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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.

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

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