Danimo's blog

KDE TechBase is the top resource for KDE development specific content. It is an effort originally started by Dominik and me. Since then, we (well, mostly it's him, while I am in charge of causing all the annoying URL changesupgrades and maintenance) regulary monitor the at TechBase, moving pages into the correct place, hinting people to merge pages with similar content, etc. Even though the TechBase is a Wiki, it needs people that take responsiblity on the overall Layout.

However, Since he will be gone for 3 months and I can't manage it all on my own, we are in need of more TechBase admins. So if you drew knowledge from TechBase, this is your chance to contribute back.

PS: we also need a fancy name for TechBase admins. Something along the lines of the KDE bug squad. "Techsters" was my first idea but that sounds a bit dull. Anyone?

It is with great pleasure that I realized your porting efforts to Qt 4 in your 4.3 release of Google Earth. Your software so far lacked visual integration on Linux, but now with "googleearth -style plastique" (KDE) or "googleearth -style cleanlooks" (GNOME) it is now easy to make it look less Windows 95ish and more native. That is until you try to apply e.g. the Oxygen style, or just any 3rd party style.

The reason for that is that your product still ships with a complete set of the Qt libraries which cannot load styles installed system-wide. It would be nice if you could follow the good example of your Qt-using collegues at Skype ^*), who provide both a version with Qt and one that relies on the system libraries. This would also cause your application to look native instantly.

All the best,

Daniel Molkentin

^*) Skype allows to circumvent their forced use of cleanlooks by passing "--disable-cleanlooks" as parameter.