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Desktop icons in Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta (Click to enlarge) Recent news in the Linux desktop community recall an interesting time in Plasma's history: Release 4.1 in 2008, Plasma's second release ever, that time we (in)famously abandoned desktop icons (sneak preview: they came back). Read More

I've been working on a small music player named Babe for a while now, it started as an idea of a bare simple music player, and as the time has passed it has become a project I hope to expand beyond a simple music player. Read More

In the last days I had to deal with loading plugins via dlopen. I learned so far already a lot about symbols on Linux. I expected, that if I have an executable, and load a plugin into it, that the stuff inside the executable (i.e. object files and static libraries) won't be used to resolve missing symbols in the plugin. But that's wrong, by default, all symbols are visible, and so all the symbols in your executable are visible to a plugin. I didn't find the relevant blogs or mailing list entries from the KDE devs, back in the KDE2 days when all the plugin-infrastructure was added to kdelibs. But also others had to find out: http://hacksoflife.blogspot.de/2012/12/static-libraries-and-plugins-global-pain.html Read More

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a talk on Input Methods in Plasma 5 at Akademy 2017 in lovely Almería in Spain. If you were interest in my talk but were unable to attend, there's now video (complementary slides) available courtesy of the Akademy conference team. Yay! Read More

As has become tradition in recent years, the KDE e.V. board will have an open dinner alongside its in-person meeting in Berlin, Germany on October 14th, at 7 PM. We know there will be a lot of cool people in town next month, thanks to a KDE Edu development sprint, Qt World Summit, the GNOME Foundation hackfest and probably other events, and you're all invited to drop by and have a chat with us and amongst yourselves - and enjoy good food. Read More

It's time to talk about exciting new things in store for the Konversation project! Konversation is KDE's chat application for communities. No matter whether someone is a newcomer seeking community, a seasoned participant in one, or a community administrator: our mission is to bring groups of people together, allow them to delight in each other's company, and support their pursuit of shared interests and goals. Read More

In our Akademy presentation, Kévin and I showed the importance for a better developer story to be able to work on a KDE module without having to install it. Running unittests and running applications without installing the module at all is possible, it turns out, it just needs a bit of effort to set things up correctly. Read More

The second version (0.4.90) towards Simon 0.5.0 is out in the wilds. Please download the source code, test it and send us feedback. What we changed since the alpha release: Bugfix: The download of Simon Base Models work again flawlessly (bug: 377968) Fix detection of utterid APIs in Pocketsphinx You can get it here: https://download.kde.org/unstable/simon/0.4.90/simon-0.4.90.tar.xz.mirrorlist Read More

This July KDE's user and developer community is once again going to come together at <a href=''https://akademy.kde.org/2017">Akademy, our largest annual gathering. I'm going there this year as well, and you'll even be able to catch me on stage giving a talk on Input Methods in Plasma 5. Here's the talk abstract to hopefully whet your appetite: Read More

A better view of this post can be found here: https://medium.com/@temisclopeolimac/current-state-of-babe-9fb56ce16ac6 To continue my last post about Babe [1] where I wrote about a little of its history, in this new entry (I’ve now switched from the KDE blogs to Medium) I will tell you about the current state of Babe and the features implemented so far. [1] https://blogs.kde.org/2017/04/14/introducing-babe-history Read More