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#140006: Yesterday I received an e-Mail from a user who asked to keep his name and affiliation confidential. He is involved in preparations for a rather large Windows --> Linux/KDE migration, involving several thousand workstations, most of them in a managed KIOSK environment. They'll not be ready before 12 months from now for the first serious rollout, but they are already testing with KDE 3.5.3. Once they are ready, he hopes to be able to use KDE 3.5.5 or 3.5.6 (should it ever happen). They'll *not* use KDE 4.0, even if it were released this autumn, and it will be at least 3 years before they'd ever consider to use any 4.0.x version. And here is what he said about KDEPrint: Read More

It's the fifth time that I'm at Osnabrueck, always for the same reason, the KDE PIM meeting we hold each January since 2003. So now it's the fifth meeting and that's a small anniversary. As always the meeting is hosted by Intevation. Many thanks to them for doing this for five years in a row. It always has been great. Read More

The dot story about KWord/KOffice was received pretty well. We hit 100 comments just now :) One thing that people noted was that the screenshots we posted were not the best quality they could be. There are various font rendering issues that show up in them. We basically got lots of people shout at us for promissing better font technology while the same basic problems we had in the 1.x series showed up! Read More

... my nephew Lino Vincent was born on November 13th and I met him first over christmas. This is my current wallpaper (and people knowing my screens will notice a massive change :): Read More

The last few days I ploughed through the KDEPrint bugs. This should serve the same purpose as outlined in my last blog entry: to make it more easy for the real coders to see the valid and important bugs (we're short of people who've enough time to work on KDEPrint code for KDE4). Read More

In response to the wonderful people who Want to Give Away Some Money, I am now formally announcing that I will gratefully accept donations/compensation to my PayPay account (awinterz AT earthlink DOT net). And I will thank you, even if you don't ask for thanks. Read More

Ok, so no next update in the Krita plugin tutorial yet (it'll surely be done before the end of the month ahem). But much more spectacular was the comet I just saw in the dusky sky. I had a very lucky few moments of no clouds in just the right area, which also by pure luck had a relatively clear line of sight to the horizon. Comet McNaught was very noticeable with the naked eye, and even nicer to look at with a pair of binoculars. Too bad the clouds overtook the comit rapidly, so I had no chance to get my camera and take a picture of it. I fear that by tomorrow it'll be too low to spot, but still, I'm very happy to have seen it, even if it was only for a few moments :) Maybe this blog will encourage the people that have a less cloudy weather, have a clearer horizon, and are located more northernly, to take a look outside their windows tomorrow. (More info on how to observe.) For the people on the southern hemisphere: you'll apparently get your chance to observe it as well in a little while :)

This morning I woke up from the loud sounds of people drilling and otherwise renovating the house. Ahh, the empty apartment upstairs has gotten new occupants! It didn't take long before I decided to leave the house for today, the continues sounds of building are horrible for my concentration. Read More

Last weekend I took part in the "Konqueror Bugsquad Days". We had a few handful of KDE contributors taking part, AFAIK all of them non-C++/Qt coders. Knowing nearly nothing about HTML rendering, or JavaScript and what-not, I picked to sift through all bug reports that contained the string "print". Read More

Let's give it another try! After both Berlin-based usability get-togethers ("Open Source Usability Stammtisch" and "Usability Professionals Stammtisch") somehow died during last summer, we decided to join the two efforts. Starting tomorrow, we'll have regular meetings (2nd Wednesday/month) at newthinking store in Berlin Mitte. For each get-together, a topic is prepared by one of the participants and worked out during the session. Read More