There are job offers floating sporadically on planetkde so I guess this one would fit too especially that there are many related technologies involved.

You may remember my story about some crazy Qt device. Now there is apparent expansion both vertically and to other types of high-end devices, so:

This offer is for permanent jobs in Warsaw office, rather for Polish speakers. More on my Polish blog.

(this is a continuation of the Fruits of Calligra Suite Sprint #2 series)

2012 started and I am still summarizing ideas from the Sprint. Today an integration idea: Office Forms for Calligra apps.

Forms are useful for improving data entry. Alternatives like entering data into spreadsheet cells can be too error-prone or tedious for the end-users. Forms reuse the GUI paradigm that is most probably already known and accepted by the user.

First, it is good to know forms were historically handled in popular office software. Extra functionality in MS Office or OpenOffice/LibreOffice still tend to be added using form elements (widgets) like buttons directly embedded into the document.

OpenOffice with embedded invoicing functionality. Note the buttons floating within the spreadsheet area.

(this is a continuation of the Fruits of Calligra Suite Sprint #2 series)

You don't need to become a seasoned web developer to know the value of styling documents with the CSS. This Sunday the technology turns 15 since its initial release.

We describe presentation semantics separately of document (or data in general) and this makes us feel empowered as professionals. More often than not when we look over the shoulder of an inexperienced user who clicks BOLD, ITALIC in an office suite, playing with font size combo box and what not, we feel overwhelming urge to say "wait, you can do this so much easier".

And then when we start spreading the document styles religion, you know what? That is not thought-out.

Read on to see why.

It may seem obvious but eating our own dog food can definitely be good for your project's condition. Especially when it is maturing over time. How many testers can we have and how many personas for your user-centered design can we define and maintain? Usually just a few with the actual resources. Is only fulfilling needs of more or less fictional actors focusing on few use cases a good direction? Or does it put our vigilance to sleep?

Over the years, most if not all my presentations on Kexi were aimed at users or power users. When preparing for the Calligra Sprint I thought it would make sense to approach the Calligra contributors with a small update on what are goals and ideas embedded in this specific office application. I hope you, the KDE contributors, would benefit a bit too.

No, this is not HTML5 topic, I mean fruits of Calligra Suite Sprint #2 ;)

My plan is to post series of logs from the Calligra Sprint on the following days. Each covering one topic. Today about branding.

The story started when our logo has been delivered by our (KDE's) designer Eugene Trounev. I have looked over his shoulder not once on various occasions and I know his attention to detail.

"Don't browse, search" is already well known demand and it changes the way people expect to use your app.

Recently I needed to finalize first incarnation of my Global Search feature in Kexi. Being late by two days after Calligra beta 3 tagging, I made it fully working only for RC1 now. But it's here.

"World must be crazy" say fellow hackers when realized that one day I left Samsung's Linux Mobile Lab to work on Smart Refrigerators.

But well, it's still in the same company, the same city. Yet this does not mean I am stopping to dig in Linux stuff for living: we're talking about Linux fridges.

However, there is something even less expected: these are full four-doors Qt fridges. I dare to say, except for cars or airplanes with infotainment modules, for me these cooling monsters are one of the biggest 'Qt devices' available on the consumer market.

Different Form Factor pushed to the extreme:

Read on for some hot details.

In addition to usual chatting about whether and how is Kexi utilised under KDE I would like to hear about others, what in the context of the Desktop Summit means GNOME users.

Kexi Web Browser Widget is a form element that lets the user to put full-featured web browser's box onto the Kexi Form surface using single drag and drop and then load the address from the database. The challenge has been accepted by Shreya Pandit within the Season of KDE program for the Calligra project.

As someone relatively new to Qt/KDE Shreya shows really nice progress, so below I will explain one of the use cases that is already possible with her new form widget.