Apart from that, I plan to go to FOSDEM this year. I will probably go with my own group this time, as I do not want last day surprises. It is not that I do not trust the current people organizing the event, but I had bad experiences in the past and I would prefer to have it my way this time. Anyway, see you all there!

This will probably be the last release before KDE4 and it includes the following features:

• The camera interface is now used to import new images into collections.
• There are new options to download pictures and delete them from the camera at the same time.
• Support of Drag & Drop to download files from camera window to album window.
• A progress bar has been added to indicate the available space in the Album Library Path.

Have fun!

You might be guessing correctly, my system is badly outdated. I'm at this precise moment completing the latest updates and after that I'll have to update my CVS local repository.

In the meanwhile, I took the chance to get back on the rails and I have fixed some broken posts in the Gentoo Forums on the Greek category, which got unreadable after the UTF-8 conversion.

Soon enough I'll be back to KDE maintenance and Bugday, unless anything unexpected happens again.

See you in the battlefields fellow developers and users!

The purpose of the trip will remain secret, at least for now, even though some people might already presume the reasons...

Apart from that, I can state for the few days I was there, that the city itself is safe and that their inhabitants are very kind and are always eager to give some directions to lost visitors...

It has been a great experience and I hope that I will be able to repeat it in a near future. We'll see about that.

I also got a nice driving experience from that... I am used to manual transmission cars and it was the first time that I had to drive an automatic one. I am not used to such an amount of horsepower either, however it was pretty quick for me to master the car itself. What was harder was to not get lost among so many roads and streets and highways. Maybe the signals on the road, as they are different from Europe, made my life a bit more tricky. Anyhow, it's just to get used to it; the last day I was already comfortable with it and surprisingly I didn't get lost even once!

Back to Spain now, back to work, back to Gentoo. Yes, I know that I missed April's bugday, but I assure you it was worth it!

See ya everyone on IRC and on the forums.

In any case, Markus Ullmann (jokey) was very kind to set up an overlay for private use. You can find my newly created overlay (it's still missing some configuration, but it's functional) if you follow the link below:

Deathwing00's Dev Overlay

Remember as well that I advise you to use app-portage/layman in order to fetch the contents of the overlay.

lately, some of us have been discussing about the needs of a common Gentoo branding on some applications (i.e. KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice,...). Currently, every application has either no branding at all or its own branding theme.

In an initial step towards a unified Gentoo branding for applications, we need to solve some technical details, with the help of our fellow users, with your help.

The first issue, my fellow users, is to decide whether you want such branding on your applications and if you would like it to be installed by default or not. Please, be so kind to review the following forums thread, give your opinion and post your feedback: Forums Thread #529836.

Additionally, if you are a KDE user, be so kind to review bug #157519, test it, give your opinion, provide your own content, etc.

Thanks for your time. By the way, the previous bug counts towards Gentoo Bugday.

Thank you Stefan!

today I have bumped media-gfx/digikam, media-plugins/digikamimageplugins, net-p2p/ktorrent and app-cdr/k3b. I expect that you will delight these version bumps. Remarkable changes go below:

media-gfx/digikam-0.9.0_rc1
For this release of digikam, upstream makes it clear that it is strongly advised to use media-gfx/exiv2-0.12 which is not released yet. In the portage tree, the latest version is 0.11. To make it clearer, they use an unreleased SVN version of exiv2. Fortunately, digikam seems to work fine with version 0.11 and you will not need to make use of any live ebuilds. Other dependencies have been updated, list follows:

• >=media-libs/libpng-1.2
• >=media-libs/libgphoto2-2.2
• >=media-libs/tiff-3.8.2
• >=media-libs/lcms-1.14

As advised, the minimum KDE required version is now 3.5.x. The main reason of this release is the large quantity of fixed bugs.

media-plugins/digikamimageplugins-0.9.0_rc1
With every digikam release, we get a digikamimageplugins release. The most remarkable of this release is again a large quantity of fixed bugs. This version of digikamimageplugins requires digikam of at least the same version.

net-p2p/ktorrent-2.1_beta1
As a downstream maintainer, I have removed the znow patch for this version (which remains for version 2.0.3), because of the fact that upstream decided to stay put and leave alone CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Some interesting new features of this release:

• Switched the GUI to an IDEAl style GUI (like KDevelop)
• WebGUI plugin
• RSS plugin
• Improvements in down and upload performance
• Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
• Improved search plugin, which now allows multiple searches

app-cdr/k3b-1.0_beta1
I have added a new optional runtime dependency to this release of k3b. The dependency is known as media-video/emovix and will allow to burn eMoviX images with k3b.

As for the upstream release itself, it includes many improvements, fixes, and even GUI changes over preview 1. Looks like the day for the final release is closer!

That's all for today, have a nice bump-day