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KDE: A new resident

2007-03-15T21:43:00.000+01:00

Somebody moved in: Kassie's little sister. She's almost a twin although younger and smaller. It was a very quick move. There was nothing then I saw some light at dusk in the upper levels of the KMenu tower. She was in. Like the average photomaniac, I took a picture.In clear, I selected some organs from Kassie the Applet and cloned them. I implanted them appropriately on a skeleton of

KDE: A kind of success

2007-03-14T14:01:00.000+01:00

That's it, I've finally succeeded in hiding this annoying applet handle. I tried what I was told in the comments of my previous post. It didn't work. Period. As I said, the handles of the applets on my Kicker's panels are hidden unless hovered. I can try as hard as I want to hide() them, "somebody" will sooner or later come and show() them.Same player, shoot again!Besides, it wasn't so easy to

KDE: Yes and No

2007-03-10T14:42:00.000+01:00

Or "The Difference in between Theory and Practice". I had great plans about Kassie just before I went to bed. In theory, it should have been possible to change it into a simple PanelButton (without K!). I went all through Kafka's Metamorphosis process from KPanelApplet to PanelButton --These AutoTools are a real nightmare!-- and I hit a wall. Hard!Maybe should I say a big sign. It was labelled "

KDE: Reincarnation

2007-03-10T02:54:00.000+01:00

No news means good news. Since I got no answer (yet) from the author of Kate Session Menu, I suppose our little (informal) competition goes on. ;-) My last move was to prepare Kassie for its appearance in the KMenu.For this purpose, I merged the two menus "Available Sessions" and "Running Session" into a single one with two sections. It's not possible to do Control + Click in the KMenu, so the

KDE: On my TODO list

2007-03-07T00:52:00.000+01:00

Just before packaging Kassie for its release, I added a TODO file in its build tree, with only 2 lines: "Add the possibility to create a new session with the dropped files" and "Add the possibility to drop files on a non-running session". These were just two ideas that suddenly popped in my head. And I postponed the release...The second idea is rather complicate. The only solution I've found is

KDE: K.I.S.S.

2007-03-03T15:02:00.000+01:00

Keep It Simple Stupid! That's the fundamental principle I'm applying to Kassie. I removed all unnecessary dialogs asking "Do you want to do that?" I found only two cases where such a dialog is useful: When you enter the name of a new session to create it, if it's already running or if it already exists. Since you have to go over the entire menu --which lists all your available sessions-- that can

KDE: Everything and more...

2007-03-01T00:36:00.000+01:00

Kassie is reaching its version 0.1.99 i.e. it's that close from release. I made a significant improvement in the auto-reverse menu routine. In fact, it's so easy to do that I wonder how I couldn't "see" it earlier. But what should interest you more is what you can see.Last time when I did my snapshots, I didn't realize that I forgot just one little thing. I shortened the entries in the popup menu

KDE: Hello Kassie!

2007-02-27T12:20:00.000+01:00

Good bye K.S.A. Welcome Kassie, the Kate Advanced Session Selector... plus "ie" to make the name sound more feminine, to match with Kate. And Kassie is also a feminine first name, so...It was hard and fun. I crashed and froze Kicker more than once, and I enjoyed its auto-restart feature in between the hundreds of times I restarted it manually through DCOP. The crashes and freezes were due to the

KDE: Late midday news

2007-02-24T13:26:00.000+01:00

The Kate Session Applet is on its way toward completion. I added the auto-close feature and enabled the use of the keyboard modifiers during drop to launch a new instance of Kate.The auto-close feature was really fun to implement. I knew I had to set a flag to signal a menu opening and then... what? I didn't investigate how Qt does to close a menu but there are --at least-- no public method. So,

KDE: Itch by itch

2007-02-23T12:10:00.000+01:00

I found an itch to scratch. I wanted to be able to let Akregator open the links I click in tabs instead of scattering windows all over the desktop. That proved to be an itch very difficult to scratch. "Brain Yoga for the Dummies" didn't help. Your brain has to be more flexible than a contortionist.The stick I used to scratch the itch is DCOP. This is the only way to open a tab in Konqueror

KDE: Octember, the 3rd

2007-02-13T19:08:00.000+01:00

A lot of people --including me-- don't care about any thing if there isn't a least a snapshot. So, here are my snapshots of the Desktop Text Configuration module, version 0.3.Note that I simplified a lot of things. Especially, no more decimal values and much less tickmarks. That's question of a usability. Over-precise decimal values are useless when you can't see the difference with a naked eye.

