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Join the first KDE e.V. board dinner of 2019
Twice a year (on that note, happy new one!), the KDE e.V. board of directors comes together for an in-person meeting, taking care of business. It's become a tradition that on one of the two meeting days, the board hosts a dinner event open to KDE users, contributors and other interested parties.
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Engineering Plasma: Extensions and stability — Present and future
This week, we have received a number of inquiries into how Plasma extensions, particularly those found on the KDE Store, relate to the stability and safety of a Plasma system. With an engineering focus, this blog hopes to provide answers.
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LibreOffice doesn't start if QT_NO_GLIB is set
Thursday, 2 August 2018
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David Faure
That was a surprising find. Libreoffice wouldn't start anymore (just some splash screen with a progressbar, then nothing happens).
After some debugging (comparing my normal zsh session where it wouldn't start, with a clean sudo -u dfaure bash session where it worked), I found the culprit.
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2018 Toulouse PIM sprint report
Like every year, the PIM developers met in Toulouse for a bit of bugfixing ;)
Except for Dan Vratil, we forgot to blog about it, here's a belated blog post with what we did there.
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Upgrading to OpenSUSE Leap 15.0
Saturday, 21 July 2018
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David Faure
Upgrading from Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0... How hard can it be? Well, there was a bit of fighting necessary. One fight due to an encrypted root partition, another one due to NVIDIA and libGL.
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A new book on CMake
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
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alexander neundorf
Hi,
there is a new book on CMake (there are not many): Professional CMake - A practical guide.
I haven't read it yet, so I cannot say more about it, but I guess it should be useful.
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"Babe" beta
Thursday, 15 March 2018
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camiloh
Here's "Babe" beta, but before let me talk to you about what's going on with "Babe" right now.
if you're a student like me and want to start learning new things and work on a exciting open source project the following are some ways you could get involve.
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KEXI 3.1.0 Beta & Frameworks
Monday, 29 January 2018
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jaroslaw staniek
Today is the release day for KEXI 3.1.0 Beta & its frameworks: https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Releases#3.1.0_Beta_1
Since version 3 it becomes KEXI not Kexi to suggest becoming a standalone app. It's standalone status includes being first-class app also outside of KDE Plasma.
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Off and On Again: The story of KDE Plasma's desktop icons; 5.12 improvements
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
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eike hein
Desktop icons in Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta (Click to enlarge)
Recent news in the Linux desktop community recall an interesting time in Plasma's history: Release 4.1 in 2008, Plasma's second release ever, that time we (in)famously abandoned desktop icons (sneak preview: they came back).
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About Babe
Saturday, 20 January 2018
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camiloh
I've been working on a small music player named Babe for a while now, it started as an idea of a bare simple music player, and as the time has passed it has become a project I hope to expand beyond a simple music player.
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