Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Going to Nurenberg

The next few days I will be in Nurenberg, working on-site at our customer’s facilities at the airport.
I am arriving Monday afternoon and departe on Thursday morning, so I basically have three evenings to spend on going out for dinner and probably a pub or two Smiling

So if anyone living in that area doesn’t want to pass up on a verifyable excuse for some fun, let me know.

Desktop Pattern reimplemented in Plasma

Those of you’ve been around desktop computers for a while know the calming effect of a simple desktop. One of the things I’ve missed is the ability to have a basic tiled pattern with user defined colours. So since I wanted to learn a bit more about Plasma wallpapers for another project, I rolled up my sleeves, had a look at the old kdesktop sources, and reimplemented it using the latest technologies. The result is in playground. Everything old is new again:

Watch out, panel. You’re next.