KDE: Horror movie

2007-02-13T13:47:00.000+01:00

After some deep thinking, I removed some more organic guts from my Desktop Text Configuration module. Totally useless, like those spare parts you always have after you build a computer from scratch.And I added one little thing: Presets. Very simple: Solid shadow, Fuzzy shadow, Solid halo, Fuzzy halo. That's all. When you choose one of the presets, the module set all necessary values for you:

KDE: One step into the light

2007-02-12T00:18:00.000+01:00

Monday morning... already. I'm done. My desktop text configuration module is working.Update: The Desktop Text Configuration module is already available from KDE-Apps.As you can see herebelow, it has few left in common with what the old module was. (I oversized the desktop font for a better snapshot.)Click for full size: (720x413) 53,2 KBI don't want to criticize the code of the previous author

KDE: Beyond the shadows

2007-02-11T01:36:00.000+01:00

For some reason, I put my nose into the sources of that old "Desktop Textshadows" module and I sneezed because of the dust. Two years old already and not a single update so, as vacations away from Serenity, I decided to do some spring cleansing.First, I broke apart the dialog that was strangely designed with a lot of useless spacers. Then I made the module actually use the colors of the desktop

KDE: Codename "Destiny"

2007-02-06T00:06:00.000+01:00

Serenity must be cursed --- or maybe it's me --- because it looks like I can't make any major release without having to make another one a few days later because of a big bug that escapes my vigilance.And this time, it wasn't even fun to debug. Nothing exploded under my nose. Somebody (Hello Luis!) reported that Serenity crashes KDM at login time. So I tried.I got not much to see. A black screen

KDE: Boolean release

2007-02-04T08:45:00.000+01:00

To release or not release... ;-) Well, that's not the question any more. Serenity 1.7 is out in the wild. Go and get it! (Somebody complained that it was hard to retrieve anything when you are here on the blog. So...)Believe or not but what I find the hardest in a release is making the snapshots. One can put only three snapshots on a KDE-Look page while there are so many features I'd like to

KDE: Special delivery!

2007-01-29T11:57:00.000+01:00

Special delivery of gingerbread for the eyes! For once, I'll keep my hands away from the keyboard and let the pictures speak for me. According to the time it took me to make them, they're worth a million words! Any way, if you have questions, you know where to find me. ;-)Tabs and focus highlight(Colorscheme: Mare Serenitatis)Click for full size: (682x492) 37,8 KBClick for full size: (682x492)

No gingerbread...

2007-01-26T12:59:00.000+01:00

Finally, I'm back to where... I was yesterday... again! During the night, Serenity window decoration hit an invisible barrier at high speed and --of course-- disintegrated itself.As usual, I was driving my coding vehicle way beyond the speed limit on a highway toward the wonderful city of New-Release. Probably because of the lack of lights on the french highways, I saw nothing. All of sudden, I

Divide and konquer!

2007-01-23T23:14:00.000+01:00

No, my last post isn't over a month old. The problem is that the last time I blogged, Blogger was "off duty". It crashed just when I published so my post got lost. I have what I wrote --because I trust so much Blogger that I copy every post in the clipboard before publishing-- but these are old news. So, let's start again.Back to business! The monthly release of Serenity is on its way. I touched

Round corners for Danimo

2006-12-16T05:35:00.000+01:00

It doesn't look like to be possible to post a comment on Danimo's blog for some reason. Whatever... Here is my great achievement! ;-)If somebody could confirm that it works with Infamous Explorer that would be great. I could only test my CSS skills on Konqueror, Firefox, Opera and Epiphany... and Lynx.It works!Update: Thanks to Pipitas, I know that my CSS works in IE 6 and beyond.I added the

KDE: Set the Widgets free!

