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Many years ago I was the maintainer of KWord. I lost interrest in C++ and things went downhill from there (for KWord, not for me : ). The module got reassigned to David, who we all know has more code under his wings then is humanly possible to actually maintain. Read More

What an exciting week! After many years I finally met Cristian in person at the OSDL Printing Summit that was held in Atlanta this week. The event was great fun and it was really nice to meet with Celeste, Ellen and Jan from OpenUsability.org as well. HP provided all the attendees with free lunches to go along with the free (as in speech, not as in lunch) HP printer drivers. They also provided large bowls with really nice fruit. A shame that a lot of it was still left over at the end. Wish I had one of those bowls here at home. We had really nice facilities for the printing summit thanks to Ricoh/Lanier. Really nice to see so many hardware companies so supportive of Linux. The printing summit went better than I could have hoped for, everyone was really cooperative and I think a lot of common ground was found. I think there will be some very interesting printing related announcements the coming weeks. But now I need to catch up on some much needed sleep!

[image:1931 size=original] OSDL Printing summit group photo. Maybe I'll try to add names tomorrow.

Hi, well, since it seems some discussions are nowadays done via blogs, let me say something as reply to [http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/cmake-sadness.html | CMake Sadness] by Aaron. So, building KDE is a huge task. Building KDE 4 is a much harder task than build KDE 1, 2 or 3. Why ? Because with KDE 4 we support more platforms and more compilers. With KDE < 4 we had only UNIX-like platforms with mainly gcc. With KDE 4 we have UNIX-like, OS X (listed separately because it is a bit different: frameworks, bundles, etc.) and Windows. Under Windows MSVC >6, mingw and msys is supported. This is much more than the autotools were every able to do. Read More

V for Vendetta is so good. Aaron and I went to see it yesterday. On the way there we went to a really great (and cheap) vegan Chinese place and stopped by an arcade (remember those?). Coming back we got asked for money under a bridge. The irony of having people ask for money from two trolls under a bridge runs deep. Read More

Want to go to a woop-ass desktop developers conference and don't have the patience to wait till september? On July 17-18 the 2006 Desktop Developers Conference (DDC) will be held in Ottawa located in visa-friendly Canada. OSDL DTL has partnered with the DDC organisation team and will be providing financial assistance to cover travel costs of a number of selected speakers. THAT CAN BE YOU! You still have till the end of the month to send in your speaking proposal to DDC. Let the world know about the groundbreaking developments that you are doing. Read More

I have been away from the blog sphere for some odd 3 months. Unlike most I don't have the excuse of being too busy, I have a rather different excuse. I have been out of the country and mostly away from internet during that time :) Read More

Congratulations to everone involved for the KOffice 1.5 release and especially Krita - finally a usable painting and image editing application with professional color support: You can find rpms for it for SUSE Linux 9.2 to 10.0 in the supplementary/KDE YaST repository. For SUSE Linux 10.1 packages jump over to ftp.kde.org as no "supplementary" distribution for 10.1 is set up yet. If you encounter crashes, ftp.kde.org hosts debuginfo rpms for 9.3 and up. Read More

The KDE Commit-Digest, written by Derek Kite for many, many issues is back... only this time, i'm producing it :) So, here is the first issue of my new digest: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-09/ Read More

Today I went back to the college where I got my Bachelor's degree a couple of years ago. This time to watch a good friend's graduation talk. It's almost impossible to compare school systems between countries, so even while the EU has unified on Bachelor's and Master's degrees it's hard to say where they are in other countries. Read More