Ow exciting. In a Qt labs blog entry, there is an announcement about Qt extending its classes with common authentication protocols and SSL. I just want to thank all involved in that. I will certainly use it for Mailody.

A few weeks back I mailed with George Staikos about the implementation of SSL that Mailody uses now. He pointed out that it was not a good implementation and to Get It Right it would require a lot of work. I was on the edge of starting to do that and now I don’t have to. The current dependency on QCA will be dropped in the KDE4 version and for the KDE3 version I’ll leave it as it is.

Again, thanks all!

Yesterday i drove up to Brussel for FOSDEM, i arrived just in time for the Drupal 5 presentation. My expectations were high because it had the title ‘Drupal is the answer, regardless of your question’. Too bad that in the first two sentences he discarded the title by changing it to the statement that drupal is the answer to _most_ problems. The talk was interesting and live demos are so much better than reading out sheets…

After that i walked over to the other building, i expected to be on time for debian secret internals talk, but that was finished already, i misinterpret the online schedule…. But that meant I had to hurry to the ‘next’ meeting. I walked over to the next room to see Lorn Potter. I’m always a bit jalouse when I read his blogs, looks like he got a nice job hacking on qt on embedded devices. His presentations skills are not so good, but I still learned a bit about the current state and problems of Open Source devices like the greenphone. It seems it will take a while before you can by complete open source pda’s and phones in Europe. So i might by a Zaurus in the meanwhile. Or a Nokia. Sigh…

After that i went to the kde room and really enjoyed the Krita prentation. Bart gave a nice prentation, could have been more demonstrating though. I still can not get the hang of Krita, but now that I’ve seen someone using it, I’ll spend another evening on it. It seems the Krita crew is doing a nice job with nice features too make the application better usable than the competition.

Back to the debian room for a presentation ‘lets port together’. I expected it to tell a bit about the buildclusters, how they are organised who maintains them etc, but it was nothing like that. He told us in detail about the current archs, so i now actually know what a front side bus, northbridge, southbridge, hyperthreading and PCIe is. Good to be up to speed on that. He of course talked a about byte orders, big endian and unaligned frame buffers, but I lack the background to understand that.

After that presentation there was a presentation about Automated Installs, the debian installer is able to load a configuration file which gives the answer to the questions of the debian installer. You can feed that file via the dhcp server to the client that is installing. I’m sure I am going to set this up at work so i dont have to answer thoose boring questions time after time. The prentation was nice, despite the technical problems. He inserted his ‘sheets’ into the debian-installer auto install process. So while live installing a debian system we were presented the ‘sheets’ in the different stages of the installer. In the end the base install was finished, as was his presentation. Very neat.

After that i drove back home with an enormous headache and stomick pain. Was back home around 8pm, went to bed and woke up at 11am. Bah. I hate being sick.

Well done fosdem organisers and presentors! I had a very nice day.

As a moderator of the kde-announce mailinglist, I would like to call out to everyone who’s releasing applications, to use the mailinglist.

It has a lot of subscribers, which will probably consist of users, developers and press. I personaly feel the impact of the mailling list is underrated. So make it a part of your release actions.

So whenever you have a major release which you want to announce to everyone interested, please mail it to that mailinglist, you don’t have to be subscribed to do that.

As a moderator I would love to see the balance between spam and announcements move a bit! More info at the mailman info page and to get an idea of the traffic, see the archives

I’ll probably be on some people’s blacklist, oh no, not another post about Mailody. Now it the time to go to scroll to the next item! I warned you!

We released Mailody 0.4 yesterday. Again a lot of changes have been made and I’m excited by the current state of Mailody. I made a short article to show you the changes between 0.3 and 0.4, based on screenshots (i noticed that is a magic word). Look at it here.

I’m also happy the release has been made and I can start hacking features again on Mailody. On my list for the next release is: support for receiving server messages regarding the arrival of new mail (instead of polling for mail). Also I want to implement the catch-attachments-keyword-but-there-is-no-attachment-feature, similar to KMail’s feature and a manual. If you want to help with the Manual, please let me know!

But first I want to do some non-mailody work for a week or two, as I promised that to some people. I already installed Beryl yesterday and was really impressed by the speed and the features, I want to play a bit more with it. Since I broke my Lilo the day before yesterday I had to open up my computer, and added a dvd-writer in it while I was there. I will try to burn some video with that, excited how that will go. Also I want to write a piece for the wiki about changelogs and some guidelines for the KDE repository.

So, put me on the whitelist again, next blog will not be about Mailody, I promise. Hmm, I’ll try to at least.