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Novell today announced SLED 10 at CeBIT. Apparently there is some confusion caused by bad coverage: it's the successor of Novell Linux Desktop 9, a rebranded NLD 10 - if you like to say so - which gives you the choice to use either KDE or GNOME. As Nat Friedman stated to some press you will not lose functionality when you choose to use KDE: every desktop's applications will run on the other desktop, OpenOffice.org will integrate into both equally, desktop search is available under both and Xgl/Compiz (if supported on your graphic card) is desktop-agnostic too. Also the KDE desktop inherits from SUSE Linux 10.1 nice stuff developed at SUSE like kpowersave and knetworkmanager which other distributions maybe will only adopt in their next but one release.

Hiya, the results of the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award are there. Although the announcement: "Among the winners are Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org." doesn't sound too good for KDE, here's a (only slightly) closer look at the result :-) Read More

I've been doing a bit of work on a Linux HID project, for a Point Of Sale scanner. I took a little bit of time out to look at the Logitech MX610 mouse (e.g. http://www.logitech.com./index.cfm/products/details/AU/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=10917) again. Its looking promising. Read More

I finally managed to summarise the Test results from the usability tests with the German Wikipedia (at least most of them - three sections are still missing): You can either download the PDF, or you can edit and comment the results yourself directly on Wikipedia !Upadet link! (after several steps the final URL now) Read More

A year and a half ago I first tried out Interview and noted my thoughts on it. In the last few days I've revisited it and have to say that the API is still pretty quirky. Read More

amarok is a really great piece of KDE software. Its ever increasing popularity also led it to be one of the favorite and most frequently klik-ed packages of users. The nightly builds from SVN were gaining really enthusiastic user comments. Read More

understand concept like "use the right tool for the job" after spending a few weeks (2) trying to salvage a project (shouldn't have accepted this contract) I come to realise once again that some persons still choose the technologies for their project based on how high the buzzword is on the "Pointy-haired boss" scale Read More

Mentioned in an older blog, I ported KMPlayer to the Nokia770. Given that the GUI of a full KDE desktop and from this device are so different, I doesn't made sense to make fake QWidget classes for this port. However for utility classes like QString and KURL it did make sense. This weekend I ported the RealPix support to the N770 and benefiting greatly from these wrapper classes. The diff between these source files are no more than some include statements and lines where QString -> String. Read More

Every now and again you hear someone complaining about C++. You will probably also have heard that C sucks. The two statements are of course linked; the following code is valid C, but will never compile. Read More

One of our users suggested that it would be useful to have some mechanism by which members of the KStars user community could meet and interact, either a mailing list or a web forum. I totally agree. I know there are many people using KStars, and there are lots of reasons that they would want a way to talk with each other, share custom content that they've made, rant about their most hated bugs, whatever. Read More