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Yesterday night and today, I got back on porting and bugfixing mode. We’ve still some work to do to have everything ported to D-Bus so everybody is participating to this on going effort. I finally spotted a bug in kpersonalizer that made your session turn black… so now you can actually see the content of your windows.

Today, we started to see a few boxes having KDE 4 sessions running decently: kicker, kdesktop, konsole, kwrite… are running. Konqueror can be started by hand, but it still requires some work to make it launchable from the menu and kicker again. Of course it’s still rough on the edges, but that’s really nice to see all this running again after so many changes and refactoring. We’ve still so much to do, but the improvements made in the last few days are really motivating.

Just like yesterday, we had a truely nice lunch. It was prepared with love by Will, great coder, awesome cook. Thanks a lot Will!

This evening, we’re all hacking as usual. But it seems that today we have quite a concentration of “hackers on a couch”.

After all it’s a really nice place to hack, why not using it.

Today, I finally committed the last part of my job refactoring in KDE. We’ll finally have jobs usable accross KDE application without being tied to KIO. Moreover thanks to the UI delegate I introduced, the dependency on GUI is now optional. It can even be used to have several representations possible for a set of job. A UI Delegate for the command line, one for classical dialogs, one to publish job progresses in a Plasma message area.

Today meals were truely nice. For lunch, Will took the initiative to make pastas for everybody. Thanks a lot Will! For dinner the catering service provided us tons of food again. Almost no meat which is a nice thing for the vegetarians here… we don’t want them to starve.

This evening a big part of the Trysil team is watching the World Cup:

As you might have noticed, there’s one person really concentrated in front of the TV. Ok, let’s zoom in, see how Laurent is highly motivated by the french team:

Ok, skipped one day… time to blog again.

Yesterday, everybody worked hard. I spent quite some time working on splitting useful GUI related code outside of KIO. This way it’ll be reusable for other frameworks like Akonadi or Solid. It’s a big chunk of work, so it was far from finished but I decide to go to bed early.

Hence why today morning I managed to wake up earlier… And caught up Harald when he was trying to wake up:

Cute, isn’t it? =)

During the whole day, I continued my work with jobs and kio, the first phase of the changes is almost ready to commit. I’ve been stopped mostly by only two events: a group meeting (will probably end up as a proposal on k-c-d), and lunch. Hmmmm, Lunch! We had a BBQ, it was just perfect! Thanks to Marius for managing this so well.

George and Celeste arrived this afternoon, it’s nice to see them around again. We’re almost all there, only Till is missing, but he’s supposed to arrive later tonight.

This evening the german team is playing in the world cup. That’s why we’re facing a strange phenomenon, it started with coolo, but people here are infected by a german fever:

Gooood evening Planet KDEEEE!

Woke up a bit late today, well that’s understandable since I got to sleep at almost 4am. On the other hand, when I left kdelibs was able to compile so it was worth it.

Today I basically worked on the kdelibs and kdebase stabilization. Now that we’re moving them to Qt 4.2 we have a few things to fix. We’re slowling getting there, hopefully tomorrow the situation will be ok there.

During the afternoon, we made a break to have a walk around the area. It’s really a beautiful place, we stopped at a swampy field where we made a group photo:

Actually, what you’re seeing above is the second try… For the first take I had Aaron in all his glory:

See you later, I’m going back to kdebase porting.

Hello from Trysil, Norway!

I finally arrived in Norway. No real event disturbed the trip, which is always good even if a bit boring. I met for the first time Alexander Neundorf and Tobias Koenig in Oslo airport. Nice to meet you guys.

We found our way to the bus. While we were waiting for it Allan Sandfeld arrived too… he was supposed to take the next bus, but since it would have required him to wait for two hours he took the same than us. Our bus was really full of people and we had the nice surprise to find Zack Rusin and Marius Monsen in it.

After a three hours trip by bus, we reached the cabin… It’s… well… GREAT(tm). A picture says it all, here is the view we have outside:

And inside it’s cosy. Since we have a TV, a few hackers here watched a soccer world cup match:

I’m really glad to be here, the next coming week will surely be terrific. All the conditions are met to make us very productive!