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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

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