2006-12-13T11:39:00.000+01:00

I just saw Erioll's blog. As a style/windec developer, I couldn't resist to the urge to answer but my comment was way too long. So here I come...I agree with Erioll: Something should be done to fill the gap in between styles and windecs. They are two totally unrelated things and that's a problem since they both take part in the global look of your KDE. They should be one single thing one way or

KDE: Password, please!

2006-12-10T12:23:00.000+01:00

Yesterday, I saw this blog and I kinda agreed with Danimo that the asterisks you can see when you enter a password are a bit old-fashioned.Danimo wrote that some improvement can be brought into KDE 4 but not KDE 3. Since I don't like to be told that something is impossible, I opened the QT3 docs.Contrarily to what Danimo said, QStyle::SH_LineEdit_PasswordCharacter exists in QT3. So, I ripped his

KDE: Dot Zero

2006-12-08T16:44:00.000+01:00

Okay, this is a very bad habit but I released another "dot zero" version of Serenity: 1.6.0There's no bug but I got vexed by the criticism of the "Modern" treeviews. ;-) I worked on the graphics yesterday. I already had 2 possible replacements yesterday... but in fact I've released a 3rd solution.And the expanders really look like to turn around the dot. That's nice.Besides, for this "dot zero"

KDE: Loose weight!

2006-12-06T15:00:00.000+01:00

The spammers used to want a part of me to get bigger, now they all want me to get thinner. I absolutely don't need it but I'd would have liked having one of their drugs to make Serenity lighter!My free webhost is nice although a bit slow when I upload but I totally forgot that there was a 500 KB limit for the files. It made me laugh to see how much weight Serenity has recently gained... but I

KDE: Stating the obvious

2006-11-28T09:30:00.000+01:00

Of course, I'm going to talk about Serenity's obvious changes. Last time, I really indulged myself in bragging about an internal change that has very few interest for the users. This time, let's see what you will see.The oldest change I made is to introduct a new tree view style. I don't remember where I saw it apart that it was on a mockup somewhere in KDE's world. Any way, I fell in love. I

KDE: Invisible Man

2006-11-24T02:48:00.000+01:00

Two days after my nightmarish change of harddisk... I can go back to my usual business: Serenity. The version 1.5 has been out since November, the 6th. It's even a version 1.5.0 because I'm no professional surgeon. The major surgery didn't go as well as planned.In fact, I was a bit over-zealous in my search and replace job and the colorschemes landed in a wrong directory. It was a very discreet

Linux: Moving out...

2006-11-21T23:01:00.000+01:00

My new disk had been lying around for, well, at least two weeks. I just couldn't find the strength or the desire to copy my system on it. I thought it would be boring to death... In text mode with nothing much to do but watch the wonderful animations of 'htop'... I was wrong!It was a nightmare! Now, I hate GRUB. It's totally abstruse. Its mini-CLI is a joke, its help doesn't help anybody. Sorry

KDE: Major surgery

2006-11-01T14:25:00.000+01:00

Last time I wanted to transplant a ".UI"-file-based configuration dialog to Serenity style. I did it... and so much more!First, now Serenity is a single archive. That's the major surgery I did. I don't know any program that can handle makefiles and that kind of things so I just took the archive of another theme with a style and a window decoration: Polyester. By the way, thanks to Marco for all

KDE: Intentionally left blank

2006-10-27T12:09:00.000+02:00

In order to give more room for the window decoration preview, I totally re-built Serenity windec configuration dialog from scratch. I also gained a lot of space for the options in the process. Now, there's so much space that I had to put two warnings "Intentionally left blank" because of two large empty spaces. It looked too much as if some options refused to show up!I don't know where it comes

KDE: Serenity forever...

