Needing CSS help
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, …
Category: KDE
Developing KDE 4 Inside a KDE 3 Session
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 …
Password-Input-Patch FAQ
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. …
KStyle Pimped
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 …
Password shadowing: Pimp My Plastique
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 …
Ubuntu's Quest for OpenSUSE Developers
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 …
If you liked FrOSCon 2006, you will LOVE this one…
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 …
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RadioTux Interview
Ingo Ebel of RadioTux fame conducted an interview with me at the Ten Years Party in Stuttgart two weeks ago. The interview is in german, however I’m blogging this in english in order to not annoy the internation crowd at …
Blogs now consollidated
After seeing that there is way to few content for two blogs, I decided to close down my blog at KDE Developers and migrated the majority of its contents to my new one at my private homepage, which I used …
Fremdgehen…
Ich bin eigentlich seit langen Jahren ein mehr oder weniger überzeugter S.u.S.E SuSE SUSE Nutzer. Das hat sich gestern zumindest ein wenig geändert. Nachdem sich SUSE 10.0 strikt weigerte, mit ACPI zu booten und mit die 10.1 Alpha-Versionen schlicht zu …