The importance of delivering localized Linux

Situation 1:
You go to the supermarket and buy a new PC, you’ll find that the installed copy of Windows is perfectly localized in your language by default.
Situation 2:
You go to the Apple store and buy a new MAC, you’ll find that the installed copy of MAC OS is perfectly localized in your language by default.
Situation [...]

P4A 3 christmas update

I want to wish you a marry Christmas with a small update on P4A 3 development status. Here you have the changelog since last update:
- P4A_Image was removed
- P4A_Icon was renamed to P4A_Image
- P4A_Button::composeStringProperties() method was removed
- P4A_Image::setIcon() now supports a path to an image instead of the icon name
- P4A_Toolbar::enable() and disable() methods params [...]

P4A 3 continues growing

Following the previous post, here you have the new things I’ve coded:
- POT file for the new translation system was prepared and committed to p4a/i18n/templates/p4a.pot
- P4A_Generate_Default_Label() global function was added, it takes a string such as “this_is_field” and returns “This is a field”, useful to generate labels from field names and other things
- P4A_Button and [...]

P4A 3 starts roaring

Back from the weekend in Dublin it’s time to write an update on my nightly coding sessions on P4A 3.
Well, a bunch of things were already done, porting to Zend Framework seems to be easier than what I expected, I’m working hard (you know time is always low) and I still have many many things [...]

various updates

There would be so many things to tell… I’ve been working hard (sleep? what’s sleep?) on P4A 3, I was too excited about the new possibilities to wait, more info will come later.
Next week will be totally distructive but I hope I’ll be able to post something and code a bit.
And now… Dublin I’m coming [...]

P4A 2.2.2, hot fix for a db_source bug

Changelog:
- Major bugfix on P4A_DB_Source::saveRow(), the patch from Edr (introduced in 2.2.0) was removed and a few checks were added to prevent inconsistency
- some little bugs on P4A_DB_Source were fixed
Download P4A 2.2.2

P4A 3 rendering layer discussion

This post will not be easy to write… I’ll try to explain you what kept us really busy in the past 2 weeks. ok a screenshot could help me

In the P4A 3 roadmap post, I told you about a new widget rendering system… I didn’t post more technical info intentionally, I wanted to [...]

What about gnomescan?

The new beautiful interface for scanning media? Think gnome should add it by default and hemmmm… ubuntu? can someone please drop xscan? ok xscan works but it’s 2007, think we deserve a better interface…
just a thought

P4A 2.2.1, first maintenance release for 2.2 serie

Changelog:
– multicheckbox field and multiselect field now support saving in single table field
- P4A_Field::setMultivalueSeparator method was added
- a bug with images on p4a_table wal solved
- rich_textarea “Full” theme was added
- jQuery::form was updated to 2.01
- a bug with empty “file” fields submitted with an ajax call was solved
Download P4A 2.2.1 here