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Introduction Coffice (Calligra Office or coffee-in-office) is a new project that tries to make Calligra available on mobile platforms like Android, Blackberry 10, Jolla SailfishOS and Ubuntu Phone. Read More

The history The first tries to join forces with GNOME to build up one common accessibility stack for our beloved desktops pre-date back to 10 years ago. A year later the solution became more concrete and finally made it as the QAccessible framework into Qt 4.0 in ~2004. Read More

A comment at the Calligra Words blog-entry asked about re-adding the CTRL+M "Hide Menubar" option back to Calligra Words (and the KDEPim-applications). That is a very bad idea. Read More

Some like to make a joke of OpenOffice.org coming with around 8 different string-implementations and comparing that with what we are having in Calligra with QString. But when we worked back then in OASIS to form what later became the ISO OpenDocument standard we left such implementation details out. Read More

As Andreas note we are rather close towards Calligra 2.4 which will be the very first release of the Calligra Suite. Our pretty cool Calligra Quality Dashboard lists 11 remaining release-critical blocker bugs that still need to be fixed till then. Read More

Since so far I missed any blog on our beloved planet pointing to this interesting resource I do it myself now; Porting Windows Phone to Qt A rather cute way to escape your Windows Phone lock in :-) Read More

Today is the second and last day of the Calligra Words mini-sprint. After spending yesterdays first day on planing and implementation of decisions made we spent today on solving all kind of problems that showed up since then. Read More

Actually it's day #2 already since Boemann and myself already started hacking away yesterday evening when I arrived at his place in Denmark. The main goal of our small mini-sprint is to address the various problems we have within Calligra Words with anchors and anchoring objects and text running around such anchored objects. Read More

When I upgraded my KDE-setup to 4.7.0 I run into the problem that when starting the brand new KMail based upon Akonadi that the Nepomuk-feeder started to index my imap-folders. Read More

After a long time of bugfixing, adding missing features and improving Calligra in general the progress made on Calligra Words finally reached bronze status. Over the last months we got it managed to replace the previous layout-code with a new layout-engine that speeds up the layout-process by a factor of ~20. We where able to add nested tables, sections, different anchor-strategies and much more plus got the memory-consumption significant down. The effort to cleanup our source-code pays out in maintaining and extending the current base. Read More

End of last week the work done on the new textlayout-library got merged into the master-branch. Months of hard work on refactoring the basement Words, Stage and other Calligra applications are build up on got a face. While there still stays enough work we got beyond the mountain and are enjoying the fruits this brings us today and tomorrow. Read More

After day 0 on friday which I missed and day 1 on saturday where I joined the Calligra 2011 sprint in Berlin in the evening after a longer journay the last day of the sprint, day 2, is coming to and end. Read More

This weekend there will be the Calligra spring 2011 in Berlin in KDAB's office in berlin where I usually work and play kicker and table tennis all of the week. The irony is that I very likely will not make it to the sprint. I was visiting some friends in Koh Tao and I am now caught in a heavy storm in Koh Samui since more then a week now. My fly was canceled and the airport was closed, my visa was running out and cash problems raised up. While the later is solved now it's still unclear when and how I will be able to leave that island, head to Bangkok, pay for a new flight back to Berlin and finally be able to hack again. Within last days the streets here got float meters-high with water, the ocean was destroying large parts of the hotels near them and so we had to move from hotel to hotel in higher areas. In total more then 1500 ppl got evacuated from Samui and Tao alone and while the situation is better by every day and we even have power, warm water and Internet again I stay skeptic and wish I could be back again asap. In all those years I am traveling around the world that's the first time I will be damn happy to be home again. And who knows, with a bit of luck I will be able to join tomorrow or day after. Thinking of you, a Calligra hacker caught in heavy water. Read More

KMag used to zoom into part of the screen got just today an additional mode: Follow Focus Mode. That means that kmag can now follow either the mouse pointer or the keyboard cursor. Read More

For the case you, dear reader, are not subscribed to the KDE-accessibility mailinglist (tststs), we received a rather interesting mail just yesterday; Project Announce: AT-SPI D-Bus That project is done by codethink and sponsored by Nokia and Mozilla (and Novell seems to be in there somehow too). Result will be (hopefully) also that each Qt- and KDE-application will be able to access optional the same accessibility-infrastructure like e.g. GNOME is using today. For this Qt4 provides the Qt Accessibility framework and the best; no additional work at the application-level is needed (well, with some exceptions as usual). Read More

While a new law was accomplished that allows police to break into every house, install a trojan horse on our computer-systems and video-cams in our rooms to secret monitor us, others are on there way to ban internet-games they don't like or to just shut down wikipedia cause they can; Read More

If you like to laugh then the Apple presents the iRack clip may something for you - always again impressing how close political reality and good jokes can be :) Read More

Just two days ago I was still partly optimistic in the hope the ISO would do it's job. Yesterday we got it official, they don't. To break the own rule of consensus for things running though the fast-track process, to ignore all the provided feedback, to ignore any protest, to cloud as much of the decision-making as possible while hide-out any details or reasons leaves only one conclusion: The dying of the ISO starts... Read More

