No deal Brexit will mean shutting off most of the supply capacity from the EU to Great Britain, as the government says this will be chaotic. Many of the effects are unknown but in the days and weeks that follow … Read More
pulseaudio-qt 1.0.0 is out!
pulseaudio-qt 1.0.0 is out! It’s a Qt framework C++ bindings library for the PulseAudio sound system. It was previously part of plasma-pa but is now standalone so it can be used by KDE Connect and anyone else who wants it. … Read More
libqaccessibilityclient 0.4.0
I’ve released libqaccessibilityclient 0.4.0. Changes: bump version for new release Revert “add file to extract strings” add file to extract strings Set include dir for exported library target Create and install also a QAccessibilityClientConfigVersion.cmake file Create proper CMake Config file … Read More
KDE Chat on Matrix
KDE and open source in general has used IRC since the 90s but times change and these days people expect more than text with lots of internals exposed to the user. So KDE has set up a Matrix server which … Read More
The Listening Service – Edinburgh Sheriff Court
Wanting to be a helpful person and feeling the need for some more social witness (as Quakers say) I’ve volunteered with a group called The Listening Service. The courts are an important part of how our democracy and government functions … Read More
G+ Takeout
Google+ does rather killoff the notion I had of Google as a highly efficient company who always produce top quality work. Even using the takeout website to download the content from Google+ I found a number of obvious bugs and … Read More
KDE at FOSDEM 2019
February means FOSDEM, the largest gathering of free software developers in the continent. I drove for two days down the winding roads and even onto a train and out again to take the bits needed to run the stall there. … Read More
Another Year Older
Christmas Eve means it’s my birthday, an exciting day of celebrating the year past and year to come. I always feel it’s the best use of Facebook that people wish happy birthday there. Piraguismo This last year I’ve had a … Read More
Achievement of the Week
This week I gave KDE Frameworks a web page after only 4 years of us trying to promote it as the best thing ever since cabogganing without one. I also updated the theme on the KDE Applications 18.12 announcement to … Read More
Room 23: Surviving a Brain Hemorrhage
Room 23 is the true story of Kavita Basi. An English lady in the prime of life, healthy with friends, family and career who one day had a headache which rapidly turned into an emergency trip to hospital. Aquired brain … Read More
Advanced White Water Kayak Leader Training
I did an Advanced White Water Kayak Leader Training course at Glenmore Lodge with Bruce Joliffe who together with George Fell make a fun duo to paddle with. I’ve done this before when it was called 5 Star Leader but … Read More
www.kde.org
It’s not uncommon to come across some dusty corner of KDE which hasn’t been touched in ages and has only half implemented features. One of the joys of KDE is being able to plunge in and fix any such problem … Read More
Planet KDE Categories
Jings no wonder people find computer programming scary when the most easily accessible lanugage, JavaScript, is also the most messy one. Occationally people would mention to me that the categories on Planet KDE didn’t work and eventually I looked into … Read More
Planet KDE Twitter Feed
Some years ago I added an embedded Twitter feed to the side of Planet KDE. This replaced the earlier feed manually curated feeds from identi.ca and twitter which people added but had since died out (in the case of identi.ca) … Read More
Red Hat and KDE
By a strange coincidence the news broke this morning that RHEL is deprecating KDE. The real surprise here is that RHEL supported KDE all. Back in the 90s they were entirely against KDE and put lots of effort into our friendly … Read More
kgraphviewer 2.4.3
KGraphViewer, your favourite visualiser of .dot files, has a new update. Switch KgvPageLayout to QPageSize for page size handling Avoid double top-level layout in KGVSimplePrintingPageSetup Fix layout of page layout & size dialog Remove unused dependency KIO Fix minor typo … Read More
Akademy Group Photo Automator
Every year we take a group photo at Akademy and then me or one of the Kennies manually marks up the faces so people can tag them and we can know who we all are and build community. This is … Read More
KDE neon Bionic Update
The work to rebase KDE neon on Bionic is progressing. Apologies if it feels slow but it’s keeping our infrastructure busy while continuing with the xenial builds alongside. I’ve just managed to get the package version check to turn green … Read More
All New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Black Sails
One of the complains about the new streaming entertainment world is that it removes the collective experience of everyone watching the same programme on telly the night before then discussing it. At least in the international world I tend to … Read More
KDE Slimbook II at Scottish Linux User Group 20th Anniversary
Glasgow’s group of Linux nerds has been gathering for 20 years so I was pleased to eat lots of curry at the Scottish Linux User Group’s 20th anniversary dinner. In the pub afterwards I showed off the new KDE Slimbook … Read More