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Well, at least according to css3.info . It is nice to when the changes you make, make a splash :D Though seriously the most unique CSS 3 support we have are the CSS 3 Selectors I have meddled with for two years, the rest is mainly imported from WebKit in some form (such as text-overflow:ellipsis and CSS 3 Background and Borders), sometimes the imports has been easy sometimes painfull. Read More

After almost a year of I am working on the Qt3 D-Bus bindings again. The past week I have been fiercely working on getting them in shape for the requirement of the D-Bus based DAPI implementation on KDE3. Read More

Canonical sent its distro team to Oslo last week, to spend the time locked in a hotel room making sure all the Feisty feature goals got done. I worked on the dist-upgrade tool and the software-properties apt sources.list editor, as well as finishing and uploading KDE 3.5.6 and KDevelop 3.4. The tricky part with the dist-upgrade tool is patching konsole to be able to attach to an existing pty (from apt), fortunately mvo was a here there and dived into the meaty code of kpty. The result is that upgrading from edgy to feisty should be much smoother than from dapper to edgy. Read More

I forgot to blog about this: I'm not giving up maintainership of Gwenview anymore, in fact it has been decided that Gwenview will move to kdegraphics for KDE4! This is what I call great news! Read More

Yes, pinotree, PDFedit is one of the two applications I discovered a few weeks ago when I searched Google for PDF manipulation tools... :-) (I'm really curious if you'd know about the other one already -- but that's a few days away to blog about. Today is about PDFedit.) Read More

Readers of my blog will know it already: Linux printing is geared to move towards PDF to make it its core spooling and job processing format. (This won't happen over night, and this won't make PostScript printing any harder, so don't worry). That was what the overall consensus was at last year's Linux Desktop Printing Summit in Atlanta, where developers from CUPS, Linuxprinting.org, FreeStandards.org, Freedesktop.org, OpenPrinting.org, OpenUsability.org, Ghostscript, Scribus, KDE, Gnome, Redhat, SUSE, Ricoh, Lanier, HP, Xerox, IBM, Mandriva, Debian, Mozilla and Sun sat together for 3 days, exchanged ideas and discussed how to move forward. Read More

In November, OpenUsability announced six mentored projects for students of usability, user interface design, interaction design, or related. We received applications from all over the world - New Zealand, India, South Africa, Europe, South America, USA and Canada. Most of the applicants were highly skilled, and it was sometimes difficult to take a decision. Finally, the following teams formed up: Read More

Over at the CUPS mailing lists/forums, an ongoing discussion thrashes out some changes that will affect the future of Linux desktop printing. One point is about the "Foomatic" drivers. This driver family is not "native" to CUPS -- Foomatic is a clever trick to plug Ghostscript as an add-on into the CUPS filtering system. So the question was, how could they blend into CUPS in a more harmoneous way? What could be done to not cause so many support calls for Easy Software Products complaining about Foomatic drivers, which they don't develop, and don't offer support for? (ESP is the company of Mike Sweet, the main CUPS author). Read More

<img src="http://www.okular.org/screenies/okular-backend-djvu-1.thumb.png" align="right" width="110" height=86" hspace="10" /> As you might know, okular supports a number of file formats. One of the formats it supports is [w:DjVu|DjVu], as you can see in the screenshot. Read More

I finally find out recordMyDesktop and played a bit with it. Animations are a bit boring as PNG images after all. Too bad the recording seems to take up quite some resources and the videos look a bit jerky because of that (GeForce2 is not that slow :) ). I had to intentionally make some of the things slower and take longer and it still looks worse than in reality. Oh well. Ok, some new things in kwin_composite from Rivo Laks, Philip Falkner and yours truly: Read More