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Microsoft have been working on a PDF competitor, call XPS (for [w:XML Paper Specification|XML Paper Specification]). Basically, it gives you a way to represent a printable document (as in a traditional document made up of a number of pages) in XML. Read More

I released this week the current KDE SVN version as Kerry 0.2 Beta because not much progress will happen the next two weeks: coding part of a KDE improvement project together with the usability experts of my SUSE team started and a long-planned week of vacation (for recreation, while others will heavily hack in Norway :-) ). Read More

If you don't understand the title of this blog, have a look at this entry in Adrian blog... So here is Clara in action: [image:2132] "Do not disturb me, I'm busy hacking with my father..." Read More

A few days ago I was looking at Gwenview NEWS file. That's when I noticed how much time has passed since I last released a new version. Seems like becoming a father has a bad effect on my "free time productivity" (still I enjoy it, don't worry!). Read More

[2] Restoring the client side CUPS printer browsing ability My last blog entry outlined how Ubuntu users can restore the CUPS web interface to full functionality. The next one will explain how they can setup network printer auto-discovery goodness into their CUPS installation, a feature that was artificially crippled by their distro's packagers. This one investigates the "printer browsing" settings presented by Ubuntu, and demonstrates how to set them back to a fully functional (and more secure) mode. [image:2120 align="right" size="preview" hspace=4 vspace=2 border=0 class="showonplanet"] Read More

After working on Flake for the last couple of weeks I refocussed on KWord earlier this week. KWord needs an amazing amount of refactors to get the best out of the new features both Qt4 and Flake provide, so this left me with a dilemma on where to start and how to approach this best. I decided to go for the mechanic ways. You know what I mean if you ever saw a mechanic who took a whole car apart, with a garage full of parts and starts to reassemble it afterwards. I am doing the same in software. Good for me that I don't have to take kword apart first, I'll just copy the parts I need :) Read More

[1] Restoring the CUPS web interface admin functions (K)Ubuntu Dapper maintainers have crippled the CUPS 1.2 web interface. If you open http://localhost:631/ (link only works if you have CUPS up and running) you'll even get notified about it: Read More

It's a really boring time.. too hot, too much things to study at university.. and very few free time. So i had to stop working at kmobiletools (hope i'll work again on it soon.. maybe at the end of july), since it's too complex to develop now.. instead i'm working on some patches here and there on kde (i'll publish them soon, in another post), and to very smalls applications. First i've done CheckCalls, a little daemon based on some kmobiletools code, that checks incoming calls, and do some actions depending on the number. I'm using it on my little home server, to make it turn on the desktop PC while i'm not at home, by wake on lan. Then i also made a replacement for video preview, MPlayerThumbs It's based on mplayer only, instead of the default one that's based on xine and arts. So on x86-64 systems it can use the 32bit version of mplayer, which can load win32codecs. On the university side, i'm trying to finally pass math, so it seems i'll be still very, very busy for a long time :P

The Ubuntu Developers Summit is now happening by Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris. We have a bunch of KDE developers here to help with the specs for Kubuntu Edgy in four months time. We've made our own Kubuntu schedule because the automatic BoFicator didn't schedule anything for us. If you're near Paris do drop in and say hi. The sessions are supposed to be broadcast on teamspeak so anyone can join in but in practice this doesn't seem to be working too well. Read More

This morning, I went to Tegel Airport by bus. On one hand, this is becoming a routine fast. On the other, it is always enjoyable, because I love the city in the early morning light. The bus (TXL) goes past the Reichstag building and the brand-new Hauptbahnhof (central station). What struck me is the new, open culture when it comes to integrating the government buildings into the city never, a fact that never appeared to me earlier. When I first came to Washington DC, I was amazed at how the Washingtonians played baseball and flew kites right in front of the capitol. I admired the Americans for their openess. Today, there are bars and restaurants at the river Spree located right within sight of the big wigs. How is this for a change in political culture? And yes, you can have a beer outside in the sun and enjoy the view (this is Germany, remember, no brown bags required). Read More