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My Cool Discovery of Today: A few days ago a few little known Chinese friends of KDE must have translated the "Getting Started/Build/KDE4"-page on the TechBase wiki into Chinese ("zh_CN"; AFAIK, this is the "Simplified Chinese" as used on mainland China). My Uncool (but Confirmed) Apprehension of Today: On one system (not mine) where I tried it, Konqueror can't print nor print-preview the page correctly; while Firefox on the same system *can* (should I say: "...of course"?!) do it... So don't tell me "You don't have the Chinese fonts on that system -- they need to be installed". See also.... Read More

So I now have a semi-working notebook for private Linux/KDE purposes again. May be able to build my own version (and follow the development of KDE(4)) again.... Paid 150.- EUR. Got it with a 120 GByte harddisk. It's a HP nx5000 model (same thing as 30 participants of aKademy 2005 [Ludwigsburg] may be familiar with). But it came with a specific, known kaputt-ness: Read More

The notebook mentioned in my last blog: yesterday it got an openSUSE-10.2 installation completed. What tempted me most in favor of openSUSE, was that I had read about their "build service", and that they offer regularly updated KDE4 snapshot RPMs from there, which possibly can save me lots of compile time while I familiarize myself again what's current with KDE developments. Read More

Even less known than that there are RepoView pages created in every OBS repository's repodata/ sub-directory seems to be that there is also a latest-feeds.xml file which you can subscribe to with your feed reader. For example, for KDE:Community and openSUSE 10.2, this is the RepoView page and this the latest changes feed it links to.

If you would have been around in the KWord 1.0 days you would remember that a big influence in the industry was by Framemaker. And for a reason; it has always been the only GUI application capable of holding a whole book, including lots of images and complex features. The set of features was well thought out and based on a decade of experience. Read More

I've committed a new widget to KOffice which is a combobox-like widget consisting of a numeric input and a slider that pops up. The really neat thing about this new widget is that it's themeable right out of the box because I've reused QStyle to draw it. Read More

There were at least 17 internal test releases since December 2006 in my company before so called 2007.1 release emerged (in user-oriented naming scheme). Dealing with customers is going pretty well - people (including those from the USA) have inexpensive tech support and extensions on request. Read More

It's a while I blogged last time and a lot happened during that decade. So, let's summarize some lately highlights around the Kross Scripting Framework; The famous Superkaramba got Kross as optional backend and guess what, we got it managed to stay backward-compatible. For example Aero AIO and A-foto are already running with the next generation of Superkaramba with Kross. Fantastic work Alexander Wiedenbruch provided here. Read More

Nada como um "desafio" de uma arena de programação. Esconderam um código na página e com dicas do futuro lá também :-) O "código" escondido é um pequeno javascript do infame Rot13 "criptografado" em Rot13. Espero que o grau de dificuldade posterior vá bem além disso, porque um bom programador ia acabar se sentindo ofendido de entrar num trial com esse tipo de questionamento. Basta dar uma pequena olhada nos trials do Google que se entende o que é uma dificuldade real. Read More

Launchpad today got a shiny new makeover for the 1.0 beta. If you haven't looked at Launchpad yet I highly recommend it for hosting free software projects. Nifty features include linking bugs to different distributions, team management and web based translations. But the killer feature is integration with Bazaar (bzr) which makes it super easy to make branches. If you are working on something which is at all experimental just branch then merge back in to mainline once its done. The other killer feature is that unlike other free software hosting sites you don't have to ask to set up a project, just fill in the name and it's done, project registered, it gives the freedom to be able to set up a project for any random script you think would be useful to others. Read More