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KDE 3.5 Alpha will be tagged in three days and many applications in /branches/KDE/3.5 still show the version number they had in the 3.4.0 release. :-( I usually go trough all modules before releases and look for many applications whether there have been changes since last release and if the version number has been already increased. This is time-consuming and I don't feel that I should be doing it. Please maintainers of applications (or as fallback contributors to) increase version numbers regularly! Read More

It's seems for certain persons the concept of "Can you give more info?" as a reply for the classical :"Doesn't work!" or "It's just crash" is hard to grasp or even totally alien to their way of thinking. And the worse is when those persons are supposed to be Computer professionals ... in some case I actually wonder if they were gone to take a leak when $DEITY distributed the intelligence, anyway some are just ... I'm not sure if I have enough English vocabulary to describe them. Read More

Boy, what a week. I spent 2 days at the Krita Hackaton. I went there with the background that I know about KOffice and saw Krita ones or twice so I could contribute at least some technical and usability knowledge. What I found was that Krita is actually the most promising KDE application I currently know of. I did mostly usability consulting and some hacking to fix the rotating of the toolbox so you can drop it to be a simple toolbar, if you want. Didn't do much more hacking since I borrowed an older laptop and compiling was slow. Read More

I just realised that I'm feeling a weird and almost forgotten emotion ... I'm currently enjoying what I'm doing while working on M.2 and this realisation bring tears of joy to my eyes ... and I must admit that after years (ok let say something like 17) wandering the world and being eternaly bored it's scaring me ... maybe I won't be able to deal with this and go back to my bored self ... we will see :) Read More

So finally after 4 weeks without having any kind of internet connection at home, I'm back. Sure, I could browse the web and download my mail at work, but it wasn't really possible to change what was happening "out there" on the net. Kind of like TV. You could watch, but not interact. Rather irritating. Read More

While working on ARRRGGH, the first implementation of M.2, I discovered that the protocol I use can also be used as a generic message based inter application framework .... Coool! That just added more value to my project :) So now I trying to see how I can modify the current stuff to have a generic messaging class and who knows maybe I will completely change the goal of the project ... not really but I need to see where this thing can really go Read More

KDE is simply amazing. There you are, the current developer and maintainer of your application, and you think you know your application inside out and you are aware of all the small features it provides to the user... And then it happens: You work with your application and think "Oh, right, that's one feature I will have to add", and the next moment you realize that your application already has it. You just haven't noticed so far. Read More

If you're the maintainer of a non-minor KDE application please don't think that posting your release to kde-apps.org is sufficient. Consider also to post a nice announcement including what your application is about and the highlights of the release to the kde-announce mailing list. Many news editors and magazine writers only read kde-announce and don't visit kde-apps.org! As an example see LWN of last week: KDE v GNOME announces. Outside KDE community the Freshmeat application index is the most important site to promote your application. Read More

Today I got a basic but complete implementation of M.2 working on gentoo and freeBSD. On another subject I want to thanks Scott Wheelers to have made me discovered Mr. Bungle, weird but I like it

I was trying to find another name for m2 for a while and I come up with some nice name here the list: -Bakkus -Rembrant -Kobold -M2 and the winner is M2, yes I will stick with it. And I even find a nice way to pronounce it "Me Too" :D Read More