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Appologies to readers of planet.ubuntu.com, the return of kdedevelopers.org has done funny things to the RSS feeds (and planet.kde.org is even more broken). Edinburgh got taken over by anarchists the other weekend. We had to board up Subhi's new internet café to protect the rather fancy SIP phone setup he has inside. Read More

Over the last weeks I have been spending time on KDEPim and KMail in particular. Various usability and feedback issues have been fixed that bothered me before and I find KMail to be a lot more pleasant to use, fixing bugs beats working around them any day! Read More

I realize now my previous blog about khtml2 lacked explanation and introduction, sorry for this :| The idea is not that WildFox and myself can do better than khtml on the html front. In fact we know more about svg than html. So the idea is not to add new functionality to khtml, but keep the functionality like it is. Read More

The final round of voting for the 2005 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards has begun. KDE is nominated in no less than eight categories. What I especially like is that individual KDE application are nominated together with the top open source projects. KDevelop is competing with GCC and Eclipse in the development tool category. Kate runs with Vim and Emacs for the best text editor. Kontact is nominated with LaTex and OpenOffice.org for the office award. That shows again that KDE is not only a nicely integrated desktop, but also provides a fantastic environment to create world-class software projects. The final round closes 28 July 2005. Vote now!

I thought I'd let the world know how I came to be managing a bit of the Google Summer of Code thing on the KDE side. I certainly had not expected it. And I think it's useful for contributors to know how they can join and help: it doesn't take much, just some free time and willpower. I won't lie, though: knowing the right people and being "in the loop" helps. Read More

I promised to report on the khtml2 progress, on behalf of WildFox, since he didn't find the time to report himself, having to go on a well deserved holiday :) Basically a lot of code is "ported", and Niko started on a lot of RenderObject related code. Because of this, a lot already shows up in screenshots, like lists, tables, general text, divs. etc. Have a look at these screenshots (I am not able to put them inline, since most are too big... ) : Read More

Today M2/ARRRGGH reached a new point in his young life. I managed to get the remote management ioslave and the server part of the protocol working. I have a lot of work to do because the protocol is currently plain text. In the next few days I won't a lot of time to work on it I have some contracts to finish ... if only I could have enough money to work all the time on m2/arrrggh ... but that will never happen. Read More

I miss Snapple ice-tea. For some reason they don't seem to have it in Norway. They've got Snapple lemonade which I don't like at all. Right brand, wrong product. And the whole approach to cooking seems to be different here. For example last week we were making pancakes. We got a wrong flour at first (it was too fine). So I and Simon went to the store to find better one. Me being me, I grabbed some girl, dragged her to the right aisle and asked her which flour is for making pancakes. We took the flour she pointed out but noticed that there wasn't a difference between the one we had at home and the one she told us to get. Since the girl I just asked was a little chubby (which is why I asked her in the first place, I figured she knows a lot about pancakes) I decided to ask a skinny girl. She said we should get the same flour the other girl did. So we decided that we must be wrong and bought what they advised. It, of course, turned out to be the wrong flour. I was crushed. Read More

Last night I have been lurking around at the KDE Artists website and saw a lot of cool contributions: Adrien Facelina 1 2 3, The-Error 1 2 3, Michael Doches 1, Lee Olson 1, Sebastian Sariego B 1 2 3, Will Hardy 1. Nuno Pinheiro, Danya (from Flat* and Monochrome iconset fame) and Robert Wadley are working on the KDE icon set for OpenOffice.org (beware, this page is a hefty download and also a bit outdated I was told). We now see artists stepping up to work on al sorts of artwork stuff lately. Derek Kite of KDE Commit Digest fame asked for help on a new lay out for the Digest. Read More

Alex Dymo has organised a KDevelop Developers conference, and I'm here in Kiev for a week with other KDevelop hackers. We gave a full day of presentations yesterday about all aspects of KDevelop and our future plans. I gave my second public talk ever, about ruby support and the QtRuby/Korundum bindings. It didn't go too badly apart from my iBook not working with the projector, and everything crashing in the middle of demoing the KDevelop ruby debugger. Oh well. I mainly need to get the hang of KPresenter - I wasn't as nervous as in my first talk even if I'm not exactly slick yet. Anyway, it was great go out to another part of the world to encourage Free Software. The audience were interested in what we had to say, and asked some good questions. At the end we took lots of photos of everyone behind the conference banner. Read More