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 As a teenager, I wasted much of my life and loved every minute of it. Rather than do anything productive, I would vegetate in front of the TV watching movies like Smokey and the Bandit on WPIX.
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| On our Plasma 5 build status page most of the packages are now a pleasing green colour.
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Introduction Recently, we ran a study on the reorganization of the KDE system settings (Re-sort KDE control modules and Results of Card Sorting the KDE System Settings). Both the number of participants as well as the discussion in the forum proved the huge interest in this topic. Based on these information some design proposals have been developed. Their impact on navigation needs to be carefully considered. Following we introduce two possible alternatives how the system settings could look like in the future as (partly) interactive mockups and ask you to vote for your favorite option. Description Primary goal of the project is to get a clear organization of the different modules. The system settings should work with the minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768px (mockups have exactly this size). To facilitate usability both alternatives got rid of hidden features and avoid using tabs, for instance. Furthermore, we want to provide ...read more...
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| Remember People behind KDE? It was a interview series with members of the community. I always enjoyed reading it because it showed, that KDE is software produced by dedicated and enthusiastic people and that it is possible to become one of them. So eventually I did. I have to do some interviews for an anthropology class this year and I decided to take the chance and revitalize the series. Instead of written interviews I will do video sessions. The idea is to have two parts. One is about the person and the other one is about a topic that is related to that person. KDE is no longer the product, but the name for the community so I decided to rename the series as well. Let me present to you: People of KDE – Episode 0 This is my very first interview. I will try to improve over time and I need your help for this. - was it interesting to you?
- how do you like the format? Is 35~ minutes a good length for you?
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| I am working under KDE community and my GSoC project is Add support for importing tables from LibreOffice Base to Kexi. My mentor for this project is Kexi maintainer and developer Jaroslaw Staniek. Here is the brief overview about this project and my current status in this project. Project description Kexi is an open source visual database creator. In kexi we can create database applications and perform queries. It also provides functionality to import database from other database sources. Currently kexi needs to add support to import database tables from odb files generated by LibreOffice Base. It is very important to have this functionality for kexi as more and more open source users are shifting to kexi. So, my task is to enable database migration from LibreOffice Base to Kexi. Project details My agenda is to implement classes which will enable database migration from .odb format to kexi. The main thing to note here is .odb format stores data in HSQLDB database format. There is not any functionality available to read hsqldb files from cpp code ...read more...
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| I’m writing from a warm and sunny Berlin, having attended my first Qt Contributors Summit. It is always nice to meet the Qt developer team, and to get a chance to hang out with the Pelagicorians from our Munich office.  This conference really acts as a good balance to Qt Developer Days. Where QtDD consists of speeches and focuses on information for the users of Qt, the QtCS consists of open discussions focusing on the development of Qt. I, personally, will take two things with me from here: the vibrant community and the openness of Qt.
It is nice to see the community in action. There are people from KDE, Digia, KDAB, ICS, Intel, Canonical, Jolla, Pelagicore and more attending. This really shows how strong Qt has grown through the qt-project. Opening up development to people outside what was Trolltech / Nokia really has resulted in a strong community. Having people from potentially competing companies at a joint developer conference can be a difficult thing. Here, however, the discussions have ...read more...
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| Ubuntu Online Summit starts today with talks and sessions on all matter of stuff related to Ubuntu.
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| A new cycle and lots of interesting possibilities! Will KF5 and Plasma 5 be supreme? All welcome at the Kubuntu kickoff meeting this european evening and american afternoon at 19:00UTC .
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| The following announcement is in Swedish. Please ignore it if it does not make sense to you!  Välkomna på foss-gbg hackafton!
Den 28/5 17:00 träffas vi för att lära oss om GNOME.
Andreas Nilsson och Mattias Bengtsson introducerar projektet, verktygen och hjälper er komma igång.
Vid åttasnåret drar vi vidare och umgås över en öl.
Pelagicore står för lokaler och bjuder på lättare tilltugg under tillställningen.
Inget inträde, men begränsat antal platser. Anmälan på eventbrite.
