ODP support for Okular

As you probably read on the Dot yesterday Okular doesn’t support much of ODF. I remembered that Jos had created the Slidecompare tool, so I got the idea to combine it with an Okular generator. It turned out that it’s pretty easy to combine the ends from both worlds. Okular offers a very nice API to write generators, which is almost an exact match to the KOffice one.

The generator currently supports only formats supported by KPresenter: ODP, PPT and PPTX. Currently only rendering is supported (so no search).

The generator is now in KOffice trunk. Even though it’s just 107 lines of code, it can make use of all the work that went into the KOffice import filters. I love integration!

KOffice font rendering again

A few months ago I blogged about font rendering in KOffice. The problem has been discussed and analysed a lot on the last KOffice meeting and the KOffice forum. The conclusion was that the problem can’t be fixed inside KOffice, but needs to be fixed in Qt. Since the problem is far from trivial and we don’t have developers with experience in that specific area, we rely on Nokia to fix the problem. Problem has been reported in two bugs here and here. Unfortunately the bugs have very low priority at the moment, so we need to make clear to Nokia how much these fixes are needed.

Everybody who is bothered about these rendering problems please vote on the two bugs I pointed out above.

In case these bugs don’t get fixedm a possible plan B would be to switch the rendering to use Cairo + Pango. Till then you can try to work around the problem as I have pointed out in my old blog post.

Have you seen this widget?

For some time we have been searching for this widget for Krita. It’s basically a button group with adjacent buttons (see the mockup that Jaroslaw made).

It’s a very common UI element e.g. in Plasma or Blender, but it seems that  no KDE application uses it. So has anyone seen this widget used in KDE (outside Plasma) or implemented it?

I’m asking because if doesn’t exist yet (which is very unlikely in my opinion) we would have to implement it ourself and I would prefer not to duplicate existing work.