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Like every year, a number of KDE PIM developers met in Toulouse for a bit of bugfixing. Discussions and decisions There were a number of those, the most important ones being about food, of course. Among the topics of lesser importance: turning some PIM libraries into KF5 frameworks (that's just their way to dump more work on me, clearly... but it also means a lot of cleanup work for Volker, first), outreach to the Plasma Mobile PIM team, how to increase the number of attendees for this kind of sprint, how to make it easier to start contributing to KDE PIM, how to blog more often about progress. Read More

Dirk Hohndel talked about his experiences with QML and Kirigami at LCA 2019: Producing an application for both desktop and mobile I think that's quite useful for us as feedback from somebody who is not directly part of the KDE community. Read More

Yesterday KEXI 3.2 Beta shipped, effect of improvements from entire 2018. Full info in the wiki. That's best KEXI to date! Pun intended because among other things one is especially worth mentioning, entirely new and final date/time grammar for user's SQL. Read More

Twice a year (on that note, happy new one!), the KDE e.V. board of directors comes together for an in-person meeting, taking care of business. It's become a tradition that on one of the two meeting days, the board hosts a dinner event open to KDE users, contributors and other interested parties. Read More

This week, we have received a number of inquiries into how Plasma extensions, particularly those found on the KDE Store, relate to the stability and safety of a Plasma system. With an engineering focus, this blog hopes to provide answers. Read More

That was a surprising find. Libreoffice wouldn't start anymore (just some splash screen with a progressbar, then nothing happens). After some debugging (comparing my normal zsh session where it wouldn't start, with a clean sudo -u dfaure bash session where it worked), I found the culprit. I had QT_NO_GLIB=1 in my environment for some reason, and that's what breaks libreoffice... Read More

Like every year, the PIM developers met in Toulouse for a bit of bugfixing ;) Except for Dan Vratil, we forgot to blog about it, here's a belated blog post with what we did there. Read More

Upgrading from Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0... How hard can it be? Well, there was a bit of fighting necessary. One fight due to an encrypted root partition, another one due to NVIDIA and libGL. Read More

Hi, there is a new book on CMake (there are not many): Professional CMake - A practical guide. I haven't read it yet, so I cannot say more about it, but I guess it should be useful. Read More

Here's "Babe" beta, but before let me talk to you about what's going on with "Babe" right now. if you're a student like me and want to start learning new things and work on a exciting open source project the following are some ways you could get involve. Read More