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I've never [image:2980 align="left" size="preview" hspace=4 vspace=2 border=0 class="showonplanet"] seen Xinerama combined with Compiz/Beryl/XGL (or AIGLX) in action. This morning, when checking out a printing-related blog, I stumbled upon a little YouTube video showing exactly that. It does look amazing indeed. Read More

I don't know about you, but there's this hugely annoying behaviour of QDockWidgets. Since Krita 2 uses them, I tend to run into it a lot. The symptoms are simple: if you have a floating dock widget and Krita loses focus, the dock widget gets hidden. Read More

Here is a recent announcement from the OpenPrinting workgroup, hosted by the Linux Foundation. It didn't receive any widespread publication, AFAICS. But it deserves to:   OpenPrinting/LinuxFoundation: "We are Hiring Students/Interns for Implementing the PDF Printing Workflow" Posted by: Till Kamppeter Date: August 29, 2007 09:08AM Read More

it took me nearly 2 months to go through 7 years of code. and I came to the sad reality that only 5% of it is reusable and interesting even the embedded firewall product is not that interesting anymore since it's based on an ancient technology (namely freebsd 4.x) so I decided to ditch it too, no more new version and no support for it since I don't have the setup for doing it. What I will do is to take the knowledge and some of the cool concept I got while designing it and reimplement them using something more modern, here my goal is to not let die the best thing (even if sometime it was a pain in the ass) I managed to do in the past 7 years. Read More

Who am I? Good question, next question please. But seriously, my name is Frederik Gladhorn and this is my first post on the planet, if everything goes well :) I have started taking over KVocTrain some time ago. KVT had some rough edges and still does. "Bug 108568: kvoctrain interface is very confusing, can't figure out a thing" Is by far my favorite. Closing it will almost make me sad... Edu people probably know me by now from bugging them on IRC. I have been working with Jeremy Whiting to get the keduvocdocument lib into shape, letting him do most of the work actually. The result is quite satisfactory, as KAnagram, KHangman, KWordQuiz and KVocTrain now have a XML file format that is actually readable for humans too. After that was done, I used the chainsaw (as Pino) noted to go through the KVT code the last weeks or so. I'm quite satisfied with a much cleaner and easier to use interface. Now KVocTrain really longs for a nice shiny new Oxygen icon. Usability suggestions are welcome as well :) Another thing to quickstart people using the program is a wizard which also got redone last week. The obligatory screenshot of the new language selection dialog: This will probably only make people happy who know the old way of setting up languages in KVT... it makes me happy ;) Frederik

Will it be a GargleBlaster? (the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick) Well maybe not. And in the end WORDINATOR gets killed by terminator. All of these and many more were supposed to be new names for KVocTrain. Some less serious. But the (KVoc)Train will not roll on for ever. This is a call for new name suggestions! Come up with a great new name for the new KVocTrain! Please add your favorite name for a vocabulary training program to the comments section or visit in #kde-edu!

One of the goals of Kubuntu Gutsy is to have Strigi installed by default. Unfortunately the existing panel app was a line edit embedded in kicker, which took up loads of space. So I made it into a systray applet. Read More

[disclaimer: this is a personal opinion and meaned to be sarcastic!] So, germany was voting with "yes" for the Microsoft XML2007 format. That may not new for those that did follow the worldwide ISO-adventure and that believe in the power of black suitcases. Read More

This will be my blog about KVocTrain and my kde hacking in general.

Did anyone miss a news splash these days about openSUSE 10.3 not shipping KDE 4.0 as default KDE desktop like some other distro? Or maybe not as we have not been telling everyone the last half year that we would. No, we didn't have a crystal ball but experience with our long time existing KDE4 packages. "So much for" knowing what we're doing. ;-) Read More