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In our Akademy presentation, Kévin and I showed the importance for a better developer story to be able to work on a KDE module without having to install it. Running unittests and running applications without installing the module at all is possible, it turns out, it just needs a bit of effort to set things up correctly. Read More

The second version (0.4.90) towards Simon 0.5.0 is out in the wilds. Please download the source code, test it and send us feedback. What we changed since the alpha release: Bugfix: The download of Simon Base Models work again flawlessly (bug: 377968) Fix detection of utterid APIs in Pocketsphinx You can get it here: https://download.kde.org/unstable/simon/0.4.90/simon-0.4.90.tar.xz.mirrorlist Read More

This July KDE's user and developer community is once again going to come together at <a href=''https://akademy.kde.org/2017">Akademy, our largest annual gathering. I'm going there this year as well, and you'll even be able to catch me on stage giving a talk on Input Methods in Plasma 5. Here's the talk abstract to hopefully whet your appetite: Read More

A better view of this post can be found here: https://medium.com/@temisclopeolimac/current-state-of-babe-9fb56ce16ac6 To continue my last post about Babe [1] where I wrote about a little of its history, in this new entry (I’ve now switched from the KDE blogs to Medium) I will tell you about the current state of Babe and the features implemented so far. [1] https://blogs.kde.org/2017/04/14/introducing-babe-history Read More

https://babe.kde.org/ This is my very first post for KDE blogs and it is also my very first application. So when I sit down to think about what to write about I thought I would like to tell you all about how and why I wanted to start coding and then why I decided to create a (yet another (i know)) music player, specially made for KDE/Plasma. Read More

Surprisingly not enough A brief note: If you're a developer or user of input methods in the free desktop space, or just interested in learning about "How does typing Chinese work anyway?", you might be interested in a discussion we're now having on the plasma-devel mailing list. In my opening mail I've tried to provide a general overview about what input methods are used for, how they work, who they benefit, and what we must do to improve support for them in KDE Plasma. Read More

The first version (0.4.80) towards Simon 0.5.0 is out in the wilds. Please download the source code, test it and send us feedback. Some new features are: MPRIS Support (Media Player control) MacOS port (thanks to René there is a first Macports script Read More

Are you looking for a C++/Qt/Linux developer job in Germany ? Then maybe this is something for you: Sharp Reflections I'm looking forward to hear from you. :-) Alex

As my blog as FSFE Fellow No. 1 is temporarily not aggregated on planet.kde.org and my private blog about woodwork (German only) currently only tells about a wooden staircase (but soon again about wooden jewelry) I'm building I found a new place for my KDE (non-Randa) related stuff: KDE Blogs. Thanks to the KDE Sysadmin team for the quick setup! Read More

Serving the quadruped audience Intrepid journalist Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu! recently pointed out to us that Plasma 5 is currently not doing so well when it comes to serving an important user demographic - bored cats! Read More