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Well, time for exams has come, only a few days and i'll be killed... err.. i mean.. oh.. whatever :D I really don't feel to much ready, but we'll see.. maybe i'll be lucky now. The nice news is that, whatever will be exams result, i'll restart coding on KMobileTools, probably after july the 20th. Please, please, please: we REALLY need help, so if anyone would like to help us coding please contact me. Read More

The 1.5 series of KOffice has been a good one for the suite; with several new applications and a much improved stablity for its main applications one thing became clear, we got new people that started working on KOffice. You have to admit; for such a small team of people its a pretty big suite to maintain. After all we truthfully state we have the suite with the most components on our website!. Read More

Last month I complained about Apache refusing to support OpenDocument. It seems there is progress in this area now that Eben Moglen published a legal opinion on behalf of the Free Software Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation giving OpenDocument a clean bill of legal health. Read More

A coworker and I recently started a website where we host the various opensource tweaks we write for our company, Dental On Line. There is not a lot available right now, but you can already find a few KDE patches: Read More

The community was confused. The press was confused. The SUSE Linux Enterprise customers were confused. So it has been decided that the next release of what has been famous as SUSE Linux distribution will be renamed to openSUSE 10.2 to end this confusion. Hopefully everyone will be happy now? Read More

As some might have noticed, KWin is supposed to get compositing support, allowing a wider range of various effects and replacing KDE3.x's separate kompmgr (developed by Thomas Lübking, based on the original xcompmgr, and according to e.g. this doing rather well for its time). This is in line with today's general belief that compositing managers should not be separate but part of window managers, as it allows for example better syncronization of effects and their wider range (and it will also allow us to get rid of the plain C that kompmgr is, bleh). Read More

I don't think there're more words to say.. I also changed "just a bit" KMobileTools HomePage theme.. enjoy :)

In KOffice the flake library for shapes is taking a much clearer form now KWord is actually really using them. Details like shape-configuration widgets have been flashed out. A tricky think considering its plugins based. In the last weeks I've also been working on getting a text-shape operable. Its pretty cool to have a couple of text-frames as you know them from KWord, but you can edit the text even while its rotated or skewed. Much more work has to be done to enable real DTP like features, though. Read More

Open document format is that new fileformat for Office suites, ISO certified and genuinely an open standard. Its been busy in ODF land, since early may the ISO certification came through we have seen the market accept this standard in an amazing speed. Governments are not well known for moving fast, and yet we have this long list of successes. Read More

With Qt-4.2, we finally get back the flexbility of adding arbitrary widgets to action containers like toolbars and menus, via the new QWidgetAction class. For QToolbar, there was already a workaround for this in the addWidget() function, but there was no way to add a widget to a menu. Read More