After a short trip back back home to see the “Kölner Lichter”, one of the most impressive fireworks in germany with my gf, I went back to Berlin on Sunday. With plenty of time on my hand during the train …
API-Design or How I Learned to Love Writing Docs Read more »
So I am finally back home. Time to summarize the last few days sebas style: Berlin is definately a nice place for LinuxTag, but we need sleeping opportunities that don’t require us to travel through the entire city to get …
So people asked under which stone I have been hiding lately. Of course exams cannot be the excuse for everything, so I present you another one:reallife. It has really hit me badly on this rather nice spring. In other news, …
Many people have asked for an widgets like labels or buttons that can elide their text as the size of the widget underruns the text length in a visually appealing way. Text ellipses already happens: most widgets (or, since Qt …
Last Weekend, KDE had a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007, one of the best Open Source / Free Software Community events that I am aware of. I went over to Chemnitz with my LUG friends and was warmly welcomed by …
CLT2007, LiMux, Where Documentation Really Belongs Read more »
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 …
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 …