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Danimo started a Planet Qt as a sign of the project's increased open development model.

Сегодня в рассылке qt-project.org появилось сообщение о прекращении деятельности офиса Nokia в Брисбене (Австралия). В данном офисе велась разработка модулей Qt3D, QtDeclarative, QtMultimedia, QtSensors и QtSystems. Несмотря на сокращение, отдельные разработчики обещают продолжить работать над Qt.

Метки: qml, qt

Shortly after KDE 4.9 hits the net Virtuoso 6.1.6 follows. Virtuoso 6.1.6 comes with a ton of fixes, improvements and optimizations and it is highly recommended to update for the best Nepomuk experience.

Virtuoso 6.1.6 has been tested by the Nepomuk team in cooperation with OpenLink Software before its release. It is the recommended release for Nepomuk. This is not only true for KDE 4.9 but for any version before it.

Get the sources while they are hot and build your packages.

The session (ksmserver) code in the activity manager (KAMD) has lingered since its inception. Everybody ignored it and kept far away like it is an ugly duckling, even its original authoress. It never worked properly, and had quite a dirty implementation.

The code in KAMD was refactored, polished, dusted for many times since then, it even learnt a new language (C++11). But the ugly duckling remained locked in the dark. Even spiders left since there was no free space to left for a new cobweb.

Not anymore!

I’ve just rewritten it and moved all ksmserver/kwin things in a separate class. The new version is pushed into master an hour ago.

Since I’ve never used the session mechanism and start/stop for activities, I have no clue whether it works as bad^Wgood as it did before. I’ve tested it a bit, but that might not be enough, and it could still have some regressions.

Not Anymore?

Now, we are back to the sad story of the aforementioned duckling.

I haven’t done this because I wanted to work on it, but contrary – ...read more...

Heya all,

As you might have read on Lydia's blog, the Berliner KDE release party will happen at our place again. Address is on the Party Page. We'll have Pizza and you have to bring your own drinks (there's a 24H store downstairs so you can simply get a beer or coke there).

We'll start around 18:00 (order pizza between 18:30 and 19:00) and hang out until about 22:00 or so. I'm still not feeling well enough for a party until deep in the night, but there's plenty of place around where you can go afterwards if you want ;-)

Bringing laptops is allowed but far from mandatory. We'll be sure to have a device or two with the latest & greatest from KDE, of course (and I hopefully will get to show off my new laptop).

Oh, and there will be cake. Lots of it...

This post is part of an ongoing series about developments and discussions in Qt.

Some parts of this report are still under discussion, and don’t necessarily reflect the final state of Qt 5. The target audience is people involved in Qt development itself, but without the time to follow everything that happens, and others with a strong interest in Qt, Qt 5, and the community.

This week we cover QLibrary loading performance, release preparations and improved APIs for stable and repeatable unit tests.

QLibrary loading performance

The performance of QLibrary loading has been improved with a series of patches in Qt 5 written by KDAB engineer Sean Harmer. The patches use an improved search heuristic for the common case of file names for libraries and plugins. As this is a behavior change in Qt 5, the patches were also added in a backwards compatible way to Qt4 followed by a series of patches to enable use of the feature.

More cleanup of Qt5 CMake files

Some recent effort has gone into improving the ...read more...

17-18 ноября в Москве пройдет конференция для пользователей и разработчиков ГИС с открытым исходным кодом.

Мероприятие посвящено созданию свободных геоинформационных систем и программному обеспечению с открытым исходным кодом, а также методам создания и обработки пространственной информации.

В настоящее время формируется предварительная сетка докладов. Планируется проведение трех параллельных секций:

• доклады и обсуждения по «классическим» ГИС;
• доклады и обсуждения по OpenStreetMap;
• практические мастер-классы и семинары.

Конференция пройдет по адресу г. Москва, конгресс-центр Измайлово-Альфа, м. Партизанская, Измайловское ш., д. 71, корп. А.

Участие в конференции бесплатное.

>>> Новость на nixp.ru

Метки: gis, конференция, москва

As you know from a previous post, I recently joined SUSE as openSUSE Team Lead. After several years of great work, the team is now getting ready to face new challenges keeping the same basic goal: make openSUSE rock.

To achieve this task, we want a senior developer to join us.

openSUSE Team at SUSE is a multidisciplinary group of professionals that works in many different areas in constant evolution so learning is part of our natural process. We have a clear R & D focus. We will work in projects covering several different technologies, so we are looking for somebody that is open minded, not afraid to work with a wide range of tools.

