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Monday, 10 February 2014
Talk and Interview at FOSDEM
Jriddell
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Hacker Public Radio FOSDEM edition is up now for those wanting a podcast packaged full of geek interviews. My interview is 27 minutes in and talks of KDE, Kubuntu and how Baloo will make the KDE world slicker. MP3 file.
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Sunday, 9 February 2014
KDE Plasma at the movies
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.
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Homerun 1.2.0
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.
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Monday, 13 January 2014
Tier 1 is a Slam Dunk
Jriddell
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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.
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
FOSDEM 2014
Jriddell
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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.
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Frameworks 5 Tech Preview is here!
Jriddell
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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.
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Friday, 27 December 2013
Photo Retrospective: Ubuntu
Jriddell
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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
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Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Photo triage: KDE retrospective
Jriddell
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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).
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Monday, 9 December 2013
Usage Stats
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.
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Saturday, 23 November 2013
#savetheday party 19:50UTC in #kubuntu-devel
Jriddell
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#savetheday party 19:50UTC in Munich and #kubuntu-devel from a project which has always taken inspiration from the Timelord.