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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

So, for me the KDE four core meeting in Trysil has finished today. It was an amazing experience, meeting people for the first time and seeing what we could do when we concentrated (most) all of our efforts on improving KDE4. Read More

I get so seldom to blog about such an important topic as Accessibility, but I think this is worth noting: Gunnar's IRC client is reading incoming messages alound using kttsd and it's puzzling the first time you hear it, but after some time you notice how much fun is related to it. Just see here (slightly edited) Read More