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I usually don't like to do too much blogging about my blog, but I recently installed two new features I find worth mentioning.

One is that I have installed the serendipity calendar plugin, which you can see on the right (if you aren't reading rss). It'll contain events I find interesting/worth mentioning and will probably visit and maybe write reports about. It's a bit limited, it doesn't support more detailed time information (events longer than a day, time etc.), it shows the days till the event, but not for the first one, which I don't understand yet why. Maybe I'll hack a bit on it.

The other thing is that this blog is now available on IPv6 and there also with a correct, CAcert-signed ssl-certificate. So you can now read my blog secure ;-)
CAcert is a noncommercial certification authority based on a web-of-trust mechanism and I suggest you install their root-cert in your browser.

This tuesday, Stephane Lhomme, a french anti nuclear activist, has been arested for 14 hours because he has published a document about the new european nuclear reactor type EPR.

In France, there is a law that confidential information about nuclear plants is kept as a military secret. This has been established some years ago to prevent activists from publishing the timetable of nuclear transports because of the protest against them. It's purpose is obviously not to secure anything, but to censor activities against nuclear power.

Réseau »Sortir du nucléaire« (network of french anti nuclear groups) and other organizations are now calling to spread this document.

When I was asked in the past what linux desktop lacks I kept on telling that we need a way to have a more common look and feel among several desktop environments. Opening a gtk/gnome-app shouldn't look weird in kde, same thing with opening a qt/kde-app in gnome. Dialogs for files, printing etc. should look common. You can discuss hours if the button-order should be »Ok«/»Cancel« or »Cancel«/»Ok«, but it's definitely the worst if this changes from app to app.

Today I found this little tool called KGtk, which (partly) does what I want. It's a wrapper around gtk-apps to call the kde file open dialog. It also contains the same thing for qt apps (that don't use kdelibs).
Using it is quite trivial, just start
kgtk-wrapper.sh [somegtkapp]
or
kqt-wrapper.sh [someqtapp]

I really like it, because there are some gtk-apps I don't want to miss (especially gimp), but I think the new gtk fileselector is really a sin of usability.

While this is (cited from webpage) »a quick-and-dirty LD_PRELOAD hack«, it imho shows exactly how it should work. The freedesktop.org standardisation is a very good thing, but it has to go much further. We need something like »app tells DE to open a file-open dialog« instead of »app opens it's file dialog«. We need the same thing for printing, iconsets, button-order and probably much more.

I'm on Linuxtag in Wiesbaden since yesterday.
As this year there's no gentoo booth, it's the first time for many years that I'm here just as a visitor. First set of pictures uploaded, detailed report may follow.

No, it's not a fake. Sadly it has no year on the display.