The NetworkManager backend for Solid in KDE 4 is ready to announce. Since writing the frontend in September I hadn't gotten round to making it useful, but after a lot of encouragement from ervin I picked up my tools again.

After our previous router died after a lightning strike, we got a new one. Since that new one was active, though, I had the strangest experience: when my KDE session reloaded my Konquerors, it would often claim the hosts did not exist. That's quite a big WTF, I'd say. For some reason, all DNS requests stopped working over UDP for a small while. (Manually dig'ing with +tcp worked.) Which is pretty annoying if your session also starts Akregator, which also wants to look up lots of hostnames.

At first, I blamed my DNS server. I then quickly moved to blaming my router or KDE, depending on my mood. Turns out, it's probably the last one. Because yesterday, a blog title caught my eye: konqueror en dns requests (Dutch. And what are the odds of randomly finding a solution to a weird Konq problem on a blog hosted at my university! For those not understanding Dutch, he also commented on the bug report). It described my problem, and offered an easy solution: use a small and local DNS server. So I installed dnsmasq, and this morning I had no more DNS problems anymore! Yay! Let's hope it stays that way.

Now I seem to have regressed back into my pre-DNS-problem issue of 'the process for the ...url... protocol died unexpectedly'. Which while annoying, doesn't even start to reach the DNS annoyingness.

KDE Remote Desktop Connection now has a roadmap for KDE4 development.

We still have a lot of work to do (well, just about everything on the roadmap ), but at least we have a plan for what that work is going to be.

Well.. I'm in the mood to write again in my blog, another one after many months of silence.

What to say.. I've started working hard on my degree thesis, trying to figure out how to setup an embedded box equipped with an arm9 cirrus ep9315 processor, with maverick crunch floating point unit. The most interesting part is that I have to recompile *all* the system from scratch, since I can't simply mix libraries compiled with software floating point with those compiled with hardware fp. So, basically, what I'm going to do is to create a gentoo stage[1,2,3] myself.
Many thanks to all the members of the #gentoo-embedded IRC channel and in particular to vapier who has just added glibc patches to support maverick fpu in the portage tree, and who has also applied the same patch to the uclibc cvs code.

When I'll feel like my thesis is in a good shape, I'll dive into the kget code again. I can't wait!!

So, by writing now I am keeping my last promise that my next entry would be about the project that I have been working on. However, maybe I should have written earlier than exactly 2 months later.

Anyway, as the title of this entry says, my project is myscreen.org - an interactive way to watch various KDE people work and play. As of this entry, there are 14 people from all areas of KDE. As well as viewing the screen of the user, you can also view stats about them, which are also updated live.

The map at http://myscreen.org shows all the users on the site - the red dots are people who are active at this very moment! Some people are more active than others, but you can bet that whenever I am at my computer, I am active at http://myscreen.org/dannya

That's enough about the site for now, I think

Also, for you superkaramba users, there is now an applet available now, so you can watch us from your desktop. Grab it here: http://myscreen.org/applet

Oh yes - and if seele asks you to complete a survey in #kde-devel, help our usability people out and say "Yes!"

More soon...

Jabber seems to be growing again lately. Yet, Kopete seems to have no real userbase in Jabberland. I always wonder why I don't get any real feedback. There are hardly any bug reports, hardly any wishlist entries. Compared to the other plugins like ICQ or MSN at least, although that might be an unfair comparison.

Would you use the Kopete Jabber plugin? Do you know about Jabber at all? If you are using the Jabber plugin, are you missing any features?

Well, i am working on gadu for few weeks now.
But there was not even single bug reported during this time (on bugs.kde.org).
Maybe i should consider entering few bugs my self :->

Wow, what a great idea! I can only say thanks for such a site - I definitely hope it will start to be a good resource for any user seeking closer contact to the members of the KDE team.

So, for a first post, I'd like to introduce myself. My main focus is Kopete. For well over a year now I've been working on the Jabber plugin, occasionally I also dive into libkopete, the core code behind the UI that ties the protocol plugins together. I must say that it's a very rewarding task, Kopete and KDE in general are the first projects that have fascinated me over a longer period of time and that still feel just as cool as on the very first day.

Well , i am back after i spend one week working on some projects in my company.
I hope someday maybe somebody will pay me just for doing what i like to do
We can dream, always...
Anyway, first change: moving contact import to gaducommands.cpp again.