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This is my first blog entry about my GSoC project for Krita. Because i was busy doing a school project until June 11, i actually began working on the transformation tool last week. The aim was to rewrite most parts of the old transformation tools, in order to continue the project on a solid base, and with my own code, to make the job easier. I also wanted to make the tool perform transformations in real time, not just when the user releases the mouse button. Read More

The pictures say it all. If not, see here and here. As always all that would not happen without organizers: Alexandra and Inge!

Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back, and this time it's with special guest star speakers. Incase you missed it in previous years (check out the logs, there's some interesting sessions in there), Kubuntu Tutorials Day is a few hours of interactive IRC sessions on topics around Kubuntu and KDE development. If you've always wanted to get started in helping out Kubuntu or programming in Qt this is the perfect opportunity. Read More

When I started blogging in the end of last year, I thought I would write much more frequently than I do: if only I had better marketing abilities, there would certainly be many more posts about what's going on the Ark, KDE's beloved archive manager, and KDE on FreeBSD fronts. At least I seem to be in good company in the occasional bloggers department. :) Read More

After all the blogging about our (as in KDE PIM developers) Akonadi porting, I thought I'll address a couple of things other application developer might consider for the next release cycle. Read More

Hello viewers, I am writing this blog to share the progress of work I have done till now as Gsoc 2010 participant. The official date of writing code was 24th May,2010. In the meantime, I was unable to resist myself to develop marble. So I decided to change the data source of city placemarks from World Gazetteer to GeoNames. GeoNames has great collection of over 8,000,000 geographical names. Beyond names of places in various languages, data provided by GeoNames include latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes. Marble now shows all cities with a population greater than 15000. This has solved various bugs in Marble such as mirrored coordinates bug. This displays the correct name for many Indian cities like Delhi, Mysore, Hyderabad, Meerut. Screenshots of Marble using World Gazetteer and GeoNames data source are: Read More

After my last blog I was asked whether I feel that the migrator is now ready for testing. I think it is. If one wants to repeat the same test scenario (or variations of it), there are a couple of tricks to do that with as less effort as possible. Read More

After blogging about our progress on KMail's data and config migration to Akonadi for a couple of times, I felt that it was time for a screencast showing the migrator in action. Read More

ohloh.net reportedly goes down. If so, that's the last opportunity to try its nice (even if not 100% inaccurate) reports online, e.g. for KOffice:(click to continue)

My yesterdays presentation about KOffice Version 2 at the Linuxtag was received overhelming good. The presentation started with me introducing koffice and telling what's my role within that project. The question what KOffice is was probably answered best with the picture of one of our sprints. Based upon my previous experience with the Linuxtag it was clear that I had to address the technial aspects of KOffice. Our Qt+KDE base, our portability (Windows, OSX, Unix, Haiku, x86 and ARM) and our frameworks (most notable our ODF library, kotext, flake and the textshape as concrete sample). Read More