Well, it happened that this year I went in Lisbon for my summer holidays (ah, btw, it was a great fun) and walking along one of the main streets, just near the well known Rossio (Dom Pedro IV) square, it also happened that I got into a currency exchange office where I found something like 4 or 6 computers (I don't remember precisely) that were used as an internet point for tourists. This is what I saw:
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Just great

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!!

Tomorrow evening me and my friends will take the airplane to Barcelona I've rented a small flat in Barceloneta, near the beach, for 10 days. I really really hope to enjoy myself and now I'm starting to feel quite excited about this.

So I'll stop my kde-related development and I'll not reply to any mail you'll send me. In the meantime I'm sure the work on kde4 will continue and I hope we really start doing the real hard stuff on kdelibs. There are lots of classes to clean up, since Qt4 seems to provide lots of functionalities that we implemented in the libraries.

I'm afraid that as far as kdelibs aren't in a good shape, the work on kde4 applications will be really slowed down. In the development of the make_kget_cool branch I've encountered lots of kdelibs bugs and, even if this is completely normal in this early stage of kde4 development, I hope we will not take too many months to setup something stable enough to focus on application development.

This is why recently I've started looking at kdelibs and started with fixing a bug. I've also spent some time looking at the KToolBarButton class, which was causing me some troubles, and I've been very pleased to realize that with Qt4 this one will loose really lots of code, since the QToolButton class has nearly all the things we need. This is a sign of the cleanliness and the power of new the Qt4 api. Good work, Trolltech! Maybe when I'll be back from Spain I'll try to help out with this stuff.

Happy hacking to everyone!

So yesterday I finally switched the make_kget_cool to qt4 and some hours ago I finished to compile and install kde4. Wow! That wasn't hard as I thought.
I started my work on a new sidebar that in the future will show nice animations effects when downloading files.