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Many software developers stumble over the "Joel On Software" columns at some time and like them. Sure, Joel was a Microsoft employee and he develops proprietary software, but still his columns are inspiring and fun to read. Sometimes he is completely wrong, though. Read More

Brad is commenting about a research project that does "Internet Suspend / Resume" of user sessions: "...interesting idea - they basically envisage a thick-client model, running on a virtual machine (VMWare in their tests) which can suspend. The suspend state then gets shipped over a network connection to another machine where it can be “resumed

So, I've been working on some kdevelop language support C# for the past few days. I already have some pretty interesting screenshots, but I recently discovered that KDevelop is going through a major change in the way it handles different build systems. Roberto Raggi is working on a New Project Manager (NPM) that will form the basis of a common project editor widget for all the various languages. Individual language/buildsystems will then customize the interfaces to this NPM in order to provide language/buildsystem specific features. It is a great idea as it will cut down on the duplication of code in KDevelop and provide some standard and uniform UI widgets. Since I found out about it, I've been porting my initial C# build part to this new architecture. More... Read More

I got my hands into the KDEPIM API the past few days... libkcal to be specific. I wanted a better interface for sorting Events which KonsoleKalendar needed. For consistency, I added similar code for sorting Todos and Journals. The patch will be going off to the kdepim mailing list for review in a few minutes (after I test one more time). This was fun for a change with no human interface to worry about. Since my favorite sports team won its first game of the season today (American Football) I am double-happy.

Oh, I almost forgot. I sat down yesterday night and played a little bit with Cairo. It does have quite a nice API. A full example is at http://vortex.bd.psu.edu/~mkr137/qcairo.tar.bz2 . It's a pure Qt application. You don't need KDE to compile it. It shows how to use Cairo API natively from a QWidget:: paintEvent (you may need to adjust the library paths in the qcairo.pro file).

Hello you all. I got into KDE development for fun, and I hope to have a nice journey while here. I have some nice ideas about why what we do is important, and I was already a financial contributor to Quanta before starting to help directly. You probably know me (or not) for my Quality Team work. Read More

Krita is a very promising application. Its problem is that the potential user currently has to build all of KOffice only to get krita. At aKademy, Ken Wimer told about that at the artists meeting. I first thought it would be the best to get Krita out of the KOffice into kdeextragear or something, but the downside is that it would take a duplication of all the cool koffice libs features, so I had a look into the issue. Read More

I think by now almost everyone knows that together with Lars we started working on the Mozilla code. Essentially the story is that on Sunday night on a winefest in Ludwigsburg we started talking about having Mozilla run natively on KDE. To make the long story short, two days later I and Lars had an example compiling and four days later we had it rendering pages as a QWidget. It was fun. Real fun. This is not some experimental hack. We're looking at the whole thing rendering natively in Qt. This is the full-monty. Since the announcement I'm expecting a lot of very weird comments, questions and flames. I'll try to answer some of the more common questions I've seen already here. So in no particular order: Read More

Ok, so as has been mentioned a handful of times, I'm headed to Chile for a while. I'm looking forward to it and my talk there (summary is slightly out of date, the talk won't be identical to my aKademy talk). See everyone in October! Read More

With the release of Xorg 6.8 I decided I ought to work out how to get the fancy trasparent windows stuff working so I could demo it at the expo in London next month. I wrote a short guide. Read More