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I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It's in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we'll merge it to HEAD. I'm planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I've spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element). Read More

This year, the chaos communication congress was productive for me: I finally manged to summarise the results of the user interviews and Konqueror usability test we did in August. Download: Report in PDF [2,5 MB] Read More

One month ago I presented some ideas for an application repository. This interface would give users an unrestrictive way to search and explore software installed on their system within several contexts. The system is one part of a response to dissastisfaction with the KMenu. The other parts of my solution include an interface to quickly launch applications and a "smart" system to help the user relate data and applications together as tasks. Read More

Whoa... for the first time KDE4 /trunk/qt-copy, kdelibs4_snapshot, and kdebase all compiled without errors. Thats frightening... :-) now to test if it is usable at all... ;-)

As a KOffice core-developer I am certainly very interrested in how OpenDocument is gaining traction in the state of Massachusetts. After all, KOffice is one of the contenders for the eyeballs of state workers after ODF becomes mandatory Jan-1-2007. Read More

Hiya, here's a very simple way to get a performance number for KDE: $ time konsole -e sh -c exit This gave me the following numbers: 0.75 seconds on a notebook, Sempron 3000+, SUSE 10.0 0.80 seconds on a desktop, Athlon XP+ 2000, Slackware 9.1, KDE compiled from svn 1.0 seconds on a notebook, Intel P4 M, 1.8 GHz, SUSE 10.0 1.0 seconds on a notebook, Intel P4 M, 1.8 GHz, kUbuntu 5.10 Read More

22c3 has started, finally °°° Antenne and me are busy preparing our Paper Prototyping Workshop on Friday. [image:1706 align=center class=showonplanet]

KDE now has a Community at OpenSolaris. And Steve Christensen had made KDE available for download from SunFreeware as well. It all happened yesterday, which was my birthday. I got some nice birthday presents this year. :-)

As if you did not hear already, KOffice is more alive than ever. Its honestly brewing with activity. Krita has gotten more new features in the last couple of months then are set to go into Longhorn and the commit rate is growing each week. It shows; there has been commercial interrest in making KOffice stay ahead of the curve. There now is a competition for ideas with a prize for the best or top-3 totalling $1000. Read More

I'm a usability guy, so my first concern with any feature or application is consistency, I guess all you guys and galls know that rule of usability, its the most important one. So, when in one day a couple of questions came up on how to scale a KPresenter object but keep the aspect ratio of the object, and how to disable the grid while scaling, well, I got thinking and I started looking into what all the KOffice applications did. In short, each one invented its own way of doing things. Which, as my introduction states, is not good usability. Duh! I kicked off a research and a proposal based on that to the KOffice mailinglist, and a couple of days later, the KOffice team now has a nice set of what I call interaction policies. All the features that make sense for manipulating objects now have been defined and given a modifier key. So holding shift down while moving or rotating will disable the grid and guides in all KOffice applications. Consistency is good. Read More