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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

I've spent the last few months on the behind-the-scenes architecture of KStars. Since the port to KDE4 was going to be a major overhaul for us anyway, we decided to simultaneously do a major refactoring of how the data catalogs are represented in KStars. We're now using a hierarchical Composite/Component model, and it's working well. Read More

Why does this even mean?!?!? |./!+# |.i.| #+...| If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a tengu. I'm always in the right place at the right time, and am quick to avoid people that I'd rather not be with.

I know it sounds silly, but editing text in KWord used to be some sort of a drag; it was annoying to select text with the mouse, for example. In the upcoming 1.5 release (not all fixes have made the beta) there are a set of changes in how KWord allows you to manipulate text. Tell your friends and family; this release is going to stun a lot of people! Read More

Well, if you want that, you can have it today for trunk/KDE/kdelibs/. The cmake ( http://www.cmake.org ) developers have been so nice to setup a dashboard for KDE: http://public.kitware.com/dashboard.php?name=kde If you build kdelibs/ using cmake, simply enter "make Experimental" and the results will end up there. As you can see, I just succeeded building kdelibs/ on FreeBSD :-) Read More

In my previous entry, I mentioned that there are still too few usability people involved with OSS usability - both in the scope of OpenUsability as well as in other efforts like the FLOSS Usability group. Read More

Some days ago I was talking with a friend and he told me I should read a book that talked about the subject we were talking about. I had to answer I have too many books in my queue waiting at home for me to find some time to read them. Maybe if I put them together in a list I'll realize that the list is growing too long and I start finding (or making) time to read them... Read More

It's been a long time since I blogged for the last time, so to compensate I'll post a few blog entries today :) First, it seems this year I'll be giving some more KDE talks than last year. For a start, there's the OSWC (Open Source World Conference), from the 15th to the 17th of February. I'll be meeting Till Adams, Alexander Dymo, Andras Mantia and Josef Spillner there from the KDE team, all signs are saying that the OSWC will be a good meeting point for long time not seen friends from other projects too, so it seems we'll have a good time there. Read More