akademy is done. wow, what a week!
yesterday we had the last set of lightening talks and again some very cool technologies were shown. it looks like the dream of having a usable, powerful and beautiful universal viewer for kde4 is a reality with okular. it isn't the only "universal viewer" (which is different than a "universal component embedder") out there, but it is the most complete and beautiful one i've seen. it's also pretty damn fast. there are some ui bugs still apparent in it, so thankfully there are some months before kde4 ;)
the global roaming, organs identity ui system and gamefu (think amarok for console emulators) were also fun ...
today those who are left (many are already on their way home) are sitting around mostly quietly hacking. this is interesting because much of the past week was crammed full of BoF's, meetings and what not... we had a lot of communication to do and that cut into the hacking time. as kde takes on bigger problems with more finesse and expands into taking care of things we've neglected more than we should have such as our websites we have more need to coordinate.
to catch up this slack i'll be working with knut, the new-ish trolltech community manager, and others in the community to pull together 5-7 developer meetings over the next year. each will be focussed on a topic and aim to build on the coordination of akademy with code (or whatever the deliverable of the group is).
in any case, right now i feel like crap. i caught someone's flu and feel slightly eviscerated right now. flying home tomorrow will be fun(tm).
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just in case nobody has yet noted it: we, as in "the KDevelop team", would also like to have a week of hacking next year, either in the Ukraine or somewhere in North America. And we _will_ apply for e.V. support. You have been warned... :)
Hope you kick the flu...it's a real bugger to fly sick! Ugh! sounds like you had an informative and productive week...can't wait to hear all about it..
Big Sis..
That's Zack's cold. I've got it too.
it looks like the dream of having a usable, powerful and beautiful universal viewer for kde4 is a reality with okular. it isn't the only "universal viewer" (which is different than a "universal component embedder") out there, but it is the most complete...
I wander if this was discussed at aKademy and someone just knows better, but:
- The "utopian" universal reader may be a huge hinderance for good PDF handler. As is, there is no ways on linux to fills and save DPF forms, or highlight and comment on parts of PDF docs. If PDF viewer is enamored into the Universal viewer there will not be a force strong enough to add "editing" features to it.
I would greatly prefer a present-like KPart system, in which, if one wants, views the doc, and by means of some context switch that viewer turns into editor for "manipulatable" objects. I really like how OpenOffice has 2 levels of "context" - view and edit.
Much like "the string freeze" I hope the universal READER-ism will not become an artificial excuse for missing features.
That's not flu, it's actually SARS.
> caught someone's flu
that is what happens when you go around kissing strange people
I've caught something too, and I'm fairly sure there were a few different strains of cold and flu running being shared at akademy.
whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger?
> Daniel "Suslik" D. wrote about filling in PDF forms
I didnt' see it but I believe it was demonostrated. Through the google summer of code a lot of work in this area went into poppler, the PDF engine used by both KDE and Gnome.
Did you try golden seal? :)
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