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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

In two and half weeks the likely biggest Linux Event kicks off: LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. Four days of exhibition and more talks (the organizers say 240, German/English mixed) than ever before. I plan to be around all the time. :-) Read More

Just want to point out four improvements of the YaST Qt package selector in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 that were missing too long, much requested (at least by me) and now added :-) : Read More

...that's what my friends all call me. Actually they don't but since I am a huge fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd and this blog entry is closely related to the previous one I am (ab-)using yet another of their song titles. Read More

Ok, we all know, blogs are the new mailing lists, so here just some quick comments from my side on all the release-cycle stuff. About being in sync with releases of other projects: I am caring for our buildsystem which uses CMake, so the releases of CMake and KDE matter to me. I want to provide a stable (as in "not chanigng too often") build environment. If project A (KDE) depends on project B (CMake), it doesn't help project A anything if it's releases are in sync with project B. Why ? Because, well, in order to have a stable environment I don't want to force developers to have to update their cmake from non-distro packages (the binary cmake packages provided by Kitware work flawlessly on all systems I tested so far, btw). This is frustrating ("damn, which package do I have to update today to make KDE build again ?") and takes away a lot of time (not for a single developer, but accumulated for all). So, before we (KDE) require a new version of CMake, I personally want this not to happen before that version of cmake is shipped by the most common distros (i.e. a few months after its release). So I see also a value in not depending on always the latest and greatest releases of other projects. Read More

[image:3453 size=original nolink=1 node=3453] I've worked a bit on the scale dialog for Krita. Neither the old one from the 1.x series nor the new one in current KOffice2 alpha releases were good enough. I've mailed a bit with Ellen which only confirmed that it is indeed a difficult dialog to get right. Read More

The usual monthly game: a new KDE bugfix release, openSUSE packages and a new Live-CD which as already said looks more and more less like KDE 4.0 but like our openSUSE 11.0 KDE4 desktop (while still being based on openSUSE 10.3): Read More

I have had so much struggle finding a decent html editor that I finally wrote one on my own: mozilla composer cannot handle the fish://-protocol openoffice dito quanta crashes when it sees me I finally started using kword, which cost me several months of fighting and finally even contributing code, but there are too many problems for using it where I work. OK, so I started khtmledit - the wysiwyg html editor that has everything you need (if it does not have anything - you don't need that ;) First, here is how it looks: Read More

Qt 4.4 brings lots of goodness. Packages are now entering hardy-backports. If you want the latest unstable trunk Qt, kdelibs, kdebase and amarok on a regular basis without the hassle of compiling it yourself, project Neon has a Launchpad Personal Package Archive with regular builds. Read More

From the cross-blogging department, Qt 4.4 has been released and is entering Factory for openSUSE 11.0 with packages for older openSUSE releases being available in KDE:Qt44 (this will move sooner or later to KDE:Qt). Dirk Müller thinks that's boring news as "everyone has packages of it" and I should rather mention that he has created packages from Qt 4.5 development snapshot within the KDE:Qt45 Build Service repository.