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KDE 3.5.1 packages for SUSE Linux 10.0 are now available which include fixes for the worst KDE 3.5.1 regressions. They will also appear at the usual YaST source. These packages are unsupported and mostly untested: kdelibs3-devel has a known wrong dependency which can be safely ignored and will be removed in the next revision. Packages for older distributions may follow once the new dependency resolution of the build server for older distributions problems are solved out . Read More

...here. Yet. "Yet" because I don't have anything to commit as all involved code is littered with commented codeblocks of failed attemps. I am talking about a QObject adapter for the Qt3 D-BUS bindings, i.e. a wrapper class that makes slots of a given QObject instance callable through D-BUS. Generating D-BUS introspection data from the slot signature is next. Read More

This last week was the Ubuntu distro sprint, where a bunch of core Ubuntu developers get locked in a bland hotel in a bland part of London (which was overcast for the whole week with no variation in weather) and told to work on things in return for Amarulla. Read More

Yes, I'm paraphrasing the title of one of the claims how Klipper is an awful hack working in the most stupid way possible whose only purpose is to make sure clipboard content doesn't get lost when you close an application. What a nonsense. Klipper is a tool for keeping several last items from clipboard history, the fact that the several last items include also the very last one is just a nice side-effect. And, while Klipper and X clipboard in general used to have and still have some problems (what doesn't after all), many Klipper problems are actually caused by broken clipboard implementations in various applications including OpenOffice.org or Mozilla/Firefox or by the way X clipboard works and most Klipper hacks are there in order to work around such problems. Read More

Both KDE and KOffice decided to release new versions today. Kubuntu has packages for both. Konversation released a new version which was going to be in time for Kubuntu dapper but they delayed to get some last minute bugs out, the good news is that we got an upstream version freeze exception and the new Konversation is now it. It's nice to have apps start shaping their release schedules around Kubuntu, there really is something in this regular release idea. Read More

The first big thing today was the release of KDE 3.5.1, made possible by the hundreds of dedicated contributors which make up the wonderful KDE community. Especially the translators did some great work, so KDE 3.5.1 is available in the incredible number of 63 languages. Read More

[.. as this test is for German-speaking participants only, I'll proceed in German] Teilnehmer für Wikipedia-Usabilitytest in Berlin gesucht! Um die Einstiegsschwelle zur Mitarbeit an der freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia zu reduzieren, führen wir im Rahmen von OpenUsability nächste Woche (6. bis 10. Februar) Usabilitytests mit der deutschen Version der Wikipedia durch. Dazu suchen wir TeilnehmerInnen! Read More

The 3.5 branch of kdebinding doesn't compile and hasn't for a while I believe. It seems like the development of korundum/qtruby has moved to http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/. I wonder why? I copied some of the files from the latest release of korundum to kdebindings and it seems to compile (further) then it did. Read More

Exactly three years ago I was busy writing my diploma thesis - it was about a help system which showed the user directly in the application where and how to perform certain tasks. This type of help is called contextual or context sensitive help. Read More

The last few days saw a couple of threads on the dbus mailinglist about topics we KDE users got used to love in DCOP. For example how to start browsing for interfaces on applications connected to the bus, in D-BUS terminology called introspection, how to know which session busses are currently active for a user and how to work with users session busses from the system bus. Read More