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A topic that I've not mentioned in any of my blog posts is threading, not because I have anything against it, simply because a simple use-case hadn't come up. Today I was coding something easy to describe, where using threads was a good solution, so let's take a look at it. Read More

At the last minute I'm getting away from the snow and ice to visit Camp KDE in San Diego this weekend. I'll be there waving the openSUSE flag, giving a talk about using the Build Service to package and distribute your KDE applications for many Linux distributions, generally enthusing people about openSUSE and thinking about ways for KDE to be better as distributed. So if you see a guy with an SUSE t-shirt on staggering under a huge pile of DVDs, say hi! I hear San Diego has a very good zoo, perhaps they'll lend me a chameleon for even better recognisability... Read More

It's that the year again when KDE PIM developers attend the annual meeting in Osnabrück, traditionally hosted by Intevation, one of the companies which continously excels in acquiring funding for KDE related development. Read More

One of the great things about KDE 4 is how powerful the APIs for the central components are. In particular, Akonadi and Nepomuk have become very easy to use in custom software and third party applications. I recently discovered another very powerful set of libraries: the plugin API for Koffice. Using those libraries, I recently wrote a little "docker" that lets you attach the documents you are currently working on in koffice to a new calendar event which can be used by any Akonadi-enabled application. For instance, you could publish minutes of a meeting to korganizer so that they are easier to find . . . and then sync them to your Palm Lifedrive using kpilot. Read More

This is just a quick note to tell the world about the newest Strigi release. It has version number 0.7.1 and is the recommended Strigi version for use with KDE 4.4 and Nepomuk. Read More

There is something magical about hacking on things without having much clue about them. It almost feels like a treasure hunt, with mysterious traps all along the way and an elusive treasure maybe at the end. Today's treasure is KDE4's Konsole (preferably not) being awfully slow with some fonts. Specifically, as irony would dictate, the rule could be almost said that the better suited font for Konsole the slower the text rendering is, whereas if the font breaks the text layout completely or hurts to look at, the speed is just fine. Read More

This weekend we, the KDE PIM developers, met again in Osnabrück to develop and discuss the future of kmail, korganizer, kjots, akonadi and other software for Personal Information Management. There you can find all meeting minutes, time tables and results, here I want to outline what was most important to me. Read More

The Okular team has never been all that big. Recently we lost Pino as the maintainer. His reasons are his reasons, but I can't say I blame him. I can personally no longer tolerate the level of abuse that we're seeing on bug reports. The latest example is Wishlist item 157284 Read More

Being able to properly read many different file formats is important for KOffice success. By 'read', I mean 'convert to ODF' because the conversion and reading is strictly separated in KOffice. KWord will convert a .doc file to a .odt file before loading it into the internal rendering and editing structure. There is even a nice separate program called 'koconverter' that can convert files on the command-line. Read More

Now finally yesterday I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on my notebook (this one). Installation went very smooth, and it seems all the hardware components were recognized automatically, 3D graphics, even WLAN. Read More