aKademy’s hackathon has nearly come to and end for me, we will be kicked out of the University
of Malaga at around six o’clock, at which point I’d like to have dinner. That will be a problem,
since the restaurants usually don’t open before half past eight here, and that’s still quite early a
time for dinner.
Let’s have a look what aKademy2005 has brought:
guidance …
… has been extensively reviewed for usability issues
by Jan Mühlig. (Thanks again, Jan for your time and expertise, I enjoyed the work!) This has
brought quite some possible improvements to light, some of which are easy one-liners (like changing
a label), some of them require changes of parts of the UI. I’ll start fixing the one-liners as soon
as I have Jan’s final report, to keep guidance releasable, and will work on the other issues as soon
as we have a stable version released and can start a new release cycle. (Yeah, I know about
branching.)
I’ve had a BoF about the future of kcontrol with Benjamin Meyer. He asked if I’d like to put
guidance into kdeplayground to give it some more exposure to developers and generally agreed on the
idea of using python to build kcontrol modules. He also liked most parts of guidance and actually
sees an existance of them in kcontrol before his virtual eyes. Promising.
KDE and marketing
I’ve stepped up to try to improve the marketing of KDE in a more structured way than it has ever
been. This will be quite a hard task, but it can also be a lot of fun. Yesterday we had a pretty
long BoF about how we can get this pig flying, and we actually came to a pretty good (and stable, I
think) approach. Existing efforts will be improved. More information on all that is yet to be
wrapped up for the involved mailinglist, so expect some material on that. I’m already thinking about
a couple of things that could really help us on our way to world domination – which will by the way
happen, the only question is why. :-)