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For several years, I used to maintain a collection of clippings showing the KDE workspaces in use in interesting settings - popping up on TV shows, on public terminals in odd locations, in articles on leading scientific endeavours. All sorts of cool cases. More recently I haven't been collecting as diligently anymore, though, for perhaps the best possible reason: It's happening so frequently now that individual examples have lost much of their novelty. Read More

Monday saw the release of version 1.2.0 of Homerun, now a collection of launcher interfaces for Plasma Workspaces, powered by a common foundation. If you're already familiar with, or even a happy user of Homerun this description of it might make you raise an eyebrow, so let's take a look at what's new in this version. Read More

KDE Frameworks 5 tech preview shipped last week and we've been packaging furiously. This is all new packaging from scratch, none of our automated scripts we have for KDE SC. Tier 1 is in our experimental PPA for Trusty. Special thanks to Scarlett our newest Kubuntu Ninja who is doing a stormer. Read More

I'm going to FOSDEM for 2014, are you? FOSDEM is a massive free software meeting with more projects than you knew existed. We need help on the KDE stall. We also need visitors in the devroom. Finally we need KDE people to come and eat pizza on Saturday evening. Add yourself to the wiki page if you want to help KDE at FOSDEM. Read More

Frameworks 5 Tech Preview has arrived. KDE Frameworks it a port of kdelibs to Qt 5 and turned into modules so you can install only the bits you need. People are often reluctant to add kdelibs to their applications because it brings in too many dependencies. With KDE Frameworks it has been modularised so much is simply extra Qt libraries. This will bring KDE software to a much wider audience. Many parts of kdelibs have just been moved into Qt itself thanks to the open qt-project. Read More

I'm done triaging old photos, here's some of my favourite Ubuntu themed ones from 2005 to 2009. The first Ubuntu conference I went to in Sydney featuring Andreas, one of the Kubuntu originators Read More

I've also been triaging old photos to make some room on my server, so here's a Christmas present of a retrospective of old KDE photos. It all started here, my first KDE talk about Umbrello, my dissertation project. (And if anyone else is needing a dissertation to work on, I recommend a KDE project, take over Umbrello, academics love that UML stuff, it's a guaranteed A). Read More

Kexi usage statistics is an experiment started two years along with Kexi 2.4. The information helps to make certain decisions related to design and direction of the project. Today I'd like to show you first results. Read More

#savetheday party 19:50UTC in Munich and #kubuntu-devel from a project which has always taken inspiration from the Timelord.

Two of my favourite things in one evening. Save the Day viewing! Who's your favourite Doctor? Followed by the Munich city Kubuntu rollout viewing, amazing how they have saved so much money but they did it for Freedom. Read More