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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

On December 25th the icecream scheduler died (as we found out today). This is the last log message: 19:43:07: put 281278480 in joblist of tangelo So the scheduler worked fine for over 281 Million compile jobs (roughly 5400 KDE compilations from scratch) and then died - without any hint on what he died on. I guess Dirk is right, the winter in germany is just too hot for icecream. Read More

I've done a bit of tidying up of the QtScript code I was working on, so here's another version. Now, as well as being able to create individual widgets, you can load UI files from Designer. I've also cleaned up the API for calling exec(). Read More

Now we can create widgets and load .ui files, we can take the time to fix a few other things. Initially, we could create widgets, but we couldn't specify their parents. Handling this is quite a small change: Read More

So finally I decided to do a completely fresh install on my notebook, a Dell C640. If you are looking for a notebook which is good supported by Linux and FreeBSD, I can really recommend it, everything works out-of-the-box. also under FreeBSD, also the external VGA connector, useful when giving talks etc. Read More

As you might have read in Kent's blog post yesterday, the latest Qt 4.3 snapshots just gained a javascript interpreter. I had a bit of a play with it yesterday and it's pretty neat. Unfortunately it doesn't expose any fun objects by default, so I decided to make it possible to create QWidgets. Read More

The last feature release of KDE is just over a year old, is well maintained and gains selected features about every two to three months. Still people long for the first release starting with the number 4 often called "KDE 4" - which is wrong. Let me try to disambigue: "KDE 4" refers to the whole life-time of the KDE 4.x based framework, like "KDE 3" does for now five years and six KDE 3.x releases. The "KDE 4.0" release will be just the first one in the "KDE 4" cycle. Read More

Often you don't recognize how good your work actually is unless you take the time to look at what others do. The reason I say this is that I just read the first issue of a new promising dot.kde.org series called "The Road to KDE 4". Together with the other series like "People Behind KDE", "KDE Commit-Digest", "All About the Apps", sub project news letters, KDE://radio and countless other stories (18 total in December) I think that KDE is the Open Source project which keeps its users and own community best informed and entertained. Read More