KDE Blogs 

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

Today is the release day for KEXI 3.1.0 Beta & its frameworks: https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Releases#3.1.0_Beta_1 Since version 3 it becomes KEXI not Kexi to suggest becoming a standalone app. It's standalone status includes being first-class app also outside of KDE Plasma. To make this real things such as useful yet simple file widget are developed or single click mode is really single click mode "even" on XFCE. Actually implementing optimal experience for Windows is quite similar to supporting XFCE. Read More

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