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Since January 5th there has been a bit of a rush, if not stress to work on standards. If you may recall, in an earlier blog I posted about Microsofts answer to the OpenDocumentFormat. Which got rubber-stamped as ecma 376 late last year. The ecma seal of approval was not enough for Microsoft. Most probably because it was fighting the ISO approved ODF spec, even if they never said so out loud. And it makes sense. The number one request any free office suite gets is that it should be able to read MSOffice docs. Or more accurately, it should be able to read the microsoft invented fileformat. So, MS has the advantage that people rely on their suite because the information stored in documents can only be read by their software. This means that even if KOffice is better than MSOffice for a company, they would have problems if their old docs were not properly parsed by it. In other words; lock-in by fileformat. Read More

The Qyoto project has made some good progress over the past few weeks. We've now switched to the .NET 2.0 gmcs mono compiler, with support for generic types amongst other neat features. Q_PROPERTYs are mapped onto C# propertys, which makes the code look a lot nicer. Arno Rehn has implemented a C# version of the Qt Designer uic tool called 'uics', and the code it generates uses the new properties. And another important change has been switching to cmake, and so we have a nearly sane build system. Read More

Above is the title of a blog I found linked at tuxmachines.org (btw great site with a daily mix of desktop related news and blogs). Its author describes the interface changes in the latest Kerry Beagle release and likes them very much. He also suggests some improvements: I don't think Beagle supports "blank searches" but the other two items he mentions you will likely see soon in a Kerry release. :-)

Well, at least according to css3.info . It is nice to when the changes you make, make a splash :D Though seriously the most unique CSS 3 support we have are the CSS 3 Selectors I have meddled with for two years, the rest is mainly imported from WebKit in some form (such as text-overflow:ellipsis and CSS 3 Background and Borders), sometimes the imports has been easy sometimes painfull. Read More

After almost a year of I am working on the Qt3 D-Bus bindings again. The past week I have been fiercely working on getting them in shape for the requirement of the D-Bus based DAPI implementation on KDE3. Read More

Canonical sent its distro team to Oslo last week, to spend the time locked in a hotel room making sure all the Feisty feature goals got done. I worked on the dist-upgrade tool and the software-properties apt sources.list editor, as well as finishing and uploading KDE 3.5.6 and KDevelop 3.4. The tricky part with the dist-upgrade tool is patching konsole to be able to attach to an existing pty (from apt), fortunately mvo was a here there and dived into the meaty code of kpty. The result is that upgrading from edgy to feisty should be much smoother than from dapper to edgy. Read More

I forgot to blog about this: I'm not giving up maintainership of Gwenview anymore, in fact it has been decided that Gwenview will move to kdegraphics for KDE4! This is what I call great news! Read More

Yes, pinotree, PDFedit is one of the two applications I discovered a few weeks ago when I searched Google for PDF manipulation tools... :-) (I'm really curious if you'd know about the other one already -- but that's a few days away to blog about. Today is about PDFedit.) Read More

Readers of my blog will know it already: Linux printing is geared to move towards PDF to make it its core spooling and job processing format. (This won't happen over night, and this won't make PostScript printing any harder, so don't worry). That was what the overall consensus was at last year's Linux Desktop Printing Summit in Atlanta, where developers from CUPS, Linuxprinting.org, FreeStandards.org, Freedesktop.org, OpenPrinting.org, OpenUsability.org, Ghostscript, Scribus, KDE, Gnome, Redhat, SUSE, Ricoh, Lanier, HP, Xerox, IBM, Mandriva, Debian, Mozilla and Sun sat together for 3 days, exchanged ideas and discussed how to move forward. Read More

In November, OpenUsability announced six mentored projects for students of usability, user interface design, interaction design, or related. We received applications from all over the world - New Zealand, India, South Africa, Europe, South America, USA and Canada. Most of the applicants were highly skilled, and it was sometimes difficult to take a decision. Finally, the following teams formed up: Read More