Heute (ja, ich rede vom 30., “morgen” ist immer erst nach dem Aufwachen) musste ich bereits um 14:00 Uhr den Congress verlassen, um gegen 20:00 Uhr zuhause zu sein. Holger hatte meinen WebKit-Wrapper für den OLPC bis dorthin ans Laufen …
After visiting the family over christmas, I headed to Berlin on Wednesday to attend 23C3. Together with Holger Freyther I am representing KDE at this event and our friends from Wikimedia have given us a place to hack at their …
One week has quickly passed. And for the second last time in this year we are celebrating the Developer Wiki Friday. A lot of stuff already happend today. Todays top contributor so far is CuCullin. If you want to be …
For the new developer site, we got a nice proposal for a box from our artist Nuno. It looks like the following: The header was simple, but I have no idea how to create a prototype for the box. Unfortunaly, …
When I started to get a full blown KDE 4 environment running, I found it very inconvenient to constantly switch screens. On the other hand, Xnest was not bearable, because it cannot handle extensions like Xrender. Lucky enough, there is …
Instead of individual replys to mails and other blogs, just a quick summary of answers to questions I received: Q: You claimed QStyle::SH_LineEdit_PasswordCharacter didn’t exist Qt 3, but it does! A: Yes, I didn’t really consider that to be honest. …
When I wrote my entry on password characters. I thought it was a Qt 4 only thing. I didn’t even bother checking with Qt 3.3. Fortunately, Marco Martin, the author of Polyester asked me if he could use the code …
I was wondering why KDE still uses asterisks for substition in password fields. Look at this example: Well, in Qt 4 it’s really easy to change it. This is the QPlastique style using Unicode character 0x25CF, a bullet point. If …
Mark, I don’t think it’s a good strategy to go on a hunt for OpenSUSE developers that way. Saying that Novell did wrong is one thing, but this kind of PR leaves a bad taste. I switched from OpenSUSE to …
FrOSCon 2007! The date has been published quite a while ago. Still I don’t want to miss the chance to remind everyone to return to Sankt Augustin (near Bonn, Germany) to enjoy the great community feeling a second time. Please …
If you liked FrOSCon 2006, you will LOVE this one… Read more »