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this blog-positing got removed meanwhile cause somehow it's never sync'd to the dot for whatever reason. Well, good that I've a second account where it works :)

End of last week the work done on the new textlayout-library got merged into the master-branch. Months of hard work on refactoring the basement Words, Stage and other Calligra applications are build up on got a face. While there still stays enough work we got beyond the mountain and are enjoying the fruits this brings us today and tomorrow. Read More

End of last week the work done on the new textlayout-library got merged into the master-branch. Months of hard work on refactoring the basement Words, Stage and other Calligra applications are build up on got a face. While there still stays enough work we got beyond the mountain and are enjoying the fruits this brings us today and tomorrow. Read More

Expect more entries from the front of Kexi integration with maps using Marble widgets since this task has been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2011! Radek Wicik, who just recently joined the Calligra team works on this project. His early attempts have been demonstrated in April during the Calligra Sprint. And he shares his progress info on dedicated blog. Read More

A new release is out. The 11.04 release page shows what's new. Samba is a theme with working file and printer sharing, however did we let that stay broken for so long. Improvements to the language selector are nice. We switched to GStreamer for the Phonon backend, which gives us better HTML5 video support. The GTK Oxygen theme makes Firefox et al fit in nicer. And of course all the goodness of KDE's 4.6 releases. We even snuck in a game of Patience onto the CD after 5 years of persistent requests asking for a game by default. Read More

I've been neglecting QtRuby recently, although I've wanted to do a major rewrite for some time. I finally bit the bullet last Thursday, and decided that I was going to take time off work and enter a hacking frenzy until the new version of QtRuby was well underway. After six days I've just got a 'hello world' working and commited the project to a 'qtruby-3.0' branch in the qtruby KDE repo. Read More

Flat things are good. I'm at Tokamak 5 in Nijmegen, the KDE sprint where we plough a deep furrow into the future of the Free Desktop and sow KDE seeds that will grow into exciting, novel interfaces and make the stuff we already have even faster and more reliable. Read More

Hot on the heels of the Calligra sprint in Berlin I attended another sprint in Berlin. This time the KDE UX sprint where we discussed many interesting topics (see eg. Aurélien’s blog) The two sprints tied nicely together for me as in the Calligra sprint we had a presentation of some usabillity testing on our current ux. This testing was done by Anna, a usability student from Finland. This confirmed what we already knew: Our current ux has quite a number of problems. So at the UX sprint I talked to Celeste, Thomas Pfeiffer, Björn Balazs and Peter Sikking on how to come up with a better user interface. Read More

After asking the KDE e.V. for funding, I can now finally say I'm going to the Platform 11 sprint in June and to Desktop Summit in August. I would like to thank the e.V. (hi there Claudia!) and everyone involved in organizing both events for making these trips possible. Besides being my first international trips, these are going to be my first plane trips ever too :) I plan on taking a few hats with me to Randa and Berlin, in hopes that they can provide valuable contributions: my KDE developer hat (kdelibs and kdeutils), my KDE on FreeBSD hat (there are even going to be two of us there) and also my buildsystem hat. Read More

11.04 is nearly here. If you haven't tried the beta yet you only have a week to go to make sure you catch any last beasties in this release. KDE Platform 4 is now in a pleasingly stable state so if you haven't tried Plasma or KDE Software for a while and are finding the alternatives a bit too different in their UI changes do give Kubuntu a try. Read More