KDE

a p2p desktop

as i have promised last friday i am writing about a general problem one has to face when talking about desktop vs. web services war (e.g. google apps). it basically boils down that no desktop has yet stand up to integrate the internet deeply. sure you have clients for all kind of servers and you [...]

Google is a new proprietary competitor to KDE

Now it finally happened. Not hat I have not talked about the Google problem in the past, but now it is really obvious that they do not follow the FOSS-Desktop development, but rather try to get everybody store as much information on the web (crawled and advertised by them) as possible. Google Chrome OS [...]

Scroogle warns about DoubleClick/AdSense cookies

If you absolutely don’t care about criticism on Google, don’t continue reading or don’t complain about political stuff;-)
Google might not be the worst thing on the planet, but my recent criticms have often been rejected to be speculative. Lately after the wikia search closed down, I have found out about scroogle scraper proxy, which is [...]

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Please excuse the length of the article. It has been in the making for quite some time now. I still think the issue is worth the length
I’ve thought about this during the last weeks and have come to a certain conception, which might deal with most of its issues. But before talking about [...]

ram usage (intel and the effects clarification)

I didn’t want to hurt anybody, sorry if I did. Since I have had a mixed experience my post also got a bit mixed up. I am just trying to describe my problems and want to get them fixed. I have already written bugreports, patches or contacted the developers for most of them, but the [...]

intel and the effects

But until now it wasn’t even very suited for compiz stuff. That changed now. With effects enabled I don’t get any signifcant cpu stressing anymore and the effects are almost always fluent. Most importantly I can still scroll in apps now, when effects are on, which was the main killer.
It know feels a bit macosx like and really great. Even my sister who basically cares about surfing social networking sites and chatting got caught by KDE4+now a compelety pink fluffy bunny style.

Proposal for how to deal with documentation issues

I have had an idea way back about improved documentation for KDE which I’d like to share since Harald has pointed out the miserable state of documentation in KDE. I know that ideas are only worth one cent or so compared to the implementation, but still I think it would be really helpful:

Dragon Player and DVD images

EDIT: Support is in trunk now and might be backported to 4.1 for a later minor release. It is only a few-liner, as all features were already there with only mimeType detection missing. You can open *.iso (application/x-cd-image) like any other file and drop directories (inode/directory) on the video-window now.

I just like you to know, all of you who have a some dvd iso lying around, that you can open them in dragon player with either: “dragon dvd:/path/to/dvd.iso” on the command line or by opening the file dvd:/path/to/dvd.iso in the file dialog.

GSoC 2

This subject is complex. If you expect simple answers, go and find them somewhere else.
As I have known before, I have been misunderstood in many ways with my last post. Therefore I would like to do a small analysis on my criticism and some additions to get the most important points clearer and finally I would like to ask why I have been misunderstood. Hopefully this will be enlightening.

GSoC

It is time again. After the growing number of projects of Google Sommer of Code during the last years Google spends more money than ever to support open source. After having read articles, mostly blogs, about the success stories, new members of the community and the great support of open-source through Google, I have always missed one point. I haven’t found a bit of criticism.