The program of the conference at Akademy 2006 is already online for those who didn’t know it. (http://conference2006.kde.org/conference/program.php). This year program looks very interessing. For a first KDE conference I really like the program, but how the program could be not interessing when KDE4 development is in full motion

So there the list of conferences I’ll attend during those two days.

23 September

• 10:00-10:30: Keeping Users in Mind (Usuability++)
• 10:30-11:00: Plasma: What the Bleep Is It? (Plasma rocks)
• 11:15-12:15: Phonons in Solids - Internals and Usage Explained (worked on Solid and I love A/V stuff)
• 14:30-15:00: Competition and Cooperation - An honest look at the dynamics between the KDE and GNOME communities (Look interessing)
• 15:00-15:30: The Sky is the Limit: Enabling Universal Media for Linux Desktops (same as below)
• 15:30-16:00: Multi-Head RandR (Neat X.Org stuf)
• 16:15-16:45: Akonadi - The KDE 4.0 PIM Framework (Kopete can be considered a PIM app of some sort)
• 16:45-17:15: Decibel - You are not alone! (Let’s see if Decibel framework would meet Kopete requirements)
• 17:15-17:45: State of KHTML (KHTML rocks)

24 september

• 10:00-10:30: KDE 4 Development Setup (The other program in track doesn’t appeal me)
• 10:30-11:00: Accessibility of KDE 4.x applications (Accessiblity++)
• 11:15-11:45: Performance techniques (Performance is always neat)
• 11:45-12:15: Valgrinding complete KDE sessions (I need to learn to use more of these tools)
• 14:30-15:00: How to make your application or widget style accessible (Accessiblity++)
• 15:00-15:30: An Introduction to CMake, CTest and Dart. (CMake rocks)
• 15:30-16:00: Qyoto/Kimono C# bindings (I was a C# programmer once upon a time)
• 16:15-16:45: The Design and Implementation KJSEmbed (look interessing)
• 16:45-17:15: Kickoff - Start Menu Research (I want to see those start menu concepts )
• 17:15-17:45: Network Status support in KDE and how to use it (Going to heard what’s Will have to say)

Welcome to my first post in the series of post related to Akademy 2006, the annual KDE conference held at Dublin, Ireland this year from 23th September to 30 september. I’ll discuss about all my preparation for the trip, randoms thoughts and also resume of the days at Akademy 2006.

First of all, getting out my Canadian passport which I got about 2 weeks ago !!. The process of getting my passport was long and I needed to get a new birth certificate(to remove the Jean- prefix from my “official” name, long history). Now things are settled up and I don’t like all this bureaucracy.

My hostel and Akademy registration was done at the same time. Heck the hostel cost me only 151.75 EUR (~227$CAN), which is really a nice price.

I still do not have booked my flight yet, though I have looked on Air Canada website. The flight which I’ll probaly take is the AC894 on 21th September 2006 at 23:00 at Toronto Airport. This is also a call for fellow Canadian KDE developers who will like to fly with KDE entousiasts (/me looks at Aaron and George Staikos )

See ya around in Dublin in September

Yes you heard, I’ve dropped the K from my application name. Also I renamed the old Gamefu of mine to “Gamefu/SDL”. This is only to avoid binary and package clash, as someone could have packaged both applications(did something did package Gamefu/SDL ?, I doubt it). Anyway Gamefu/SDL is dead, there are no futher updates, though it looked damn cool. Look for Gamefu/SDL screenshots at http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=126940

Kamefu/Gamefu is now found in KDE SVN in:
/trunk/playground/games/gamefu

This the reasons I gave on the Kamefu mailing-list:

Some KDE projects recently renamed their project to remove the emphasis on the famous “K”. like amaroK
who become Amarok and oKular->Okular.
Also all the new KDE projects for KDE4 doesn’t have the K in their name:
Plasma, Oxygen, Solid, Phonon, Decidel.

So here is the advantages of the rename:
-The new name without the K gives us a “think different” philosophy from
traditional KDE apps names.
-Cooler name and more powerful brand.
-The name is also more clear about the purpose of the program, to play
games
-Give us a nice name ready for KDE4.

The Gamefu name doesn’t mean that the application is not a KDE application anymore,
it will be always a KDE application because KDE and kdelibs rocks.

As most of you already know Qt 4.2 Technical Preview was released. Like any new Qt major release, I looked with excitement the new features. Also our qt-copy was updated but it break binary compability because blackarrow’s patch for QWidgetActionFactory is no longer needed, there is a QWidgetAction in Qt 4.2.

So I was looking at new examples of QGraphicsView and I found a nice easter egg.

What the hell Matthias Ettrich head doing here ? I was dragging a color.

Matthias’s head on the dancing robot. No it is not doing the Qt4 dance, unfortunately

Nice easter egg trolls

For those wondering who Matthias Ettrich is, he is the KDE project founder and the lead of development team at Trolltech. But you should already know that isn’t ?

P.S: “And there was much rejoicing.” quote come from Monty Python And The Holy Grail, a real classic even if I need to watch with subtitles because of the profound British accent. But I love British accent don’t be worried.