The position involves mentoring. It won't be just about designing solutions, solving problems and delivering, but also about engaging new developers and motivate them. Our team have high exposure to the openSUSE community and internally at SUSE. We also work with other communities and companies. Therefor communication ...read more...

Nokia is shutting down its Qt offices in Australia, laying off the team that was responsible for developing key parts of the open source development toolkit, including the QML user interface layout system.

Our dear planet readers should have seen it, toma asked for ruby hackers who would be able to write a plugin for hooking in our commitfilters to projects.kde.org, based on chiliproject.

Now, i’d like to extend that request. Some might have seen it, our webteam is trying hard to integrate a common look to our websites, called Neverland. Of course, projects.kde.org should also get that look. But as toma already stated, neither sysadmins nor the webteam hackers are really able to handle RoR code. The raw look is done, and available in skeleton html files, as well as the images/css/js via our CDN. It just needs the ruby code.

So for those interested in the plugin, and maybe even in the theming, feel free to contact us either in the #kde-sysadmin channel on freenode, or in our webteam channel at #kde-www or via mail to kde-sysadmin@kde.org or kde-www@kde.org

Тихо и незаметно вышла версия 4.9 популярнейшего окружения рабочего стола KDE.

В основном изменения касаются качества и стабильности KDE: это результат работы KDE Quality Team, основанной в этом году.

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Метки: kde, kde4, qt

… not just testers. While our products Squish and Squish Coco are about testing we also need developers! Good ones. Those that are good with C++ mainly. But in the end we can also throw Java, ObjectiveC, C#, Python, JavaScript, Perl, PHP and Tcl in the mix if you want to work on one of the editions of our products.

With Nokia step-by-step retracting from Qt the development scene is going to change. Nokia needs to be applauded for what they’ve done to the product. But Qt has outgrown what a single vendor can provide. Partially, because the needs of its users are so diverse. As part of putting development of the core product and add-ons on more shoulders we are among those companies that are open to hire some more ex-Trolls and Nokians.

Version 4.9 provides many new features, along with improved stability and performance.

Yay! I'm so happy that we got it out of the door, 4.9.x is going to be amazing :-)

Personally I'd like to thank Fabio d'Urso for being my new Okular co-developer (actually he did more commits than me, but don't tell anyone) and implementing the store annotations to pdf files feature both in Okular and in poppler. Fabio you rock :-)

Are you waiting impatiently for KDE 4.9? Warm-up your compilers with Amarok 2.6-RC that has been released just now! There have been a couple of bigger fixes since Beta 1, so we want to make sure that nothing hits your grandma in 2.6 final. Give it a good testing and report possible bugs to Bugzilla as usual. Thanks!

Jabber-клиент Vacuum-IM обновился до версии 1.2.0.

Вот некоторые изменения, которые произошли с версии 1.1.0:

• Добавлены уведомления о наступающих днях рождения.
• Добавлена возможность обмениваться контактами из ростера.
• Добавлена возможность показывать свернутое окно с сообщением при получении уведомления.
• Добавлены разделители дат сообщений в окнах чата и конференций.
• Добавлена возможность удалять транспорты вместе с их контактами из ростера.
• Добавлены новые типы уведомлений и изменены их настройки.
• Добавлено контекстное меню у вкладок в окне со вкладками.
• Поиск по контакт-листу запускается автоматически, достаточно начать набирать искомое слово.
• Добавлена возможность переименования контактов и групп непосредственно в контакт-листе.
• Добавлена возможность выполнения операций сразу над несколькими элементами ростера.
• Уведомление о запросе авторизации теперь автоматически удаляется в случае подтверждения или удаления авторизации с другого ресурса.
• Добавлена

As part of a KDE-wide effort to prepare for Qt 5/QtQuick2 , and a push to improve the window manager, KWin now sports QML decoration support .

KDE developer Jonathan Riddell has announced that the Rekonq web browser has now reached version 1.0 and is available to download.

Here's some good news. The code for the whole Social Feed thing is now clean & stable enough, so I decided to finally put it online, where the development will now continue.

Right now it consists of several parts (which you all need in order to have it working):

1) KOAuth library

This is a library handling the OAuth stuff in Twitter/Identi.ca. It's a modified version of the Microblog dataengine auth mechanism. The code is quite heavy and can be simplified significantly with the help of QtOAuth library, so I plan to refactor it on top of QOAuth class.

