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Lubos woke the dormant Portland project by creating a first implementation of a possible desktop adapter API. Having some experience due to my work on QDS I volunteered to put some work into it as well, especially KDE related backend code. Read More

Just a short note that I have experimented with svg embedded inline in xhtml. Taking the code from webkit+svg, I did a prototype bundling khtml2 and ksvg2 on top of kdom, and making sure the svg elements use render objects this time. I also used just one backend, which uses the qt4 painter. Even though I did not get to implement all features (markers, text), it clearly shows that inlining of svg in xhtml is very possible! Here are examples of rendering of xhtml+svg docs: Read More

Tonight, Olaf and Gunnar from the KDE Accessibility team will come over to Berlin. Together with the linaccess crew, we will perform usability tests with KDE's, and possibly Gnome's accessibility features during the next two days. Tina will support me on the usability side. Read More

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