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BTW, new Qt4.3's QWizards's field system (see QWizard::field()) looks really useful. It is a clean version of approach to the one we discussed last year -- where we refer to pages/data widgets by name (or ID) and not by pointer. Read More

( For english speakers, translation will follow soon portuguese entry ) Bom, acredito que a maioria dos interessados nessa arena de programação do FISL devem já ter recebido o recente comunicado sobre premiações e desafios que pretendem colocar. Eu fui pessoalmente convidado, com outros colegas brasileiros do projeto KDE para ajudarmos na mesma, sendo que somente eu poderei estar presente esse ano. Para tanto, tive que fazer algumas considerações sobre o planejamento original da arena como nos foi requisitado. Foi aventado a possibilidade de colocar no contest uma certa quantidade de bugs do KDE ( também Gnome e Debian ) como os ítens de resolução. Poderia ser até uma boa idéia, porém estamos falando de um torneio de tempo curto e seria muito difícil que os participantes, salvo excessões, tivessem conhecimento básico de tecnologia KDE e Gnome, e ainda mais sobre específica distribuição como Debian ( assumindo que todos os participantes usem no seu dia a dia a distribuição ). Foi de comum acordo entre o grupo que não seria viável simplesmente escolher bugs do KDE e separá-los por dificuldade, ainda mais se decidiríamos por kde 3 o kde 4. Isso é irreal no espaço de tempo curto envolvido. Eu me ofereci prontamente para ajudar no último dia se necessário, porém meu planejamento pessoal envolve, com muito gosto, ser o "tech news man" para o br-linux, o qual o Augusto já tinha me convidado a tempos, portanto, meu tempo está reduzido em relação as atividades extras e as pessoais. Mas de novo, me coloquei a disposição de poder ajudar, mesmo quem sabe ajudando a avaliar problemas reais e factíveis da arena, para que realmente possamos encontrar bons programadores, porque quem vive nesse ramo aqui, sabe como isso é escasso e raro... Read More

I've recently been working on a little Rails app that manages foreign exchange handling, and prints reports. I'm converting an existing Excel based app that does the same thing, and I needed to get data from a spreadsheet to use as test data. So I fired up OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet, it loaded it fine, and even had KDE file dialogs which is nice. I looked for an option the export to CSV (comma separated values), but there were only options for PDF and xhtml. Read More

My Cool Discovery of Today: A few days ago a few little known Chinese friends of KDE must have translated the "Getting Started/Build/KDE4"-page on the TechBase wiki into Chinese ("zh_CN"; AFAIK, this is the "Simplified Chinese" as used on mainland China). My Uncool (but Confirmed) Apprehension of Today: On one system (not mine) where I tried it, Konqueror can't print nor print-preview the page correctly; while Firefox on the same system *can* (should I say: "...of course"?!) do it... So don't tell me "You don't have the Chinese fonts on that system -- they need to be installed". See also.... Read More

So I now have a semi-working notebook for private Linux/KDE purposes again. May be able to build my own version (and follow the development of KDE(4)) again.... Paid 150.- EUR. Got it with a 120 GByte harddisk. It's a HP nx5000 model (same thing as 30 participants of aKademy 2005 [Ludwigsburg] may be familiar with). But it came with a specific, known kaputt-ness: Read More

The notebook mentioned in my last blog: yesterday it got an openSUSE-10.2 installation completed. What tempted me most in favor of openSUSE, was that I had read about their "build service", and that they offer regularly updated KDE4 snapshot RPMs from there, which possibly can save me lots of compile time while I familiarize myself again what's current with KDE developments. Read More

Even less known than that there are RepoView pages created in every OBS repository's repodata/ sub-directory seems to be that there is also a latest-feeds.xml file which you can subscribe to with your feed reader. For example, for KDE:Community and openSUSE 10.2, this is the RepoView page and this the latest changes feed it links to.

If you would have been around in the KWord 1.0 days you would remember that a big influence in the industry was by Framemaker. And for a reason; it has always been the only GUI application capable of holding a whole book, including lots of images and complex features. The set of features was well thought out and based on a decade of experience. Read More

I've committed a new widget to KOffice which is a combobox-like widget consisting of a numeric input and a slider that pops up. The really neat thing about this new widget is that it's themeable right out of the box because I've reused QStyle to draw it. Read More

There were at least 17 internal test releases since December 2006 in my company before so called 2007.1 release emerged (in user-oriented naming scheme). Dealing with customers is going pretty well - people (including those from the USA) have inexpensive tech support and extensions on request. Read More