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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Cool new stuff in CMake 2.8.6: automoc

Starting with version 2.8.6 CMake supports what is known as automoc, i.e. automatic handling of moc when using Qt4. As you know, when adding signals and slots to a class using Qt, this source code (typically the header) has to be processed by the moc preprocessor. This invocation of moc during the build is what we are talking about. Read More
Sunday, 30 October 2011

11 steps remaining till Calligra 2.4

Dipesh  | 
As Andreas note we are rather close towards Calligra 2.4 which will be the very first release of the Calligra Suite. Our pretty cool Calligra Quality Dashboard lists 11 remaining release-critical blocker bugs that still need to be fixed till then. Read More
Sunday, 30 October 2011

GammaRay

Till  | 
At KDAB we spend all of our time working with Qt. As with any software development, much of that time ends up being focused on understanding, debugging, profiling and bug fixing rather than implementing new functionality. To help us with that we constantly improve the tools available to us and other Qt and KDE developers. That is what has brought us awesomeness such as massif-visualizer, verktyg or various bits and pieces in Qt Creator and KDevelop. The latest result of our tinkering with tooling was released at Qt Developer Days in Munich last week under the name GammaRay. It's a comprehensive collection of high level introspection and debugging utilities specifically tailored for the various frameworks in Qt. You can find out more about it and see some screenshots here. The whole thing, including all plugins, is released under the GPL so it can be useful to as many Qt developers as possible and in the hope that many of you will pitch in and help us make it even more useful for us all. <a href=http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131997790827755&w=2>Here is the announcement email to the KDE lists sent by Volker Krause, who has been leading this effort since its beginnings in the Kontact Touch project. Enjoy! Read More
Monday, 24 October 2011

Don't browse, search

"Don't browse, search" is already well known demand and it changes the way people expect to use your app. Recently I needed to finalize first incarnation of my Global Search feature in Kexi. Being late by two days after Calligra beta 3 tagging, I made it fully working only for RC1 now. But it's here. Read More
Saturday, 22 October 2011

Vote for KDE !

Hi, you like KDE and you want to support it ? Here's an easy way to do it: The german bank ING DiBa is giving away 1000 Euro each to 1000 associations. Selecting the 1000 winning associations is done via voting. So, if you vote for the KDE eV there, we have a good chance to be one of the winners :-) Read More
Friday, 14 October 2011

KDE is 15, Kubuntu is 11.10

Jriddell  | 
Kubuntu 11.10 is out and ready for download. This is the first Kubuntu release were I haven't had much involvement in putting it together and I'm immensly proud of the team who put in so much work. Read More
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Desktop-per-screen (multiple monitors improvements)

There's been a "small" upgrade to my desktop machine at work, and as a part of that I got my hands on a 1920x1080 Dell monitor and couldn't help placing it as a secondary monitor, rotated. And I couldn't help noticing various problems with this setup. Read More
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Porting Windows Phone to Qt

Dipesh  | 
Since so far I missed any blog on our beloved planet pointing to this interesting resource I do it myself now; Porting Windows Phone to Qt A rather cute way to escape your Windows Phone lock in :-)
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Tizen or Tizen't?

I'm not sure really. We have been discussing this question on the Codethink irc channel today, and I think probably Tizen't. I think the main point of HTML5 is that it runs everywhere and is platform independent. Once you create a platform that uses HTML5 plus its own extensions it really isn't HTML5 anymore. Giving up on Qt and going for some as yet unspecified native toolkit doesn't seem to be a good way to please and developers who have commited to MeeGo. Read More
Tuesday, 27 September 2011

qbzr with curves

Jriddell  | 
Nice little visual change to qbzr, curves on the diff view.. Before: After: Thanks to Iwata Hidetaka. Being bored of the IRC poll on blogs.kde.org I made a new poll for revision control systems. I'm glad to see that after one vote Bazaar is at 100%. Read More