Вышла первая стабильная версия веб-браузера Google Chrome для Android под номером 18.0.1025123. Со времён активно тестируемой пользователями и компанией бета-версии возросла скорость и стабильность программы, а также появились некоторые новые возможности.
So, its that time of year again, the annual meeting of all things KDE… Akademy! This year it is coming to you from Tallin, Estonia. This year will be my 6th outing to the event
Of course, KDE is very dear to me and to Kolab and so, in addition to me, there will be a few other members of the Kolab community will meet at this year’s Akademy. Key contributors Christian Mollekopf and Jeroen van Meeuwen will be present and available to discuss Kolab related issues. Jeroen will also give a talk about release engineering processes using KDE as an example. His experience from the Fedora Project, Cyrus IMAP, Cyrus SASL and from his roleas a Systems Architect at Kolab Systems provides him with ample experience to give some insight into how release engineering and quality assurance within the fast-paced KDE project could be improved further.
The Kolaborators will also be taking part in a Task Management sprint featuring ...read more...
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know I tend to get obsessed with fixing little details in KDE applications which annoy me. I like doing this, but this is the kind of task which cannot be done by a lonesome coder if one wants to make a significant difference.
Other free software projects have launched initiatives in the past to get those little details ironed out. You may have heard about Ubuntu Papercuts, Fedora Fit and Finish or Gnome Every Detail Matters initiatives.
I want to start a similar initiative for KDE. To do so, I registered a BoF this year at Akademy, named “the Extra Mile”. The goal of this BoF is not to get started at fixing bugs right away, but rather discuss how we can organize ourself to make this initiative a success. I want to discuss topics such as:
Release soon and release often wasn’t really the case of print-manager, I started this project 2 years ago, and this is the first official release. I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long which I can’t say I’m not super happy!!!
First off I REALLY want to give a BIG THANK YOU to all who contributed to my fund raising campaign, without it, this project would have to wait even more, because without a real printer testing the “Add New Printer” feature is real hard, even tho I don’t have all printer models available out there with a printer I can at least guess what s-c-p (system-config-printer) did.
My new printer and monitor
It’s been a while since my last blog, but the truth is that there is a lot I’m doing under the hood of the applications I develop, for example PackageKit is passing through some real deep changes which will change a ...read more...
Вышла новая версия Groovy — динамического языка программирования для Java-платформы.
Основные изменения в этой версии:
Опциональная статическая типизация, позволяющая диагностировать ошибки и получать более оптимальный код в процессе компиляции
Поддержка Java 7 — новые форматы для задания чисел, отлов нескольких исключений в try/catch блоке. Поддержка байт-кода InvokeDynamic для более оптимальной работы динамического кода.
Раздление JAR-файла groovy на несколько модулей, возможность добавления собственных модулей для расширения существующих классов платформы
Pretty incredible... I've been working on Krita for over nine years now, and it's over ten years since I did my first hack in KDE. I'm starting to feel like a dinosour. And this will be my sixth Akademy!
I've been to Malaga, which was awesome until I got sick, then I skipped Dublin (where Krita got App of the Year award!), went to Glasgow (where my luggage got caught in the terrorist attack on the airport), skipped Sint-Katelijne-Waver, skipped Gran Canaria, went to Tampere, went to Berlin and now to Tallinn.
Every Akademy I've attended was different, not just because the venues were different, but because KDE as a project is always on the move. Malaga was the first time I heard of the plans for KDE4, and they sounded awesome, and in Glasgow people presented the first results of all that effort, which turned to be -- awesome! And I think that KDE has gone from strength to strength. Sure, we need more polish and we need to take better care of bugs. But I maintain that for ...read more...
После восьми лет разработки представлен первый стабильный релиз модульного мультиплатформенного загрузчика GNU GRUB ветки 2.х, поддерживающий множество платформ: х86/x86-64 BIOS/EFI, платформы IEEE-1275 (например, OLPC, Sparc64, PowerPC), coreboot, Yeeloong, а теперь ещё и Fuloong2F, Loongson-2F, SGI, i386/MIPS Qemu, Itanium и SGI MIPS.
