Heute förderte mein Newsreader einen Artikel zu Tage, der unter die zu diesem Zweck eröffnete Kategorie “Priceless” fällt. Darin beschäftigt sich tagesschau.de unter dem Titel Microsofts Fenster mit Aussicht ausführlich mit Windows Vista. Nicht nur Microsoft, auch Mac-Jünger und mein …
Lately I observed that more and more people use the possibility to discuss the content of articles in the articles discussion page in the Developers Wiki if they have questions that require feedback. Replies are prepended with ‘:’, ‘::’ and …
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 …