LWE Frankfurt
Due to obligations at Uni, I was unable to attend all days of Linux World Expo and Conference in Frankfurt this year. However I spent most parts of Tuesday and all of Thursday at the the KDE booth. Due to …
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Best release party ever!
This friday I went to the meeting of SUSE beta testers to the SUSE headquarters in Nuremberg. The travel went pretty smooth and so I soon checked in and arrived in a meeting room with all the other testers. We …
KDE for Windows: Installation made easy!
Ok, finally back at home. *Pheeew*. Over the last days I played with the Nullsoft scriptable installer system (NSIS) which allows for creating comfortable installation routines based on a description file. It’s pretty scriptable and gives nice results. Together with …
KDE4 IS also about speed
So Tom’s story hit Slashdot. A lot of responses, from simply requests to almost flame-like comments asked KDE4 to simply be fast. I feel urged to comment on that: Qt4 gives us a major speedup in first place. The KDE3 …
amaroK podcasting also big in .de
amarok podcasting rocks, but it’s not only big in .nl, Fab! Deutschlandfunk (Cologne) and Deutschlandradio Kultur (Berlin) are two german nationwide broadcasters that deliver lots of informational content. Both recently introduced podcasting for some of their shows. On their page …
KDE 4 Foundation Stack
Ok, so we just had a meeting where discussed the redesign of kdelibs and kdebase. Although we have great technology in there, with Qt4 we have a good opportunity and reason to clean up the foundation of our very own …
Trials of the KDE Developer
The life of the traveling KDE developer is not an easy one. We put our lives on hold while we travel far from home to meet with other ardent souls to bring you Free Software par excellance. It’s a hard …
Hard Knock Outs
Don’t you love it when all your hardware goes on strike almost at the same time? On Wednesday, my workstations secondary harddisk went on strike, eating (among other things that I had mostly backed up) a report I was working …
Passing Back the Ball
It seemed I made a wish of some people from the usability folks come true. Presenting: my first approach of a CollapsibleWidget! The same dialog with two filled and one empty collapsable item on Linux, OS X and Windows: Interesting …
Congratulations, Wikipedia!
Wikipedia has just won the most important prices german journalism in two categories — the Grimme Online Awards. I am proud that we have teamed up with such a cool project. I wish I could contribute more time to Wikipedia. …