My last report (here) was full of pictures, but since then I’ve spent more time polishing the functionality, behind-the-scene improvements, and fixing bugs. However, the mid-term evaluation is approaching, so I think let everybody know what’s the state of things. I’m happy with my progress, my schedule was a bit vague, but I think I’m ahead of it. So far I’m still enjoying it, and I bought a more comfortable chair, so I have little problems with working long hours.
I split out some functionality to make code more modular, which also allowed me to write unit tests for much of the newly added classes. The main parts of the code (TemplateRenderer, TemplateClassGenerator and TemplatesModel) are covered with test cases.
Class Templates
My main focus was still on templates for creating new classes. I slowly decided on the variables passed to templates. They are also documented, and I think I can start writing more templates about now. The C++ plugin adds some variables of its own, such as namespaces,
So some time ago Simon Legrand asked whether it would be possible to provide a Krita package for CentOS 5. That's ancient, but it's what Autodesk's Maya is certified for, so that's what film artists use.
My first gut feeling was yes, but it's going to be a hell of a lot of work. My second urge was to say, "no -- we provide source, not binaries.". Then I finally thought "why not give it a try -- could be interesting."
And yes, it turned out to be interesting. Basically, I made three packages: one for CentOS 5 32 bits, one for CentOS 5 64 bits, one for CentOS 6 64 bits. CentOS 5 really means starting from the ground up: I had to install a new shared-mime-info to start with. But once the VM is setup, everything is a breeze, and now I've got "nice" tarballs.
They unpack in your home dir, you enter the "krita" directory and execute the script. The currently most interesting package contains the new OpenColorIO-based lut docker.
BananaBread 0.2 — это проект по портированию с C++ на HTML5 стрелялки от первого лица Sauerbraten. Одной из целей создания проекта является демонстрация возможностей открытых стандартов. По мнению разработчиков веб-технологий JavaScript и WebGL способны на большее, чем от них ожидают.
Автор Emscripten, знаменитой демки Doom on the Web и один из разработчиков BananaBread Алон Закаи (Alon Zakai) анонсировал в своем блоге выход первых доступных для игры 3 уровней, уже сейчас позволяющих восхититься тенями, бликами и преломлением в воде, или просто насладиться игрой с ботами в браузере.
Многопользовательская игра пока находится только в стадии планирования, и ее поддержка зависит от доступности UDP-сокетов WebRTC.
Исходный код проекта распространяется под лицензией zlib. Веб-версия собирается при помощи Emscripten — компилятора LLVM-байткода в JavaScript. Но поддерживается также и нативная сборка под линукс.
Новое издание компилятора и набора рабочих программ Ada предоставляет множество новых функций и улучшений:
полная поддержка стандарта Ada 2012;
улучшение поддержки C/C++, улучшение автоматической коррекции ошибок, улучшенное меню для Version Control System, улучшение в работе MDI (Multiple Document Interface);
теперь поддерживается GTK-2.24;
поддержка выгрузки плагинов;
улучшена интеграция Ada/C++;
расширена система сообщений об ошибках и предупреждениях.
GNAT GPL и SPARK GPL издания доступны для разработчиков свободного программного обеспечения. Компилятор лицензируется на условиях GNU General Public License. Библиотека рабочих программ лицензируется либо под GNU General Public License («GNAT GPL Edition» от AdaCore), либо GNAT Modified General Public License (GCC, GNAT Pro). GNAT — часть большинства дистрибутивов Linux и BSD.
Зарелизился Eclipse Juno 4.2. Это первый релиз ветки 4.x, ветка 3.x закрыта и больше не будет развиваться. Для совместимости со старыми плагинами и RCP приложениями в Juno включен слой совместимости.
Code Recommenders: новый проект автодополнения кода. Анализируя использование Java API приложения формируется база best practices. В дальнейшем, Code Recommenders предлагает разработчику использовать определенное Java API в своих проектах.
Virgo: новое ядро, позволяющее создавать менее громоздкие приложения на основе OSGi.
