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 KDE SC 4.4 is just out of the door (by the way, what an achievement, woha :D) and as our tradition we are already cramming features on trunk, that will be KDE SC 4.5. In plasma land you will probably see more things in the tone of polishment and refinement of stuff already there rather than completely new stuff. But since the fourth Tokamak is approaching, expect something really really tasty coming out of it :D But now there's a little appetizer: in 4.4 in the Search and Launch interface of the netbook shell is possible to add favourites and remove them by clicking on the little "-" icon While that's good and will still be available, now is possible to add favourites where you want with drag and drop from the results view and move them by just dragging around. The drag operation will start with a pretty low sensibility, making possible to still scrolling the view by dragging. For instance since the results view scrolls vertically, if you drag vertically the view will just move, but if you ...read more...
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So, with the amazing new website online, the time has come for the release of the latest and greatest Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform!
Which means: it's time to party! I'll be at the dutch release party in Culemborg, feel free to join! With over 25 parties all around the world, I think this is the biggest party we've ever thrown for a new release :D
I'm so proud of all you! Not only the developers but also the translators, documentation writers, bug reporters and triagers, forum members and of course the promo- and web developers for the great work you all did. A very big thank you and many many hugs!
If YOU want to help us spread the word, that'd be great! Tag everything with KDE44, tweet, dent, blog and digg here and here (new site), reddit here and here (new site), check our Linkedin group, our ...read more...
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A few hours ago the new www.kde.org website went online. Thank you a lot to everybody who contributed. I think it is a great new site which is in sync with who we are and what we are doing. There are still a few small bugs but I
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| Although KDE SC 4.4.0 isn’t officially released yet (or there’s no announcement on the dot yet), I’ve bumped the specfiles in the KDE4-OpenSolaris repository to 4.4.0 and kicked off a rebuild. That means that we should have new packages at about the same time that the major GNU/Linux distributions have them. The release candidate was pretty stable on OpenSolaris as long as you didn’t (re)build any parts of it while logged in, but we’ll probably be hearing enough bug reports in the next few months for OSOL. You can report problems to KDE’s bugzilla with the OS set to Solaris, or use the OpenSolaris bug tracker and choose one of the KDE components there. Of course, the whole future of OSOL is a little .. fuzzy. The Oracle / Sun takeover has caused a fair amount of shake-up in many of Sun’s projects, but OSOL has not, as far as I know, been either committed-to or deprecated. We’ll see. In the wake (er, .. the bow shock wave, since I’m getting ahead of myself) ...read more...
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The RunnerManager interface in libplasma which powers KRunner (among other interfaces) was designed to allow plugins a-plenty so that one search term could be matched in "real time" by several different components, each one looking for answers in different ways or places. This isn't a particularly unique design by any means, and the concept can be seen in many search interfaces out there.
A "run command" app faces a challenge with this sort of design: in usage, one expects the interface to appear "instantly" when called up and remain responsive during use. This isn't the web where pages can take significant fractions of a second without anyone caring or where we can stack dozens/hundreds/thousands of servers behind your queries to offer mindcrushing amounts of compute power to chew through whatever gets thrown at it. No, we have to be fast with limited resources while looking in all kinds of places. Basically, KRunner has be as responsive as the KDE 3 minicli while doing orders of magnitude more processing. Interesting problem.
To address the problem we made the query ...read more...
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| The organization “Bits of Freedom is a Dutch NGO Privacy watchdog. It has been re-vivified in the past years. It hands out semi-regular Big Brother Awards (say, isn’t the estate of George Orwell going to wake up at some point?) for the worst offenses against privacy in the Netherlands. Worth reading if your Dutch comprehension is ok. BoF has garnered some mainstream media attention as well, which offers hope that privacy isn’t completely a lost cause in this country. [Current schemes of nationwide chipcard travel and road-pricing deny that hope] There’s also a “Winston Prize” for someone fighting for privacy, which went to the Euro-MP Sophie in’t Veld. It took me a minute to figure out the “Winston” name, but since I’d read 1984 (it says so right there in my book list) the light dawned eventually. Anyway, cheers to BoF, and keep watching over your own privacy.
