Perhaps a bit early, but typical german, me and Dominik booked our flights to Tallinn. Lets hope we will have a lot fun there and meet old and new friends See you all, at Tallinn.
Read more →In response to Kate in KDE 4.8, there was this reply on reddit: Does this mean the stupid search/replace functionality has finally been fixed? Once the search/replace marks/colors text there’s no way to clear it so when you’re replacing keywords the last one will be permanently marked with background color unless you reload the file or [...]
Read more →Maybe a good read: On being wrong. It’s about why it’s so hard to admit that you are wrong, and more.
Read more →About half a year ago, Kate 3.7 was released as part of KDE 4.7. Now that KDE 4.8 is about to be released, let’s have a look at what Kate brings in KDE 4.8. Bug Fixes According to KDE’s bug tracker, about 190 issues were solved. Taking a closer look, lots of small issues were [...]
Read more →Dominik’s video is cool, but we agreed that perhaps the names should be around and we can have a bit higher resolution to make them readable Therefore here is a second take of the video, this time with names and 720p. (I have no luck with music, therefore, silence) You only get to see the [...]
Read more →Recently, the Kate project celebrated its 10th anniversary. The gource visualization of 10 years Kate development (2001 to 2011) looks as follows. Have fun PS: In case you do not see any video, click here. PPS:Launch gource on kdelibs, that’s much more interesting!
Read more →Seems the Trolls made it, qt-project.org is online Grats.
Read more →At the desktop summit, many contributors got a ExoPC from Intel, but the software on it was quite a disappointment. Meanwhile, there is an official release of Plasma Active that fills the gap. So I sat down and installed it on the ExoPC. It really works quite nice and smooth. Applications like Amarok and a [...]
Read more →Google summer of a code is an annual programme where Google pays students to work on open source projects in the summer months. The students have one or more mentors from the project who help them get started and function as a contact point for the developer community.
In 2008 I did a Google Summer [...]
Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ I hope this will be well received and we will see yet another increase in contributions to our Qt/KDE ecosystem Thanks for all the effort to all people who made this possible!
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