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Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Running applications and unittests without "make install"
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.
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Saturday, 20 May 2017
Simon 0.4.90 beta released
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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
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Friday, 19 May 2017
Join us at Akademy 2017 in Almería!
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:
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Sunday, 23 April 2017
Current state of Babe
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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
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Friday, 14 April 2017
Introducing Babe - History
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https://babe.kde.org/
This is my very first post for KDE blogs and it is also my very first application. So when I sit down to think about what to write about I thought I would like to tell you all about how and why I wanted to start coding and then why I decided to create a (yet another (i know)) music player, specially made for KDE/Plasma.
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Thursday, 6 April 2017
Complex text input in Plasma
Surprisingly not enough
A brief note: If you're a developer or user of input methods in the free desktop space, or just interested in learning about "How does typing Chinese work anyway?", you might be interested in a discussion we're now having on the plasma-devel mailing list. In my opening mail I've tried to provide a general overview about what input methods are used for, how they work, who they benefit, and what we must do to improve support for them in KDE Plasma.
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Monday, 3 April 2017
Simon 0.4.80 alpha released
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The first version (0.4.80) towards Simon 0.5.0 is out in the wilds. Please download the source code, test it and send us feedback.
Some new features are:
MPRIS Support (Media Player control) MacOS port (thanks to René there is a first Macports script
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Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Looking for a job ?
Are you looking for a C++/Qt/Linux developer job in Germany ? Then maybe this is something for you: Sharp Reflections
I'm looking forward to hear from you. :-) Alex
Monday, 13 March 2017
New life in Simon speech recognition
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As my blog as FSFE Fellow No. 1 is temporarily not aggregated on planet.kde.org and my private blog about woodwork (German only) currently only tells about a wooden staircase (but soon again about wooden jewelry) I'm building I found a new place for my KDE (non-Randa) related stuff: KDE Blogs. Thanks to the KDE Sysadmin team for the quick setup!
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Friday, 10 March 2017
Fear not, OMG! Ubuntu! You will bounce again!
Serving the quadruped audience
Intrepid journalist Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu! recently pointed out to us that Plasma 5 is currently not doing so well when it comes to serving an important user demographic - bored cats!
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