On Icons and Labels
To be frank: I think that the Kubuntu’s switch to “Text aside icons” (as discussed by Seele) was a mistake. The reasons for that are best explained by an example: Here, only one of three actions are visible in the …
Category: KDE
Time To Become a Qt Engineer!
Or should I say: “time to become a real Troll”? Yepp, the deadline for my thesis, which I’m currently doing at Qt Software (formally known as Trolltech) is rapidly approaching. So I will now apply for “full membership”. That is, …
KOVpn: A helpful little tool returns
Disclaimer: No KDE 4.1 hype here. This is for the real retro folks (aka KDE 3.x users). KOVpn is a simple, yet helpful tool to connect to private networks using the OpenVPN software. It was nice, but needed some more …
Exploring Berlin Mitte
So yesterday was the first evening/night for me to look at some things in Berlin. Even though I’ve been here for a couple of times I never really took the time to explore Mitte, so Sven Guckes was kind enough …
Berlin, Trolltech, FrOSCon, Akademy…
So I am back in Berlin writing my thesis at the Trolltech office here. Lately I’ve been pretty busy with exams, but now I can concentrate on my thesis, with the notable exception of two weekends: One is FrOSCon 2008, …
KDE TechBase in Need of Admins
KDE TechBase is the top resource for KDE development specific content. It is an effort originally started by Dominik and me. Since then, we (well, mostly it’s him, while I am in charge of causing all the annoying URL changesupgrades …
Flatforty Survey
Dear Dot-Lovers, reports about the death of the flatforty feature on the dot are greatly exaggerated . In fact it seems to be working again, I have no idea why it was gone. Probably some maintenance lead to problems. Anyway, …
Some Dot Stats
After successfully exporting all stories and comments from the dot from its launch until the day before yesterday to xml (to have a basis for test-imports on other machines), I can give you a few interesting statistics: Since the dot …
Better RSS on the Dot, Travel
So my last rant basically made me the dot maintainer. Oh well. Now, as the first official act I added a description tag to the RSS feed of the dot. That means that everyone can now read stories with his …
Comments Considered Harmful or "The Halo Effect"
It’s terrible: Every idiot has an opinion on everything. I think people got it all wrong on the whole democracy thing: In democracies, one may have an opinion, but one doesn’t have to. If you have no idea what you …
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