Month: June 2013

Akademy – Why it’s so productive for me and what I plan to do this year

I may be one of the last ones to write my “I’m going to Akademy!” post, but here it is!I will be among the many KDE contributors who meet at Bilbao in two weeks to tell each other in conference talks what we’re up to, plan our next steps and get real work done in …

Today was the first time I deleted a comment

Moderating blog comments is a very sensitive task. It is not easy to strike a balance between chaos and censorship.I am generally a strong opponent of censorship, anywhere. I don’t like if people delete comments just because they don’t like what people say. That’s why I had not blocked or deleted any comment which was …

KDE HIG rebooted (again)

I hope that the majority of KDE contributors have at least heard of them, but they have not received much attention lately: The KDE Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). Every major operating system and desktop environment has human interface guidelines, because they are an important instrument for ensuring or at least improving consistency in appearance of …