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So my Dot article about klik is now online. It has had already 40 comments within 2 hours, mostly positive. It contains a concrete, workable proposal how to accelerate KDE development: accelerating it by bringing our non-technical/non-coding contributors more closely to the "bleeding edge" code. We can do this by handing out bleeding edge binaries of KDE application development snapshots to our non-techies... Read More

Last night I figured I would do something useful and go through the Suse 10.0 rc1 installation. It is a very pretty and straightforward installation process provided you have the CD media to install packages. One button label, which was EVERYWHERE, bothered me a bit: Read More

... where are last year's autumn skies? [image:1451 align=center width=300 class=showonplanet]

Read more in this article. It's a comparison with Kexi 0.9 from may 29, also read some my explanation.

Just saw a Yes/No dialog (in KDE, I specify, to avoid confusion) with tooltips installed on the Yes and No pushbuttons. The tooltips read "Yes" and "No" respectively. I'm flabbergasted!

(Yes, blogs are slowly becoming what mailing lists always were anyways... It's my secret theory that blogs were invented by people a) discontent with their visibilities on dedicated mailing lists and b) not willing to mix their greatness with the commoners ;-) Read More

planetsuse.org is now syndicating my blog. Thanks James, for taking my feed to your part of our world. -- Hello, fellow planetSUSE bloggers :) Maybe it was this rather interesting bug that helped proof that I have somehow some relationship with the Green Geeko Distro. Read More

This nifty mail notification utility has popped up at KDE-apps.org now! Kudos to Kurt Granroth for maintaining this cool piece of software!

Wow! I'm glad I'm not in Calgary tonight, or Aaron might have come down to my place and beat me up ;-) ) Anyways I will refrain from wielding back at him my (past century) sarcasm and irony weaponry. Read More

Oh boy. Gwenview uses 83% more memory than Kuickshow (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9847 - the last comment as of now). BTW I especially like the "83%" part - it's just one case and the measurement is imprecise, but it can't be "about 80%" or "almost double". Reminds me of all those "hair 74% stronger" ads. Anyway. Read More