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Sometimes I get the best e-mails... From: "Przemek (cojack)" Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:42:19 +0100 Subject: Big request To: jr@jriddell.org Hello, I have big request to you, please don't ever stop working on/for Kubuntu. Thanks in advance, Best regards, Przemysław Czekaj.

Good news everybody! QtWebKit 2.3.0 was tagged in gitorious yesterday with the tarball available there as well For those of you that don't know: QtWebKit 2.3 is a port of QtWebKit from Qt 5 to Qt 4.8. It has most of the web-facing features, stability fixes and performance improvements that QtWebKit in Qt 5 has, it has skipped anything Qt 5 specific such as QQuickWebView, but has almost all improvements on the WebKit1 side (QWebView). QtWebKit 2.3 also maintains API and ABI compatibility with QtWebKit 2.2 from Qt 4.8, and is thereby an easy drop-in replacement. The released version 2.3.0 has roughly the same WebKit version and patches as Qt 5.0.2. Read More

There’s been chat that my NHS Hack Scotland post implies there’s no point in going to the event, that in light of the NHS Lothian FOI request anything created at the weekend has no chance of being used in the NHS. I wouldn’t be attending (and judging!) if that were true! Read More

NHS Hack Scotland is a weekend event to bring together geeks and developers with medics and manager from Scotland's lovely health service. Like the equivalent NHS Hack Days in the equivalent (but endangered) health service in England is it planned to end up with open source prototype programmes to solve interesting problems. Read More

A re-post of David Edmundson's blog KDE, LightDM and the Mir Kerfuffle for Planet Ubuntu With Canonical's decision to make a new display server, there's been some questions as to how this affects LightDM and the KDE front end I've spent a long time working towards. Read More

Really I do, dunno why some people think I unfairly critisise them. They want to fix bug number 1, "Microsoft has a majority market share". The obvious way to do that was with the existing community made desktop software but after many years that still had minimal traction. Actually lots of nice rollouts around the world in educational institutions, every region/nation in Spain made their own Ubuntu derivative and of course Kubuntu has had the world's biggest Linux desktop rollout in Brazil. But nothing to get it directly into the hands of consumers. Dell did a half hearted attempt to pre-load Ubuntu on laptops but somehow it never went very far. Read More

Putting unexpected visions of space tourists aside, now for something completely different. This was a busy weekend with Calligra Suite Sprint 2013 which despite of different timezone fully dominated Essen and Bangalore. More about that here, here, here, here, here and here. You can find the full agenda on the KDE Community Wiki. Read More

A repost of elite KWin maintainer Martin Gräßlin from Planet KDE Dear Mark Shuttleworth, so you “have absolutely no doubt that Kwin will work just fine on top of Mir”. This is great and I totally appreciate that you think Mir is a great system. But I’m wondering why you don’t use KWin then, after all it will work fine on top of Mir and is Qt based? Read More

A repost of elite KDE contributor Pau Garcia i Quiles' blog for Planet Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth recently critized Jonathan Riddell for proposing Xubuntu and others join the Kubuntu community. I thought I could make a few amendments to Mark’s writing: Read More

Some people mis-read (or I mis-wrote) my previous blog as critisising Ubuntu for not caring about its community any more. That's not what I wanted to say and it wouldn't make any sense, Ubuntu is a large community, it can hardly stop caring about itself. Rather I was saying that Canonical has done some moves recently which show a lack of concern for the Ubuntu community. Numerous other blogs on Planet Ubuntu say the same thing today. Mark did too today by saying that Canonical is taking more of a lead in development because GNOME and KDE et al were failing to take over the world, an entirely sensible decision to make. So if you want to be able to take a strong part in contributing then Ubuntu Unity is not the best part of Ubuntu to go. That's fine as there are many parts which are waiting for more people to help out, I recommend Kubuntu but there's dozens of other flavours and sub-projects waiting with open arms. Read More