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| You may not have heard about Yokadi. It is a command-line based TODO list manager which I started some years ago and work on with a bunch of fellow contributors. Yokadi is a side project for all of us, with occasional bursts of development activities when we find an itch to scratch or foolishly think we finally figured out the missing feature which is going to save us from procrastination :), therefore development is a bit slow. We usually run the latest version from the master branch, but not everybody is comfortable with such a way to work, so it is good to have releases. Version 0.13.0 was released 3 (three!) years ago, it was high time we got a new version out. Last week we finally released version 0.14.0. If you are a command-line aficionado looking for a way to manage your tasks, Yokadi might be the tool you need. Head over to http://yokadi.github.io to learn more and get the latest version. We look forward to your feedback!
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| As part of the series looking at the applications that are installed by default with the KDE version of openSUSE it is worth noting that there are two web browsers installed, Firefox and Konqueror.
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| As I probably already mentioned somewhere there is currently quite some energy going into the work of bringing more and better KDE applications to the Mac platform. So it’s a perfect time to get involved, help to solve the problems or test our software on another platform and thus make another step in {our,a} plan to konquer the world. And don’t hesitate to do this for other platforms as well and/or come to Randa to help with this. PS: There is still the little poll open about KDE, families and Randa. Please participate and share your anonymous opinion. Currently seven people filled it in. 
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| One of my favourite C++11 features are lambdas. The syntax is a bit cumbersome, but it was the best approach the committee could take without creating a new sub-language. Every part of the syntax has a reason for why it exists. But, it still is a bit ugly, and can influence readability of the surrounding code quite a bit. 
The thing that annoys me the most is the lambda head – the capture block and the arguments it takes. Those are very important when writing the code, but not (that much) when reading it. My solution for this? The conceal feature of Vim. 
The good thing about lambdas is that they are (meant to) be used as local anonymous functions. That means that, while reading other parts of the code, you don’t actually need to know what the lambda is capturing, nor which are its arguments. So, it doesn’t hurt to hide them, right? Naturally, when ...read more...
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| Lydia brought a load of friends over from Germany to visit the sights of Stirling.
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| In the Plasma team, we’re working frantically towards the next release of the Plasma workspaces, code-named “Plasma Next”. With the architectural work well in place, we’ve been filling in missing bits and pieces in the past months, and are now really close to the intended feature set for the first stable release. A good time to give you an impression of what it’s looking like right now. Keep in mind that we’re talking Alpha software here, and that we still have almost three months to iron out problems. I’m sure you’ll be able to observe something broken, but also something new and shiny. For the first stable release of Plasma Next, we decided to focus on core functionality. It’s impossible to get every single feature that’s available in our long-term support release KDE Plasma workspaces 4.11 into Plasma Next at once. We therefore decided to not spread ourselves too thin, and set aside some not-quite-core functionality for now. So we’re not aiming at complete feature parity yet, but at a stable core desktop that gets the work ...read more...
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| One of the new features in KWin 5 is a completely rewritten configuration module for our Desktop Effects. In KWin 4 our module was based on KPluginSelector, which is a great widget for a small list of plugins, but it was never a really good solution for the needs of KWin. Also we noticed that a QWidget based user interface is not flexible enough for what we would like to provide (e.g. preview videos). So when QtQuick came around we had the first experiments with reimplementing the selector with QtQuick, but with the lack of what today is QtQuick Controls it never left the prototype state. But it encouraged us to use one GSoC project on redesigning the control module from scratch and Antonis did a great job there to lay the foundation for what we have now in the upcoming alpha release. The most noticeable change is that the new control module just focuses on the Desktop Effects. What we learned from our users is that they are only interested in configuring the effects and that ...read more...
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| I've used Kontact (KDE's full feature groupware app) since it was available. I used KMail on its own before that. In that time I had never (!) reset the configuration or started from a clean start. I just migrated from version to version carrying over all my settings and local mail as new version became available.
This means I went through the various epochs: when IMAP became the better supported system; grouwpare server support; akonadi; semantic search integration (both Nepomuk and Baloo) with the same configuration and data on disk.