The nice thing about this approach is that we don't need to store user's password/credentials. User still has to put them in, but then it will authorize him with the service and return an OAuth token, which is stored in KWallet and that's all that is stored (well the username is stored as well, but that's for convenience only, the password is never saved anywhere).

2) Akonadi Social Utils

This one provides ...read more...

Keeping on top of the news has never been easier, thanks to the advent of RSS readers.

Hi! With almost a year delay as life was pretty good at distracting me, here’s a short heads up on what we’ve been doing.
Those that don’t know yet what Project Neon is should read Michal’s introductory post.

• Oneiric builds have been suspended and the packages will be removed in a week. If you want to continue to use Project Neon please upgrade to Precise Pangolin
• As of today Project Neon is fully running for Quantal Quetzal, enjoy your daily dose of builds on the devel release
• We now have pre-built KVM Images for Project Neon so you don’t need to separately install Kubuntu first before using it!
• As people keep asking for it, we’re working on the Python bindings (pykde4). As this requires more work than I initially hoped it will take a while until we’re done. You’ll hear from me again once you can use them.

If you have questions or just ...read more...

25 июля издатель Devolver Digital разослал пресс-релиз ведущим западным игровым изданиями о намерении Croteam сделать Linux-версию Serious Sam 3: BFE, и продемонстрированный ранее публике скриншот из одного из дистрибутивов Linux Ubuntu, пополнился двумя новыми с соответствующим граффити на одной из улиц Каира.

Финансовый директор Devolver Digital Форк Паркер высказался по-данному поводу:

Linux-версия Serious Sam 3: BFE будет полностью идентична версиям на остальных платформах. (PC, Mac) Т.е. кросс-платформеная игра, возможность устанавливать пользовательские модификации, создавать свои карты и т.д. Но ответ на вопрос, будет ли Linux-порт предыдущих частей Serious Sam HD, кроется в успехе портирования Serious Sam 3: BFE.

Вопреки, ныне, распространённому мнению, Valve не является «первыми», кто начали портировать серьёзные игры на Linux, у Croteam полностью рабочий билд игры ...read more...

Minetest — это игра-песочница, открытый аналог Minecraft.

Спустя 9 месяцев с момента выхода предыдущей версии (0.3) состоялся релиз 0.4 (а буквально через день — 0.4.1).

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>>> Английская вики

>>> Раздел официального форума, содержащий релизы модов

>>> Раздел русской вики, посвященный написанию модов (а еще рекомендуется посещать irc: #minetest-mods@freenode и jabber: mods@minetest.ru)

Метки: minecraft, minetest

В интервью Компьютерра Online инженер-программист «Альт Линукс» Михаил Пожидаев ведет разговор о некоторых современных проблемах управления пакетами в Linux, новых подходах для их преодоления и подробно рассказывает о разработке нового менеджера пакетов Deepsolver, принципах его работы, преимуществах и недостатках.

Метки: alt linux, apt, deepsolver

На вчерашнем игровом событии в Сиетле, CEO Valve Гейб Нюэл сообщил, что одна из причин, которая задерживает Linux в распространении на десктопах - это поддержка видеоигр.

"Большой проблемой, которая тормозит распространение Линукса, являются игры. Люди не понимают насколько важны игры для покупателей", - говорит Нюэл. "Мы хотим, чтобы 2500 игр для Steam можно было как можно проще запустить на Linux. Это запасная стратегия. Я думаю, что Windows 8 - это катастрофа для всех в мире PC. Я считаю, что мы потеряем несколько передовых ОЕМ-дистрибюторов, которые покинут рынок. Я думаю, многие люди потеряют свою прибыль. Если всё это окажется правдой, тогда будет хорошо иметь альтернативу."

Раньше в этом году Brad Wardell, CEO компании Stardock (прим. - разработчик Sins of Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations) написал статью для Kotaku о проблемах Windows 8. Варделл называет новую операционную систему "кошмаром в использовании". Если другие разработчики для PC испытывают те же ощущения, возможно они охотно последуют за Ньюэлом.

Метки: steam on linux, valve

Review Mint 13 KDE and it soon becomes clear that it's a release that contains so many good things in a single package Hot on the heels of its Xfce build , the final release of Linux Mint 13 KDE is now available for download.