Upstream und Downstream
Das Verhältnis zwischen den Open Source Projekten und ihren Distributionen ist ein sehr besonderes. Die Distributionen brauchen die Open Source Projekte, denn ohne sie haben sie nichts zu paketieren...
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Proactive Spam Fighting with Akonadi
One year ago I finished my Master Thesis and I just realized that I never really blogged about it. I had the chance to build my implementation during the Thesis upon the Akonadi framework, which is the...
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KWin über den Verlauf der Zeit
Eine der kontroversesten Entwicklungen in KDE in den letzten Jahren war sicherlich das KDE 4.0 Release. Obwohl es klar als Entwickler Release bezeichnet wurde: "KDE 4.0.0 is our "will eat your...
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Comparing Commit Histories
This weekend I was looking a little bit at the bug statistics provided by Bugzilla. I was a slightly surprised by the fact that before 4.0 the numbers of open and fixed bugs hardly changed and started...
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New KWin Shadows
One of the features which got killed in the process of porting KWin’s Compositor to OpenGL ES was the Shadow effect. For some time already the Shadow effect was not on the level we expect from our...
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At this years Google Summer of Code it is of course also possible to work on KWin. At the KDE ideas page we have three projects listed, but it’s also possible to come up with an own idea. I will...
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Menu Button inside Window Decorations
Peter Penz blogged about removing the Menu from Dolphin. While this is very interesting and nice looking I have a better idea: why not move the menu into the decoration? All what we need is already...
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