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I haven't blogged since quite some time and when I did it was because of a sad story. But now it is different. Christams is close and I already got some gifts from my friend from over the ocean and from myself. ;-) Read the rest only if you have enough free time to spend on blog-reading. After almost 4 years of usage I partially retired my old desktop computer, which served me so well. During this time I did spent some on improving it, but those were mostly because of hardware failures. Let's see a history of my recent computers: Read More

Just reached a releaseable state in my efforts to backport the Qt4 D-DBUS bindings to Qt3. Basic usage works as expected, but I don't know yet if the marshalling code is sufficient for real world use as Qt4's QVariant is a lot better than one from Qt3, e.g. allowing user defined types. Read More

Congratulations to Ryan Hinton for getting a Windows port of the Smoke library and Qt4 QtRuby working. We just need to do a bit more to sync his version with the kde svn, and get it packaged. Then we're ready to do a first release that will run on Linux, BSD*, Mac OS X and Windows. Here's a couple of examples of how the ruby api improves on the original C++ one. Read More

After spending some time on implementing a DBUS proxy object, i.e the service object's peer on the client side, I finally found the 100% CPU usage problem I mentioned in my last blog Read More

GUI updates in Guidance I was going through the usability report about Guidance a month ago and saw this comment at the end of the report: 4.3 Checkbox feedback When the user checks or unchecks the checkbox "Start during boot", the corresponding entry in the list on the left side is updated (e.g. from "yes" to "no"). This is hard to notice, since the mental focus is on the checkbox, not on the list. Therefore, a stronger visual indication about the change is helpful. Read More

Many of you have probably seen or read some of the emails being posted on the OSDL DA mailing list. Theyve been on slashdot, blogs, and forwarded to other mailing lists.. but what have they accomplished? Read More

Below is a Qyoto/Kimono C# bindings 'Hello World' program written by Arno Rehn. Arno has done some quick performance measurements and he says Qyoto runs faster than a QtJava app running using IKVM, which is encouraging. I wasn't sure whether or not the method calls going via transparent proxies would be too slow, but there are major advantages in not needing C bindings using P/Invoke for each method call. Read More

Ubuntu Docs Corey was trying to find KDE 3.5 and 4 screenshots on planet KDE. Of course KDE screenshots aren't news to most KDE developers so they don't get blogged about but the KDE 3.5 visual guide lists some of the new features. KDE 4 can be found at KDE4 - understanding the buzz, not much to see here I'm afraid most of the work has been happening on the libraries, that should be accelerated now that KDE 3.5 is out the way but don't expect fancy screenshots for a wee while yet. Read More

Seems Linus has started a new little flamewar :D Among KDE developers we have always stated that anti-GNOME flamewars are only among users, and while it is technically true. It doesn't prevent users who also developers in other projects to join them. I will just comment here and hopefully not contribute to the fire. Read More

I started to have a deeper look into D-BUS as I will require an IPC facility if I want to provide a Qt4 API of QDS and still access KDE services. So after I installed the dbus-1.0 packages, it played a bit the included tools, starting a session bus and watching output with dbus-monitor. Read More