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I need to point out that I am the victim of identity theft (or another clee mistake, take your pick). I didn't work on Qt and glib. I think that may have been a Trolltech employee - perhaps Brad Hughes. Read More

[image:1819 align=right] The KDE desktop of SUSE Linux 10.1 (and the future enterprise products built on it) will contain a KDE frontend for Beagle called Kerry. For this Beagle has been splitted into non-GUI and GUI parts, some backends are now in sub-packages (Evolution, Firefox) and the libbeagle API has been improved in parts. Besides generic file indexing Beagle already contains backends written by Debajyoti Bera and others for KMail, Kopete and Konqueror's web history cache. Read More

Although earlier this year I had hoped to get the reports up by the end of January, that they got up by mid-February isn't too bad. The 2005 reports page is here. Read More

Linux.conf.au got onto New Zealand news. The clip features Mark Shuttleworth signing one of the >500 Kubuntu CDs that were given away. lca2006_tvclip.xvid.avi (13MB).

The KDE project has elected its first Technical Working Group. Three Novell/SUSE employees are among the seven elected members (the others either didn't get elected, are busy with KDE e.V. board work or didn't candidate ;-) ). It seems you can still surprise some people with Novell/SUSE's continued strong KDE support hence this short note. Read More

A new year -- a new chance to spread the word about our favourite desktop environment at linux events. In Germany I already had the pleasure to attend the SkoleLinux Gathering 2006 in the sprawling city of Erkelenz. Carsten Niehaus, author of the popular award-winning chemistry application Kalzium, held a nice Qt 4 Workshop as well as a presentation about KDE-EDU there. After the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2006 the next stop for a pretty huge event will be CeBIT 2006! Read More

A bit too silent in my opinion voting within Novell's Bugzilla was enabled: you can now vote for bug reports and enhancement requests which are filed against the "SUSE Linux 10.1" product. During discussion whether to enable it or not KDE's Bugzilla and its success (most hated bugs, most wanted features) was a strong argument for it. Until now not many users have voted, don't miss this opportunity to give feedback! Please keep in mind that as with KDE's Bugzilla votes are looked at for orientation purposes only -- not for specific priorisation / resource allocation. Read More

According to a recent C-Net Police Blotter, email surveillance without any evidence of criminal behavior has been approved. The new law only allows monitoring of email headers (hence justifies as 'constitutional'), but the fact that they can freely monitor and log email traffic is alarming. Read More

I'm deeply disappointed in the Superbowl ref's. I'm new to this football thing, us europeans play soccer instead, but after having taken my time to learn about all the weird rules, several of these calls didn't make sense at all. Now don't get me wrong, the refs in soccer make bad calls all the time, but with soccer you have only 1 ref and 2 linesmen. With football you have a soccer team worth of referees running around, "the people upstairs" and instant replays that the referee can watch. With all that I naively had expected that games wouldn't be decided based on arbitrary referee calls. Read More

Let's have a look at font settings: In Konqueror, pressing Defaults resets the fonts to the current Control Center Default font. In Konversation, pressing Defaults resets the fonts to the Control Center Default at Konversation's startup. This is not necessarily the current one. Imagine you change the Control Center Default, but Konversation and some other apps have not adopted the settings. You go to each of them and change the font settings manually as the Defaults button has no effect. A lot of work - and all for nothing: Restarting the X Server would have done the same job. In KMail, you either use custom colours or you do not (the latter will set the current Control Center Defaults). The Defaults button, however, has no effect. So there is no way to base a new colour scheme on the Default, once you've changed it. Resume: Three applications, two different types to visualise the font settings, and three different behaviours to reset to the defaults. Read More