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So it's kind of funny to see how well Wade is pushing this gearhead term, which I think is a brilliant idea for KDE. It's starting to spread though, slowly, like a virus. I seen it popping up already a few times on #kde, and just today I found it in a sebas's email signature. So I figured I'd do the same and start to spread it around in this fashion. I think it works wonderfully in any context you would use the word hacker with respect to KDE: IE: hacker's conference --> gearhead's conference. But it can also be used to refer to KDE users...

So my first 'professionally published' article is now live. Over at Ars Technica, they took a somewhat informal review of PC-BSD (a nice KDE based FreeBSD derivative) and with some editing, turned it into a front page feature article. Have a look :P

This short guide below is one of many short documents that we'll hopefully be putting inside the KDE 4.0 Press Kit to send to brick and mortar media outlets. Inside the press kit, it will appear as a single sheet with formatting that is different than the official KDE related materials in order to make it stand out in the reverse sense. I'm soliciting feedback on any items that this short document is missing, or need corrected.

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Re: my last entry: I appreciate all of the valuable feedback I got, including the dude that accused me of acting like a "diva". It made me chuckle, which is a good thing unless you're drinking something I guess. Anyway, the tipping point for the whole conversation is about what would be better for KDE as a group, and the response I got from many of the people inside KDE suggest that I go through with it, and so I will.

I'm going to rant in this one, partially at myself in order to help sort out my thoughts. It stems from the fact that I have been offerred (and so far accepted) a position with Ars to write about open source projects.

KDE has a problem. Not a big problem. Not a developer problem. It has a press problem when held up to the same standards as proprietary software. These mainstream computer magazines and so forth tend to consider KDE, and open source applications in general, as one-to-one replacements for windows applications, and tend to cover them as such. They treat Krita like it's a shareware replacement for photoshop, rather than covering it on its own ground.

So, Aaron's blog, which he frequently uses for plasma news, "has been flagged as a spam blog by blogger's wonderfully brilliant automated scanners" (quote is his). As a result, I will temporarily be relaying plasma news to the planet (and therefor the world) via my newly syndicated blog.

I'm still not sure what the whole tabs buzz is about anyway. KDE users are asking for them in every application, from Amarok to KWin(?). I'm still not sure why tabs within applications are a good idea.

The taskbar has essentially been an implementation of bottom-of-the-screen tabs that has existed since win95. The problem is that it gets too full, or programmers don't give their windows good captions.

Welcome to my home on LJ for KDE related syndication. This is just a temporary solution until I have time to roll my own software again...
Mostly, this site exists for syndication purposes to planetkde, but in the meantime, I'll just put random KDE stuff on here :)