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Yesterday afternoon I and others arrived in Randa. After some first meetup, started to try out how much work it is to e.g. compile Konsole or KDevelop on my Mac without patching Qt and stuff. Two review requests pending to get Konsole working at least on some basic level. Lets see what more is needed to get it in some usable state (at least the terminal toolview in Kate now can use the konsole part ;=)

Tomorrow I will start to travel to the Randa Meeting 2016. I hope I can help to make it possible to spread KF5 based stuff more easy on platforms like Windows & Mac. Lets see what can be done, will be an interesting week ;=) If you want to support us, please consider to donate, we have a fundraising campaign running!

Hi all, if you have a Windows Phone (e.g. Lumia or similar), then please help us on MTP & Windows Phones so we can find the correct patch to make these devices work in the kio-mtp io slave. Thanks! :-)

After a bit more work, toolbars (and other places ;=) have icons, too. More Kate plugins do work, like the nice project plugin I use the whole day, see: Updated .dmg files can be found at (alpha quality, only tested on Mac OS 10.10): ftp://kate-editor.org/cullmann/kate-20151024.dmg ftp://kate-editor.org/cullmann/kwrite-20151024.dmg Help to get more stuff working and fix the remaining crashs is highly appreciated. A script how to build that all can be found at: Read More

Kate runs ;=) But as you can see, we have no icons, but that is as no work was invested into it and not even any icons are installed ;=) I will maintain a guide how to build it on mac in the kate.git/mac.txt file. At the moment, this is all not that nice. Kate is able to open files via file dialog and it renders OK, modulo some glitches. Read More

After some hacking on frameworks, I have the first running KWrite version on Mac that uses an unpatched Qt from the qt.io offline installer: It is still ugly, as scaled on my HiDPI display as the plist file is missing and it crashs on everything (aka open dialog) and has no icons. But beside that, it works. No magic, just the xcode clang toolchain + stock qt + stock cmake + gettext + KDE Frameworks 5 ;) Read More

The end of the joint Kate/KDevelop Sprint 2015 is coming closer, half of the people already have left to get home. It was a good thing to have this sprint sponsored by the KDE e.V. and organized by Milian Wolff directly after the Qt World Summit 2015 here in Berlin. I think that made it easier for people to attend both events, like myself ;=) I came to the sprint to work on getting our bugs sorted and fixed and to improve the state of the Mac port. Read More

This week is really busy, first three days of Qt World Summit and now hacking away at the Kate/KDevelop sprint in Berlin. This year my personal goal will be to get our bugs & wishes back into shape. One major decision I as the maintainer did take was to close all wishes that not got changed since two years. Our team is very small and we have plenty of real bugs to take care of (and their number is rising) such that we will never be able to implement random requests. Read More

To get started with KDE development, newcomers usually first sent patches. Having sent several patches, the newcomers are typically encouraged by us (the reviewers) to apply for a KDE contributor account. This application includes the question of “who encouraged you to apply for a KDE contributor account”. Then, the KDE sysadmins contact the mentioned developers to make sure the application is valid and trustworthy. Hence, you, as someone who encouraged others to apply for an account, get a mail with the subject “Developer account application approval […]”. Read More

At this year’s KDE conference Akademy, I was working on a small plasmoid to continuously track the disk quota. The disk quota is usually used in enterprise installations where network shares are mounted locally. Typically, sysadmins want to avoid that users copy lots of data into their folders, and therefor set quotas (the quota limit has nothing to do with the physical size of a partition). Typically, once a user gets over the hard limit of the quota, the account is blocked and the user cannot login anymore. Read More