... and then they got familiar

while working on accessibility in kde, gunnar schmidt was testing the text-to-speech support in various apps. he got around to testing with kde's konversation irc application and when people noticed this new toy in the room all hell broke loose. just imagine the following being read out loud in a mechanical voice with a slight british accent from gunnary's laptop:

[08:50] <icefox> I think it was copied to KColorEdit, need to double check
[08:51] <col> boemann: if koffice relies on it, it's easy to copy to kofficeui
[08:51] <boemann> well since it's a generic for a gradiented slider i think many would like to rely on it
[08:52] <[ervin]> hahahahahahahahahahah
[08:52] <col> boemann: this is not about people liking it, this is about people maintaining it
[08:52] <pmax> muahahaha
[08:52] <[ervin]> OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
[08:52] <boemann> well i've been maintaining it
[08:52] <[ervin]> OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
[08:52] <pmax> OH OH OH YES YES MORE
[08:52] <harryF> YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII
[08:52] <[ervin]> OH YEAH OH YEAH OH YEAH AGAIN!
[08:53] <col> is it really true?
[08:53] <[ervin]> tak tak tak tak tak tak
[08:53] <boemann> take a look at the commit
[08:53] <pmax> SLAP IT! HARDER!
[08:53] <will_> shoo bee doo bee doo wop
[08:53] <aseigo> do my hard baby
[08:53] *** will_ is now known as Bille.
[08:53] <[ervin]> OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
[08:53] <aseigo> in the midnight hour
[08:53] <aseigo> she screams more, more more
[08:53] <pmax> Now from behind
[08:54] <aseigo> you know how i like it baby .. rough
[08:54] <Bille> i think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so
[08:54] <[ervin]> nasty
[08:54] <[ervin]> oh? broken?
[08:54] --> till has joined this channel (n=till@kde/tilladam).
[08:54] <icefox> :(
[08:54] * [ervin] want's his toy back
[08:54] <Schmi-Dt> I have temporarily turned text-to-speech off now.

and so with that fun over we returned to hacking. i podcasted with the akonadi team today (still working on the hosting.. soon, i promise!) a journalist visited us today as well. she works with two regional norwegian papers. thanks to Olav of Trysil for hooking this up!

we've been going through kdeui and have found an astounding number of classes that are simply unneeded thanks to both kdelibs maturing and qt 4.2 being released. currently the number of deathrow classes stands at 20. we're about to have a meeting to discuss the final outcome of things, and after that will be reorganizing kdeui into sensible subdirs.

lots of other hacking is happening, but i'll blog about that this evening.. they are waiting for me to start the kdeui meet. cheers!