in dark frozen days…

It’s hard to promise anything but it looks like long awaited software projects (at least awaited by me) are getting closer next brave releases.

KDE 4

Weeks ago I installed some SVN snapshots of KDE4 into my office laptop. “What a disgusting crap?” I said to myself. There were things broken (and I mean all things).
You cannot imagine how I was suprised after one yast-update run. My fictional testing user can do common tasks in fully functional KDE4 session. And I can say KDE4 should kick ass — when it gets some time to stabilize all new features…

Things I’d like to have (TM):

• An option to remove text from toolbar buttons. It’s ugly and it breaks layout with large texts. Period.
• Bordered menu in Oxygen theme. I saw some bugreport for it.
• Apps (I use regulary) with feature list filled at least 80% of its KDE3 older siblings.
• Is there any “go up one level” button i Dolphin? No? It should be there. Definitely.

And last — the best thing in KDE4 is that all Qt apps I’m working on are starting pretty fast. And all of them are pretty integrated without any kdelibs inside etc. stuff.

The longest awaited image ot all:

Scribus

The Qt4 porting continues. And the application is getting more and more usable. Andreas is doing great work. It must be great work because I don’t understand any line of his code. We should hire a bodyguard for him.
One insistent thought was born last week in my mind — we can do it. I had to listen more Tiamat songs to return myself to the right negative state of mind again.

TOra

Mad soldier Mike break it all. But it’s still compilable ;). And I’m using Qt4 ported (with Qt3support) version from last week for regular Oracle administration tasks with only small amount (but ugly) crashes.

Sqliteman

Let’s be the 1.1 version feature-freezed now. Various new goodies has been done — data populator, data importers, editors, sql scripting support etc. Now it’s time for pack of releases for public testing and bugfixing.

There are some serious issues hard to fix. Some are in the Qt4 library itself (QSql bugs submitted) — some are my fault of course…
I wish one or more developers for this SW to make things move faster.

So good night pals. I’m facing the first x-mass party this year — the tomorrow’s hangover awaits me. To cleaning brain is mandatory.

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