The heroes we deserve
You may be aware that openSUSE Leap 42.2 is now in the release candidate stage, and there’s a lot of activity aimed at squashing those pesky bugs before they hit the final release. One particular bug...
View ArticleTesting the untestable
Admit it: how many times you have seen “software from this branch is completely untested, use it at your own risk” when you checked the latest code from any FOSS project? I bet you have, many times....
View ArticleKilling the redundancy with automation
In the past three weeks, the openSUSE community KDE team has been pretty busy to package the latest release of Applications from KDE, 16.12. It was a pretty large task, due to the number of programs...
View ArticleDanbooru Client 0.6.1 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 ArticleThere can never be enough testing
As you may already know (if you don’t, please check these older posts) openQA, the automated testing system used by openSUSE runs daily tests on the latest KDE software from git. It works well and...
View ArticleDolphin and openQA and other assorted bits
Part of this post is about openQA, openSUSE’s automated tool which tests a number of different scenarios, from installation to the behavior of the different desktop environments, plus testing the...
View ArticlePlasma - creating a sidebar panel
Following up on my previous post, here is another screencast showing off how to create a sidebar panel and add a few plasmoids to it. As usual, the version on Youtube has...
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...
View ArticleA 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 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!
View ArticleDanbooru 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 Article4.10 Beta 2 packages available for openSUSE
The KDE community has just released Beta 2 of the upcoming 4.10 release of the Development Platform, Workspaces, and Applications. Of course, distributions are providing binary packages for the...
View ArticleSystemd and KDE Workspaces in openSUSE 12.3
openSUSE is migrating to the use of systemd for the upcoming 12.3 version, given the difficulties that emerged in trying to co-maintain two different init systems (SysV + systemd). While I am not going...
View ArticleKDE Workspaces and Applications 4.10 on live images courtesy of openSUSE
The 4.10 release for the KDE Development Platform, Workspaces and Applications is drawing nigh… as you may have read, there is now an additional release candidate in order to test some last-minute...
View ArticleTest the upcoming openSUSE 12.3 and KDE Workspace, Applications and Platform...
Following up on my previous post, a different type of image has been made by the openSUSE KDE community members. In particular, alin has created images sporting the same software from KDE (4.10 RC2)...
View ArticleKDE Platform, Workspaces, Applications 4.10 RC3: openSUSE packages available
Following up on the announcement from KDE, the openSUSE KDE team is happy to announce the availability of 4.10 RC3 packages. Remember that they are packages meant for testing and reporting bugs, so...
View ArticleKDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.10 available for openSUSE
Hot on the heels of the announcement from KDE, the openSUSE KDE team is happy to announce the availability of packages for the latest stable release of the KDE Platform, Workspaces, and...
View ArticleKDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.10.2 packages available for openSUSE
KDE has released its monthly update for the 4.10 release, and after a brief wait while the Open Build Service worked over the released tarballs, the openSUSE KDE team is pleased to announce the...
View ArticleKDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.10.3 for openSUSE
KDE released 4.10.3 versions of the Platform, Workspaces and Applications yesterday, with more than 70 bugs being fixed. Notably:Several fixes in handling encrypted mails in KMailFixes for KDEPIM...
View ArticleKDE Platform Workspace, and Applications 4.10.4 for openSUSE
These posts kind of sound like a broken record, right? ;) Anyway, since KDE has released new versions of Platform, Workspaces and Applications as part of the stable release cycle, thanks to the OBS we...
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