2006-10-20T03:12:00.000+02:00

This post should have been "1.4 on 14" to announce Serenity 1.4 on 14th october but I didn't find the time. Then, a few days ago, Blogger was utterly slow so I didn't post. I postponed until today. Well, it doesn't matter. Everybody who cares got the news from KDE-Look: Serenity 1.4 is out.I had to take care of a memory leak. It was a small leak but a very regular one that could fill your entire

KDE: Five digits

2006-10-07T22:54:00.000+02:00

Serenity reached the amazing 5-digit number of downloads. (I know, I'm easily amazed.) But it also lost 2% of its rating. I'm preparing the version 1.3.0 to get those 2% back. Well, sort of. I'm not that obsessed with Serenity rating.Sometimes, I forget that Serenity doesn't belong to me any more but to the users. That's why I removed two options that should have remained: The switches for the

KDE: Nightshift

2006-10-01T06:30:00.000+02:00

Just a few lines before to go to bed. It's already tomorrow morning, well, today morning... If you see what I mean. ;-)I still haven't that new gradient to go with the Milky Way colorscheme but I crushed another tiny bug, or rather a glitch. I was testing Pixel, the new commercial Photoshop clone for Linux (amongst others). I hated it but that's a detail. I also launched Krita to compare and

KDE: Daily build

2006-09-26T18:12:00.000+02:00

Just after the last release of Serenity I suddenly wasn't satisfied of the result any more, so --this time-- I'm waiting a little while to find the last glitches.And I found some. First, I drew new thinner arrows for the tree expanders. The biggest arrows of Serenity were just too thick. And this time, I didn't counted in binary on my fingers.Well, I never did but I drew grids, numbered the

KDE: Total look

2006-09-17T13:59:00.000+02:00

That's it. There are no widget left to style. I already said this more than once but this time, I think I did it. I reached the total serene look.The last remaining widget was the tiny menu button in Kicker's panel. I wanted to change those 80 pixels that hurt my eyes but the first time I look in Kicker's sources, I couldn't figure how to do it. So I forgot about it... until yesterday. I

KDE: Coffee break

2006-09-12T15:57:00.000+02:00

Time for my coffee break and I really deserve it. The work I did to prevent the window captions from flickering with Serenity window decoration is amazing. (Unashamed auto-congratulation!) ;-)What caused the flickering was the multiple redraws which could eventually take quite some time, especially with the Zen button style. So the obvious solution was to reduce the numbers of these redraws and

KDE: And again...

2006-09-08T11:45:00.000+02:00

No, I won't release any new version of Serenity today or tomorrow... But I already made modifications to the version I use. Already!Just the day after I released Serenity 1.2, I kinda felt that the so-called Zen borders of the widgets weren't so zen after all. They were in fact too hard. Here came the first patch: I made them wider so they look smoother.Still, that wasn't enough to justify an

KDE: I did it again!

2006-09-04T18:05:00.000+02:00

That's it, Serenity 1.2 is out in the wild. It took me longer than expected because I took the time to do all the changes I wanted.First, there was that little itch in the titlebar. I had resisted since version 0.9 to the urge to scratch it. With the BeOS/B2-alike titlebars, there wasn't always enough room left for the title. It was never more than a dozen of pixels but that was irritating to me.

KDE: Never enough...

2006-09-01T02:32:00.000+02:00

It looks like I can never get enough. I updated Serenity once again. But I didn't release it immediately because, when I was looking for a good colorscheme to make a snapshot, I realized that the progress bars definitively should have another color.Here is what Serenity 1.2 looks like with the colorscheme "Caloris Planitia". Notice how the progress bar fits in the dialog. That wasn't always the

KDE: Plumbing

2006-08-21T15:19:00.000+02:00

Last time, I told that Serenity was in the pipe... so I had to do a little plumbing to get it back. ;-)I got my SVN account for a few days already but I haven't had any time to take care of it. I got "assaulted" with requests, bug reports, etc for Serenity.While I was looking at the sources, I got an idea about how to implement my own diagonal gradient. I don't know how it happened but I

KDE: In the pipes

2006-08-11T12:02:00.000+02:00

That's it, the new version 1.1 of Serenity is in the pipes. I already packed the window decoration sources. I need to do a few changes in the new colorschemes I added to the style and I will be able to pack these sources too.There's nothing new in the style, except some corrections of two visual bugs that I totally missed last time. I never use the sidebar of Konqueror so I didn't see what

