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At UDS in Barcelona we again bemoaned that nobody had done the work to integrate OpenOffice with KDE 4. So elite Kubuntu developers Roman Shtylman and Yuriy Kozlov put their heads in their laptops. They have only just resurfaced, successful and triumphant with Roman having done most of the widget and dialogue integration work and Yuiry porting the Oxygen icon theme to OpenOffice's obscure icon format. Read More

Since Kendy's blog has somehow disappeared from Planet KDE, let me copy&paste one entry (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/archives/monthly/2009-06.html#2009-06-15T14_37_23.htm): Thanks to the heroic efforts of Éric Bischoff, Bernhard Rosenkränzer, and Roman Shtylman, the OpenOffice.org KDE Integration has been ported to KDE4. It still has some rough edges (currently the detection does not work out of the box—you have to export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 to get it), but it is safe because it co-exists nicely with the existing KDE3 integration; so if you are not satisfied, you are able just swich back to KDE3 (export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde). For KDE4, Roman is also changing the out-of-process implementation of the KDE file picker to an in-process implementation, so you'll probably notice some performance improvement of the KDE file dialog launch too :-) End of copy&paste. For people who'd be interested in helping with this, I've been told those should join #go-oo on Freenode.

The last three years have been no fun in the history of KPhotoAlbum. We have been struggling with porting KPhotoAlbum to Qt4/KDE4. During that period we for sure have lost many users that got bored from the lack of releases, and also many contributors that got fat up by listening to me saying no, no, no and no again to new features. Read More

I found out today that two of my colleagues in the office have the same problem with Firefox - when clicking on a link in a mail client, their open Firefox is brought to the current desktop from wherever it was before. Rather annoying I guess (especially for the normal mode of operation with Firefox, keep-it-running-all-the-time-on-its-virtual-desktop), and I bet they've lived with that for quite some time already. Read More

When you develop a language binding you never know what sort of thing people will develop with them, and it's really fun when people turn up with something. Yesterday I was chatting with Tobias Kappe on irc and he mentioned his Selene project that allows you to create dialogs in C# that are toolkit independent. Read More

Canonical's online services team wants to hire a KDE developer to work on cool Kubuntu online services integration. Amazing what you find on identi.ca.

On Sunday the work continued at a furious pace. Dario carried on moving the connection list generating code out of the applet and into the KDED module. This makes the applet much simpler and easier for Plasma specialists to improve. We considered using a Plasma DataEngine or Service, but decided not to for now because it adds another layer of indirection. For NetworkManager at least, if the settings service process leaves the system bus (due to a deliberate or accidental exit) you fall offline. The settings service and Plasma are both complex programs, so combining them increases the chances that a bug in one can crash the other. So we put it in a different process, forcing one layer of indirection already. Read More

I felt like the grumpy grandpa of the NM sprint when the others hammered on my door at 9.30am after I'd rolled over for just another 10 minutes two hours earlier. The grey cells do still work once you hit your thirties but they need more care and feeding if I want to be able to speak intelligibly the next morning - not going to rock bars until 3am! Read More

Just pictures this time. For text see very detailed (b)log about the meeting by Hanna. (KoGroupPhoto) (KDE4 everywhere)

Yesterday I arrived in Oslo just in time for pizza and talking to Will, Darío, Thiago, Olivier, Knut and the students working on mobile broadband connections. We had a great time so far, discussing apis and cleanup of our network manager bits. Working with Will and Darío is fun! We kept planning even on our little bar prowl with Olivier. Darío and I kept giggling about the never ending night. Three in the morning felt like late afternoon... Good thing we came during the summer to visit Oslo. Now it's time to start improving the applet and libs after a great breakfast. Time to get some work done ;) Read More