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One of the things we wanted to do in KOffice is to use Krita when printing images from KWord. The reason for this are a couple, but the most important being that we want to have just one way to do printing of images and not waste time maintaining a more than one. Naturally the option to let Krita convert the images to CMYK while printing (as soon as QPrinter supports that) sounds like a nice to have as well. Read More

Today one of my hack week projects went online: openSUSE News. Actually I have been working on it together with Robert Lihm already before and finished it only after. :-) The openSUSE project missed a news portal for a long time. An announce mailing list isn't really the same, also because people cannot comment directly. And we plan to have much more content about openSUSE and its people on the openSUSE News site than on the announce mailing list. Read More

Some weeks ago KOffice alpha1 got tagged; but some balls were dropped and it never was uploaded to the ftp site. The good news is that even more new cool stuff is visible in the KOffice Alpha2 which will probably come out end of August. Read More

Being in the area I wandered down to GUADEC, the Gnome conference. I sidled past the registration desk where people were grudgingly paying their entrance fee (in return for free t-shirts) said hi to assorted Ubuntu people (and Hub in his KDE t-shirt) and went to find the talks. "xcomposite, xdamage, xrender, gtk+" bravely tried to explain what all these fangled X extentions do. Turns out xcomposite doesn't compose, xdamage has a cool name and then I got a bit lost but it seems these days everyone just uses openGL anyway. Read More

First, did I say thank you to Kenny Duffus in this blog? Then Big Thanks Kenny, and the Akademy 2k7 Team! There were hacking days @ Akademy but also at least two hacking midnights; the latter (after moving out from Glasgow's Free House pub) was used by me and Holger Schröder to realize what can be wrong at run time in case of larger KDE apps. Read More

Did you ever feel bothered by a wrong suggestion of the text completion after having entered a typo in an application name, web page url or some web form entry before? So did I regularly and the only GUI-way to "correct" it until now was to clear all entries via the context menu's "Clear History". Not really a satisfying solution. :-) Read More

I moved my blog from kdedevelopers.org to wordpress.com. The new address is http://agateau.wordpress.com. This new blog will stay KDE focused, but will also include more general geek stuff and real-life news. I just posted my first KDE related blog entry. It's about the new way to save images in Gwenview. I am eagerly waiting for Planet KDE readers to check and comment :-)

In order to heal some of my procrastination-induced bruises, I decided to do a little social experiment, that tends to prove to myself (once again) that we, humans, are inherently good, only sometimes misguided (read below for the excitement). Read More

The last couple of days [1] I've been working on bi-directional text in KWord. KOffice as a whole is aimed to be used worldwide, in all sorts of environments and it has to be usable for all sorts of scripts and languages. I'm proud to tell you that the todo list on getting that done is starting to be really really small. Read More

I have been working on providing Microsoft Exchange capability for Akonadi on-and-off for a while. It is coming together - I can suck messages off the server into akonadiconsole. More on that later (or as part of the commit-digest, perhaps). Read More