Archive for September, 2009

QMF vs Akonadi

A little more than a week ago a blog appeared on Qt Labs Blogs. The subject is about The Qt Messaging Framework, in short QMF.  It may look as this is duplicating the work that we have put in Akonadi, but I don’t think that’s quite true. So I hope to explain the differences.
Yesterday I [...]

What’s Mailody?

Now and then I read blogs on planetkde that I don’t understand. Usually that is because the author starts with explaining some feature which is awesome, but I don’t immediately recall what the application is all about. And I think that I’m guilty of that too. I assumed everyone knows what Mailody and Akonadi is [...]

Weer een stukje privacy ingeleverd.

Vanaf vandaag moet je je vingerafdrukken afgeven als je een nieuw paspoort wilt. Op zich vind ik dat helemaal niet zo erg. Ik kan me voorstellen dat je dan makkelijk de identiteit kunt controleren bij paspoort controles. Echter onze regering heeft besloten de vingerafdrukken centraal op te gaan slaan. In een grote database.
En dat is [...]

Privacy–

Today is a sad day. If you apply for a passport, from now on your fingerprints will be added to it. If the fingerprints were only on the passport itself, I would not have been bothered to much. But no, our government has decided it should be kept in a central database.
They have made legislation [...]

Mailody progress

I’ve been mostly silent about Mailody, which reflected my activities on Mailody. I decided to take a break for a while and I now picked it up again. The Akonadi-hackers have been extremely busy the last months it seems, ’cause I had a lot to catch up.
Screenie of the main Mailody Window:

Some things might be [...]