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Most people have lots of different ideas during the day. Some are good ones, some are, well, not so good. But sometimes you realize that one of your ideas was special, just the right thing at the right time. Exactly this was my feeling when I realized that it was a realistic opportunity for KDE to join efforts with OpenSync. Solving the problem of syncing data between desktops, applications and mobile devices once and for all suddenly became a reachable goal. The path to the one unified syncing solution for the Linux desktop lay clear ahead. Read More

I want to use KPresenter. Really, I do. And of course, this being a presentations software, I want to do with it a presentation. By its very own implicit definition, a presentation has to be attractive yet simple, suggestive yet discrete. But mostly, it has to be aesthetically pleasing. Beautiful. Well, KPresenter's default templates are darn ugly. All of them. The only ones remotely usable are the KDE3 one and, somehow, the KDE2 and KDE1 ones. And... ugly surprise, the KDE2 and KDE1 were made by ... me! Back in 1999 (this is in antiquity, for who doesn't care to do the math). If 2/3 of the acceptable templates of KPresenter are made by an aesthetics-challenged, artistically-incompetent semi-doct developer aeons ago, we're really in bad shape. Read More

... you're bored :) so I browsed the web and I found this interesting website (ok sort of) http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/ and http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/ so my Hobbit name is Gorbulas Bumbleroot of Fair Downs and Elf one is Angrod Celebrindal Read More

KDE 3.5 RC 1 has entered the supplementary/KDE repository on ftp.suse.com and its mirrors. If you previously missed YaST definitions next to the packages hosted on ftp.kde.org, here you go. openSUSE.org has instructions how to add package repositories to YaST. Don't forget to turn on "Refresh" for the installation source if you run SUSE Linux 10.0 so you will not miss any future updates.

Another two section for the klik User's FAQ done today. This time "Troubleshooting" and "Tipps + Tricks". Enjoy. Troubleshooting Q: I got a dialog saying "Error while trying to run xmule". What does this mean? A: This could mean there was a network outage and the server providing the input files to the klik recipe could not be reached to download the ingredient packages. Read More

Well, SQIL came, has been, and passed. As I was saying, I presented KDE yesterday afternoon at the Laval University chapter of this pan-provincial manifestation. I dare say all went well. The assistance was not numerous, but despite my inept management of presentation time (which made me do the planned 1h presentation take in fact 85 minutes), nobody left (on the contrary) and, above all, I've got 40 minutes of questions afterwards. Read More

People who know me understand that I'm a big fan of LLVM. Well, big news... Apple has hired the main developer and is now urging LLVM to be integrated as an alternative backend of the GCC compiler suite. Read More

Due to obligations at Uni, I was unable to attend all days of Linux World Expo and Conference in Frankfurt this year. However I spent most parts of Tuesday and all of Thursday at the the KDE booth. Read More

In case you have upgraded your fontconfig packages to those I provided in my blog entry about new fontconfig version, you may have run into KDE bug #116176 with the KDE3.5rc1 packages. Well, I warned you. That sometimes happens with unstable versions. I suggest you downgrade again or do your own build of newer fontconfig version or do whatever you want to do, but I'm not going to provide newer packages. It's still an unstable version after all. Read More

The development snapshot SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 has been released yesterday and of course it contains the latest release candidates of KDE 3.5, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and X.org 6.9. If you are a developer you may be interested to learn that SUSE is the first distribution which has switched its development to and is based on the upcoming gcc 4.1 compiler and this Alpha offers nice ways (upgrade, http/ftp installation, ISOs) to play with it.