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Tuesday and wednesday were basically spent doing API review and refactoring the public API to address the issues found. It’s great to get input from people experts in the field… After all their work on Qt proves they have a lot of expertise in making APIs which rock.

That’s why Solid is getting get a big facelift during this week. I’m cleaning it up at a lot of places, and had to refactor the internal API a bit. Hopefully now the most intrusive changes for the hardware discovery part are done. It’s kind of frustrating because I’d basically like to see this week last for a month. I opened the eyes in quite some shortcomings, and we probably won’t have the time to make a second round of API reviews.

So… Let’s get the most of this week! Back on furious hacking!

As usual started with a very early flight. I had to woke up at 4:30 this morning to get it… No need to say I’m pretty tired while writing this. Of course I’m also pretty excited, which explains that despite being exhausted I’m hacking at… the Trolltech offices in Oslo. Today being the first day of a 5 days long sprint about Phonon and Solid.

It’s always nice to meet old friends and new faces. The Trolltech guys form a very friendly group.

Today, we basically travelled, setup our small network for the sprint and had discussions about investigations and work for this week. It already looks like it can become a highly productive week. After this nice kick-off we gathered in a very nice restaurant in Oslo with a few trolls. The food was just wonderful, and it was very cheap (in particular compared to Oslo standards).

This night we finished the work on factoring XMLGUI out of KMainWindow with Simon. It’s now in trunk, so now we can concentrate on the main purpose of this sprint…

Thanks a lot to the Trolltech people to allow this sprint to take place.

Damn, another late blog entry… I’ve nothing worth blogging for months and when I finally have something I let it sleep for two weeks. *sigh*

Friday the 23rd of March was the official ending of the KDE/ISI student projects we announced in December. Of course, it was an important event for all the students involved. Particularly since each group had to showcase their products and defend their work in front of the professors. The two KDE groups did well in my opinion, and the professors particularly liked the result.

It has been a great pleasure to work with such dedicated students, now we’ll see how many caught the KDE-virus.

Pierre Pettera standing for the Umbrello defence! The other students in the background, the professors on the front

Alexis Menard showcasing KPlato. The other students in the background, the professors on the front

I posted only two pictures (one for each KDE group), but I have more! The pictures taken during the past two Hacking Sessions with the KDE teams and the students defences (including the J2EE groups) are available on my FlickR gallery.