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The Ubuntu Font has finally had its licence sorted out and been released to the masses. It has also been uploaded to the archive and set as default in Kubuntu. I'm a big fan of the font, I find it distinctive but undistracting, suitable at large and small sizes, readable on screens and printed. Best of all this is the first time a font has been made with the intention of running it as an open project. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Greek but there's plenty of work to be done to get it supporting e.g. Arabic (which has suffered from a lack of fonts made for computer use). I'm looking forward to monospace too since that's what I spend most of my day staring at. Read More

A couple of weeks ago Thomas McGuire realised his name wasn't very German sounding and came to Edinburgh where it would fit in better. He is spending the next six months taking a bit of a break from maintaining KMail and instead programming robots to play football. The robots will be using Akonadi I'm sure. Read More

Kexi moves towards the new 2.3 release within the KOffice family. The list of current wishes for Kexi. Add yours! There is no easier way to contribute! Kexi Scripting Example for JavaScript - reading external data. 2.3 Beta 1 released, featuring movable tabs, completely new project navigator compliant with the KDE 4 style, improved look of the CSV Export dialog, reintroduction of Widgets Tree pane of the Forms Designer, and more. List of changes changes available on koffice.org. Notes on further uncluttering style in Kexi. Small but pleasant improvements. All planned features and improvements delivered. Ready for 2.3 release.

I just got the stuff we will need for our booth at the “Kieler Open Source und Linuxtage”. The “Kieler Open Source and Linux Tage” will take place on the 1st and 2nd of October at the “Kitz” in Kiel. Read More

Candidate CDs for our RC need testing see the ISO tracker for what needs testing, download (or upgrade) and report back. Ask on #kubuntu-devel or #ubuntu-testing if you have questions. The community team at Canonical have come up with another week of IRC talks, this one is Ubuntu App Developer Week. If you missed it yesterday you can catch the logs of Harald talking about Qt and its unicorn sparkles (from 18:00). Coming up tomorrow (Thursday) is "Widgetcraft" with Harald and "Using Grantlee to create application themes" - Stephen Kelly. Join us on #ubuntu-classroom on freenode IRC for the talks. Read More

In previous "elegance" entries I presented just ideas, without implementation. Readers obsessed in the area of look&feel may remember the proposal for uncluttering tab widget when used in side pane. Any specific fix would be just for Oxygen style, so it is still unclear if starting to code this makes much sense. But. As a low-hanging fruit today I called this code on my tab widget of Kexi side pane: Read More

Julien and I met up in Redmond last week, just before the Exchange Open Specifications event at Microsoft. It was a productive time, where we did some serious planning and a little coding, and learned quite a lot more about the protocols from some of the main developers of Exchange and Outlook. Thanks to Microsoft for hosting it. Read More

It is not clear if there will be another update within KOffice (2.2.3) released in 2.2 series, so for convenience of distributors, following recommended patch fixes stability recently identified issue in the default Kexi database engine: Read More

This week I noticed: I am part of Kexi/KOffice Development Team for 65535 hours now. With fine breaks of course. It's possible to check at the bottom of this file. 64k should be enough for everyone. But not for me :) Read More

While relaxing after the hard-working period that was the GSoC, I came across a comment left by Torsten Rahn of the marble team. He wondered whether it would be possible to adapt image warping functionality so that it can be used to morph some old maps. Read More