Upon user reports we've found a new way spammers abuse our web site, so I've upgraded the drupal to the latest version to be able to install some more anti-spam features. We're currently slowly digging through the damage and delete stuff as necessary.
Note:Even though we upgraded to the latest available Drupal version, the "can't login with account names that have any upper case letter in it" bug is still existing. Please make sure that you use lower case only.

Around 2000 (back in KDE2 times) I wrote the so called LAN information server lisa (http://lisa-home.sf.net), which can you show the neighbours in your network.

I moved my blog from kdedevelopers.org to wordpress.com. The new address is http://agateau.wordpress.com.

This new blog will stay KDE focused, but will also include more general geek stuff and real-life news. I just posted my first KDE related blog entry. It's about the new way to save images in Gwenview. I am eagerly waiting for Planet KDE readers to check and comment

A (another) big thanks to the KDE sysadmin team for getting kdedevelopers.org back in business.

The missed kdedevelopers.org site is back! Thanks go to Ian Geiser for founding and hosting it until recently. Starting this week it's hosted on a KDE e.V. server and administered by the KDE sysadmins. All old content except the theme has been transferred. The old (new account and password reminder notifications) and most known bugs of the new setup are fixed meanwhile.

Some settings of the previous Drupal have been tweaked: the unused story feature is now completely disabled to avoid confusion between blogs and stories. You still have to be verified as KDE contributor after account creation for your own blog (and you still have to mail clee to get added on Planet KDE). Some new categories have been added, please tell if you think one is missing. Also the home page shows different content, a well visible and working search and post access counters are among the improved configuration.

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!

I've found this gem while searching for some old contributors to KDE:

Enjoy www.kde.org in 1998: http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/www.kde.org/.

See specially this announcement.

kdedevelopers.org hosts different content categories: polls, stories and blogs. As user roles "authenticated user" (working email address, hello spammers) and "KDE developer" (has to be manually verified as such) exist. Every "authenticated user" can submit stories to the story submission queue on which "KDE developer"s have to vote about whether they should be published - in practice nobody does. Stories even don't appear on the kdedevelopers.org homepage anymore, for story publications you better go to dot.kde.org.

Unfortunately KDE contributors wanting to blog seem to regularly think that kdedevelopers.org only hosts blogs and that they as soon that they have an account created can blog. Wrong! "Create Content/Story" doesn't create a blog entry, read the explanation what "story" means! Those self-assumed bloggers then wonder where their posting disappeared to, get disappointed and don't blog, move to another blog provider (requiring one more account to be able to comment) or even start to write their own blog site (possibly without comment possibility).

You have to contact Geiseri or me to get the "KDE developer" role assigned to your account. This will allow you to moderate comments, access the story submission queue, create polls, upload images and to blog with "Create Content/Personal Blog Entry".

I decided I didn't like the photo I had here before, so I drew a new avatar. What do you think?

Well, after basicly 3 weeks of hounding from chris i got the server upgraded. To my utter shock and surprise drupal radically changed their plug-ins and themes. This blew about 9 hours porting as many of them to the new api as i could.