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the year of the linux desktop *g*

Wednesday, 11 July 2007
I've got pointed to http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/4030/first_look_asus Look! KDE as default on a laptop! And a meant-to-be-very-popular one! Big thanks, ASUS.

Travelling: the odd(?) lucky guy

Wednesday, 11 July 2007
With all these blogs about how awful people's travelling experience has been from/to aKademy, I'd thought I blog a bit about mine. In short: my journey turned out better than expected. Read More

Work on Kreative3D

Wednesday, 11 July 2007
I've started to work more and more on Kreative3D. Although it's not useful for anything right now, I expect that I can have 2d sketching done within a month or two. For those of you who don't know anything about parametric solid modelling a sketchplane is a plane in 3d space where you can draw on. And sketching is the process of drawing on that surface. Read More

Back from Glasgow

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Well, I'm back from Glasgow and have now almost recovered. The conference was great, and I'd like to thank all the organising team for their efforts. For me things were quite productive, with some nice steps forward in my QtScript code (my bindings are now dynamically loaded plugins for example) and lots of useful discussions about topics from improving the library facilities for scripts. I also managed to make a start on a plasma applet container that lets you write applets in Javascript. Read More

I can blog again!

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
There is just so much I wanted to tell during the offline weeks :) Didn't miss akademy, had bad weather myself Our future is still "in utero" My faster booting project is finished - I blame you can't boot faster into a konsole window without optimizing for a specific setup Won "Best Overall Project" in the hack week event together with Dr. Richi Dirk is the admin hero of the week, the month and the year

openSUSE Build Service on Steroids

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Thanks to a yet to be announced generous sponsor (also the first non-Novell sponsor to the openSUSE project) is the openSUSE Build Service running like on steroids since last week: over 120 CPUs are now available in the build host farm. And the new hosts' disc systems are also very fast. That's enough power to rebuild the openSUSE:Factory project within a few hours. And of course it's nice for packagers: no longer waiting for your builds to start. At least I as heavy user don't remember having to wait for it anymore the whole last week. :-) Read More

Hack Week

Monday, 25 June 2007
This week is Hack Week at Novell. All the Linux engineers are hacking along on their favorite projects. There is an incredibly long list of great ideas on idea.opensuse.org. I'm working on some kind of fancy aggregating portal. I'm not completely sure yet, where this will lead to, but I have already created a sophisticated design document and made a mockup. Read More

calling all aspiring Instant messaging developers

Sunday, 24 June 2007
I'd like to inform you all of my tutorial on instant messaging development for Kopete (the KDE instant messenger), at 10.00am (huh?) on aKademy 2007's tutorial day. In an act of breathtaking opportunism I noticed that the no-one else has promoted their talk yet, so with a massive First Post!, be cognizant that both chat protocol and utility plugin development for the KDE 4 Kopete API will be presented to you, with lots of detail on the tricks and tips needed to make a useful extension to KDE's number one IM application. Read More

Debconf Over

Sunday, 24 June 2007
Debconf finished in Edinburgh. Thursday night saw a ceilidh which went surprisingly well despite the poor ratio of lasses to laddies. msp's talk on the Debian KDE Extras team was interesting and I hope I didn't ramble too much in my comments on why the Kubuntu relationship is the way it is. There was also a KDE packagers BoF early on Saturday which gave some interesting history into the current team. No volunteers to package Jambi yet though. Read More

Gwenview progress

Sunday, 24 June 2007
Long time no blog (It seems most of my blog entries begin like that...). In case you missed it, Gwenview has moved to kdegraphics, yeah! I am very happy about it. Read More