A list of good stuff that I was involved with in the past week:

* The PIM team (mostly Till) posted the KDE PIM 3.5.9 Features List. A huge list of exciting, new features that will be released with KDE 3.5.9 resulting from the merge of the enterprise branch.

Thanks to Marc Mutz's idea, one can now set their application debug area by telling the C++ compiler about it and then never having to remember that debug area again.

"Set it and forget it"

Simply add the following line into your application's top-level CMakeLists.txt

  add_definitions(-DKDE_DEFAULT_DEBUG_AREA=XXXX) 

(replacing XXXX with your debug area).

Lazy Web warning:

I looked and looked.. I even tried to figure out qdoc3. No joy.

Anyone know how to generate the man pages for Qt4? Or where I can get a tarball with the man pages?

In Fedora Core6 there is an RPM called qt-devel-docs that has the man pages for Qt3, so man pages are possible.

A running list of stuff about the KDE4 desktop -- typed in from little slips of paper I have laying around on my desk:

• To make the desktop run faster, compile qt-copy without the -debug option
  

I like man pages.

So today I wrote a little script called kdedoxyman.sh that uses doxygen to generate API Dox in man page format
from our KDE source code.

To use:

The first KMail hacking day is coming to a close. It has been a fun time -- working with many oldtime PIMsters and several new contributors as well. I noticed that KOrganizer was getting a little attention too.

This weekend we PIMsters are having a virtual meeting on #kontact; hopefully to give a lot of love to KMail for a potential KDE 4.0 release. Most of the KDE PIM applications are in dire need of attention and, in their current state, have almost no hope of being part of a KDE 4.x release.

In response to the wonderful people who Want to Give Away Some Money, I am now formally announcing that I will gratefully accept donations/compensation to my PayPay account (awinterz AT earthlink DOT net). And I will thank you, even if you don't ask for thanks.

Based on past experience we can project the KDE 3.5.6 tagging about 1 month from now.

So, today I put a freeze on any new features in the KDE PIM Features Branch -- the stuff I have been babbling about non-stop of late. We can still test bug fixes in this branch. But we need to put our efforts into finishing off and polishing the existing new goodies (KMail templates, custom tagging, TOFU, HTML signatures, ...). And negotiate with the developers over which of the goodies we will move into the 3.5 branch for the 3.5.6 release. And hope that the translators don't mind the new strings.

Thanks to Christian we have a bunch of clean-ups in the way KMail's addressee and recipient editors work. This new code will probably be fast-tracked[1] into the 3.5 branch, but for now we have it only in the features branch for testing. So, please do test.

Feedback to kmail-devel@kde.org please. Not all of our new contributors are reading my blog.

In particular, this patch addresses the following bug reports (at least):

Bug 98691: tab completion last name / nickname