What's new, based on identica notes:

• Thoughts on deploying SQLite turned out to be work in progress. Valuable input from our distro friends. A special wiki page has been created. See the last item of this entry
• KoReport, Kexi's rpt backend has undergone some refactoring to make it more generic.
• Fix number 1, charts working again in the designer.
  
• Working through the huge list of issues krazy has found with the kexi codebase, not glamorous, but necessary!
• Refactored the report renderers, and given better class name, to make the report library suitable for adoption over all of KOffice.
• Do you want well working MSAccess to Kexi converter? It's up to you - request it!
• KOffice now has a suite-wide reporting library! (placed in koffice/libs/koreports/)
• Kexi switched to "system" SQLite again. We want to play with distros well, but will check SQLite features at compilation to maintain high quality standards.

(brought to you by Adam and myself)

Remember the last call? After less than 5 months we can see apparent success, and a lot more than a proof of concept.

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No, Locus OS concept design, has apparently no association with MS.

The author claims:
"This interface was designed before iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre, Android etc, making the ideas original at the time :)"

Is the last sentence true at all?

"There's nothing easier" -- you say -- about packaging and deploying SQLite. "Just take the software with default settings and package as a shared lib plus SQLite shell".

It's not that simple.

With 2010 we've started to employ identica (then connected to Twitter and Facebook) as an channel for our live changelog at the {power}user level. Here's the dump for the past ~30 days (oh I should have used an XSLT).

• We're replacing serialized QFont attrs with ODF equivalents in Kexi Reports file format; e.g. fo:font-family; it's extension of OpenRPT
• Finally we're still embedding SQLite as many options are not set in distros, e.g. SECURE DELETE should be the default http://bit.ly/amZfJ3

I have self-backed policy of not mentioning competition if not really necessary, let it be G or M. So as a minimal effort I just quote these carefully selected bits (bias included!) instead of commenting the recent story:

[..] I think there is no reason to work on another package which is equivalent to Qt. If you want something like Qt, use Qt.

  --Richard Stallman, September 5, 2000 about then-disappearing need for creating Qt replacvement (aka project Harmony) after GPLing Qt

Today we enjoy 11th anniversary of disclosure of Microsoft's best business and development practices:

Recently a number of nice coincidences happened: I received my second-hand Intuos3 A5 tablet just day before the new shiny Qt 4.6 has landed with QTouchEvent (among many other features). Also I conducted my 3+ hours of trainings on APIs designing to my coworkers (based on Jasmin's document) just week before we had some essential KOffice APIs discussions based on the same material thanks to Olivier Goffart (QtDF).

Many small fixes are a building block of the Kexi porting effort - the goal is joining the KOffice 2.2. Many of the fixes and refactoring is related to forms. Much more left and we're scheduling works on crazy features even up to Kexi 2.6 already.

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Adam: