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Today we announced this little project I've been working on. Ubuntu has been stealing the lead with the non-business distribution recently so it's time to take it back for KDE. We are the first distribution with KDE 3.4 and the live CD is a great way to test it out. Still plenty of work to be done to catch up. Not all the KDE 3.4 modules are in yet, the artwork still has to be tweaked and all the little applications that make a distribution easy to use (package manager and update watcher, network config etc) need a lot of work. Please do come and join us, the mailing lists are at lists.ubuntu.com and we're on #kubuntu on freenode. Many thanks go to KDE of course and also the KDE Debian packagers. Please try out this preview and leave us feedback on the wiki page. Read More

12°C today, and this marks the beginning of the long downward spiral into summer. English summers are awful, the raindrops form out of the air all around you. The drops hit you and you wake up hours later dazed and with concussion. Read More

I just released v. 0.6 of dataKiosk. The major changes include editing support via a new configurable form. It also has some handy new editor widgets that are factory created depending upon the field's type. The new widgets include a MS Access alike combo table dropdown foreign key relation editor. For those of you who are interested you can check out the new extragear homepage for screenshots and/or grab the 0.6 release bzip2 tar.

A couple of updates on the code completion changes. In current CVS code completion can: Complete in TRY/CATCH blocks... Complete on vars declared in if/for/while... Lots of other fixes... And I have this working although the patch is up for review and not in cvs: There are a few issues, because it relies on richtext and the problem is I have to strip out some chars programmatically which becomes a problem for apps who use katepart and completion entries with legitimate richtext chars... Read More

KListViewSearchLine is a great class - I just added search capability to to kdcop with 2 lines of code and a little bit of work in designer! First filter Read More

Here's a fun pipedream overheard on #kde-devel. Very exciting I think you'll agree. Yes you freedesktop.org skeptics, you'll agree too. KOffice developers will agree too even though they don't know about it yet. Read More

It's interesting to observe KDE development these days. Since the 3.4 code was branched from the main line, the repository is open for new development again. For past releases this meant committing frenzy with new features flying in, development branches being merged and all the creativity bound by the feature freeze breaking loose. This time it's different. It's quiet. It's the silence before the storm. I know that there is new and interesting code around, but it doesn't seem to find its way into the main development line yet. So what's going on? Read More

Reviewing some of the new code that has been added to kdelibs for 3.4, I've noticed a few old problems recurring. Some of the new classes are missing d pointers, this will be a pain in the future and should not have happenned. I strongly urge anyone writing stuff for kdelibs (or interfaces that plugins etc. will talk to for that matter) to review the doc on binary compatibility I link below. Read More

Launching today for those of you lucky enough to have KDE 3.4 installed is... Get Hot New Wallpapers! Using the excellent Get Hot New Stuff platform and its KDE library KNewStuff I added Get New Wallpapers button to the desktop configuration module. It looks like KDE Look man Frank has now added the feed from kde-look.org so you can get the current 10 latest, greatest and most downloaded wallpapers at the touch of a button. Read More

Everyone else is doing it so why can't we? Today Kopete jumped on the Hot New Stuff bandwagon by letting users fetch and install new emoticon themes from the Configure dialog. Read More