http://weblog.obso1337.org The adventures of Human-Computer Interaction in Open Source Software Sat, 17 May 2008 04:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been meaning to comment about this, and was reminded by today's Coding Horror. Funpidgin, a fork of the popular Pidgin Instant Message client, was created when Pidgin developers had diverging opinions on how the input box of the chat window should resize by default. According to the Funpidgin website, ... http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/four-words-for-funpidgin/ I hadn't heard or seen anything from the Kopete devs yet, but I did ping Matt earlier this week to help spread the word to the rest of the project. Remember, this is an activity for you the developers, not me. I make myself available to answer questions ... http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kopete-profiles-short-update/ They call it a feature, but it's really just a pain in the ass. http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/a-funny-thing-i-heard-at-the-bar-last-night/ So this evening we set out excited and anxious for the Radiohead show. The venue was 45 minutes away (+30-45 minutes in weekday traffic which we didn't have since it was Sunday). Torrential downpours screwed with traffic and the roads, with the police redirecting traffic all over mother ... http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/no-radiohead-tonight/ Updates on current KDE User Research Profiles: Plasma User Research Profile: A lot of good stuff came out of the Plasma Interviews and the work from Tokamak. I'd like to see more of this written up and discussed in public. Both the Okular User Research Profile and Gwenview User Research Profile ... http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kde-user-research-profiles-may-7-2008/