As you may know, KOffice is on the way to release its 2.3 version. The presentation application of the suite, KPresenter, will embbed a really necessary feature for an end user application which is the slides sorter. A slides sorter view is a window that displays thumbnail versions of all your slides, arranged in horizontal [...]
Day by day KPresenter becomes more and more an end-user presentation application. However, to be a real end-user application, KPresenter needs some new options and some new cool stuff. That’s why, I think it’s a good idea to ask for KDE community to know the essential need for them. So if you think KPresenter needs [...]
During the Akademy, I continu to work on my GSoC. I work more exactly on text shape animation, i.e. only animate a part of text. In my opinion it’s one of the more efficient animation, it allows user to only display a text paragraph by pragraph for example. Currently, we can load this kind of [...]
The presentation tools already work on KPresenter since about a year. You can put blackscreen on it, highlight or draw during the presentation, which is fun. We implemented these features as ervin’s slaves students during the university year (2008-2009). On the first picture the drawing tool is used. You can see the different colors and [...]
This year, and for the first time, The Saturday, you can see me at 18:45, I present with two other students our sudents projects, about KPresenter, Amarok and Akonadi. You can see more details here. See you on Tampere
Since I have started my GSoC, I didn’t post about it. So that is my first post, and I explain my advancement. My subject has been Improve animation framework and create animation effects for KPresenter Currently, only loading and displaying of some effect work: Standard (dis)apperance (a shape was shown or not). Width or height [...]
Hello all, the last week-end, I went to KOffice Sprint in Essen (Germany). Day 0, the coming day: This first day, I travel from Paris to Essen in order to rejoin the sprint place, Linux Hotel. I just arrived to take dinner. Just after meal, we went back to hotel and every one do some [...]
C’est avec grand bonheur que je peux annoncer que les transitions 3D font maintenant partie du trunk de KOffice. Bientôt l’export html devrait suivre.
Hier soir j’ai reçu un mail dont le titre était Congratulations! Et ce mail m’annonçait que j’étais pris pour participer aux Google Summer of Code 2010. Je vais donc pouvoir passer mon été à coder les animations pour KPresenter. Vous pourrez suivre sur ce blog mes avancées. Je n’ai pas encore décidé si celle-ci serait publié en [...]
Cette semaine j’ai (comme je l’avais prévu) amélioré l’export html. Maintenant celui-ci ne prend plus en compte que les fichiers zip. On peut noter les améliorations suivantes : Export en utilisant un thème au format .zip fonctionnel, y compris pour les images. La boite de dialogue permettant de sélectionner un thème ne se positionne plus [...]