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FYI: I just added some symbolic links on the api.kde.org machine to make accessing the 'stable' and 'unstable' dox a little easier. So now stable points to 4.7 and unstable points to 4.8. Read More

(this is a continuation of the Fruits of Calligra Suite Sprint #2 series) You don't need to become a seasoned web developer to know the value of styling documents with the CSS. This Sunday the technology turns 15 since its initial release. Read More

I've just committed a fix to the Calligra Engine, so that font rendering will be without hinting when compiled against Qt 4.8. And here are the obligatory screenshots to prove it (thanks buscher). Both are with system wide hinting turned on. Read More

A comment at the Calligra Words blog-entry asked about re-adding the CTRL+M "Hide Menubar" option back to Calligra Words (and the KDEPim-applications). That is a very bad idea. The "Hide Menubar" option, known from many KDE3 applications, is the typical example of a break-me option. The user can hit it by accident and will have a hard time to restore the previous state. More so if you add a 2-letter shortcut like CTRL+M to that option which is easy to hit by mistake and not so easy to discover if you did not know about it before. Read More

Allow me to introduce the amazing new word processor that will be released with Calligra Suite 2.4 in 2012. It is fast and nible to use, and using the powerful Calligra Engine we have made sure it can load .doc and .docx and ODF documents. And with so astonishing quality, that it will be your favourite for viewing such documents. Read More

Since I don't have an account to reply there http://blog.rburchell.com/2011/12/why-i-avoid-qregexp-in-qt-4-and-so.html, I'll do it here. Recently somebody benchmarked regexp libraries as potential candidates for use in CMake. Short version: PCRE was not exactly much faster than what is in CMake, re2 and TRE were magnitudes faster: [cmake-developers] Re: slow regex implementation in RegularExpression. This is the home of TRE: http://laurikari.net/tre/about/ Read More

It may seem obvious but eating our own dog food can definitely be good for your project's condition. Especially when it is maturing over time. How many testers can we have and how many personas for your user-centered design can we define and maintain? Usually just a few with the actual resources. Is only fulfilling needs of more or less fictional actors focusing on few use cases a good direction? Or does it put our vigilance to sleep? Read More

Over the years, most if not all my presentations on Kexi were aimed at users or power users. When preparing for the Calligra Sprint I thought it would make sense to approach the Calligra contributors with a small update on what are goals and ideas embedded in this specific office application. I hope you, the KDE contributors, would benefit a bit too. Read More

kdelibs frameworks branch is now covered in build.kde.org :) But due to a bug in the build system it requires a special hack to build, ie the cmake call does all the required work but fails with a message about inqt5 not being in the export set. So to make it build in Jenkins the exit code from cmake has to be ignored. Other then that it seems to work ok.

No, this is not HTML5 topic, I mean fruits of Calligra Suite Sprint #2 ;) My plan is to post series of logs from the Calligra Sprint on the following days. Each covering one topic. Today about branding. Read More