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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. Read More

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. Read More

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. I had QT_NO_GLIB=1 in my environment for some reason, and that's what breaks libreoffice... Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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.

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. Read More

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. To make this real things such as useful yet simple file widget are developed or single click mode is really single click mode "even" on XFCE. Actually implementing optimal experience for Windows is quite similar to supporting XFCE. Read More

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). Read More

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. Read More