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Some things are really really tiny details, yet they can be annoying in way. Something that's been occassionally bugging me is that fact that KDE uses the same wallpaper as KDM background, the splashscreen background and desktop background, yet depending on the screen resolution it may not be exactly the same background - during login the picture may stretch or shrink at certain points. The times when decent monitor screens had a 4:3 ratio are a thing of the past, starting with LCD makers making 5:4 "narrow-screens", then changing their minds and making 16:10 or 16:9 wide-screens. The choice of screen resolutions is not that limited either and that means that the wallpaper has to be scaled ... and that was the problem. Plasma has code to select how to do the scaling, KSplashX has code for that and KDM has code for that, and yes, you guessed it, it's always a different code. So unlucky resolutions get different wallpapers from different code. Since I actually spent some time in the past trying to make the login as seamless as possible, this indeed made me twitch whenever I saw it. Read More

OdfKit is a project that reuses WebKit technology in a toolkit for working with ODF office documents. KO GmbH is sponsored by NLnet to work on OdfKit for three months. This week, Chani, who is on her way to Akademy, is working with me on OdfKit and since she's here an entire week, we're calling it OdfKit Hack Week. Read More

Can Ruby do for Qt and KDE application development what it did with Rails for web development? With the Qt on Rails project we're attempting to achieve this - using the clean domain logic and conventions of Rails combined with the brilliant application framework and widget set of Qt. An early 0.1 version has just been released; rough around the edges but enough to show the potential of the idea. We've focused on making Qt on Rails easy to install so that you can experiment with it for yourself. Now that it's easy to do so, go do it! We need your help and ideas! Read More

This is my first blog entry about my GSoC project for Krita. Because i was busy doing a school project until June 11, i actually began working on the transformation tool last week. The aim was to rewrite most parts of the old transformation tools, in order to continue the project on a solid base, and with my own code, to make the job easier. I also wanted to make the tool perform transformations in real time, not just when the user releases the mouse button. Read More

The pictures say it all. If not, see here and here. As always all that would not happen without organizers: Alexandra and Inge!

Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back, and this time it's with special guest star speakers. Incase you missed it in previous years (check out the logs, there's some interesting sessions in there), Kubuntu Tutorials Day is a few hours of interactive IRC sessions on topics around Kubuntu and KDE development. If you've always wanted to get started in helping out Kubuntu or programming in Qt this is the perfect opportunity. Read More

When I started blogging in the end of last year, I thought I would write much more frequently than I do: if only I had better marketing abilities, there would certainly be many more posts about what's going on the Ark, KDE's beloved archive manager, and KDE on FreeBSD fronts. At least I seem to be in good company in the occasional bloggers department. :) Read More

After all the blogging about our (as in KDE PIM developers) Akonadi porting, I thought I'll address a couple of things other application developer might consider for the next release cycle. Read More

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