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i spent a part of this weekend working on the kde usability website. unfortunatly it doesnt get updated very often, and considering we have dated 'recent news' on our home page.. the content looks quite dated. Read More

As Harald and Adriaan already mentioned I spent this weekend with some 'testing guys' in Hamburg to evaluate the possibilities of automated usability/accessibility testing. Also from my side the meeting was a big success, and not only because of the food and the gluehwein, or because I finally saw the countdown+text pedestrian lights in real life ;-) Read More

... is love, peace and this little bugger. The iAudio X5 has all I really want: 20 or 30 GB of harddisc, a color display, and plays mp3, wma, ogg vorbis and even flac (and more, e.g. mpeg4 video, but I'm not sure I really can make use of this feature, given the tiny display). It has a high quality microphone build-in and can record to mp3. So that'd be a good alternative to an iPod, which I don't want since it's not capable of playing oggs. It provides USB host support and thus allows for plugging in cameras in order to serve as intermediate storage for camera data. The X5 costs 280 Euro cheapest for the 20 GB version or 330 Euro cheapest for the 30 GB version. Read More

[image:1671 align="right" hspace=4 vspace=4 border=0 width="407" class="showonplanet"] The weekend has seen some more work on klik. probono has re-enabled the nice "give-us-some-feedback-after-first-run" feature. It means that a kdialog (or an Xdialog or zenity equivalent) will pop up after you run a klik recipe for the first time, asking you for some feedback. After you filled it in and clicked "OK", you'll immediately see it has gone live on the klik server if you visit the user feedback page. Read More

Hi, in the screenshot you can see a different kpager than the one you know. [image:1667] So, what's different ? This kpager is built from the same sources, but neither using autotools, nor unsermake, nor scons. It's built using cmake ( http://www.cmake.org ). Here's how I did it: Read More

We got notified from the Linux Format (a printed magazine sold in UK newspaper stands) that they give their Hottest Pick award to klik. -- Woooohoo! The January 06 edition carries a 1-page article about klik, which is a very nice read. (bfree bought the thingie at probono's request and made a scan available to us). Read More

One of my long standing feature requests now seems to come true: tabbed email processing. Not with Kontact or KMail, though. It is with Thunderbird. But it is not yet in the official release. It is just a patch, created by Thunderbird hacker Myk Melez. Two days ago he blogged about it. Read More

... at the Berlin Open Software Usability Meeting, tomorrow evening, Wed, Dec. 7th, 20.00 h, at the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin, Marienstr. 11. Back from my wonderful vacation we decided to have a less serious usability session tomorrow, and inspect several everyday things such as cashpoints, metro maps, usb sticks or coffee machines. Along with it, we'll have some Plaetzchen, and possibly Gluehwein yam Read More

No, not really. But it's quite close (and it actually also depends on how you twist the benchmark ;) ). When my desktop machine could start KDE in less than 4 seconds I was curious what would the situation be with this slow laptop, the one which started KDE in 5-6 seconds at aKademy. But that was with almost no fonts installed, no XIM, no wallpaper, the simplest splash and other tricks from the KDE performance tips page. Well, now it can do it in the same time even without that. It leaves GNOME few seconds behind and gets very close to Xfce startup time. Read More

If we now spend 1/3 of time in the dynamic linker, of course it helps not forgetting to run prelink. Here's the second bootchart for KDE again (and the Xfce one for comparison, although that one doesn't really change). I wonder if we can call it a draw for now :). Read More