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 »
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 …
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 …
For the first time, FrOSCon will take place this year in St. Augustin near Bonn, the former capital of Germany. Due to its location, it is also in reasonably short distance for most KDE contributors from the BeNeLux countries. The …
People have been wondering what I have been up to all the time. Now let me tell you: For one uni and a project consume most of my time at the moment. It should get better as the time of …
… is love, peace and this little bugger. The iAudio X5 has all I really want: 20 or 30 GB of harddisc, a color display, and plays mp3, wma, ogg vorbis and even flac (and more, e.g. mpeg4 video, but …