While I happened to be part of the team which started the profile-oriented modulization of kdelibs at Tokamak 4 in the begin of this year, my only real contribution so far has been to propose (talk is cheap □ ) the removal of the deprecated api+code for the “mobile” profile, to help a little in shrinking the size of the packages of the KDE Platform/Framework, then lost track of this topic in general. the delicious orange-tiramisu on sunday from Till’s wife’s birthday party, even if it was just a left-over □ ). At least I took two days off and joined the KDE Mobile sprint starting the day after the MeeGo conference, hosted by KDAB in their Berlin office, thanks to them (incl. While the work on my experimental Kasten framework has pretty much stalled this year, I hope I can pick that up again once my transition to Berlin has been completed (which could have been more smooth □ ). While the MeeGo Netbook release 1.1 is still anything but capable to make use of the multitouch feature of the ideapad’s screen, it for sure will be a nice device to experiment with new UI principles. Things are getting together which ought to get together!Ī very welcome idea of Nokia and Intel to improve the motivation of the people to contribute to the MeeGo project was the give-away of a Lenovo ideapad for each conference participant. And even more great to see and hear KDE oldie and now director of the AMD Operating System Research Center, Chris Schläger, announcing that AMD is going to join the MeeGo project. It was nice to see how many of the people on the floors were real life animations of the avatar images on Planet Gnome and Planet KDE. Having arrived there the evening before, we added our part to the success by helping out with putting up the large stickers to the windows, which gave directions and set MeeGo theming to the rooms (Openismus – your (now) also experts in applying large stickers to windows). to match it with the Desktop Summit in Berlin next year (remember the date, August 6-12th). It was a really great conference, will be a nice challenge e.g. Having been caught by some cold two weeks ago, I was still lucky to have recovered enough in time to go to the MeeGo conference in Dublin, sponsored by my employer openismus GmbH, joining a bunch of my colleagues.
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