE4 only a month away, now is the time to get involved in becoming a Kubuntu developer. We've set up these IRC sessions below to get you started. Read More

I want to summarize some as yet unmentioned changes which we have done during the last weeks: The KDE Wiki page has been spiffed up and should be now a good portal to inform everyone quickly about everything worth knowing about KDE on openSUSE. This includes better packaging documentation like a KDE spec file cookbook and description of used macros. It also mentions a long list of challenges we face - any help to accomplish as much of it as possible until next openSUSE release is welcome. We started to have biweekly scheduled meetings on our IRC channel, the next one will be on 12th December. The Packaging Days this weekend resulted on the KDE part in a fixed kitchensync package and new packages in the build service for Qtpfsgui, Misfit Model 3D and KCometen3. Dirk has posted a proposal how to restructure our build service repositories - looking forward to your feedback! Improved KDE:KDE4 packaging, removed packaging bugs and made it more maintainable. Our KDE4 extragear snapshot packages have been broken down to application packages and include as of today rsibreak, kpager, kaider, ksig, kmldonkey, ktorrent, kftpgrabber, kwlan, amarok, kplayer, kaudiocreator, kmid, kfax, kgrab, kuickshow, digikam, kgraphviewer, kcoloredit, kpovmodeler, kphotoalbum and ligature. KOffice2 packaging has been improved and should show up in Factory soon. That was it already. :-) Read More

[image:3123 align=left hspace=20 node=3123]One of the big things about KDE 4 at an app level was moving from KControl to System Settings. The major complaint about KDE (from non-KDE users) is that it is too configurable, where 'too' generally means they can't find the thing they want to configure. System Settings is the product of usability-led design, and kcontrol was dropped some months ago, but it seems very little has happened since it was ported to KDE 4. So rather than just give myself an ulcer about it, I've decided to take System Settings in hand and make it good. I started by fixing a couple of little bugs but as the size of the task became apparent I decided to organise System Settings' development and maintenance first. So spent today doing this. I've started a project on TechBase to: Read More

Troy was a little too much polite for me. Really. Is easy to understand when we saw critics. Most easy when are from the people that can't or couldn't help the subject but want express their own feeling about this. But NOT when came from the people that CAN HELP and MAKE PART OF THE SUBJECT. Read More

Due to our little hackweek project winning in two categories, I have the rest of the year so called "Innovative time off". In the beginning 10 days ITO sounded like nothing, but now I'm kind of forced go give up on real work and do fancy experiments :) Read More

I created a page on TechBase to track the porting status of Qt/KDE applications, which are not part of the KDE 4.0 release, with the applications that distributions tend to have in their default installation as a start. Please help to gain and keep an overview by adding applications/updates.

Today and tomorrow are the first openSUSE KDE/GNOME Packaging Days. In all timezones. A truly global event. One of the goals of openSUSE is to get SUSE packages in the care of non-Novell employees, so Dirk Mueller and Michael Wolf have been organising a couple of days where fearless peeps can get on board the openSUSE Build Service with a little help from the pros. Read More

The KDE 4.0 RC 1 version of the KDE Four Live CD generated publicity, was downloaded over 10000 times within the first days and finally scared Dirk. Thanks go to openSUSE project for jumping in and providing powerful torrent seeders during the later hours. :-) Read More