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Do you want to write something about KDE's memory usage? Simple, just follow these steps: Launch KDE. Run some random tool for measuring memory usage, preferably top. Pick a column you think you know what it means. If you can't decide, just pick one, preferably something with big numbers (big numbers look better, remember). Complain that the numbers are way too big. For higher bonus, compare it to something else, preferably something that gets nowhere near KDE's usage of shared resources (=libraries, mostly, but not only). ??? Profit! Really, it's as simple as that. So many people do it, you can too. See, for example, this review of KDE4.3. I have nothing against the review itself, since, I admit, I mostly skimmed over it, only two things caught my attention. First one was getting it backwards who copied from who the filtering feature in Present Windows compositing effect, which slightly amused me, and second one was the part talking about resources, which didn't. Read More

Using the Kubuntu distribution, I've been a bit envious of the Python bindings guys, because the bindings are installed by default and frequently get updated. So it made my day when I recently did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to get KDE 4.3 in my copy of Jaunty and saw that the KDE Korundum Ruby bindings were installed. This is great stuff Kubuntu community! Read More

I'd like to introduce a little pet project of mine: Kustodian, which some people would call a ripoff of the mac dock or windows 7 taskbar. But I maintain it's a thing of it's own, but it indeed has some similarities. Read More

I started to publish on Twitter some days ago to not stay completely silent about the good stuff that is happening with KDE/openSUSE. Most of the time my posts even appear on other people's pages and in Twitter Search. According to the "Find People" function I don't exist though.

Incase you missed it, the whole of top project hosting site Launchpad.net is now available and accepting contributions. Complaints about it not having source code available always confused me, I never heard them about the once-open-now-closed Sourceforge.net and KDE seems perfectly happy to make use of proprietary websites like Google or kde-look.org. But now there is no such excuse, Launchpad is the easiest way to host a project or even a quick script you hacked up that might be useful to someone else because you can set it up with a 1 page form then just bzr push. Read More

Once in a while we come across rumors, urban ledgends and myths about all kinds of things. For example you might have read, heard or otherwise encountered wild claims about Akonadi's dependencies, maybe even as ridiculous as "depends on KDE". Read More

Here is another update on the progress of the KDevelop refactoring support SoC. Last week was pretty hectic for me. Sadly I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to work on the project, and even less to blog about it. However with this update I will list things that have happened these past two weeks. Among things that happened: Read More

Ubuntu's new translations coordinator David Planella is holding a Kubuntu Translations Love Day in #kubuntu-devel tomorrow (Wed 29th). Do drop by at any time and let us know all your i18n problems.

Occationally people ask if they can use Oxygen icons on their website or in their (non-KDE) application. The answer is that of course you can, it's all lovely free software, you just need to include the LGPL and credit the Oxygen dudes. I wrote this handy guide for people who want to do so.

Several people have wanted to be able to write Plasma PopupApplets in scripting languages. I'm pleased to announce that for KDE 4.3 you will be able to write them in Ruby and C#. Read More