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| Lately we've been working a lot on Gallium but we haven't been publicly talking about it enough. I, personally, spent a considerable amount of time last week coming up with my strategy for the inevitable monster invasion. In general I always thought that if, sorry, "when" the monsters attack I'd be one of the very first ones to go on account of my "there's a weird noise coming from that pitch black spot over there, I better check it out" tendency. Obviously that's not ideal, especially if the need to repopulate the world arises; I just really feel like I should be present for that. In conclusion I'll quickly go over some things we've been doing with Gallium. Admittedly that wasn't one of my best transitions.
There are three new major APIs that we want to support in Gallium. OpenCL 1.0, DirectX 10.x and DirectX 11. DirectX 10.x was somewhat prioritized of late because it's a good stepping stone for a lot of the features that we wanted.
Two of my favorites were the geometry shaders and new blending functionality. ...read more...
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| The second week of our action plan for optimizing Krita was devoted to optimizing painting in Krita. Although there are many great paintops in Krita, digital painters tend to use most of the time the simple default brush engine which we call Pixel Brush. Painters can use GIMP brushes here, the text brush, but the most used brush tip is called Autobrush. You can setup the brush attributes like shape (circle, rectangle) and you can change the ratio to get an ellipse. Then you can change softness by vertical and horizontal fading. If you play with spikes and ratio, you get stars and other funny shapes. The brush has many dynamic attributes thanks Cyrille Berger’s work on concept called sensors. E.g. tablet can control the size by pressure, by tilt or anything you want (e.g. interesting is drawing angle) and it can be tuned by curve. The algorithm, which computes the brush mask, stamped on the canvas regular as you stroke, is computed by the KisCircleMask::valueAt(). It is a computationally expensive function according valgrind ...read more...
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| For all those in Buenos Aires or its surroundings, we'll be having a meeting to celebrate the release of KDE SC 4.4. This next Saturday 13th, at 19:00 we'll meet at Dr Mason, a bar known to be friendly to FLOSS people of all nature (it has been home to a couple of Ubuntu release parties). It is located in Araoz 1199, Buenos Aires. Cost is about AR$ 30 for some beer and snacks. We'll gather to talk about the features of the new releases, upcoming events, and of course, have a beer and socialize. Here you can find more information about it: http://kde.org.ar/node/54
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| So, in The Beginning, when I was just a young padawan on the Internet, I had been let into a glorious secret: Emulation (not of IBM System/360 machines, but of more important things like the Super NES). Some branching from there led me to zophar.net, a popular emulation site, and their message boards, and also left me with a fascination with emulation. The attributes of some of the older systems like the NES and Super NES made it fairly easy to capture their music-producing software, since those systems used separate co-processors to handle music effects. NES music would be stored in the NSF format, and SNES music was handled with the SPC format (named after the audio chip used, the Sony SPC700). There were (and still are) specialized plugins on many systems to play these formats (they emulated only the music chip, not the rest of the system). I’ve been involved on the periphery of some of these things for the past couple of years. (For instance I had written a KFileMetaInfo plugin for KDE 3, ...read more...
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| With 2010 we've started to employ identica as an channel for our live changelog at the {power}user level.
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| You don’t have to use KDE 4. (And I can’t believe I’m actually having to make that part clear) Really people should use whatever makes them most comfortable, productive, fits with their needs better, etc. Just use what you want. With that said, saying that you do not like desktop effects is not a good reason to avoid KDE 4. I happen to like desktop effects but I’m not using them, even though I’m in a KDE 4 desktop (due to a stupid problem somewhere in the driver toolchain). In fact I know for a fact, given that I recently tested it, that KDE 4 works just fine even in a Composite-less X11. So I forget what propaganda technique it is (straw man argument?) but in short that reason has absolutely nothing to do with KDE 4. Really your whole rant could have been more concisely expressed without a single reason (as after all, you should be able to use whatever desktop environment you want) and you wouldn’t have people nitpicking your exact reasons that way. ;) ...read more...
