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A nice e-mail I received about KDE SC 4.10... Hi there, Wasn't sure where to send this email but wanted to send a huge thank you to the Kubuntu team. I have no idea what happened in 4.10 but my God everything is fast!! Everything loads so quickly and so stable so far. This is by far the best release I have ever used for a linux distribution. I don't see windows 7 being used in the coming weeks. Please forward this to those who would really appreciate it!! Thank you again and please keep up the amazing work!! Cheers, Asa Read More

I've moved my blog to http://llunak.blogspot.com. As I no longer focus on KDE (and even previously my blogs were often more about openSUSE than KDE), I've moved to a more generic blog site. KDE-related posts will still be aggregated on Planet KDE. Read More

Sorry, for posting this on blogs.kde.org, but I think it might help a few people out there having the same problem. So, if you want to get webex working on a 64bit Linux system, basically all you have to do is make sure that all necessary 32bit libraries are present. 64bit firefox with 64bit java are ok. When you join a webex session, a directory ~/.webex/ is created. On my system there is a subdir 1324/ in it, and in this directory there are a bunch of 32bit ELF plugins, named *.so. Run ldd on all of them, and check which shared libs are not found, and install them (the 32bit versions). Once I had done that, desktop and application sharing worked for me. It seems you can ignore the missing libjawt.so, everything seems to work fine without it. Read More

Now that Qt 5.0 has been released, it is time to think about the release of QtWebKit 2.3. For those who do not remember, QtWebKit 2.3 is QtWebKit 3.0 (QtWebKit from Qt 5.0) ported to Qt 4.8. Read More

KDE is taking part in Google Code-in (GCI) this year once again. It's a contest to bring 13 to 17 year-olds closer to Free Software. One of the tasks I proposed for Kexi was Adding d-pointers to the code. Because of its size I split the challenge into two GCI tasks for truly motivated students. One part has been taken by Shou Ya and second by Andrew Inishev. Both parts have been finished successfully, the patches (2 * 10 thousands of lines) are already in the Calligra master repository. Read More

Good news. The Font Awesome project's founder responded at speed of light to my request and now he plans to release the icon set under the LGPL within a month or so, making the icons as accessible for reuse as the default Oxygen set. Read More

Due to popular request during my KDE Frameworks 5 presentation, in other words "where can I get KArchive today?", which is also a long-standing request from many developers of Qt applications, I experimented with making a Qt4-based release of the KArchive framework. Read More

It's Kubuntu Ninja time! We have the tars for the next KDE Software Compilation beta and now we need to package them up. There's an awful lot of them so do come and help. We're in #kubuntu-devel if you fancy helping, just ask how to get started and hang around until someone is available to help. Then you could end up like this good looking bunch seen here at the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen... Read More

Font Awesome is an iconic font designed for web UIs. It's a full open source suite of pictographic icons available with examples and documentation. During the QML network lecture at QtDD, Jeremy Lainé has noted that icons based on Fonts Awesome are useful for optimizing network usage, especially ones with high latency. While I have never used them I knew the technique which seems to be quite popular among web developers. Read More

I was digging through some old backups on Friday looking to see if I had any old versions of the Qt source code lying around after Eirik mentioned during his devdays talk that the release tar balls for lots of the early releases including Qt 1.0 had got lost... I didn't find those, but I found some gems I didn't know I had. Read More