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Yet another blog entry that comes after some time, so usual the apologize for the silence (in the rare case you missed me, of couse). As also written in the KDE Commit Digest of two weeks ago, I started working again on the multimedia support in Okular. Read More

The fact that day by day, new people try to use free software or free operating systems (like GNU/Linux) is a good thing, and we all know that. Something is supposed to help in the process is also the set of the various communities: GNU/linux distributions, applications, etc. Though, this is also something really delicate, where everybody invloved should (IMHO) be careful in what is shown towards the new comers. Read More

Taking the idea of this entry from this album of Queen, I am going to show you some of the new stuff you will see in Okular for KDE 4.1. The development is pretty active, also on other parts that bring benefits to Okular. Read More

So, as I said previously, I'm at FOSDEM right now, sitting in the KDE boot, with some Amarok guys, Joos demo'ing all around, Marijn working on KDE and Adriaan hacking on the KDE4-branded SOLARIS thin client. Read More

Another day, another set of interesting talks out of the over 200 here at FOSDEM. First, I had a look at what the KDE guys at OpenSuSE are doing for KDE 4: plans to ship KDE 4.0.1 (or better, .2 as soon as it is released), whith some concerns about eg KDE PIM. Was also nice to know that they are working on porting the KDE 3 applications developed by their developers to KDE 4: KNetworkManager (using NetworkManager 0.7), Kerry (using a Xesam interface, thus more generic), KPowerSave, etc. Read More

This is what I was able to see this morning, out of the window in my new Dutch apartment. As ERASMUS student, two weeks ago I moved to Leiden for my studies, and here I am, facing myself with the Dutch environment. And its weather as well, that today kindly remember that we are still in winter. (Although last weekend was really nice, sunny and warm.) Read More

One of the objective we (as Okular[1] team) had for KDE 4 was bringing a public API for developers to expand the Okular formats easily, with no need to add new stuff into a single application. The result (obviously not perfect) is what we hope to be a good base for people to have their document formats shown in a single application, without caring about writing code for the user interface. As usual, just let us know if there is any need or problem ;) Read More

Like many other things, okular used the sidebar KPDF had, adding tabs with new stuff (like the Review pane and the Bookmarks panel). Now, the problem is that the implementation for these sidebars was all but a real solution. In the past, and especially yesterday, our usability expert Florian pointed me the issues of it. Read More

Here it is, KDE 4.0 beta 1. Finally. I won't describe all the new features this beta comes with, as there are better people (random example) able to speak at least 10 times than what i would be able to do :-P Read More

Time, going fast with no way to be stopped, relentlessly going on and on over our existences... Ok ok, stopping the philosophy now ;) The fact is that my last blog entry is about 5 (!, yeah) months ago, and of course many things happened during these months. Read More

... many things happens, uhm... the start of support of PDF forms. But let's start explaining piece by piece. :) Thanks to the work of Bradh Hards and Jiri Klement, the [w:XML_Paper_Specification|XPS] backend of okular has been improved a lot. It can now render pages in a way that starts to match to the expected behaviour, and get some information from the documents. Read More

<img src="http://www.okular.org/screenies/okular-backend-djvu-1.thumb.png" align="right" width="110" height=86" hspace="10" /> As you might know, okular supports a number of file formats. One of the formats it supports is [w:DjVu|DjVu], as you can see in the screenshot. Read More

So, in line with the articles written by TSDgeos, I'll continue talking about the work done in okular. A reason more to do that is that people ask about the work we are doing in okular, and about the new stuff we've done, so why don't let people know? ;-) Read More

Here we are. Some people told me a blog would have been a nice idea, so let's try this adventure, I'm sure it will be fun :-) I'll talk about my KDE development, about okular, and of course about any other thing that I might want to talk about. It's my blog, isn't it? ;-) Of course, don't expect too much from me, as I'm not a so great talker like many other people around ;-) As a first entry, I'd like to thank the fantastic KDE community and all the people in it: the support you can get is great - thanks! Read More