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Thanks to Chris Lee for adding me to the Planet! First, an introduction. Hello, I'm Shawn Starr, I've been busily working on the weather engine for Plasma. The plan is to begin working on an applet as soon as some javascript bindings for the dataengine are ready to use. Read More

Few hours ago Fished adding transparency support to the canvas view I'm using . to it to work it needs kwin to run with composition turned on or some thing like compiz running . here is a ogg video http://upload.ruphy.org/raptortrans2.ogg showing the widget in grid mode And a screenshot to make it complete.

It seems to be an undisputed fact, that Afghanistan in 2007 no longer exports much raw opium at all. "Good", you'll probably say. "That is because the Western troops now have chased the Taliban back into the mountains. The fight to bring democracy and Western culture to this backward country finally seems to show promising results." Read More

I'm quite excited by the things that the Semantic web will make possible, and one very interesting project is DBpedia, which aims to extract structured data from Wikipedia, link it with other datasets and put everything in an RDF triple store that you can either download or query via a 'SPARQL endpoint' on the web. I've been trying out using ActiveRDF to make DBpedia queries and showing the results in a Korundum KDE4 app. Read More

This week was so filled with events and news that it easily qualifies for the most exciting openSUSE week yet: On Monday the rush until feature and version freeze of openSUSE 10.3 started in the evening. The Final Draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles was posted. At the same day the LinuxWorldExpo San Francisco started with not only openSUSE being present but also the announcements that both Lenovo and Dell will start to pre-load SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and offer support. Finally was announced that AMD has become a sponsor of the openSUSE project by providing hardware for the openSUSE Build Service. The Build Service itself got a new distro download and package search front-end with 1-Click Installation. On Thursday the openSUSE project turned two. The birthday wishes keep arriving and show that openSUSE News gets more known quickly. To celebrate we had also the Release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 which among other stuff has a new greeter (web mockup) to explain and link to the project better. The 'People of openSUSE' series started, with already three interviews being published. The news that SCO got a big kick after all the years also made people happy. And still running the whole week-end, the first openSUSE Bug Slashing. Dunno how we can top this week. Maybe with a great openSUSE 10.3 release which allows us to push PCLinuxOS from rank #1 of the DistroWatch charts. :-) Read More

KDE 4 will have more semantic technologies than any KDE version before it. As an average user you may be baffled by the use of funny terms all the time. 'What are semantic technologies?', you are thinking. Many people that have seen what Nepomuk will do in KDE 4 will think that semantics is all about tagging and rating of files. This is the visible part the current state of the Nepomuk-KDE work Sebastian Trueg is doing. 'So what's the big deal?' you will think next, because to be honest, tagging and rating are not all that special. Nice, sure, but not mind blowing. Read More

A few days ago Aaron Seigo blogged about the Strigi vs Tracker vs other search engines. I agree with Aaron that we are wasting a lot of efforts by duplicating code with very similar features. Not only that, but we spend time discussing with each other trying to come up with ways to get some overlap and share some code. It's not easy and can be really frustrating. As free software developers, we all put in a huge commitment by coding in our free time to make the world a better place with our code. At least that's my motivation. So let us try to maximize the effect of our efforts. Read More

Hi everyone! Since yesterday our Marble Project has got a new mailing list for people who are interested in helping us to develop and promote Marble (and of course for people who use Marble to develop applications). If you're interested in signing up on marble-devel@kde.org you are invited to do so here . If you want to join us on IRC, choose #kde-edu on freenode!

klik developers are looking for one or more volunteer(s) to create (and possibly maintain) VMWare images that can be used with VMWare player (and possibly other 'virtualized OS' players) for klik bundle development and testing. Read More

I've been meaning to blog for a while, and finally managed to get there. I'd like to start off by pointing out the awesome work done by Urs Wolfer on Krdc (or KRDC, if you prefer) as his Google Summer of Code project. I sometimes wonder if it might not deserve a new name given how much new code has gone into it. If you didn't catch it, I definitely recommend reading last weeks Commit Digest for a description of the changes and some nice screen shots of the new user interface. Read More