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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

My last blog post showed how a proxy class can be used to monitor the requests being made by a QNetworkAccessManager, and illustrated it using an example that displayed those requests graphically. This post will cover another use of proxy QNetworkAccessManagers, specifically modifying requests and responses. The example we'll use is a very simple one, we'll look at a class that will restrict a QNetworkAccessManager so that it can only access domains listed in a white-list. Read More

Kexi devlog based on identi.ca notes: Kexi is apparently ready for 2.2 rc1 release. Combobox and tab widgets in forms fixed! Fresh logo inserted on the current kexi web site http://kexi-project.org - these pages really need web admins and artists. The odyssey from Kexi 1.1 to 2.2 took 36 months. Kexi/KOffice 2.2.0 packages for Debian Kexi 2.2 is here! With KOffice 2.2. Thanks for your support and we're asking for more!

A short note. The KDE Release Team has decided to make a KDE SC 4.4.5 release. So please remember to continue backporting your bug fixes into the 4.4 branch. The Schedule June 24th, 2010: Tag KDE 4.4.5 June 29th, 2010: Release KDE 4.4.5

I added some new options to Krazy in the past few days. Hope folks find them useful. You can now control the types of files to process with the new --types and --exclude-types options. Use the --list-types option to see what file types are supported. Read More

Those who have read my previous blog entry will remember that I have been working on a way to directly operate on a mixed tree storage layout. "Mixed tree" means that the mail folder tree (hence "tree") consists of Maildir and MBox folders nested in each other in any combination, e.g. Maildir inside Maildir, MBox inside Maildir, Maildir inside MBox. Read More

You most probably have already run into this at least once. You use the computer, try to do something and you get an error message saying "sorry, application foo is not installed", "the required plugin bar is not installed" or similar. And that's it, there it stops. You have to find out what package the required functionality is in, install it manually and try again. Like if the computer couldn't ask "but maybe I can install that, do you want me to try?" and handle it itself. Read More

If you want to try out Qt 4.7 and the interesting new world of Qt Quick ("from now on /the/ way to make GUIs"), Kubuntu 10.04 users can try it from the experimental PPA. The Qt Creator packages there have Qt Quick designer integration.

Ubuntu Developer Summit is over, we emerged from the deepest darkest Belgian forest full of plans for the next six months of Kubuntu. The specs are written and we have a lengthyTodo list. If you've ever thought about helping out Kubuntu take a look at the Todo list and see if there's anything that inspires you. Read More

Long time, no post... So, this probably is the first post from the multimedia sprint, after an interesting internet setup which a fire alarm was a crucial component :-) As usual, lost airplane connections could not be missing in my journey, this time relaxed for the company of two brazilian coleagues, Tomaz e Alexandre. In the end, we passed by two Portugal cities before arrive in Genève. Read More