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KDE SC 4.5 is coming up around the bend and I'm posting about some of the new exciting (to somebody I hope) features for KRDC. For KRDC 4.4 we introduced a new gui layout. I have been away from the keyboard for awhile and finally have been able to hammer out some bugfixes (1,2,3,4) for those new features as well as some older bugs to both 4.5 and 4.4.3 (for the most part). Read More

Politics politics. Here in Waloonia we have to spreak French, walk half a kilometre north and you are barred from speaking French and have to speak Dutch. Go a further kilometer north and you're in Brussels where you have to speak French but in practice everyone spreaks English. And they manage this all without bothering to have a government. Almost as crazy as home where the old prime minister resigned to make way for a posh English chap who will doubtless steal our milk and make us pay a poll tax. Really I should have been in London tonight to visit Buckingham palace and put myself forward for the job of Prime Minister and had the chance to found the Pacifist Free Software Kingdom of Scotland (plus southern principalities), but I missed my chance all because I'm at the Ubuntu Developer Summit planning the next six months of Kubuntu. Read More

No, we do not skip March, for Kexi it was just too silent month to blog about it alone ;) Here we go (based on identi.ca notes): Adam now understands the koodf library, exporting a report from Kexi into a spreadsheet can be done 'the right way' :) New address of the Kexi Fan Club on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kexi.project Follow-up on the SQLite the secure delete thing: Oh boy, the guys rock - they have implemented all my requests for 3.6.23. We're going to recommend this version at least. Autofield widget and layouts will be disabled in Kexi 2.2 Fixed visibility of form widget properties in the designer; that was really obscure bug ;) Kexi 2.2 beta 2 arrives in 2 days with KOffice 2.2 beta 2, please test! Yes because of quantum leap there's no Kexi 2.0 nor 2.1 in the wild. Adam just begun work on reports for Kexi 2.3 even before 2.2 is out the door! Supporting plugins and a cleaned up core, so hopefully less bugs (April 4). Adam just added image loading from the database for reports. Closing a bug with 1 line of code.  KOffice Developers Sprint 2010 is coming Kexi is in bug fixing mode in preparation for 2.2. Please try out the betas and let us know what you think on bugs.kde.org or #kexi on freenode (April 19) We've just started development of Kexi Version 2.3 Alpha 1 (a part of KOffice 2.3 Alpha 1)! This is in parallel to perparing 2.2 series. Predicate rather won't be used in Kexi 2.3; doing that is too complex so we keep KexiDB until 2.4 release Group boxes and tab widgets fixed in Kexi forms. Last fixes for 2.2. Optimized display of scaled image entries in table view. Scrolling is smooth for large images too and scaling is smooth.  And last but not least: much of the work is possible because of quality bug reporting, thanks for that and we're asking for more :) These weeks special thanks go to George Goldberg! (brought to you by Adam and myself) Read More

I thought this might be interesting for some folks in the KDE world -- for work stuff we needed a fast implementation of Ruby's ActiveResource, so I wrote a Qt / C++ ActiveResource consumer. The performance relative to the default Rails backend is somewhat telling: Read More

Namaste(Hello) everyone specially marble developers, Writing my first blog because I got accepted in GSOC 2010 for marble and want to keep you updated about my progress. First of all thanks to KDE Community to give me such an opportunity. Read More

This blog post will demonstrate how you can tap into QNetworkAccessManager (QNAM), the class is used by QtWebkit for all its networking. QNAM is also the recommended API for high-level networking protocols such as HTTP in Qt. The class is very simple, but provides some powerful features like disk caching, cookie handling, and support for Socks and HTTP proxies. There are many cases when it is useful to be able to watch the requests being made through QNAM, and this can be acheived using a proxy QNAM class. Read More

Today we released Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. This is the first Long Term Support release to feature KDE 4 Platform and Applications. It's very exciting that the long journey to KDE 4 has come to the level of stability where we can call it LTS. Read More

Hello blogging world.. This is my first blog entry. I am having my final examination from day after tomorrow, so wish we best of luck ;) About me: I am Harshit Jain, a undergraduate student from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), India. Currently, I am in 6th semester in Computer Science and Engineering. My hometown is Bhilwara, India. Read More

Aaron Seigo did a session yesterday with distro packagers on Plasma Desktop Scripting. Here are the logs in HTML and plain text. Something exciting happening tomorrow

We are collectively elated, in the KDEPIM community, by the news that all four of "our" applications for Google's Summer of Code have been accepted this year. There'll be work on bringing the wonders of plasma to Kontact's summary widget, improving Akonadi's SyncML support (mentored by last year's student in that area, awesomely), porting KMail to use Stephen Kelly's very cool Grantlee templating library (which will allow much easier themeing and probably attract 1000 elephants) and on infrastructure for import and export of data and settings. All this is exceedingly useful and much needed stuff, and exactly the kind of work by new contributors that we were hoping to facilitate by building a strong, flexible, nice to work with foundation in the form of Akonadi. As the core Akonadi team continues to improve the machinery under the hood and as mobile versions of our applications emerge (watch this space for news on that hopefully later today), new contributors and those who have been waiting for a while for their moment can get to work improving the overall experience and bringing KDEPIM and Kontact to its full potential. The summer of code projects are part of that, but by no means the only such efforts. It promises to be a very exciting summer. I'm personally especially happy to see several applicants succeed (in KDE overall) who failed last time. Some even failed twice but continued to learn, improve their proposals, get involved in other ways the community and have now reached a personal goal in getting accepted. I applaud their perseverance and spirit, that's what makes our communities great, I think. Speaking of perseverance, it warms my heart to see no less than 11 successful applications from India, this year, much more than ever before. Maybe we in the Free Software world are finally starting to bridge the digital divide and truly engage contributors from more diverse backgrounds. Read More