First KDE Brainstorm idea implemented!
Via Harald Hvaal’s blog I learnt that the first non-forum suggestion has been implemented! I think this shows without doubt that initiatives like the KDE Brainstorm are undoubtedly useful to the...
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KDE Brainstorm Monthly Digest - issue 1
Hello, and welcome to the first “issue” of the KDE Brainstorm monthly digest. First of all, a few words of introduction. There are quite a number of ideas being posted on the KDE Brainstorm, and it...
View ArticleAmarok 2.1 beta in openSUSE
Currently, the openSUSE Build Service contains Amarok 2.1 beta packages only for the KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE repository (i.e. current trunk, soon-to-be 4.3). However, a quick search identified a repository...
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New, refactored System Settings
A rather big change has gone into KDE’s SVN recently: Ben Cooksley (bcooksley) and Mathias Soeken (msoeken) have committed a complete rework of System Settings. Compared to the previous implementation,...
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KDE Brainstorm Monthly Digest - issue 2
Hello, and welcome to the second issue of the KDE Brainstorm Digest! This issue comes in slightly late, due to some real time commitments, but I couldn’t leave you without it, could I? Issue 2 - April...
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A brand new look for KDE Community forums
Today, a major upgrade of the KDE Community Forums took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it’s a further step towards providing a better experience for...
View ArticleThe next iteration of the Plasma FAQ - call for help
A few may know that I more or less maintain the Plasma FAQ page on KDE’s UserBase. Given the rapid advance of Plasma between KDE versions, each time a new version is out a new FAQ needs to be made, as...
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KDE Community Forums present the new KDE Brainstorm
The KDE Brainstorm, where users can post and vote for feature requests for KDE, is the most visited area of the KDE Community Forums. In an effort to improve the experience of both users and...
View ArticleScripting languages and KDE
Up to now, the main language in which KDE applications are developed is C++. This is a perfectly valid choice: however, at least for users that don’t have a computing background (I include myself in...
View ArticleKDE 4.3 released - thanks to all developers!
As you all know, KDE 4.3.0 has been releeased today! Now it’s the time to tell the developers “thanks” for their hard work. Join us in the KDE Community Forums and spread the word!
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KDE Brainstorm Monthly (?) Digest - issue 3
Hello people! Yes, it’s been a while but I haven’t forgotten about it… with the Brainstorm’s new look and most technical issues resolved, I’m able to make Brainstorm Digests more often (hopefully!)...
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Interesting plasmoid: Drop2Tag
While browsing around kde-look.org, I’ve stumbled upon a nice little Plasma scripted widget, and I’m publishing this to have it get more exposure. A good part of the KDE community knows at least little...
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Introducing KDialogue
In line with the project’s committment to openness, the KDE developers and contributors are not a secretive bunch. In fact, the “People Behind KDE” initiative has provided the community with interviews...
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HOWTO: KConfigXT with PyKDE4
If you read around the KDE Techbase, or if you develop KDE applications, you may have heard about KDE’s KConfigXT. This is an extension of KDE’s KConfig, and can be used to generate nice configure...
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Danbooru Client - a client for Danbooru based sites
A while ago I presented “danbooru2nepomuk”, a small program to tag images coming from Danbooru-based image boards. Today I want to present the evolution of that program, that is a PyKDE4 client for...
View ArticleKDE Marketing Sprint - Day 2(?)
Well, there wasn’t a Day 1 for me (I got to the hotel too late to follow the first day of the meeting), so that is why I’m starting on day 2. To start, I need to say that I had never been to a sprint...
View ArticleAfter a hiatus, Klassrooms continue!
Do you like KDE? Did you ever find yourself in a position of wanting to help, but you didn’t know what to do, or who to talk to? Do you feel you could use help to get started? Today, the KDE Community...
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Living on the edge
KDE SC 4.4 Beta 1 has been released, and of course I couldn’t stay still. Thanks to the friendly openSUSE Build Service, there were packages available, so I just pointed my zypper sources to...
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Danbooru Client 0.5 is out
Sometimes answering apparently harmless questions on instant messaging can have unexpected results. In particular, I was telling about Danbooru Client to someone and a question popped up “Why don’t you...
View ArticleLearning by example
With my brand-new SVN account, I just committed some code to kdeexamples, KDE’s example code module. In particular, I committed a simple example which shows how to use KConfigXT via PyKDE4, a...
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