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A few weeks ago, Jonathan had asked me on IRC in passing why kprinter and KDEPrint 3.5.1 didn't work with CUPS-1.2. My reply had been like "CUPS-1.2 hasn't even released an alpha or beta tarball -- w.t.h. does Ubuntu Dapper plan to include an SVN version of a piece of core software which has a yet unknown release date??" Of course, this is not Jonathan's personal field of work -- Kubuntu just inherits the CUPS version and setup which the Ubuntu main developers decided for. Read More

It has been a long time since I've posted something here. I've had things that I've wanted to post but pretty much all of my time has gone to working on the Guidance tools for the coming Dapper release of Kubuntu. Thank gawd Dapper has been delayed. I can (am!) really use the extra time for polishing and debugging. It looks like Dapper is going to be an awesome release and will work a lot smoother than the current release (Breezy). Read More

There's hidden easter egg in recent Kexi SVN version. Just create a new table design and name it "sudoku" and you'll get a nice game for free... Thanks to ksudoku author for the code ;)

I will be to the Printing Summit in Atlanta in a few days. Then I will be at the LinuxWorld Conference in Toronto in a few weeks. The work required before (and for) these is much more than I thought and planned initially. But it's worth it. Read More

I'm finishing my leave of absence and going back to work. Yes, doing what I wanted was great, but the pay was miserable. So I'll be going back to Trolltech. It looks like Trolltech will pay me to go to Calgary and work on Plasma with Aaron for a bit, which is just great. Plus apparently the love of my life is in Calgary. I know what you're thinking "Zack, but they have Snapple ice-tea everywhere", yes, but not Kinder Bueno's. You don't know love unless you've tried Snapple's lemon ice-tea with a kinder bueno. Let me just point out that our relationship is purely platonic. Read More

I finally got some time to spend on KDE last weekend, so on Sunday I started working on a new binding generator for KJSEmbed on Qt 4. In the KDE 3 version I used Doxygen to generate XML output then processed that with XSLT (using xsltproc) to produce the C++ code for the bindings. Unfortunately this provded to be a bit too inflexible, and difficult for other developers (who weren't familiar with XSLT) to work on. The new code uses KJSEmbed's DOM bindings to process the Doxygen output and seems to be a lot easier to work with - [mX] was making improvements within a few hours of the first commits. This also means we might be able to make the bindings self-hosted in KDE 4 which would be nice. Read More

We've found this little cat 2 days ago.. he seemed too little to survive.. but after 2 days he seems strong enough, drinks a lot of milk, and scares my dog :) Just hoping he'll continue like this...

So, in typical blog-o-riffic fashion, since I seem to be back in the world of the blogging, here I go with a set of largely unrelated KDE/geek-ish notes: Have a HDD about to die. 200 GB. Mostly media. Doing a bad cluster scan on it took about 18 hours. At then end what did I know? That the files that I already couldn't read are corrupted. Woohoo. I've taken three days off just to relax, watch a few movies, do a bit of coding. First time I've used vacation days for such in a long time. Another thing that I haven't done in a while -- just picked something annoying me and fixed it. I've hated it that every time I go to empty the trash on my desktop that the right mouse menu takes like half a second to come up, so I implemented menu caching and preloading. Seems to work well; we'll see if I can get it into the (frozen) 3.5 branch. The kde-usability list seems to be on the mend. There's been a concerted effort in the last couple of weeks to try to give the list a bit of direction (and less of a comment box / peanut gallery) and it seems to be working a little. Let's hope for the best. I've written up some guidelines and run them by the usability folks, and those will probably go live in the next couple of days. I've moved the whiteboard back into the livingroom. Yes, I own a 90 cm x 120 cm whiteboard. And it's now in my living room again. I've been coding on a few prototype sorts of things that will probably at some point find their way into KDE and sometimes you just need space for sketching and I'm definitely not a UML man. During the time off I watched a few films. Crash was disappointing; it helped to once again invalidate the Oscars in my view. It's a collection of semi-contrived racial memes with a conflict, transposition, redemption, rinse, repeat cycle to it. Afterwards I watched Bulworth again for the first time in years; much better commentary on race and politics in the US and still one of my favorite films. Jackie Brown disappointing too, but mostly because I'd seen all of Tarantino's other films. This concludes the test of the emergency blather system. Had this been an actual emergency, well, you hopefully wouldn't be reading my blog. ;-) Read More

The short version: My computer was broken and I haven't had mail since the 19th of March until today, sorry if you were waiting for me to answer some mail, I'll try to do so as soon as possible. Read More

Hello, I am new to this blog thing :-). I am the main developer of Gwenview and also hack on KIPI. We'll see if I can produce some interesting content for a while... Read More