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Today I reworked the QDS architecture so it doesn't require the application developer to delegate QApplication creation to QDS. The main reason for this requirement has been the desire to use a KDE service implementation, which needs a KApplication instance. Read More

Having released a few too many Kubuntu flight CDs without testing the powerpc builds I bought a minimac. I did intially think I would keep MacOS X on it since it's always useful and interesting to be able to play with another operating system. But by the time the Kubuntu powerpc CD had downloaded I'd had enough of it and wiped the whole hard disk. The graphics in macOS X are of course lovely, and the search engine spotlight is just right, but this is also an operating system that is unable to minimise or maximise windows properly and that doesn't even have an applications menu so you can find what programs are installed. Further problems: Read More

Marcel Gagne published a very nice, and well written article about klik. This piles onto the stack of recent klik publicity (canllaith has an extended piece in the current TUX magazine, which even made it into the major headline on the frontpage). I found only very few things I could nitpick about. Go read it, if you are not yet familiar with klik. Read More

With SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 4 being announced let me list some KDE-related interesting news of it: it includes KDE 3.5 with several packages updated to last weekend's KDE 3.5 branch. The Qt 4 package's version is 4.1 release candidate 1. Digikam 0.8 and Taskjuggler 2.2 releases are of course not missing. 10.1 Alpha 4 includes a recent snapshot of KOffice trunk if you want to test eg Krita. And a work-in-progress version of a KDE frontend for NetworkManager is newly included. Expect some more good stuff in Beta 1. :-)

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