Just like last year the KDE-family did provide us again a gsoc-slot to work on Improve ISO OpenDocument support (in KOffice, particularly in KWord). Not only did the number of mentors drastically increased but personally I also had the feeling the number of very good proposals did. To be allowed to read all of them was such exciting that I found myself spending hours over hours on the huge list reading lots of proposals again and again just for fun.

Imagine you have a family - so something like one wife, 1.5 children and a dog - and you decided that it's better to feed them at least once per day and to provide some kind of home to survive during the cold days.

Both of those basic requirments are not that simple any longer since prices continue to increase on a monthly base while you still earn only around 4 Euro per hour (what is at least close to one meal for one person - ok, there are still those taxes that eat half of the 4 Euro, but it's at least still >0!) on your day-(and night-)job(s).

It is one case to walk through 7000 pages of rather technical documentation and to try to extract something useful out of it for a concrete question. It is another thing to look at the actual XML produced by the Microsoft Office 2007 suite.

With the great intro provided about Plasma Packages to get Apple's Dashboard Widgets running, it follows a screenshot that shows SuperKaramba - yes, it works with legacy *.skz files.

btw, SuperKaramba example that uses KHTML to display content

See http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/kde_3_5_8_on

Seems it's possible to give OpenSolaris a try now where a recent KDE3-version is up and running there. Thanks for that SUN/Moinak

disclaimer: as usual this is a personal opinion and I am not that sure that everything was like I describe it now cause of some side-conditions.

The last friday started just like one of those usual normal january-days not worth to be mention. Over the day I even got the impression its still one of those months where it's not worth to wake up in the morning and leave the warm and bright home to move into the cold and dark world outside there.

Kross, the scripting framework, is one of the pillars new with KDE4. While the project started already a while back in 2004 it enveloped over the time to a rather big codebase. During the KDE4-process one of the main-goals was to decrease the codebase what can be even more difficult then writting new code.

The image below shows the next generation KMLDonkey 2.0 from SVN running on KDE4. The whole port was done within around 3 days - KDE4 rocks

[disclaimer: this is a personal opinion and meaned to be sarcastic!]

So, germany was voting with "yes" for the Microsoft XML2007 format. That may not new for those that did follow the worldwide ISO-adventure and that believe in the power of black suitcases.

But it may new to you, that germany was again miles ahead there compared to every other country. Right, while some countries really started to look at those MSOffice2007 DNA-specs, we already answered with a clear "yes" in 2005!

After providing last time a screenshot and a screencast (2.4MB, mpeg4) of SuperKaramba in action running the Aero AIO theme, here we go with a more concrete sample that connects SuperKaramba and Plasma together.

This Python sample script does use the Plasma TimeEngine to display the current local time - such kind of clock-examples will never end I guess