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I finished today the (for me) most missing feature in the KDevelop Php language plugin. It fixes parsing problems that occur when a project is initially parsed and the code makes heavy use of classes together with an autoloader. That means no include() statements for parent classes or static function calls. (Typical when using eg. Zend Framewok)
Previously code completion was broken until you manually forced a reparse, now this reparsing is automatically done once a identifier is not found - the file is added to the parse queue with very low priority - and the base class will be parsed meanwhile - and found correctly in the second pass.
Credits for this should mainly go to Hamish - who implemented that more or less the same way in Java language support.
As KDevelop is currently frozen for Beta8 I couldn't commit yet, until then I created a temporary git repository.
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| With 2010 we've started to employ identica (then connected to Twitter and Facebook) as an channel for our live changelog at the {power}user level. Here's the dump for the past ~30 days (oh I should have used an XSLT). - We're replacing serialized QFont attrs with ODF equivalents in Kexi Reports file format; e.g. fo:font-family; it's extension of OpenRPT
- Finally we're still embedding SQLite as many options are not set in distros, e.g. SECURE DELETE should be the default http://bit.ly/amZfJ3
- Kexi switched to using sqlite bundled with the operating system instead of using a fork. The newest stable version is always recommended.
- Sidebars behave now as expected: when collapsed, vertical buttons appear like in Kate. It's now natural to put widgets palette as a sidebar.
- An extra ko dev has taken an interest in the report backend used in kexi (koreport), working to making it usable in kplato, a win allround!
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| Warning: rant follows. So today at the ‘release party’ in Toronto (I use this term in the loosest possible sense), certain KDE developers decided to have a go at me for my refusal to use KDE 4 in favour of KDE 3. Admittedly one of them was particularly drunk after only a couple of pints, so I won’t take his input too seriously, but it did raise some concerns with the mentality I’m now (more often) seeing within the KDE community that I never used to see. For me, KDE always stood for being free to do whatever you want. Surely that’s the philosophy of free software as a whole? If I want to use my machine to herd cats in my garden whilst terrorising them with a giant torch? Sure [0]. If I want to make my desktop look like other, well down, proprietary desktop environments - why not? You get my point. However, today my objections to KDE 4 were met with an unbelievable barrier of closed-mindedness. For example; I use bitmap fonts with my terminal. Why? Because ...read more...
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Howdy,
The official release notes for this release can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.5.php. KDE 4.3.5,
the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series.
It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree,
because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port
KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it
in out FreeBSD [...]
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So… I brought up activities on plasma-devel again the other day. One of the reasons for this was that I noticed the word being used in a few different ways – mainly by me – and wanted to clear up confusion. Well, it turns out I was the source of that confusion. :) What I’ve been referring to as “Activities” should actually be called “Context”. That’s what aaron was calling it, months and months ago, and somehow I remembered the word as something completely different and was avoiding it. Oops. So, when you read my old blog post or see my presentation from campkde, just replace 99% of the times I say “activity” with “context”. Some other good things came of that discussion, but I have several essays to write so I don’t feel up to doing a long blog post on top of it all; either I’ll blog next week, or after we’ve discussed it at tokamak. :) So, just to be extra clear: an Activity is a group of widgets on your desktop (what ...read more...
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| The Skrooge team is proud to announce the release of version 0.6.0, bringing new features and a lot of bugfixes. New features Here are some of the most prominent new features in Skrooge 0.6.0. Reports Forecasting 
Skrooge is now able to draw some estimation of how a graph might look in the future. This is valid for any report with a graph of type line, whatever the chosen time interval (years, months, weeks, days...). There are two different methods for forecasting: - Schedule: Skrooge will use the upcoming recurrent operations and draw them on the graph.
