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My wife's assistant uses KMail (obviously) and KOrganizer (for a Kolab shared calendar). To spare her from akonadi trouble, I installed OpenSuse-11.4 for her, which comes with KDEPIM 4.4. No akonadi needed for kmail in that version, but it existed already, for the address book. And due to that, a nasty bug happens at almost every start of kontact: the "starting akonadi" progressbar stays on top of kontact forever, even though everything else indicates that akonadi started properly. I have no idea what causes it, it's obviously been fixed since, but since it actually prevents new emails from coming in (!? makes no sense, since emails are unrelated to akonadi in that version), just ignoring the progressbar isn't an option. Read More

Two weeks until the final thing and we need lots of testing of the beta, now featuring the latest and greatest KDE Platform and Applications 4.9.2. Beta release page lists the new features and the download and upgrade instructions.

This is the story of how bugfixes can happen. For each bug there is a bug reporter. It doesn't really matter if it is another developer or a non-developer user, as in the end it is just a user. Or does it? Let's see. Read More

I hope that Kexi like all the Calligra software will benefit from having a big release every 3 or 4 months. This way more than ever users become co-authors. Read More

Hello blog, long time no see :-) In last few months, Collabora, my employer, moved me and a team of good hackers to a mission of enable in some way automatic open source tools, code and libraries on top of AOSP ( Android Open Source Project ), and with our central focus are Wayland, Gstreamer and Pulseaudio, and a bit with Qt5 before, but this for later and will be some personal project soon. Read More

There we were starting discussions for the Ubuntu Developer Summit at the end of October in Copenhagen and wondering who we could afford to send when I got a nice e-mail asking what it would cost to send everyone who wanted to go. I replied with a rough budget of what the flights and hotel would be and next thing I know that had appeared in my Paypal account. Now I like to think Kubuntu is a friendly and trusting community but this is generosity beyond my expectations. I'm constantly amazed with how much people like Kubuntu and how they show it. Read More

The history The first tries to join forces with GNOME to build up one common accessibility stack for our beloved desktops pre-date back to 10 years ago. A year later the solution became more concrete and finally made it as the QAccessible framework into Qt 4.0 in ~2004. Read More

The history The first tries to join forces with GNOME to build up one common accessibility stack for our beloved desktops pre-date back to 10 years ago. A year later the solution became more concrete and finally made it as the QAccessible framework into Qt 4.0 in ~2004. Read More

Evening conversation with my 7 y.o.: me: Michael, tell me what's the next number after -1. 0 me: OK... what's the next number after π? 4 Close enough as he answered after ~1 second, never even hearing about π ... unless he's secretly reading Wikipedia articles instead of playing games... Read More

A fun thread on independent website kubuntuforums.net asking why use Kubuntu rather than the multitude of competition. Some answers: (1) I prefer the KDE look (2) The friendly community I just like KDE and Kubuntu seams to give the best KDE I have tried I use it because I like Ubuntu, but but want customization options. Ive tried a lot of other DEs but none is easier to use and more customizable than KDE. Read More