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It appears that at least one person (Hi Peter!) seems to have misunderstood what I was saying at the end of my last post. I'm not saying that a new hierarchy should be thought up to supplement (read: in addition to) the current unix filesystem layout. I'm saying that a new hierarchy should completely replace the current unix filesystem layout. This is what GoboLinux and OS X have done. This is also not the same as what system: does. system: is another layer on top of the underlying filesystem layout, which leaves you with a system with a split personality. The GUI presents one version of what the system looks like, while everything below the GUI, such as console programs, uses something completely different. Read More

Hi, as I mentioned previously, I'm trying to build kdelibs (still 3.5, not 4.0 yet) using cmake. To make it short, yesterday it managed to get to build kwallet, where I discovered that I missed to insert a check for sys/types.h. So I inserted the check, and then could watch how the box started to recompile almost complete kdelibs (since config.h changed which is included in a lot of files). Read More

At 10pm yesterday my father in law phoned me to tell me that his father was in the hospital with pneumonia, and will most likely not be going home. He has been quite sick for some time, and over the past 3 years more and more complications from cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries etc have really tired him out. Still, its hard even when you can see it coming. This left me the painful task to breaking the news to jess... Read More

When I started to write yesterday's blog I planned to add all kind of information about KExtProcess. It turned out that my blog became pretty big when I was only about halfway the stuff I planned, so I changed plans and promised some extra updates this week. Read More

Congratulations to Stephan on his KDE-related job. My condolences to Jess and Ian. Take care!

After describing how I traveled to San Francisco and the first and second days at the LinuxWorldExpo, here comes a brief synopsis of the last day on the Linuxprinting.org and KDE booths. Before starting, I should mention a fact that amused and cheered many at the end of the day 2, about which I forgot to write yesterday. As I said, the second day seemed a bit slower than the first. Towards the end of the day, Nathan Krause had the idea of organizing a shout-out in which passers-by would express their attachement to KDE as loud as they could and in exchange they would receive from the KDE booth staffers a Xandros Linux CDs box. It all ended up with some startling shouting and and cheering, with loud "I love KDE"s resounding throughout the second floor. One of the SNORT guys, who had the booth just across from KDE's, proved to have one mightily handsome set of lungs and vocal cords and won indisputably. Read More

KDE and LinuxPrinting.org at LWE, now in color: Setting up the booths in the .org pavilion Visitors in the first day: Charles Samules (right) and David Johnson at the KDE booth: Read More

LWE-SF 2005 is over. I'm back to the normal schedule now. Here is the fasttrack of getting back home. 5h30 - wake up, shower, check room, check baggages. 6h30 - breakfast, alone. 7h00 - check out and fix the bill. On my way to the airport. 8h30 - checkin to the flight back. 9h30 - I find out from a gentle family of french people that the barril of oil blew up to 66$. Harsh times await us all... 10h30 - takeoff 15h00 (18h00 Mtl. time) - landing. Very nice flight. 19h20 - finally get the baggages, after 1h20 of stupid waiting. 19h30 - find my car in perfect shape in the long-time parking lot. 22h00 - home! Read More

As posted before, we have regular Open Software Usability meetings in Berlin. This week, we'll talk about a future frontend for browsing with Tenor, KDE's contextual linking engine. Scott will be there to provide us with information on Tenor's background and the data structure. Read More

There is a really good series of articles on hierarchies and usability at the SAP Design Guild site which ever developer should read: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/design.asp (look in the left side menu for the hierarchy articles) Read More