So this blog title is "KMail and bikeways in Germany". You may wonder what they have in common. You may wonder whether there will be an eloquent Aaron-style nice little story behind that.

Ok, we all know, blogs are the new mailing lists, so here just some quick comments from my side on all the release-cycle stuff.

Different groups of people use different ways to measure performance of computers. Kernel developers test their kernels by, well, compiling the kernel. KDE developers may measure the startup time of KDE.
So what does the buildsystem maintainer do ?

Right side: chrpath using autotools, 27 files, 454 kb
Left side: chrpath ported to cmake, 14 files, 61kB, i.e. a size reduction to 13%

Hi,

CMake 2.6 will rock. Latest news: Clinton Stimpson has started to work on a Qt4 based GUI for CMake,

Screenshot of the Qt 4 based brand new CMake GUI, still in an early stage of development.

so since 6 weeks I'm now working at Kitware, Clifton Park, NY, USA.
Since it's the first time that I'm in America this means a lot of new impressions for me. Friendly people, suburbs, beautiful nature, huge cars, baseball everywhere and much more.
Are there actually any other KDE developers here in the Capital Region ?

So what can I say about CMake (since this is of interest for KDE) ?

do you still have CMake 2.4.3 installed on your KDE4 development system ? Then it's time to upgrade to CMake 2.4.5 or newer. Because starting Monday in a week, March 19th, at least CMake 2.4.5 or newer will be required for building KDE4.

This weekend I was at FOSDEM and it was great. Jim Gettys was presenting the One Laptop Per Child progress (video).

Strigi saw a lot of limelight. It was prominent in no less then three talks:

Semantic KDE

abstract, pdf The EU funded Nepomuk project will have KDE as the most important reference implementation. Sebastion Trueg is implementing it and it looks to become a revolutionary improvement of the desktop experience.

Strigi Desktop Integration

abstract, pdf, odp Flavio Castelli talks about how to use Strigi from your application.

Strigi Internals

abstract, pdf, odp You can use the libraries and commandline tools of Strigi to make your desktop search just as fast.

If you want to know more about Nepomuk, you can find some really nice documents here. The latest document about the KDE implementation of Nepomuk is here. It is really worth a read! There was a lot of buzz about Nepomuk and this paper shows you why. The foundations are nearing completion and a Nepomuk-KDE workshop for KDE developers would be a good next step.

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