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So the cold war between KHTML and WebKit heated up a little again, this time the enemy isn't Apple, but former KHTML developers, and KDE personas. I will spare you the links, since it is all too embarrassing. Read More

I was surprised to get so much feedback about the KOrganizer agenda items after I posted the screenshots in my last blog entries. There seem to be some strong opinions about rounded corners. Michael Lentner did the right thing and sent a patch. I applied it and suddenly the agenda items look much more slick. Read More

I guess sometimes one has to be direct. So, here is what I do and do not believe in: I am not opposed to: (1) Dropping our tree in favor of Apple's in general. I am quite aware of the tons of good things they've done (along with a few things I thought were poor decisions); however, I would only want this to happen after some concerns are addressed, and I, perhaps naively, expect that all those people going around talking about how it would be great, and how all those people and businesses are involved would lend a hand. I am a busy guy and my priority is to get things in shape for 4.0. Read More

This week is Ubuntu Open Week, a series of talks and Q&A session on IRC. Yesterday Richard did a top session on Kubuntu and logs are available for those wanting to catch up. He had another session tomorrow (Thurday) at 2100 UTC. There are also sessions on using Launchpad, packaging for beginners and pretty much every other part of the Ubuntu world. At 1600 UTC today is the ever popular Ask Mark session, join #ubuntu-classroom for the chance to put in your questions. Read More

This afternoon it looks like I'll get to go tomorrow to the Systems fair in Munich. I've got various exhibitor booths to visit and see what new things they have on offer, and also one or two meetings arranged already. Read More

Given the time constraints for KDE 4.0, I have decided to downgrade the functionality for the weather applet. In this release, my aim is to replace kweather functionality completely. This should be feesable to do for the 1.0 release. Read More

Some KDE people met to discuss next weekend's FOSSCamp on IRC. Reading the logs might be useful if you're going and don't yet know what to expect.

A running list of stuff about the KDE4 desktop -- typed in from little slips of paper I have laying around on my desk: To make the desktop run faster, compile qt-copy without the -debug option My computer has a Radeon video card and the X server apparently uses an ATI driver. This driver seems have to problem with compositing. If you see "screen turds" and other strange graphics effects, especially with the menus and icons, try disabling compositing... which seems to be enabled by default on my system. Do this by adding these lines to the end of xorg.conf and reboot: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "disable" EndSection Oh, disabling compositing should also fix 'ksnapshot'. If you start a KDE4 application from a command line, you might notice a bunch of messages that indicate this app can't talk to knotify. That's because 'knotify4' probably isn't running. You can remedy this by running 'knotify4' from a command line. Also, I hacked my 'startkde' to run 'knotify4' for me when I login. I plan to commit this to the official 'startkde' tomorrow, unless someone objects on the k-c-d mailing list. BUG: 'kwalletmanager' gives me this message "kwalletmanager(4467) KWalletManager::KWalletManager: kded not running?". Then it displays a closed wallet in the systray. dfaure said he will fix this on Monday -- if I remind him. :) BUG: 'kmail' isn't remembering shortcuts between restarts. BUGLET: hmmm.. seems that instances of 'kded4' continue running after I quit my KDE4 session. BUG: There is no nepomuk D-Bus service file. We need one if we expect nepomukdaemon to start as needed; for example, from 'dolphin'. BUG: Alt-F2 doesn't work. I expect that key sequence to start 'krunner'. WTH? KOrganizer is unbearably slow. I see no reason for this and KOrganizer ran great for me under a KDE3 desktop. This problem needs some serious research. Does KOrganizer work ok for anyone?

It has been a fun week. Sitting together with Andre, Daniel, Dirk, Jared, Klaas, Stephan and Will in the openSUSE office and hacking on KDE 4. There was one point in time when seven of ten KDE commits where coming from this office. I'm pretty much convinced now that we are on track with KDE 4. There certainly still is some way ahead, but we are getting there. This will be an exciting release. Of course I'm writing this blog entry on a KDE 4 desktop. Read More

What would a KDE4 Hack Week be without a new version of KDE Four Live released at its end? :-) [image:3060 size=preview hspace=100] This version has KDE 4.0 Beta 3+ (mostly 3.94.1 snapshot) packages from the KDE:KDE4 build service project engrafted on openSUSE 10.3 (if you find your way within YaST you can turn it into a full openSUSE 10.3 installation). Extra plasmoids are included with the extragear-plasma and playground-base packages, no Amarok included as it didn't build. The Plasma setup looks only good at 1024x768 resolution - seems Plasma has still to learn about resolution dependence. SATA CD-drives and network setup should hopefully work better than before and auto-login is enabled.