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Follow up of the discussion about new UI elements: "it may look weird" first-look opinions vs positive results of usability testing. GMail has removed "select all/select none/..." buttons with single combo box for exactly one reason: elegance or UI uncluttering. Read More

So, as looking that everyone is in the hiring mode... Yes, Collabora is hiring. So if you are passionate for open source, want join a company that share the same passion as well, want to work from any place in the world and have at least some of these skills below, then we want to know you. Read More

I've been fascinated by the Oracle attack on Google's Android. I don't follow sport and just couldn't understand why so many people were getting excited about the World Cup at Akademy. But to me these epic disputes are a great spectator sport, as well as an opportunity to participate individually. The trouble is that it is all a bit slow, even slower than cricket - if it is like the SCO vs Linus train wreck, it could take up to five years to be resolved. Read More

Hi, I thought since others are announcing jobs here, so I can do that too :-) So, here we go: The Competence Center for High Performance Computing at the Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern has open positions: https://jobs.fraunhofer.de/Vacancies/57538/Description Read More

Planet KDE is your insight into the lives and activities of KDE, a community making lovely free software. Occasionally I get asked to add feeds to Planet KDE which aren't KDE contributor blogs. News feeds, user blogs and non-English blogs are the usual requests. So today, thanks to the helps of others, I've updated our software and added opt-in support for these different types of feeds. Just click the configure button at the top of the page. Read More

Marble 0.10.0 has been released as a major update last week together with KDE SC 4.5. As a user you might be interested in our Visual ChangeLog which is also available in spanish over at muylinux.com. But Marble is also a library. So it can be used as a widget in other applications. Today I'd like to show you how. In our previous tutorial I already introduced you to the very first steps of Qt Programming and Marble Programming. Now the last few Summer days in Germany have been rather rainy. So in the second part of our tutorial I'd like to show you how to create a weather map! Creating a weather map Read More

Ryan Melton announced on the kde-bindings mailing list that he had set up a project on github called 'qtbindings' with the aim of doing cross-platform gems for QtRuby. This is great news, and congratulations to Ryan for making it happen Read More

Marble 0.10 was released on August 10th, 2010. It is part of the KDE 4.5 Software Compilation. In the good tradition of recent years, we have collected those changes directly visible to the user. Unfortunately we were a bit late with our visual changelog for the release. So please enjoy looking over the new and noteworthy: Read More

KOffice Developer Meeting (pictures). Akademy time! One Kexi dev was available for hugs^wdiscussion; chatted a bit with the ownCloud hackers about exposing Kexi databases though it, KDevelop guys about injecting Kexi database plugin in a form of KDevelop's "Database view" and mobile guys about possible options for Kexi Mobile. http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi updated. New tutorial added: Kexi Reports for Beginners Adam works on porting the remaining Q/K3 code in Kexi, starting with the Project Navigator. Ported now. The works on Kexi 2.2 Handbook started within the KDE Userbase wiki: http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi/Handbook Kexi now supports multipage (large up to 64 KB) memo values when importing data from MS Access. And it's the only open source app doing it! Some work on Predicate, database connectivity and creation library, a new iteration of KexiDB library developed within Kexi (Jarosław). Expect a more in August.

By and large I don't really care about what Microsoft do - I don't use their software, and I actively avoid making my career dependent on them. But I am a fan of the C# programming language and think the Qyoto/Kimono bindings for the Qt and KDE apis are pretty neat. Read More