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KDE 4.0 Alpha 1 has been released, code-named "Knut" (btw my reasoning was: "small but growing and being forgotten soon"). And of course it's accompanied by a new KDE Four Live version and packages for openSUSE. Just keep in mind that it's the first Alpha release which is totally unusable and not representive for KDE 4[.0]. :-)

Yesterday, the usability review cycle for KDE4 started. As the HCI working group is poor on man-power, we started an experiment to include the community into the search for obvious infringements of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines: The HIG Hunting Season. Read More

When I was 12 we had a question in the school's annual general knowledge quiz "What is Georgia?". The three correct answers were: a country in eastern Europe, a state in the US and the dog of my English teacher. The dog died and I don't know much about the US state but we had a nice talk about the country this morning. Read More

When I get an email blaming me for doing something wrong, I typically stop and think. Its important to me to be open to feedback from others and 'do better'. Now; when some mails further in the thread you notice all arguments get ignored, and everyone that speaks up gets accused of conspiring with the others, you know you've got a conspiracy theorist on your hands and you know that whatever you say will have zero effect anyway. (yay for KMails 'ignore thread' feature!) I was in a couple of such threads recently, and reading this perfectly timed edition of a rather geeky comic lifted my spirit quite a bit :) Enjoy it for yourself at; http://xkcd.com/c258.html

UDS is back underway, this time in the sunny city of Sevilla in southern Spain. As usual we are working on specifications for the next six months of Kubuntu. Areas being looked at include desktop search, dolphin in KDE 3, bluetooth support (it's all going to break apparantly), making sure the user is properly informed of removable media, improving Guidance and moving it to Qt 4, adding an on screen keyboard for accessibility and of course packaging KDE 4. Read More

A great example of grass roots; educate the educators about the brave new world and supporing critical thinking about MSWord and .doc Critical Thinking About Word and .doc One of the things most of us hate most about flying is that you always get the feeling you get ripped off. Naturally, the airliners are just following the basic economy rule of charging what people are willing to pay. It seems some people have found a way to do the same with open source software. See; How much is Free Software Worth on eBay? Read More

The openSUSE Survey results are in: thanks to the over 27k people who participated. And over 70% of those use the best desktop environment! :-) Read the complete results (PDF) if you have doubts which is it...

It been a while since the last time I wrote something in here. I spent the last few months mostly dealing with personal stuffs and so far I think I'm on the right track. I hope soon to be free of some [:/node/2523|bullshit] I had the infinite pleasure to deal with last Fall, I will probably blog again about this later. So now maybe I will have time to program something I don't know what yet . Read More

June 21th 2005 was the day KOffice released version 1.4. I highlight that release because it was the first release where KOffice switched its native format to the OpenDocument Format. That would become an official ISO standard in May 2006. The direct gains may be that there is no conversion step required in loading docs from other application in their native format, but the long term gains are much more substantial. Being able to work with all the industry leaders on the creation and maintenance of the format (and there are quite a lot in the Technical Committee of ODF) allows us to level the playing field and let office applications compete on features and ease of use instead of on who uses what suite and what your partners have chosen. This means real competition where the end user is the clear winner with lower prices for better quality software. It won't surprise you that I believe that KOffice has the upper hand due to its superior design and foundation. Read More

eloquent rants are actually nice to read :) This is a nice one on how media spin can not only point fingers at innocent people, it can also mask the evildoings of the real culprits; Read More