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as someone who likes to spend his free time on developing in the KOffice project I am very much interessted in open standards. As we all know, KOffice was the first Office-suite that publicly announced support for OpenDocument. So, why not repeat that success-story again with OpenXML? I say it is possible and at following lines I'll show you how easy it is. Read More

Yesterday, I compiled KDE4 and ported the jstream kioslave to it. This means that now you can open email attachements or embedded files in any KDE application without writing a temporary copy. The screenshot below shows konqueror with a treeview of the testdata that comes with Strigi. You can see that the sizes and modification times of the files are displayed properly. Read More

Now that Krita 1.6.1 has been out for a little while, I think it's time to bring the Search for Artwork under the attention of the public again. In order to have some nice content for the Krita website, we are looking for people that can create some nice artwork with Krita. So if you made some nice drawing with Krita, there's always the possibility that it can get featured on the Krita site. Read More

For KOffice2 we had a huge todo list. Where various core technologies are in need of basically a rewrite. For KWord the most interresting one is the text-engine. The old one had serious problems and using Qt4 would allow me to write a better one in not too much time. The progress on the new text engine is proceeding nicely, with just some advanced features missing like variables and inline images. The text engine will now support styles much better then the previous one did; with character styles being available as the biggest change. Read More

Novell Open Audio has a new half an hour episode about the openSUSE 10.2 release featuring openSUSE evangelist Martin Lasarsch (and also a new mention of the missed KDE episode).

This evening I've created a new klik recipe, for Opera 9.1. It makes the klik client fetch from Opera's download site their current weekly snapshot of the upcoming 9.1 release and transform it into a typical "1 application == 1 file == 1 click to download+run" klik bundle. Read More

As I predicted, the offer of game porting specialist Runesoft to do a Linux port of "Ankh" if at least 200 pre-orders could be achieved, has been met with sufficient demand on the side of Linux gamers. Read More

The openSUSE 10.2 Release Guide is a nice description of the openSUSE 10.2 goodies whose box edition is meanwhile also listed by shops (North America/World Wide, Germany). I updated my popular VMware image to KDE 3.5.5 with KOffice 1.6 on an openSUSE 10.2 base. If you did not play with the new KDE start menu Kickoff and Kerry yet, now you have no excuse anymore! :-) Read More

Having been working on Gwenview for six years, I finally came up with the decision that it was time to move on. It has been a tough decision, but I realize I don't have enough free time to manage such a project by myself anymore. If you want to know more, have a look at the message I posted to the mailing list. Read More

Diary entry for Dec 12, 2006. OpenOffice.org version 2.1 has been released. 1st Question: Is there available, or will there be a suitable OOo 2.1 RPM package for my good ol' SuSE 9.1 box? 1st Answer: No, there is none, and most likely there will never be one. SuSE/Novell don't support that "old" system any longer. 1st Solution: Download probono's ready-made klik package from the klik website and use this. Works like a charm for me, on SuSE 9.1. 1st Consequences, (I): Makes me loudly shout "Cool!" and "Great..." and "Oh look! They've improved their PDF export here!" 1st Consequences, (II): My guttural noises poke my collegue's curiosity, who now starts to look on the web for native packages of his Linux test system. Read More