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You may (or may not) know that Okular can read the Oasis Open Document format (aka OpenOffice.org text format or OpenDocument). It doesn't render the document exactly as oowriter would, but it is quite a bit faster to start up :-) I tried to open an encrypted document with it though, and it failed. A couple of evenings later, and I have a patch that "fixes" Okular. Read More

Torsten, the evil marble-mind tries to take over the world, but that's old news (pun where?). He talked me into getting hot new stuff support into Marble. That was real easy... except of course that marble has all this custom stuff to be a pure qt app. Well it works now. You can get a very nice map of crustal ages of the earth there now. Don't ask me what it actually shows, I guess the legend has to be adjusted a bit ;) Read More

Defining more than one pattern for a Build Service project finally works after some bugfixes by Michael. :-) [image:3152 size=preview hspace=50] Above you see how we use it in the KDE:KDE4 project, eg "KDE 4.0 Build Dependencies" lists all packages you need to have installed for compiling KDE 4.0 from source.

[image:3150 align=left size=thumbnail hspace=20] As you can see in this image, I managed to get plasma to run on a Neo1973 phone (using an openmoko image for the rest of the software). The only changes I needed to make to kde code where changes related to qreal not being a double on an ARM processor (except of course some hacks to actually make it cross compilable).

Good Morning Friends, do join us in a few hours for these fine IRC tutorials. And congratulations to Trolltech for including parts of Qt in KDE's svn for the first time. Even closer cooperation with our favourite framework authors is worth getting up early in the morning to publish the story for.

One picture is worth more than 10 words, but that's the limit for a blog entry :)

I posted this to k-c-d a couple days ago, but it generated zero response, so I thought I'd post it to the ol' blog in case any non k-c-d types might be interested. Read More

That went well. We even had some of SuSE's finest drop by, were they picking up tips? :) Logs available now.

Today Dutch parliament discussed plans of the ministry of Economic Affairs to encourage Free and Open Source Software in government. All major parties seem to understand the issues. Even news agencies are talking about 'vrije software' which is the right term ('Vrije' means 'free as in freedom'). Read More

KDE 4.0 RC 2 has been released so it's time for a new version of the most comprehensive KDE4 Live-CD: [image:3140 size=original hspace=50]