The last several months had become amazingly painful with Kontact, however. Frequently folders would lock up and the caches would fall out of sync; switching folders would take forever; loading mail content was also often painful. Restarting Kontact became a multi-day affair, and dropping Akonadi caches was becoming increasingly frequent. I chalked this up to running bleeding edge master, but my patience was growing thin. I filed bug reports, I started looking through the code to see where problems might be and I even considered what I could ...read more...
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| In 4.12 I fixed KNotes. It was totally unmaintained. So I decided to fix all bugs that I found, and improve it.
For 4.13 my focus was to port it to Akonadi. KNotes used KResources until now and in KF5 it will removed, so it was necessary to port it to Akonadi. I did it in 4.13.
So I created a knotes-migrator for migrate old data to akonadi.
So no data lose As you know we can put an alarm on a note but it was never displayed when knotes was not started.
With Akonadi we are able to create an “Agent”,. Now we have a new agent named “NotesAgent” which allows to inform you when a note sent an alarm. In Knotes we can also send a note in network, NoteAgent is used to receive it too. What are the others improvements ? Now we use “baloo” for searching notes.
As it uses same data as KJots we can see them in Kjots too. I hope that it will motivate you to use it ...read more...
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| Greetings to all you students we've been talking with in IRC (#kde-soc and your chosen team's channel(s)) and on the mailing lists. By now, hopefully you have met and talked with your teams, and begun formulating your plan for GSoC, with advice from your prospective mentor(s).
I hope you have followed Myriam's advice and done your homework. If you have worked on some junior jobs, have your KDE developer credentials, joined the necessary lists *including KDE-soc*, you have a good foundation built.
Pro-tip: always check out the links in the /topic of your IRC channels. The #kde-soc channel topic is particularly rich.
Many prospective mentors hang out in that channel, but not all. Us admins are there as often as possible as well. I'm always willing to help edit a proposal for grammar, spelling, organization, formatting, etc. And I can be brutally honest, so if you ask my opinion, be aware that I won't waste your time with anything but the truth.
Now is the time to log into melange, and submit your ...read more...
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Scarlett has been working hard on packaging KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha 2 and the build status page shows a sea of green (the only yellow is when a framework is asking for a package which doesn't exist yet). Just in time for Plasma Next to get its Alpha release this week coming :) Grab the KF5 packages from the experimental PPA for Kubuntu Trusty. |
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| This is a excerpt from a real project, just with variables renamed. EDIT: I’ve removed the issues from the original code so that this can be a real style vote, without sidetracking the readers. Although, by fixing the code, I removed one of the things that I think the advantage of the second one is – it is much harder to make errors and dead code. const qreal ratio = someFunction();
if (ratio < 1.5) {
result = multiplier;
} else if (ratio < 2.0) {
result = multiplier * 1.5;
} else if (ratio < 2.5) {
result = multiplier * 2.0;
} else if (ratio < 3.0) {
result = multiplier * 3.0;
} else {
result = multiplier * ratio;
}
return result;
This was the usual imperative code that you’d find almost everywhere. And this is the alternative (functional) way of doing the same: const qreal ratio = someFunction();
return multiplier * (
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| Krita 2.8.0 was released yesterday, and this version comes with quite a big list of changes.
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Yesterday, the Muses DVD arrived from the printers. Today, all pre-orders got stuffed in jiffy bags and sent on to the post office! Irina Rempt did all the hard work of creating address labels, stuffing the bags, pasting on the stamps, and then we bagged the bags in Official Post Office bags! So, if you had ordered one, it's on its way! 
And if you haven't ordered one yet...  Support Krita development by getting your very own copy! 
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| Hello planet! KDE India team is going to organize a KDE India conference 2014 in DAIICT, Gandhinagar. In KDE India conference there are many awesome talks. In fact every talk is interesting but I find this talks more interesting. And of course my own talk, Introduction to Plasma Next by KDE 
In this talk I will give introduction to Plasma Next, changes in Plasma Next and if there is enough time I will demostrate installation of KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma Next. I am already excited about KDE ...read more...
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| Hot on the heels of the new driver manager, we have the new touchpad management app that we introduced in Kubuntu 14.04. 
