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Earlier this week, the loved one of a man I used to babysit was pushed into the path of an oncoming subway train car, by a stranger, and soon after died of their injuries. Read More

About two months ago I blogged about clazy, a Qt oriented static analyser. Since then it has moved to an official KDE repo http://anongit.kde.org/clazy, got an IRC channel (#kde-clazy @ freenode) and also many fun new checks. Read More

Intro or what are Kexi objects? Kexi objects are the top-level entities of type Table, Query, Form, Report, Script or Macro. They are compared to perhaps separate document types except of course they are not physical files (in Kexi nothing touches physical files except the database that handles the actual storage but this is rather an implementation detail). Read More

If you're seeing crashes lately, and they look like: (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff6790913 in QString::~QString() () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #1 0x00007ffff680fd89 in QHashData::free_helper(void ()(QHashData::Node)) () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #2 0x00007ffff6828e14 in (anonymous namespace)::Q_QGS_globalEngineCache::innerFunction()::Holder::~Holder() () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #3 0x00007ffff620fed8 in __run_exit_handlers () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x00007ffff620ff25 in exit () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x00007ffff61fa617 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x000000000040f5b9 in _start () and valgrind says something like: Address 0x21d41498 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd Read More

Today I have the pleasure to announce that Marble is the first popular virtual globe that ships and visualizes the Behaim Globe. The Behaim Globe is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe on earth. It was created between 1492 and 1493 - yes at the same time when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage towards the west and "discovered" America. This fact makes the Behaim Globe very special and also subject to scientific research: It documents European cartography during that era and it's probably the only historic globe which completely lacks the American continent. These days the Behaim globe can be visited in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) has kindly granted the Marble project permission to release the photo scan material of the Behaim Globe under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license and they have supported us in bringing it for the first time to the users of a widely deployed virtual globe: Marble. Right now our users can immediately download the Behaim Globe from inside Marble by entering File->Download Maps (or download it via our maps download website.). Read More

This week database apps builder Kexi that competes with MS Access and Filemaker has been released with cool new features. Version 2.9.8 finally fixes world's issues with SQL! 22 typical scalar functions now work portably across SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL. No other general purpose software I know does this. Read More

Supplemental to what we reported previously about the work in Randa [1, 2] there was a session on the future of Kontact, KDE’s personal information manager (PIM). Over the years this tool has evolved into a monster making both development as well as usage sometimes tricky. It’s time to cut hydra’s arms. Read More

One of the goals I've had with Konsole was to combine all the configure dialogs: 1) Configure Konsole; 2) Manage Profiles; 3) Edit Profile. Currently, in the branch config_dialog, the Manage Profiles is now combined with the main Configure dialog. The only downside is that the Konsole part can't open the Manage Profiles dialog. If and when the Edit Profile gets combined, I'll have to make sure the parts can open those dialogs. Read More

KSnapshot is getting an overhaul. It's actually a little more complicated than that. I started to work on the KF5 port of KSnapshot (EDIT: no, contrary to what Phoronix claims this port is not my work; I simply wanted to fix anything that needed fixing) sometime in early March this year, before I realised that the codebase, while perfectly in order for being a X11-only screenshot taker for KDE (yes, KSnapshot actually has a complete and fairly decent KF5 port in its frameworks branch on KDE Git), was in need of a major overhaul if we were going to get proper Wayland support in. Read More

[Skip if you're not a git user] You will often want to have more than one build environment in parallel, for example if you want to work on stable and various feature branches. Recommended way so far was to use a git-new-workdir script. This solution saves space (e.g. ~300MiB for a calligra branch instead of ~1200MiB) and time. Read More