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It looks like one of the recurrent problems of people using KDEPrint's more advanced features is with "number-up" printing, combined with "print duplex when I have a simplex printer" (yes, you can turn the stack of paper round and feed it a second time through the printer; hope and pray it doesn't munch it). This then piles up like here: Read More

Yes..the moment we release KBFX slik is down to hours. and we are working on the release and .getting the packages ready for you to download and install . and to give you a hands on experience of some things KDE4 plasma can bring you. While we finish up the work over here. we have a written a small booklet for you to read, about the up coming release . You can download the booklet in PDF format => KBFX Read More

Since many of you already noticed the lack of subversion updates, and also of the homepage too, i guess i should write it here too. Yes, development is currently suspended (again). I've some university exams until 15/02/2007, so probably there will be no more updates until then. I must anyway tell you i'm quite disappointed. After all these years, kmobiletools still is a one-man project. It's shameful in my point of view that if someone is busy, for study, work, real life, or (why not) a girlfriend, the entire project freezes. Even if i'm studying, i'm still here to encourage and give some references to a brave developer, so there's no point in totally stopping development. Also some time ago i received some mobile phones kindly donated (look here), so there's also this resource available. It's open source: no secret development, no private servers.. everything is on the public kde svn, so why not keeping an eye on it? So this is the point: i'll be back soon, but in the meantime, try thinking on helping this project too. Read More

I was doing a bit of historical work today. While moving the content of the old KOrganizer home page to the Kontact web site I came across all kinds of interesting stuff of the past which I had completely forgotten. When I told Adriaan about the news entry on the KOrganizer web page from almost seven years ago that reported about me becoming KOrganizer maintainer, he quickly put on his SVN statistics guru hat and digged up some interesting numbers. Boy are we a bunch of oldtimers. Read More

It's again time for some Kickoff news: the video of the talk Coolo gave at aKademy 2006 is finally online since start of this year. The work/suse_kickoff/ branch in SVN saw no activity since mid-November as we branched it to work/suse_kickoff_qstyle/ branch at that time to reimplement the tabbing with QTabWidget - still other distros shipping with Kickoff and Kickoff packages for distros seem to continue to ship the old pixmap based version. You will find bugfixes and the new options only in the new branch! Read More

#140006: Yesterday I received an e-Mail from a user who asked to keep his name and affiliation confidential. He is involved in preparations for a rather large Windows --> Linux/KDE migration, involving several thousand workstations, most of them in a managed KIOSK environment. They'll not be ready before 12 months from now for the first serious rollout, but they are already testing with KDE 3.5.3. Once they are ready, he hopes to be able to use KDE 3.5.5 or 3.5.6 (should it ever happen). They'll *not* use KDE 4.0, even if it were released this autumn, and it will be at least 3 years before they'd ever consider to use any 4.0.x version. And here is what he said about KDEPrint: Read More

It's the fifth time that I'm at Osnabrueck, always for the same reason, the KDE PIM meeting we hold each January since 2003. So now it's the fifth meeting and that's a small anniversary. As always the meeting is hosted by Intevation. Many thanks to them for doing this for five years in a row. It always has been great. Read More

The dot story about KWord/KOffice was received pretty well. We hit 100 comments just now :) One thing that people noted was that the screenshots we posted were not the best quality they could be. There are various font rendering issues that show up in them. We basically got lots of people shout at us for promissing better font technology while the same basic problems we had in the 1.x series showed up! Read More

... my nephew Lino Vincent was born on November 13th and I met him first over christmas. This is my current wallpaper (and people knowing my screens will notice a massive change :): Read More

The last few days I ploughed through the KDEPrint bugs. This should serve the same purpose as outlined in my last blog entry: to make it more easy for the real coders to see the valid and important bugs (we're short of people who've enough time to work on KDEPrint code for KDE4). Read More