- Moving Average: Skrooge will use existing operations and build a moving average set of points for upcoming periods. This method tries to give you a sense of "based on how the graph looked like in the past, here is how it might look like for the near future". Of course, this can give totally unacurate results, depending on the dataset used, period, weather outside...
The forecasted period is ...read more...
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| Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.
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| "KDE" and "K Desktop Environment" are trademarks of KDE e.V. for The KDE Project .
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| Hi, Bill from Kitware just announced that the CMake tutorial from the "Mastering CMake" book is now also available online.
If you're interested, have a look. (Btw. their new blog also contains other interesting reads, e.g. about open science etc.) Alex
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| Dear lazyweb… My operating system hard disk has failed (again – kinda, poking it from a live CD shows that the filesystem isn’t recognised, though I can mount it if I explicitly state it is ext4 and a fair bit of the data is still there). It’s a vintage 70GB Seagate, the SMART diagnostics are not good, it has got corrupted before and I didn’t really trust it anyway – data is on another disk. So, it’s time for a new disk.
 Broken PC, by Sarah Baker (cc-by)
The question is whether to buy another spinning disk or go for solid state? Does anyone have experience of an SSD and have a view on advantages/disadvantages (I’ve Googled a bit already). I’d be going for a cheap MLC SSD at probably 30-60GB (Intel or OCZ) which is plenty for the OS and .kde etc – i.e. stuff with little files and lots of seeks, ...read more...
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| Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from a central core, much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client, but graphical.
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| Seems that this year a lot of KDE hackers will go to FOSDEM and I won’t be an exception  ! I have not defined my roadmap (yet), but at least I’ll have a couple of meeting regarding the future of KBluetooth, and sooner than you think I’ll come back with great news about Bluetooth+KDE. If you’re in the FOSDEM and you have doubts or ideas about Bluetooth+KDE ping to me I’ll be around *KDE* stuff in there. cya!
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| It’s that time of the year again when we need to start thinking about awesome ideas for GSoC. I just prepared a page on the community wiki to collect them. The list needs to be finished by March 8th. Got a great idea for a nice project a student could be working on for the summer? Add it! If you are unsure or have any questions ping me or the team of the app you have an idea for.
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With KDE Software Compilation v4.4.0 tagged and going through final release engineering processes, early reviews and discussions about it are appearing around the Internet. It's great to see the interest bubbling around it all.
One interesting meme is that "not much has changed". That sentiment is a sign that things are settling down nicely in KDE 4: things aren't moving around as much and there's a sense of predictability again. This is an important milestone.
However, some people are under the impression that pretty much nothing has been done except "under the hood changes". I think this highlights a challenge for our communication around SC 4.4.0: just because KDE 4 has hit an externally visible stable trajectory and the SC 4.3 -> SC 4.4 jump is smooth, that doesn't mean that there aren't lots of new and exciting things in SC 4.4.0.
Let's take the Plasma Desktop, for example. As can be seen in the 4.4 changelog for libplasa, plasma-desktop, plasma-netbook and krunner, we've been busy doing as much new stuff as refining the ...read more...
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| I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else KDE related, but in Madrid you can now take a uni course in KDE and Gnome programming. I wonder if there will be guest lectures by Professor Faure and Dr Seigo? ;-)
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| Another month, another new resource for Akonadi ;) Well, actually the resource has been started by Gr
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| After all the stuff that happened in my professional and personal life last month we can extract some technical bits  First of all, during Camp KDE it was awesome to talk to people like Jos, Celeste, Alexandra, Till, Leo and Jeff (and many others). It’s good to share your thoughts with many people that you just don’t have this big bandwith for chat that you have when you’re physically together  Our awesome dragons  I spent last month studying and working with QML, trying to get the most of it and I think that I (and the team that I work with of course) reached a very good level of knowledge regarding the new Qt’s declarative language. We have some expertise with declarative languages for some time now (started with Edje three years ago) and went through QEdje and now we have a proper Qt solution ...read more...
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