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It been a while since the last time I wrote something in here. I spent the last few months mostly dealing with personal stuffs and so far I think I'm on the right track. I hope soon to be free of some [:/node/2523|bullshit] I had the infinite pleasure to deal with last Fall, I will probably blog again about this later. So now maybe I will have time to program something I don't know what yet . Read More

June 21th 2005 was the day KOffice released version 1.4. I highlight that release because it was the first release where KOffice switched its native format to the OpenDocument Format. That would become an official ISO standard in May 2006. The direct gains may be that there is no conversion step required in loading docs from other application in their native format, but the long term gains are much more substantial. Being able to work with all the industry leaders on the creation and maintenance of the format (and there are quite a lot in the Technical Committee of ODF) allows us to level the playing field and let office applications compete on features and ease of use instead of on who uses what suite and what your partners have chosen. This means real competition where the end user is the clear winner with lower prices for better quality software. It won't surprise you that I believe that KOffice has the upper hand due to its superior design and foundation. Read More

eloquent rants are actually nice to read :) This is a nice one on how media spin can not only point fingers at innocent people, it can also mask the evildoings of the real culprits; Read More

An e-mail out of the blue and within an hour of a reply saying I liked the idea, Akademy is hosting the Text Layout Summit 2007. This will be a really exciting event for the specialist but important area of text layout. The one last year in Boston has an impressive list of attendees from Qt, Pango, KWord, DejaVu, fontconfig, Scribus and others. It'll be really great to have KDE developers mixing with those from other projects just as we will have on the Tuesday at the Edu and School Day. Register by Monday is you want us to book your accommodation. Read More

Just to keep you informed: the KDE sysadmin team is working on migrating our svn server to subversion 1.4. If you look for an howto on this you will find "dump and load" - aka svnadmin dump old | svnadmin load new. Nothing fancy. So I started this on my workstation (having had it pimped in april I thought it's good enough) and waited... 13 days. Now I need another day to load the revisions of that 13 days into the repository. Read More

I did a presentation on compositing managers at the local LinuxExpo last week. Using kwin_composite for demonstrations. And KWin actually did its job quite fine (although it had taken quite some effort to get it there, with KWin being almost ready for it for more than a week). What did somewhat worse was the human factor - having more than 20 shortcuts wasn't a very good idea and failing to show the final and best feature because the bloody modifier was supposed to be Ctrl was a bit embarrassing. Oh well. C'est la vie. The good thing is that there are more things to show. Read More

Ubuntu Open Week is happening again with lots of interesting talks and Q & A sessions with la creme de Ubuntu developers. Tomorrow at 21:00 UTC (and again on Thursday) imbrandon tells us all about Kubuntu and how you can help out with the groovyest distro around. Read More

New KDE Four Live CDs are online. The last week unmentioned problem with squashfs which led me to uploading a "DVD.iso" is history, now you can get the same content of a typical desktop setup in a 477MB ISO. Additionally I wanted to produce a DVD which contains all the kde* modules and koffice: to my surprise the ISO stayed within CD size with just 655MB. I guess the effort to have a more lean base system and patterns available in openSUSE 10.3 already pays off. So this time there are two CDs flavors available and no DVD. :-)

The first KMail hacking day is coming to a close. It has been a fun time -- working with many oldtime PIMsters and several new contributors as well. I noticed that KOrganizer was getting a little attention too. Read More

I've just got hello world working with the KDE4 version of the ruby korundum bindings. Here's what it looks like: require 'korundum4' aboutData = KDE::AboutData.new( "tutorial1", "Tutorial 1", "1.0", "KMessageBox popup", KDE::AboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" ) KDE::CmdLineArgs.init(ARGV, aboutData) app = KDE::Application.new guiItem = KDE::GuiItem.new( "Hello", "", "this is a tooltip", "this is a whatsthis" ) KDE::MessageBox.questionYesNo( nil, "Hello World", "Hello", guiItem ) Read More