KDE:Current and 4.13 packages for openSUSE
This is a guest post by Raymond “tittiatcoke” Wooninck, with contributions from myself and Hrvoje “shumski” Senjan In the next hours the KDE:Current repository will publish the latest release from KDE...
View ArticleUnlocking KWallet with PAM
Requests to unlock KWallet automatically on login (assuming the wallet password and user password are the same), like gnome-keyring can do, have been going on for years: in fact, bug reports requesting...
View ArticleChanges in KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 packaging in openSUSE
Since a couple of weeks the packages offered by openSUSE in the KDE:Unstable:Frameworks repository have undergone a series of changes. In particular, the packages now install to /usr. For the...
View ArticleLatest 4.13, newest 4.14 beta and Plasma 5 in openSUSE
Congratulations to KDE (of which I’m proud of being a part of) for the newest release of the Plasma workspace! At the same time, the 4.x series has seen a new beta release, and the stable branch got...
View ArticleKDE Applications and Platform 4.14.2 available for openSUSE
Following up on KDE’s announcement of the latest stable release, we have now packages available for 12.3 and 13.1 (a 13.2 repository will be made available after it is out). You will find them in the...
View ArticlePlasma 5.2 for openSUSE? You bet!
The ever-amazing Plasma team from KDEjust put out a new release of Plasma. I won’t spend much describing how big of an improvement it is - the release announcement at KDE has all the details needed to...
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Sometimes they come back: Danbooru Client ported to KF5 and C++
Some of you may remember a semi-complex application I wrote back in the days, namely Danbooru Client. Written in PyKDE4, it provided a semi-decent interface to Danbooru-style boards. It mostly worked...
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Danbooru Client 0.2.0 released
After my previous post, development went quicker than expected, so I’ve actually managed to get a real version out. ;) So without much ado… here’s Danbooru Client 0.2.0! This redesigned C++ version...
View ArticleDanbooru Client 0.3.0
Following up on yesterday’s release, I’ve released Danbooru Client 0.3.0. This early new release is mostly due to the fact that the QML view file wasn’t installed (sorry!) so part of the UI would not...
View ArticlePlasma 5 live images for openSUSE and on the default openSUSE desktop
A lot has been happening on the KDE side of openSUSE… this post summarizes what’s been going on so far. Live media for Plasma 5 One of the most-often requested ways to test Plasma 5, given it can’t be...
View ArticleDynamically static
Since 26th December 2005, I’ve been runnning this blog with Wordpress. At the time there were little alternatives and finally I had got hold of a host (Dreamhost, at the time) that supported PHP and...
View ArticleKDE Applications 15.08 RC for openSUSE
KDE has recently released the newest Release Candidate of the Applications 15.08 release. Among the new features and changes of this release, there is a technology preview of the new KF5-based KDE PIM...
View ArticleThe Big Forum Cleaning
In the past week, the KDE Community Forums administrators had been discussing how to improve the current forum layout. There are a few reasons in favor of a reorganization. First of all, to reflect...
View ArticleDanbooru Client 0.5.0 released
A new version of Danbooru Client is now available! What is Danbooru Client? Danbooru Client is an application to access Danbooru-based image boards (Wikipedia definition). It offers a convenient, KF5...
View ArticleKDE PIM changes in openSUSE Tumbleweed
Short version: the KDE PIM in openSUSE Tumbleweed is moving from 4.14.x to the KF5 based version. More details below. Some history As you may know, up to now the default PIM suite for Plasma 5 in...
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Where are my noble gases? I need MORE noble gases!
As KDE software (be it the Frameworks libraries, the Plasma 5 workspace, or the Applications) develops during a normal release cycle, a lot of things happen. New and exciting features emerge, bugs get...
View ArticleOf gases, Qt, and Wayland
Ever since the launch of Argon and Krypton, the openSUSE community KDE team didn’t really stand still: a number of changes (and potentially nice additions) have been brewing this week. This post...
View ArticleDanbooru Client 0.6.0 released
A new version of Danbooru Client is now available! What is Danbooru Client? Danbooru Client is an application to access Danbooru-based image boards (Wikipedia definition). It offers a convenient, KF5...
View ArticleI have a problem...
Every day, a sizable number of people posts problems on the KDE Community Forums and the ever-helpful staff does their best to solve whatever issues they’re facing. But what exactly does one do when...
View ArticleTwo in one
As you may know (unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri for the past century) the openSUSE community KDE team publishes LiveCD images for those willing to test the latest state of KDE software...
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