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There has been some discussion on the kde-core-devel mailing list about a change to how the active window should be distinguished from the inactive windows, where different color palettes are used for the widgets inside inactive windows. Read More

and I must admit it's hard to stay calm when you get stuff like I had this week but first a little background story is needed: Last year, I had a job interview with a small company, ok 3 interviews with them, and they all went well because I had the job but I had to wait 3 months so they can secure the money for the project. the 3 months passed and they still needed to secure the money, so they told me that they will call me when they will have it. The time passed and I completely forgot about them, who can blame me :) Thursday I received an email from them saying that if I still wanted the job I had to the end of the month to answer them and I would start by mid October ... So I decided to think about it and now I have to stop to think about it because this afternoon I received another email telling me that the Big Boss deceided to close the local office and transfert everything in Asia ... Read More

I've spent a lovely week in the English enclave of Costa Adeje in the south of Tenerife with my girlfriend and without internet access. Today I moved north to La Laguna, a city where they actually speak Spanish. Here they were celebrating Software Freedom Day with a demonstration lab setup in the city centre running Bardinux, one of the local derivatives of Kubuntu. Read More

Even if Coolo says they have the cutest baby on earth, I have to disagree and post a proof of it. :) Our little daughter is with us since a year, we had her birthday yesterday. Read More

The image below shows the next generation KMLDonkey 2.0 from SVN running on KDE4. The whole port was done within around 3 days - KDE4 rocks :)

We had a Plasma meeting yesterday. One of the things discussed was to move the weather engine bits into KDE trunk. This is now done. Richard Moore is planning on taking a look at a bug in the UKMET BBC datasource. Once that issue is fixed. I plan on finishing the ion. I will be adding to the Techbase Wiki information on how the dataengine works, how the data formatting should be done so that each ion can be used by anyone's own weather applets. Read More

I've loved reading the articles about whether or not the Microsoft OOXML document format should be an ISO standard, as opposed to the ODF ISO standard for word processing documents. In particular, Miguel de Icaza's heroic defence of his position against over 500 rabid anti-microsoft Slashdot posters. I admire someone who can think for themselves against entrenched opposition (eg Richard Stallman or Miguel de Icaza), and I don't actually care whether or not I agree with them or not. Read More

Today I experienced two moments of bewilderment, the second one mixed with dismay. At first, when I googled for something unrelated, on one of the returns I saw a forum post where someone said "Icaza himself says that OOXML is superb". Well, first I was amazed, then I shrugged, and wrote it off as a troll, and continued with my other tasks. Two hours later I remembered again. Read More

KVocTrain is dead. Welcome Parley! You might already have noticed when synching kde-edu yesterday or today that the KVocTrain folder has gone and been replaced by Parley. And not only the name has changed. I was able to close quite a few bugs while rewriting the better part of the old KVocTrain. One bug that was very annoying was closed yesterday by simply enhancing the gui a little. It is a feature that Jeremy implemented in our rewrite of the kvtml (Parleys file format) lib. In the old KVocTrain one could have three languages (see screenshots). Let's say German-English-French. Read More

One of the nice aspects of being a software developer is that sometimes users come up with using your software in creative ways you never have thought of. They discover surprise features. I particularly like these because they show that you have great users and they often also are a sign that you took some right design decisions. Read More