KDE 3.5.4: Some reasons to get excited

2006-08-03T18:08:00.000+02:00

KDE once again escaped to its developers and a new release just appeared yesterday. This is only a maintenance release but I got however excited. The patch I attached to one of my bug reports is in this KDE. ;-) (As if that was the only thing that matters.)However, I still had to jump through some hoops during the upgrade. First, the icons that I don't like. I definitively prefer the previous

KDE: Beauty of code

2006-07-27T23:55:00.000+02:00

A challenge! I want a challenge, something that would be difficult to code! To make Serenity react to a click on a label was too easy.Less than 20 lines of code and that was it. A click on a label in front of a combobox and the drop-down menu appears, another click and the menu closes itself. A click on a label in front of any editable widget and here comes the cursor at the end of the contained

KDE: Resistance... again!

2006-07-26T06:37:00.000+02:00

I couldn't resist to the urge to stick my nose back into Serenity. I said I wouldn't touch it so often after version 1.0. I almost kept my promess...There was that tiny detail I couldn't get out of my mind. Somebody released a style where the arrows of the spinwidgets are disabled when the spinwidget has reached its minimal or maximal value. I didn't remember who or what style but last time I

KDE: Tomorrow is today

2006-07-05T05:02:00.000+02:00

It's been a while since last time. But --at least-- I don't come here to say nothing. So here are the last news: A new version of Serenity is on its way... again!I did just two things to the window decoration. First, I added a new button style: toolbutton. In other words, the buttons remain flat and only the icons are visible until mouseover or activation. Then you got a button background. I

KDE: What's next?

2006-06-24T03:13:00.000+02:00

That's it. It's very late or very early in the morning and a new Serenity has landed on KDE-Look. Version 0.9. There is still a few work left for the first non-beta version.And I found the right color for the scrollbar slider. The scrollbar is now rather monochromatic --except for the HTML pages that set special colors-- so it doesn't look like to have a button in its middle any more. I find it

KDE: Just for fun

2006-06-17T00:32:00.000+02:00

Last news from Serenityland. Due to another failure from my regular ISP which hosted Serenity's files, I had to find a webspace and I found a good free one. 200MB for Serenity's Homepage... for nothing and without ads! If you're interested in a free webspace, just go there and change the URL to go to the root of the domain. (www...) Yes, I know this is a kind of ad but when you find good stuff,

KDE 3.5.3: Everything and more!

2006-06-04T19:17:00.000+02:00

That's it, I installed KDE 3.5.3. The dust has even settled down. To be honnest, I was a little afraid I had to downgrade when I just finished the installation. I opened a Konqueror's window and... no background image! I've read something about it somewhere and I thought there was no solution except a patch. In fact, everything was okay once I restarted Xorg. Don't ask what happened. Usually,

KDE: Good old days

2006-05-27T00:49:00.000+02:00

Good old days are back! I hated these days when I didn't succeed in doing what I wanted. I said I was frustrated. These days are back...But I don't feel frustrated any more. Now, I can wander blindfolded across the sources of Serenity and I feel more stimulated than anything when I'm trying to do something not so easy. I won't say difficult because difficulty is only relative to what I was used

SuSE 10.1: 10 plus 1 problems

2006-05-20T01:45:00.000+02:00

I won't say I'm very satisfied about SuSE 10.1. The good old days of SuSE are behind us since Novell bought it. SuSE 10.0 was very polished to proved the Novell didn't intend to change SuSE but now --apparently-- they care more about something else than their image.Well, their is one thing that I like about SuSE 10.1, that's Xorg 6.9. Something happened to the fonts. They are wonderful! Crisp,

KDE: Open space

2006-05-13T15:24:00.000+02:00

It's been a while since last time. I was too busy working on Serenity to have the time to tell what I was doing. And I did a lot!First, I cleaned the sources. They were split in two files in the most stupid way: A huge file and an as much tiny file which contained just one sub-routine called 128 times along the big file. I gathered the two files in just one. That's enough. I've never done this

KDE: Resistance is futile!

