Animus Wisdom

I wanted to get the new KNotes layout out before the big freeze coming up, I still need to allot time and effort to get the code cleaned up and add much needed improvements.

This following screen shot shows the new layout in all it’s glory.

* What you may not notice is that the Size Grip is no longer set as the Editor’s Corner Widget,
I had some problems getting that to work well on Qt 4.

* KNote now uses actual Qt Layouts to split the components inside each note.

* The note close button is larger and responds to hover and mouse down events differently.

Well after commenting a few posts ago about newsgroup use or the lack there off, I switched all my KDE mailing subscriptions to newsgroups in Gmane :-D, now all my news and mailing lists reside in KNode instead of KMail.

BTW, I will attend the KDE 4 release event at Google, this will be my first KDE event since the European events are quite a long way from my home office in Tijuana, Mexico and the old KWallet is empty during that time of the year. I hope to meet many of you there :-)

P.S. Many people have sent me e-mails asking about my post titles, only two got it right. all titles come from Edgar Allan Poe works, I might have also used a movie title at some point.

Back from my business trip :-)

Everything went well, these past months have been hectic :-S in both my personal and professional life, I will be having more free time on my hands ( if my current employer keeps his word ). But I did get some free time today and I dedicated it to KNotes.

KNotes is now QT3_SUPPORT free, *main.cpp* has a new structure and the application class can now handle command line options.

I will work on the a few bugs I found during my trip this weekend.

Just confirmed today, I will be going on a business trip to the south
on Monday, I decided to take a couple of books to read during my stay.

Just for Fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.

The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks, JR.

I usually don’t get to read them on business trips but I will make time
and read them before my triumphant return in one weeks time.

Does anybody have any suggestions on a good science fiction book to take?

EDIT: Thank’s `Serge` for the head up on the misplaced `r` in `Torvalds`, yes even I. The fastest typist in the west sometimes makes mistakes :-)

More than 10 years ago… this was the last time I went into a newsgroup.

A couple of days ago I signed up for a paid news group service and I have rediscovered the great feeling of posting without having to remember what site I posted on, passwords, profiles, etc.

I was shocked to find that there are no groups for KDE ( besides the a few mailing lists ). I did find many well maintained groups for Debian, Mozilla projects, GNU projects and a few others.

Does anybody still use Usenet?