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Recently, let's say in the past year, I saw a growing number of email messages on the KDE lists with the following content only: +1 This is getting annoying for me. I get a nice notification from KMail about the messages arrived, and if I saw that it came to some folder that I'm interested in, I look at the message. And many times it contains nothing, but a +1. I can understand the urge to express support for an idea, a person, but please, think about it twice before doing so. These days it is not about abusing my / the worlds bandwidth, as we use more to share "stuff", it is about abusing the time of the readers. Read More

The main openSUSE users' mailing list are a demanding bunch who know what they want. Over the last few months the KDE group have been asking them what they still miss from KDE 3 in KDE 4, and one of those things has been the ability to add a submenu of the main app launcher, whether Kickoff or traditional, to the panel as a button in its own right. Read More

The decision on the matter of the (not)preselected desktop in openSUSE has been made. You can read about it in the mail announcing the decision, I would like to just offer a KDE view, from Will and me. Read More

Well it is officially the end of GSoC. This update brings you the wrap-up of what happened in the project, what got done, what didn't get done, and what is next on the wonderful world of automated code Refactoring in C++. Read More

One big risk with git is forgetting which branch you're working in. Several people solve that by putting the git branch in their shell prompt. But often they do that by calling git branch and parsing its output, which is quite slow, especially in big repositories (we strace'd it, and it really opens and reads a lot of files). Read More

There has been some confusion about Google data capabilities around the KDE 4.3 release. The 4.3 Feature Plan has an entry for that and it is marked as "Completed". What it meant is that the Google Data resoures by Adenilson Cavalcanti would be available at the time of the 4.3 release, however it got, understandably, interpreted as being part of KDE PIM in 4.3. Read More

So Elvis Stansvik and I have been working on table support for KWord. And simultaneously I've been working on improving the MS .doc import filter for KWord. I've improved the generally font and paragraph import enormously, but in this blog I'll focus on the table import. Read More

Just recently my blog got syndicated by Planet OSGeo. So I'd like to take the opportunity and say "Hello" to all readers and I'd like to thank for the warm welcome! As a Marble and KDE developer I had been at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit last month (and that made me miss the State Of The Map unfortunately). I enjoyed this conference a lot and I would like to thank especially the GCDS Team which did a terrific job and made this event a full success. Read More

Recently Aurelien Gateau of the Canonical Desktop Experience team implemented the Message Indicator for KDE and Konversation. Now if you get messages when you're away from your computer or not looking at IRC it'll put them into the message indicator when you can happily not get distracted by them (unlike popup notifications) but can easily find them when you want to. Read More

The week before last into GSoC, and this is how things are: Sadly I had very little time to work on the project last week because I had to be out of town for the most part. Despite of this setback though, there was a significant improvement, which is the user review widget. What this means is: Screenshot time! Read More