{"id":93,"date":"2005-11-23T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/93"},"modified":"2005-11-24T00:34:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T08:34:38","slug":"kde-soccer-and-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/93","title":{"rendered":"KDE, Soccer, and Exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the VanLUG, on Monday, to see <a href=\"http:\/\/aseigo.blogspot.com\/\">Aaron Seigo<\/a> do a presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\/\">KDE<\/a> &#8211; where it is now, and it&#8217;s direction for the future.  Admittedly, I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\">Gnome<\/a> user, myself, but I was interested in hearing about KDE from one of its core developers.  Also, I believe in that happy place where Gnome users and KDE users frolic together.<\/p>\n<p>It was great hearing about this stuff from someone who knows it so well.  Even though he was basically just demoing applications, he could provide interesting background on everything.  Highlights, for me, included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koffice.org\/krita\/\">Krita<\/a> &#8211; 16bits\/channel!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opendocumentfellowship.org\/Applications\/HomePage\">KOffice will support ODF natively<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>KOffice is the first application not derived from OOo to use OpenDocument natively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kopete.org\/\">Kopete<\/a> (I wonder if it can handle file transfers better than gaim&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>KHTML and KJS\n<ul>\n<li>A consortium is being set up to&#8230; &#8220;better coordinate&#8221; contributions back to the core<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/act\/acid2\/\">Acid2 Test<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Results I got when taking the test with Firefox 1.0.7: <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/files\/Firefox1.0.7Acid2.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" title='Aaaah! I spilled acid on Mr Smiley!'   \/><\/li>\n<li>Konqueror now passes this test<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org.uk\/apps\/kdissert\/\">kdissert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uml.sourceforge.net\/index.php\">Umbrello<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to see what comes out of KDE next.<\/p>\n<p>*whew*  I&#8217;m beat!  A quick dump of a few more bloggy items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our soccer team came in first place in the round robbin!<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, we lost our first game in the tournament, so that was the only game we got to play that day.  \ud83d\ude41  No more soccer &#8211; I&#8217;m kind of glad, actually, (Richmond is just so far away!), but I did enjoy it.  \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>&lt;shift&gt; + &lt;space&gt; is a terrible combination for switching input modes.<\/li>\n<li>It is my duty to share the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/mt-archives\/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php\">good<\/a> that was passed to me.  This is a hillarious.  And it includes ???!<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like how little of my new monitor my website occupies.  Expect a redesign, soon.  Maybe something a little more&#8230; edgy.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but not <em>too<\/em> soon.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>ZZZzzz&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the VanLUG, on Monday, to see Aaron Seigo do a presentation on KDE &#8211; where it is now, and it&#8217;s direction for the future. Admittedly, I&#8217;m a Gnome user, myself, but I was interested in hearing about KDE from one of its core developers. Also, I believe in that happy place where&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/93\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KDE, Soccer, and Exhaustion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-1v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}