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Custom Templates for KMail

Sunday, 29 October 2006
Thanks to Dmitry, the KMail in the $SVN/branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+ branch now can do Custom Templates. Look in the KMail configuration, under the Composer page where you'll see a "Custom Templates" tab. Read More

Thanks Bug Squashers!

Sunday, 29 October 2006
I just stood back and watched in awe today. Bug Squashers from all over the world came to the rescue of the PIM developers on #kde-bugs. Over 100 bugs gone. Wow! The Bug Triage Days are a fantastic idea and a wonder to behold. Read More

Kohesion

Friday, 27 October 2006
The recent couple of distro release posts on the Dot touch a nerve with me. One could say that publicity is all good - after all, don't we in KDE want the world to know how many quality distributions include KDE? Read More

News from the sideline

Friday, 27 October 2006
I have been quite sucessfull with my secondary development projects this week. The problem of the KDE packages in Debian has been fixed, thanks to the swift response of Fathi Boudra. Read More

The Perfect Platform

Friday, 27 October 2006
I like how the dot article stresses Kubuntu as the perfect platform for KDE4 development. While I can't say much about it (only knowing that David spreads his "install that list of packages to make kubuntu useful" txt file to everyone complaining about broken compilations while SUSE had a "KDE Development" selection since about forever) I'm relieved that the dot article did not touch openSUSE's position as the perfect platform to use KDE. Read More

HTML Signature in KDE-PIM Features Branch

Thursday, 26 October 2006
As we (Dmitry and Johnathan) work out the new templates bugs and use cases, I decided to apply a patch provided by Jason Keirstead from more than 1.5 years ago that would satisfy one of our most requested KMail features: HTML Signatures. Read More

Kubuntu 6.10 - Taking You To The Edge

Thursday, 26 October 2006
Kubuntu Edgy has been released, download it now! Thanks to nixternal for the pretty release announcement. With this release our community continues to grow, with great power management work from Sebas and Lure. Sime shuffled around System Settings for the usability review done by el. Read More

openSUSE 10.2 Beta 1 Released

Thursday, 26 October 2006
openSUSE 10.2 Beta 1 has been announced marking the begin of the feature freeze. The release schedule btw fits this time nicely with many upstream releases: we have Kernel 2.6.18.1, X.Org 7.2rc1, KDE 3.5.5, KOffice 1.6, Firefox 2.0 Final, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Final, Python 2.5 and PHP 5.2rc on board (other changes). cups 1.2.5 is ready for late inclusion in Beta 2. When openSUSE 10.2 will be released in early December a 2 year lifetime will begin, months more than other free distributions offer. Read More

GRRR

Wednesday, 25 October 2006
This morning my phone was really busy ... each time it was the same person asking for the local computer shop ... and each time I told her that it was the wrong number. But here the fun begin ... Read More

Qt Designer and complex layouts

Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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