Since KDE switched from cvs to svn, the statistics on http://cia.navi.cx stopped working.

I made some adjustments to the hook, so it is now working again! The new script does not really fit on the old statistics, but it is better than having nothing at all.

So, you can now check the statistics (or RSS feed) of your favorite application like this:

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/kde/konqueror
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/kde/rsibreak
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/kde/krita

or for a language:
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/kde/et

While the weather is getting worse every minute I sit here, I released 0.4.0 of RSIBreak. This small utility can force you to take breaks at certain intervals. I get a lot of comments, why I’m not writing a KDE frontend for Workrave. I don’t understand people asking that, there are more than one music player out there, right? A true KDE application was missing in this area.

Another argument is that I wanted to start an application from the start. Remember I only started learning C++ and Qt just a year ago. KTU comes to mind. So I’m really proud RSIBreak is at the state it is in right now, of course with help of Bram.

The doc-sanitizer on EBN is really a great tool by the way, real easy to understand error messages and most can be fixed in a few seconds. If there are any other docbooks which I can fix without stepping on someones toe or release schedule, let me know, it is fun and I can do it when I’ve a bit of time.

It is really storming here now. The Right Moment to go to bed and listen to the rain falling on the roof.

My todo list is getting bigger and bigger, but as long as it is fun, there is no problem. Together with Bram Schoenmakers we finished the next release of RSIBreak. We are now testing the release candidate and at the end of the week will release it. Bram helped a lot. He even has some nice ideas for the next release.

Next todo is adding 8 bit raw support for digiKam, Gilles is ensuring me it is a piece of cake, but I doubt it and postponing it time after time.

When that is implemented I need to backport some changes of Malcolm Hunter, I should talk to Kurt about the klik-images and I really want to work on the documentation errors reported on EBN.

Meanwhile I’ld like to buy those dvd/harddisk recording devices, but there are too many out there. This evening I’ve told myself at least 5 times: “I want this one”… but it does not seem I have the time to use it, it is just a toy…

I see all kinds of invalid arguments passing by here and there. I think it is no work at all to keep the Dox current.

Whenever you change an existing method you change the dox accordingly. Whenever I do a commit, I almost always look at the diff before that, that is where I clean left overs from failed experiments, fix whitespaces, make a small optimalisation and adjust the apidox comments….

There is a lot of helpfull kde documentation, without it I would have never put X-DCOP-ServiceType=Unique in my .desktop while converting RSIBreak to a KUniqueApplication. Only because it was mentioned in the KDE API Reference.

I imagen the same will happen for potential new contributors of KMyBigApp. Really, it is no work at all. Just do it.

Two weeks ago I swapped websites, from a Mambo site to a Drupal site. It has some advantages. The biggest one being that it is possible to have different feeds, so dutch articles don’t go up to planetkde.org

I’ve also uploaded RSIBreak into KDE’s playground/utils area. It is an appication that can prevent illness caused by working behind your computer for large amounts of time. In The Netherlands, this is well known as RSI, Repetitive Strain Injury. At certain intervals it will remind you to take a break.

I’m looking for testers and contributers, so if you are interested, please make a comment or bug me on IRC. I’ll attach a tarball of a week ago to this blog, so you can check it out easily.