Currently there a few entries on blogs and news sites (for example: here and here) saying that the KDE for Windows project is discontinued. In short: That’s not the fact. Indeed, the KDE for Windows maintainer Christian Ehrlicher announced that he won’t continue to contribute to the project any longer, but that doesn’t mean that the project has passed by. Christian already posted another entry for clearing some things on his previously post.

Furthermore the KDE project itself, released a clarification post:

Even though KDE on Windows is only a small project and the loss of one developer will be felt, we are far from dead. The Windows port has not been a one-man-project and many other people are still involved. KDE on Windows will continue to be developed and packages will continue to be made.

The rumour of KDE on Windows stopping is not true and just harms our project. This clearly was not the intent of the blog post and we hope those reports will be corrected. At this point we also want to thank Christian for all the hard work he has done, for fixing bugs, making packages and of course also for making the platform accepted by KDE developers.

Those of you, who likes the nifty look of Google’s Chrome, should take a look on ChromiFox, a Chrome-like theme for your Firefox.

The theme is created by the same guy who already did CamiFox, and it’s still in BETA. You must sign to the Firefox addons for installing this theme, as it is declared as ‘experimental’.

ChromiFox works on all platforms (Win/OSX/Linux).

Pidgin 2.5.0 has been released today. At time of writing you can get it only on the sourceforge project page (the links on the actual pidgin.im aren’t linked yet amd points to v2.4.3). You will find there Linux (RPM, SRC-RPM) and Windows binaries and of course the source package itself.

Debian/Ubuntu users need to compile themselves. Ubuntu users can also wait till it’s available on getdeb.net — i guess this will be just a matter of a few hours (I would recommend to wait, as compiling pidgin yourself is a pain in the ass).

Tooltip 0.1 – KeePassX

You’ve got a server, several messenger accounts, online stores, communities and portals, cvs and subversion accounts and of course you are using secure passwords or are in the need for all of them. So how the hell you should remind all of those passwords? There’s an easy solution: KeePassX.

KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachmets and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.
KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

The complete database is always encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or Twofish encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. Therefore the saved information can be considered as quite safe. KeePassX uses a database format that is compatibel with KeePass Password Safe. This makes the use of that application even more favourable.

Originally KeePassX was called KeePass/L for Linux since it was a port of Windows password manager Keepass Password Safe. After KeePass/L became a cross platform application the name was not appropriate anymore and therefore, on 22 March 2006 it has been changed.

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