Baghira in Debian stable

Today I was able to install the baghira theme for KDE on my Debian stable (Sarge). Yes, there is a deb package in the unstable tree, but believe me, if your system is stable you don’t wanna go unstable just for this package.

This is what does the trick: head over to sourceforge and download the tarball featuring baghira 0.6a and proceed as it says in its readme file. While you run config, it will occasionally stop with an error in case you haven’t installed certain packages it requires (like Qt-devel etc.). Just pull the required packages from the stable tree and once your config runs through nicely, baghira should flawlessly compile and install.

Oh, in case you get desperate because baghira isn’t showing up in KDE’s theme list: that feature isn’t supported yet in this combination of versions. Just browse your dropdown lists in Style and Window Decorations and you should be fine.

Microsoft’s midlife crisis

I just got to read this interesting article on Microsoft that pretty much confirms what customers have been feeling for quite a while now.