simon edwards 

For anyone who has been paying any attention of PyKDE5 over the last year or so, it is no secret that development and maintenance has been at a standstill. I've been very busy with a family and small children, and that eats time like you wouldn't believe. Read More

I've been steadily chipping away at creating Python bindings for the many libraries which make up KF5. The current list of KF5 libraries which have bindings is: karchive kcoreaddons kguiaddons kitemmodels kitemviews kplotting kwidgetsaddons solid sonnet This is most of tier 1. Read More

It was good to make it to the Desktop Summit in Berlin this year and to see some familiar KDE faces again. I feel that I've been able to catch up a bit on news about many of the interesting projects that are happening in our KDE community and also in the greater FOSS desktop community. Read More

This news is perhaps a little bit late, but I can assure you I've been very busy in the meantime. The first day of November Debbie and I were able to welcome our first child to the world, Toby Edwards. Read More

KDE 4.3 is out, I'm vacationed, and now is a good time to explain share same of the things I would like to get done in PyKDE for KDE 4.4. Read More

To be honest I'm not all that happy with the current situation. Riverbank Computing, basically Phil Thompson, has done an excellent job developing SIP and PyQt over the last 10 years and providing a Free Software (GPL) version which PyKDE is built on. Read More

This year at GCDS I had the pleasure of meeting Gökmen and Gökçen (pronounced “Gerkman” and “Gerkchan” with hard Gees not Jays). They are part of a relatively small team of around 15 developers who are sponsored by the Turkish government work on a Turkish Linux distribution called Pardus. Read More

A small status report about the Python bindings and support in the almost arrived, KDE 4.3. All of the APIs have been updated of course and I've added support for polkit-qt. Read More

I'm about 18 months behind the curve here compared to you trend-setters in KDE-land, but I think I now actually "get" git. Meaning that I now have a mental model of git which makes sense and I can use to make sense of the numerous "Git $X seconds" blog posts hanging around on the web (where the number $X is always smaller than the last blogger). Read More

Roberto Alsina recently posted a series of tutorials about Python and PyQt on his blog. I don't think they appeared on Planet KDE, so I'm forwarding them on. ;-) It covers typical Qt GUI programming using Qt Designer. Read More

In a great demonstration that not only do great minds think alike, they can also subconsciously syncronise to attack the same problem, Luca Beltrame and I started work on our own tutorials about writing Plasma applets using Python at exactly the same time and day this weekend. Read More

I landed the Python script engine for Plasma in KDE trunk about a week ago and already and the keen and excitable among us have been franticly trying to get it all set up and installed. Read More

(Warning, rant ahead) There has been a lot of excitement on the web about Google's new browser Chrome. So much excitement that it has been spilling over into the free desktop blog world. Read More

Just a small announcement. Development version 1.1 of my little network routing configuration utility is up on my website for your testing pleasure. There is no new functionality. I've just ported it from KDE 3 and C++ to KDE4 and Python, saving it from ravages of bit-rot. Read More

After the kdebindings meeting about a month ago in Berlin, I had a 8-ish hour long trip back on the train from Berlin to Nijmegen. Deutsche Bahn's trains are rather civilised and have power on board for all your laptop charging needs (provided you can get close enough to the seats with the tables and the power outlets). Read More

Thank $DEITY for feature freezes. It's only after the bulk of the KDE libraries are frozen that bindings people can come into action and franticly update everything before the RCs and the final release of a shiny new version of KDE. Read More

Jim Bublitz has been industriously working on getting the Python bindings for KDE 4 into shape. Part of that work is documentation of course and for that Jim has put together a very handy documentation viewer which combines reference docs with code samples and example code all in one easy to navigate package. Read More

Python language bindings for KDE's libraries, PyKDE4, has landed in KDE's subversion repository. Jim Bublitz has been working behind the behind the scenes on PyKDE4 for quite some time, and now PyKDE4 is stable enough to enter its new home in subversion. Read More

In between porting some of my older KDE 3 C++ over to Python and Qt/KDE 4, and also fixing some bugs in Guidance, I've had a little play around with QtJambi. Read More

So some money come my way and I finally caved in and bought myself a laptop, after having talked on and off about the idea to Deb for the last couple of years. Read More

This started as reply to Richard's post, but it got too big so I've supersized it. :-) You would think that Eric would know his computer industry history a little bit better. Read More

In this fairly long article I discuss my attempt to simplify file and device management in KDE, while avoiding some of the draw backs of the current media:/ io-slave. The Challenge Read More

One of the more unique features of Kubuntu is that it ships with a replacement for the standard KDE Control Center program, called systemsettings. Instead of using a tree in a sidebar on the left hand side of the window, systemsettings shows a large menu of grouped icons for the user to choose from. Read More

I'm a glutton when it comes to radio shows. I just can't get enough. And thankfully there is a lot of high quality and entertaining radio being produced out there in internetland. Read More

I've been meaning to post about this for literally half a year now. But a recent thread on kde-core about improving the GUI for searching in KDE applications has finally pushed me into action. Read More

This was my Wednesday. 5 in the afternoon GF phones me. GF: "Your computer isn't working? It is not turning on. It is acting weird. What's wrong?" ME: "How the **** should I know. Read More

It has been a long time since I've posted something here. I've had things that I've wanted to post but pretty much all of my time has gone to working on the Guidance tools for the coming Dapper release of Kubuntu. Read More

Work was having a clean up and I got my hands on a bunch of old videocards: 2x nVidia TNT2 (one with TV out, with is handy), 2x S3 (old school AGP, so I'll have to reassemble my old Pentium 2), 1x Diamond something (AGP 1. Read More

GUI updates in Guidance I was going through the usability report about Guidance a month ago and saw this comment at the end of the report: 4.3 Checkbox feedback Read More

Jan Muhelig from OpenUsability.org did a usability review of Guidance with Sebas back at Malaga. The report is now up at OpenUsability for those who are interested. I like to think that I know something about usability. Read More

I let on somewhere that I'll like to see keyboard configuration in KDE be greatly improved, and since then a few people have been trying to catch me, hold me down and get me to elaborate. Read More

I've finally been able to put some much needed time in displayconfig, the screen/monitor/X11 configuration part of Guidance. Other things like writing a paper about Python, Qt and KDE for this NLUUG conference next month kept me distracted. Read More

Malaga has naturally fired supertankers worth of discussion about what we want to do for KDE 4. I want to add some more fuel, this time about application scripting and bindings. Read More

I recently moved into my new house, which also means that I have to pay for electricity directly. Wanting to do know how much power things are really using in the computer room, I went out and bought a wattmeter. Read More

It appears that at least one person (Hi Peter!) seems to have misunderstood what I was saying at the end of my last post. I'm not saying that a new hierarchy should be thought up to supplement (read: in addition to) the current unix filesystem layout. Read More

There is a really good series of articles on hierarchies and usability at the SAP Design Guild site which ever developer should read: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/design.asp (look in the left side menu for the hierarchy articles) Read More

So finally after 4 weeks without having any kind of internet connection at home, I'm back. Sure, I could browse the web and download my mail at work, but it wasn't really possible to change what was happening "out there" on the net. Read More

Setting up my Athlon64 mobile I realised why I should stick to software: hardware is frustrating, and I'm just not particularily good at it. Here is the short list of problems I've come up against getting all this to work. Read More

I figured that now was as good a time as any to jump on the blogwagon. My timing couldn't be worse though, everything is happening at the same time: New house! Read More