Koneki: новый проект по созданию LUA IDE. Проект является важной частью Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group.
Xtext: добавлена поддержка интегрированной отладки DSL, созданных с использованием Xtext. Реализована более тесная интеграция с Java Development Tools (JDT).
Equinox: включена реализация новых OSGi R5 спецификаций.
Представлены два новых пакета:
Eclipse IDE for Automotive Software Developer - содержит инструменты и фреймворки для разработки встроенного ПО для автомобилей.
Eclipse for Mobile Developers - упрощение установки и работы с мобильными SDK, включая Android SDK.
I'll be at Akademy 2012 after three years of absence. I have been inactive for years in KDE because of my tough life tangled with loads of jobs to be done. Now I can join again because my duty is finally over! (you know, most of men in South Korea have duty) I'll be there on the first of July. Too bad I can't be joining conference sessions because my flight schedule is screwed up :( But I can't wait to meet great people out there.
Now back to Konstruktor...
OS X preview build of Konstruktor 0.9.9-beta2 is available. Download from here. ...read more...
На проходящей в Сан-Франциско конференции "Google I/O" была анонсирована новая версия Android - 4.1 "Jelly Bean".
Основные изменения:
Новые режимы буферизации и синхронизации при выводе на экран, благодаря которым приложения станут быстрее реагировать на действия пользователя и точнее отображать анимацию и прокрутку экрана
Голосовой ввод в offline-режиме; голосовой поиск с зачитыванием результатов
Поддержка изображений в экране уведомлений; дополнительные кнопки действий в уведомлениях
Масштабирование виджетов
Фотографии высокого разрешения в контактах
Поддержка USB аудиоустройств и функции обработки и перенаправления аудио-потоков
KDE Software Compilation 4.9 will be released on August and it will contain features such as Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, improved searching, sorting, display and inline rename on Dolphin, better integration of Activities for files, as well as lots of performance improvements and bugfixes to improve the overall user experience.
A while ago our amazing sysadmins upgraded our bugzilla installation from something aging to something more modern. Hurrah! We are not a billion years behind in another software! Hurrah!
Unfortunately this meant we lost some of our ¿custom? code that allowed to show the Votes column in searches like this (click on the change columns link at the end).
One can still see the votes in a particular bug, but for things like wishes it was very useful to be able of sorting by votes.
So it would be extremely cool if you can try to implement this, be warned, it's probably not going to be easy to implement and moreover bugzilla is in perl, but i'll owe you a few beers if you make it :-)
If you want to help do not hesitate to contact me on aacid@kde.org and I'll forward you to the appropriate people, or even better just join the #kde-sysadmin channel in irc.freenode.net and present yourself as volunteer to do this job.
The other day I was talking with Fabio, a new Okular developer (a blog post on his awesomeness coming soon), and realized that he had permission to commit to the git repositories but not permission to close bugs in bugs.kde.org
This disconnect comes from the fact that bugzilla is not tied to your identity.kde.org user.
After speaking with the KDE sysadmins we agreed it'd be cool to enable permissions in bugzilla if there is a matching address (it would be cooler to match the accounts, but that's probably a gigantic task)
So we are looking for someone that can write some sql to do this:
1) find the user_id from someone's email address 2) insert an entry into user_group_map for the editbugs group and that user_id 3) insert an entry into user_group_map for the canconfirm group and that user_id
Additionally the code has to be smart enough to 1) print a notice if no bugzilla account was not found for the given email address 2) be written in a way as to not cause ...read more...
The Calligra team has released version 2.4.3, the third bugfix release of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Mobile and Calligra Active. This release contains a number of important bug fixes to 2.4.2 and we recommend everybody to update as soon as possible.