2006-04-25T17:52:00.000+02:00

It's been a while since my last post. Last week I was thinking about making an entry with the title "Nothing to say" ;-) ...but I didn't. I waited for some real news and here there are: Serenity has been updated (again).The first thing I did was to change the separators in the popup menus. Somebody told me they looked too much like in Plastik. I couldn't stand this insult! ;-) While I was at it

KDE: Happiness is...

2006-04-07T23:45:00.000+02:00

Happiness is just simple as a good comment. It was about a Matrix style colorscheme but --indirectly-- it was about how good Serenity can handle dark colorschemes. Probably was I in a good mood, but I really enjoyed it --once translated in French. ;-)As for Serenity, if I'm here that's just to say a few words about my style. That's it, I made a new release. There was that tiny visual bug on the

KDE 3.5.2: Something's missing.

2006-04-02T15:10:00.000+02:00

This is not a rant but I'm getting more and more frustrated by every update of KDE. This is still not KDE 4! Whyyyy?OK, let's them work. They said 3.5.2 was the last release until KDE 4. So, sit and wait.Any way, there are some real reasons why I'm unsatisfied. There are some annoying bugs that reached the users --and that includes me. The first one is that brand new inability of Konqueror to

KDE: Breaking the limits

2006-03-28T16:38:00.000+02:00

OK, don't listen to me when I say I can't do something, I can always do more. ;-)Yesterday, I was looking for a way to improve the titlebar of the floating toolboxes. I found something. I improved the icons of the titlebar buttons but I stumbled on another problem. These icons are XPM images and handled as such by the underlying engine --i.e. as an array of strings. XPM also means that the colors

KDE: Reaching the limits

2006-03-26T12:16:00.000+02:00

That's it, I reached the limits of what I can do. There are widgets that just can't be styled. For example, the ugly misnamed QDial. You probably haven't ever seen this circular widget with a rotative hand like an analogic cynemometer --the round thing where you can see your speed on a car board. A quick look in Qt sources shows us no call to style().something(with a lot of parameters). No

KDE: Beauty within

2006-03-22T17:31:00.000+01:00

Well, I'm gonna try to use Blogger web interface directly... but probably I'll paste everything into Kate before to publish. Yesterday, I saw the most beautiful dialog I've every seen in KDE. It is part of Qalculate. I've always been attracted by Qalculate, probably because of the nice snapshots but also definitively because I find it more logical to get rid of the calculator style keypad

KDE: Learn to say no!

2006-03-17T19:23:00.000+01:00

Arrrgh! (Shouting my frustration.)Blogger ProblemThis server is currently experiencing a problem. An engineer has been notified and will investigate.That's what I got when I clicked to post... and all I wrote was lost. Arrghhh!I think I'm never gonna trust Blogger any more and type everything with Kate, then paste everything later. This is the only way to be sure I won't suddenly lose everything.

KDE: Satisfaction

2006-03-08T02:11:00.000+01:00

Blogger is down... Down the stairs. Probably pushed by some malevolant bug. :-D Meanwhile, I'm using Kate and I'll cut and paste later.Well, I was saying "Satisfaction". Somebody finally gave me some usable infos to solve my QToolbox mouseover problem. (Thank you, Michael.) It appears that no mouseover was reported by the event filter because I didn't polish the right widget in the right way.

KDE: Change of path

2006-03-03T03:27:00.000+01:00

That's it! Frustration is over. I cried everywhere but nobody knows anything about styles. The Trolls at Trolltech certainly know more than the average but I'm not ready to pay for it. I don't develop styles for a living. Maybe I'll file a bug report because I've got the persistant impression I stumbled on a bug: Qt has some difficulties to recognize its children in the crowd of a QToolBox. When

KDE: Persistance of frustration

2006-02-24T22:57:00.000+01:00

Just two words to say that I retrieved the 3rd app using QToolBox, it's KPDF. But it didn't help me to do what I want with these widgets. The more I work on them, the more frustrated I grow.Meanwhile, I did something that I found more satisfying: Code cleansing! When you work with Qt geometry, it's like entering a jungle of parentheses. The worst are those empty parentheses everywhere that bloat

