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As a follow up of his promising Qt Quick Components for Desktop post, Jens shares with us results of his Qt Quick flavour of the QTableView class. This motivated me to think what would be most future-proof if not the best way of finally porting the old Qt3Support-based <a href="http://api.kde.org/calligra-api/calligra-apidocs/kexi/html/classKexiTableView.html>KexiTableView class which with all related classes builds up data/database-aware library utilized by Kexi for presenting tabular data in various contexts. It's so big and complex that I left this task as the very last item while enjoying porting Kexi to Qt 4. Read More

Today I wrote a file selector in QML. This was not trivial because QML has no standard element for drilling down in a tree model. So I wrote one. A bit of Python was needed to expose the file system to the QML as a data model. Read More

I've always been a fan of Bazaar. A revision control system that lets you work however you want and without needing to be Linus Torvalds to understand it. So it's a big privilage to be taking a sabbatical from Kubuntu and rotating to work with the Bazaar community. Read More

Improving the security of SSL is a hot topic these days, and trust in certifcate authorities is rightly at an all time low. One way of improving the situation that doesn't rely on believing that a 3rd party will actually do their job properly is to notify users when the certificate for a site changes. There are already extensions for some browsers that offer this facility, so I sat down today to write a proof of concept that looked at how this implemented in Qt. Read More

First you need a lot of dedication and time. I've spent like 15 hours a day every day since February, and since April Sebastian Sauer have spent full days on it as well. It also takes a lot of spare time plus someone to pay for my living, and this is where Nokia comes in hiring my employer KO GmbH to let me do this. Read More

So, somewhat miraculously, I've been doing a little KDE hacking again this week for the first time since, oh, 2006 or so (aside from TagLib, which recently moved to GitHub). Being as I'm all a startupy web weenie these days, some of the design sins of my youth have been haunting me. I wanted to give JuK a little bit of a fixer-upper. Almost all of the 20 commits that cia.vc says that I've done this week stem from either polishing the interface some or improving the initial experience on startup. Read More

This cycle's Ubuntu Developer Summit is in Budapest. The Qt 5 summit was rather exciting and unexpected. The good news is it's not a big Qt 3 -> 4 style transition, it will remain source compatible, it's simply a break in ABI to tidy things up and allow for modularisation. Read More

Several hundered Ubuntu and related people at UDS in Budapest. Qt talk going on now. Just announced is Qt 5 is going to be released expected next year. It'll focus on Qt Quick 2 and use Lighthouse and we saw some fun effects happening in the demo. See the Qt 5 Labs blog post. Read More

Until last week I was still running good old Slackware 12.1 with KDE 3.5.something. I had skipped Slackware 13.0, because it had still no support for virtual screens in X/xrandr, and the KDE 4.4 in Slackware 13.1 crashed a few times while playing around with it. So I stayed with 12.1. For building current KDE, it doesn't matter what desktop you're running, so that was fine for me. Read More

MS Access Visual Basic support in Kexi. Short story: there's no support. The reasoning, from the economical to the technical aspect is provided on the KDE Forum. Or maybe there is some tiny support. Read More