The new app replaces the old Synaptiks touchpad management app and has many more buttons and settings that you can twiddle and tweak to get the best experience. The Kubuntu team would like to thank Alexander Mezin for working on this replacement app as part of his GSoC project. The package comes complete with its own plasmoid for easy access to enable and disable touchpads! Quite useful for folks who don’t have a physical hardware button to Enable/Disable touchpads  Users of Kubuntu 14.04 can grab the new touchpad management app from the Ubuntu repos by installing the kde-touchpad package.
 
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| Marcus Hanwell is a physicist by training, but his background in science led him down a different path than most reseachers.
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| Racing close to Kate/KTextEditor on the way to Qt5/KF5 fields , the port of Okteta to Qt5/KF5 now crossed the lane and moved out of “KDE4″ terrain as well, by no longer depending on kde4support.
Of course also with zero compiler warnings during build (with build.kde.org settings) and all existing tests succeeding (to follow the environment-friendly standards set by Kate’s developers ), as can be now also nicely seen on Okteta’s framework builds on build.kde.org (Thanks to the ever-awesome Ben for settings things up). As you might remember, Alexander started the port last summer and has ever since been in the feedback cycle of KF5 and Okteta as well as other KF5 porting work (Note that the Qt5/KF5 port of Okteta has meanwhile moved to a branch named
frameworks, for consistency with the other repos). Shifting priorities I finally managed to join his efforts (jumping on the moving train, eh), just right in time to “steal” him the milestone commit “Remove KDE4Support, no ...read more...
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| New rekonq release (2.4.2) ready just 1 day after another (2.4.1). Ehi, don’t get used to this 
The motivation for this fast update is an idea came out from a bugzilla discussion for an old request: the clear urlbar button. You may know rekonq uses urlbar right corner to notify things like “bookmarks”, “rss”, “ads blocked” and so on. So basically things related to the site you are actually visiting. This completely excludes KLineEdit clear urlbar button implementation. And, in my opinion, excludes also the logic for such a button there.
The idea has been to add it as a normal action, excluded by default from the main toolbar, but easy to add just right clicking there and choosing “configure main toolbar”. So, the usual way. But… what happened in the road from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1?? There is another important report from the bug system we implemented this time: global zoom settings. You can choose a global setting for the default zoom in rekonq and just see all pages with it. Moreover, ...read more...
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| This is a follow-up to Aaron’s blog Frameworks 5: Timing is everything, put into the perspective of Kate and the KTextEditor interfaces. In short, Aaron suggests application developers the following: When Frameworks 5 has a firm release schedule, then it makes sense to start coordinating application releases targets with that and syncing up development cycles.
I agree with this entirely, provided it’s really about applications. In the context of Kate, this is not the case, since the term ‘Kate’ usually also refers to the ‘KTextEditor’ interfaces along with its implementation ‘Kate Part’. In essence, the KTextEditor interfaces together with Kate Part provide a text editor in a library that can be used by applications, or more to the point, KTextEditor+Kate Part build a framework. In fact, about a week ago, the KTextEditor interfaces and Kate Part were split out of the kate.git repository. So from now on, kate.git contains the Kate and KWrite applications. The ktexteditor.git module contains the KTextEditor interfaces and Kate Part. ktexteditor.git is is a tier3 framework and ...read more...
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| Hm... I've been weeding out my linguistics library to donate everything that has to do with Indo-European, Greek or Celtic to Menna, and everything that has to do with the history of the English to Rebecca. There's still about a forty feet of bookshelves left. And then I found my old Classical Chinese readers and Pulleyblank's. Now I've forgotten most of the characters, and I learned those by writing them down on index cards and manually shuffling them (I threw those out ten years ago). Back then, you'd need special ISA board plugged into your PC to show Chinese characters on the monitor... But in this day and age, something better should be available. So... Is there a open source, preferably KDE, application that assists learning hanzi, preferably integrated with a tablet for dealing with writing characters in strokes? I know of commercial websites that do that, some open source java applications that are not that nice to use -- and a KDE app for learning Japanese characters and phrases, which are just too different to be useful. Bonus points ...read more...
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