Bugfixes in This Release
Here is an overview of the most important fixes are in 2.4.3. There are several others that are not mentioned here:
Words:
Always show vertical scroll bar to avoid race condition (BUG: 301076)
Do not save with an attribue that makes LibreOffice and OpenOffice crash (BUG: 298689 )
Kexi:
Fixed import from csv when “Start at Line” value changed (BUG: 302209)
Set limit to 255 characters for Text type (VARCHAR) (BUG: 301277 and 301136)
Remove limits for Text data type, leave as option (BUG:301277)
Fixed data saving when focus policy for one of widgets is NoFocus (BUG: 301109)
Krita:
Read and set the resolution for psd images
Charts:
fix load/save styles of all shapes (title,subtitle,axistitles,footer,etc.)
after system reboot kwin immediately crashes (even if i start it manually), keyboard focus is not working, so keyboard input is not possible
another regression i found - battery icon has lost its sharpness and is now unusable. please vote for bug 302646 on the positive side i'd note that plasma-netbook's memory footprint hasn't increased.
This semester I attended Advanced Topics of Linux Administration course on my university. To successfully complete the course, one must pass an exam, have a presentation and write an article on a related topic. I had a presentation about libvirt and decided to write an introduction into using libvirt’s API (the article has been published (in English) on Czech Linux portal ABCLinuxu.cz).
As an example, I have written a Plasma Applet in QML (yay, my first QML thingie!) and a Plasma DataEngine that serves data about QEMU/KVM virtual machines running under local libvirtd.
On the applet you can watch state of all virtual machines, you can boot/pause/resume/shutdown and reboot them and configure soft and hard memory limits and amount of virtual CPUs allocated to each machine.
На прилавках Италии в продажу поступили нетбуки Asus Eee PC 1225C с предустановленной Ubuntu 12.04 c включением в поставку Adobe Flash и набора мультимедийных кодеков. Стоимость составляет 370$. В скором времени данная модель появится и в других странах Евросоюза.
Департамент информационных технологий правительства Франции выделил грант в размере двух миллионов евро на поддержку 350 различных свободных продуктов в 15 министерствах страны.Тендер на получение государственного контракта по обслуживанию свободного ПО во французских министерствах был объявлен в конце прошлого года. Его победителями стали местные компании Alter Way (специалисты по разработке и сопровождению Open Source-продуктов), Capgemini (крупная международная компания, консультирующая по вопросам использования ИТ в бизнесе) и Zenika (специалисты по технологиям Java).Среди программного обеспечения, которое будет обслуживаться этими компаниями в министерствах Франции в рамках данного госконтракта, называются Linux-дистрибутивы Ubuntu, Debian и CentOS, прикладные приложения Firefox, O...
as you might know, ownCloud uses the Open Build Service (short OBS) to produce and distribute the binary packages for the various distributions we want to support.
The OBS is a great system as it does not only build for various Linuxes but also lets the users download the binary packages utilizing a huge mirroring infrastructure. All for you, all for the good of free software.
And there is even more: OBS offers a nice download page which can either be embedded into a projects webpage or be linked from it. Depending on the settings of the OBS project, for example the number of Linuxes it builds for, the page is adopted automatically. So you never again have to deal with lots of download links to the projects repository downloads. See the ownCloud Client Package download page as an living example.
Now the page had a shortcoming for apt based distributions. I became aware of it as the problem as well as the ...read more...
Kay Sievers опубликовал в Google+ ссылку на написанный им совместно с Harald Hoyer простой и пока безымянный системный загрузчик, совместимый с UEFI. Загрузчик может показывать простое меню и загружать с системного раздела EFI ядра Linux (собранные с опцией CONFIG_EFI_STUB) и другие EFI-образы. Настройка осуществляется с помощью текстовых файлов, по одному на каждое загружаемое ядро.
Lars Torben Kremer has announced the release of Snowlinux 2 "KDE" edition, a Debian-based distribution showcasing the KDE 4.4.5 desktop: "The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 2 'Ice' KDE.
Вышла новая версия Quantum GIS (QGIS), одной из самых динамично развивающихся географических информационных систем (ГИС) с открытым исходным кодом. QGIS — свободная (GPL v2) пользовательская ГИС, написанная на языке C++ с использованием библиотеки Qt. QGIS поддерживает практически все распространенные форматы пространственных данных, расширяется модулями на C++ и Python (уже существует свыше 220 модулей расширения для решения различных задач).
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as you might know,