KDE: Keeping on digging

2006-02-19T05:14:00.000+01:00

It's sunday, incredibly early in the morning. I have to wait at least 2 hours before to take my first coffee injection at a decent hour... And what am I doing? I'm blogging. That's my nephew fault. He interrupted me yesterday when I was just starting. Well, here we go again! ;-)It appears it's possible to blog on Blogger with Konqueror. I changed some settings in Blogger's --misbehaving--

KDE: First time

2006-02-16T15:14:00.000+01:00

In a previous post, I talked about straightening up some tunnels in KDE's anthill. (Once again, an ant is an insect, not a bug. I don't mean KDE is a mountain of bugs but a complex structure like an anthill.)So, for the first time, I patched KDE. Yes! That's possible and really easy. There's a kind of visual glitch in the taskbar applets: The tasklist labels are drawn with the button text color

KDE 3.5.1: Back to normal

2006-02-14T14:22:00.000+01:00

That's it. I did my (second) upgrade to KDE 3.5.1. Everything is working fine except that very obvious "feature": The icons on the desktop. I think that some patch was applied. The icons aren't exactly on the same place than with KDE 3.5.0... but alas my auto-hide panels keep on pushing the icons toward the center of the screen. That's... errr... irritating but not so important.After a week with

KDE 3.5.1: Errare Maxilys Est

2006-02-08T18:02:00.000+01:00

All right! The error was mine. There is nothing wrong with KDE 3.5.1. It was late or rather early in the morning, my brain was already sleeping, etc, etc.Despite my sleepy state, I managed to downgrade back to KDE 3.5.0... just to realize that aMule still doesn't work anymore. I made some tests, playing with the styles just to realize that my style was responsible. If I wasn't so already asleep I

KDE 3.5.1: Smelly fish

2006-02-08T02:22:00.000+01:00

First, I need to withdraw a part of what I said yesterday. There is no missing packet amongst the RPMs. Kdebase3-khotkeys just doesn't exist anymore, it has been integrated into kdebase3. I'm out of the dependency hell. ;-)So KDE 3.5.1 is installed. I don't know exactly what bugs have been fixed, apparently none that I encountered. Especially, the problem that occurs when you want to add a color

KDE 3.5.1: The end of the tunnel

2006-02-06T18:12:00.000+01:00

Finally the SuSE packages for KDE 3.5.1 have arrived but that's not the end of the tunnel... yet.On the RSS feed from KDE-developers.org, there was a warning against false dependencies that would be fixed later. I didn't encounter them. I got no strange unresolved dependencies with the packages from my trusty source (Free Ad: RPMFind rulez!) ;-) and RPM only complains about actually missing

One step too far...

2006-01-30T18:07:00.000+01:00

Well, I'm very happy that my style finally got so well. It's finished but the perfectionist in me can't let it go until the last visual glitches are fixed.One glitch I'm sure that I can't let go happens on the arrow buttons that appears when there isn't enough room for the tabs. What happens is that those fracking arrow buttons erase a part of the tab panel. With the absolutely square button of

The anthill under the blanket

2006-01-05T15:05:00.000+01:00

First, when I write "ant", you must understand "insect", nothing more. When I want to talk about bugs, I use the word "bug". I wrote this because I think that's one of the reasons why I got censored on KDE developers. They propably didn't like the idea of somebody telling that KDE is full of bug. That wasn't what I meant but nevermind... They also probably didn't like that I wrote some KDE

First post

2005-12-25T05:28:00.000+01:00

First thing to say, Konqueror from KDE 3.5 doesn't enable me to write in this blog. Shame on Blogger for stuffing its pages with unnecessary Javascript. So, expect some typos as my fingers always stumble while trying to follow the path of my thoughts and that stupid Firefox won't highlight these typos in red like Konqueror does.Any way, back to subject: KDE:My last adventure with KDE is another