It's a while I blogged last time about the progress on the goggle summer of code project to Improve OpenDocument in KWord. Mainly cause after working on a lot of smaller things till the mid-term we picked one of the bigger tasks and spend last weeks on it: pagestyles also known as masterpages. Read More

Isn't it funny if you browse around the web and keep on to run into all those Eee-PC clones out there and note that nearly all of them are running KDE@Linux. Yet other examples I did run into are the Acer Aspire One and the ultra-mini PC. Both are running Linpus (a for small displays optimized GNU/Linux-distribution based on Fedora 8 ) with the "Friendly KDE desktop environment" :) Read More

While working on Improving OpenDocument in KWord for gsoc2008 we enjoyed today again one of this very productive pair-programming days. The todays goal was not that difficult: get those svg:x and svg:y positions for text-anchors (which are used to position frames like e.g. an image relative to there anchor) working. Read More

Just like last year the KDE-family did provide us again a gsoc-slot to work on Improve ISO OpenDocument support (in KOffice, particularly in KWord). Not only did the number of mentors drastically increased but personally I also had the feeling the number of very good proposals did. To be allowed to read all of them was such exciting that I found myself spending hours over hours on the huge list reading lots of proposals again and again just for fun. To be able to see such a pool of impressing ideas and developers was already reason enough for me to participate again as mentor rather then as student. Thanks to google for this unique opportunity! Read More

Imagine you have a family - so something like one wife, 1.5 children and a dog - and you decided that it's better to feed them at least once per day and to provide some kind of home to survive during the cold days. Read More

It is one case to walk through 7000 pages of rather technical documentation and to try to extract something useful out of it for a concrete question. It is another thing to look at the actual XML produced by the Microsoft Office 2007 suite. Read More

With the great intro provided about Plasma Packages to get Apple's Dashboard Widgets running, it follows a screenshot that shows SuperKaramba - yes, it works with legacy *.skz files. Read More

See http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/kde_3_5_8_on Seems it's possible to give OpenSolaris a try now where a recent KDE3-version is up and running there. Thanks for that SUN/Moinak :)

disclaimer: as usual this is a personal opinion and I am not that sure that everything was like I describe it now cause of some side-conditions. The last friday started just like one of those usual normal january-days not worth to be mention. Over the day I even got the impression its still one of those months where it's not worth to wake up in the morning and leave the warm and bright home to move into the cold and dark world outside there. Read More

Kross, the scripting framework, is one of the pillars new with KDE4. While the project started already a while back in 2004 it enveloped over the time to a rather big codebase. During the KDE4-process one of the main-goals was to decrease the codebase what can be even more difficult then writting new code. Read More

The image below shows the next generation KMLDonkey 2.0 from SVN running on KDE4. The whole port was done within around 3 days - KDE4 rocks :)

[disclaimer: this is a personal opinion and meaned to be sarcastic!] So, germany was voting with "yes" for the Microsoft XML2007 format. That may not new for those that did follow the worldwide ISO-adventure and that believe in the power of black suitcases. Read More

After providing last time a screenshot and a screencast (2.4MB, mpeg4) of SuperKaramba in action running the Aero AIO theme, here we go with a more concrete sample that connects SuperKaramba and Plasma together. Read More

SuperKaramba as Plasma Applet running 4 instances of the Aero AIO theme. Screenshot;

Once in a while we had an interesting pool about the Preferred Scripting Language where the result showed something of a concensus that Python and Ruby are the primary preferred scripting languages (from within those small list of possibilities the pool offered). Read More

Just some minutes ago the next generation of SuperKaramba got Ruby support. That means, you are able to use Python and Ruby to write your karamba's now. To try it out, fetch+install latest kdelibs, kdebindings/ruby/krossruby, kdeutils/superkaramba and run the Ruby clock sample with superkaramba --usekross clock.theme Read More

It's a while I blogged last time and a lot happened during that decade. So, let's summarize some lately highlights around the Kross Scripting Framework; The famous Superkaramba got Kross as optional backend and guess what, we got it managed to stay backward-compatible. For example Aero AIO and A-foto are already running with the next generation of Superkaramba with Kross. Fantastic work Alexander Wiedenbruch provided here. Read More

as someone who likes to spend his free time on developing in the KOffice project I am very much interessted in open standards. As we all know, KOffice was the first Office-suite that publicly announced support for OpenDocument. So, why not repeat that success-story again with OpenXML? I say it is possible and at following lines I'll show you how easy it is. Read More

In the category of scripting in KSpread 2.0 using Kross2 the KSpread 2.0 Scripting article provides an overview of what's possible with KSpread based on Qt4+KDE4 this days. Seems KOffice isn't that far away from world-domination :) Read More

While my account on kdedevelopers.org exists for quit a long time, I just got the feeling that it may an idea to blog a bit about the progress done lately on Kross, the scripting framework and in what direction it moves with kde4. Read More