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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

As you most likely have already read on various other blogs we had one of our Akonadi sprints for the past couple of days. Most of the time I've been working on Akonadi support for a KMail mail store, basically a local directory where mails are stored in a combination of nested Maildir directories and MBox files. We already had support for Maildir and MBox in respective resources, but this "mixed mode", interleaved with highly KMail specific index files, made it necessary to either have some way of importing all this data and metadata or to use it directly similar to KMail. Read More

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