Season of KDE 2013 Applications Open
Season of KDE is now officially open for applications.To apply head to http://season.kde.org register as a student and click "Submit a proposal"What is Season of KDE?Season of KDE is a community...
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KTp Facebook Instant Messaging Problems
Many of you in recent weeks have probably faced problems with Facebook XMPP's server. They are migrating to new servers which have had their share of problems, causing KDE Telepathy clients to display...
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KDE Telepathy 0.7.0 Released
Today we are happy to announce a new version of KDE Telepathy, KDE's instant messaging client.KDE Telepathy is a suite of applications and plasmoids to allow chatting, file transfer, video calls etc...
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Ubuntu Search - An Actual Look
Apologies for the non KDE post on PlanetKDE. I've recently read so much stuff about Ubuntu's "spying", that I feel it's worth clearing the air.Ubuntu's File SearchThis is Ubuntu's file search. It...
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Making Oxygen work with QtQuickControls
The backstory (an overly abridged history of drawing in Qt)First we had QWidgets. They provided a set of easy to use components that you might put in an application; buttons, text inputs, combo boxes...
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The following is a deceptively unsimple tutorial on how to draw a red square in QML onto a scenegraph.The normal approach is as follows:test.qmlimport QtQuick 2.0Item { Rectangle { color: "red"width:...
View ArticlePlasma Next Bugs
Where are we now?We have had our first beta release of Plasma, and it as a point where I use it on a daily basis and it can run for days without crashing. As you can imagine for software that has...
View ArticleSubmit your Papers to Akademy.
Deadline for the Call for Papers to Akademy is approaching, so it is important to get those papers in soon.One of the new additions this year is a fast track session where speakers will have 10 minutes...
View ArticlePlasma Next Bugs - An Update
Last week I made a request for people to start using Plasma Next and report back issues before our first .0 release.We've had some pretty good feedback, but there's still lots to be done.The last 7...
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KDE Telepathy 0.6 Beta Released
Today we released a beta of 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy KDE's instant messaging client. New Features Kopete log migrationKTp now imports logs from Kopete accounts into our log format. For new KTp users this...
View ArticleKDE, LightDM and the Mir Kerfuffle
With Canonical's decision to make a new display server, there's been some questions as to how this affects LightDM and the KDE front end I've spent a long time working towards.It's a perfectly sensible...
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A Sneak Peek at KTp Active
AboutNo tablet would be complete without instant messaging. Thanks to awesome bachelor thesis work we had a non-working mockup of an active client. This active client remains separate from our desktop...
View ArticleKTp 0.6.2 Released
We have just released version 0.6.2 of KDE Telepathy, KDE's instant messaging client.This new minor release brings some important fixes on some crashes that occurred in rare conditions that we hadn't...
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A Wallpaper Plugin Demo For Plasma 5.
As part of the core Plasma team I have spent a long time helping in the migration to make everything QtQuick2.0 based, making sure we get the most out of the OpenGL backing.This weekend I wanted to...
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Plasma Addons - Where we are in Plasma5
When we were building towards 5.0, we made the choice to focus all the effort on the core, and not release plasma-addons. It would have been simply too much work and quality of the core would have...
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Randa Part 1: Gwenview on Frameworks
In the first few days at Randa as a coding task between meetings I took on porting one of the larger core applications to Qt5 + KF5. Having applications on Qt5 is important for when we make the wayland...
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Randa Part 1: Gwenview on Frameworks
In the first few days at Randa as a coding task between meetings I took on porting one of the larger core applications to Qt5 + KF5. Having applications on Qt5 is not only important for when we make...
View ArticleKTp 0.6.2 Released
We have just released version 0.6.2 of KDE Telepathy, KDE's instant messaging client.This new minor release brings some important fixes on some crashes that occurred in rare conditions that we hadn't...
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An update on Plasma Addons
Since my last blog post on plasma addons there has been a lot of activity, existing contributors are active on their own plasmoids, and there are many new faces coming on to take up the challenge of...
View ArticleKDE Telepathy 0.9-beta
We have released a beta of KDE Telepathy 0.9, and libkpeople 0.3.0Features include:OTRImproved group chatsModernised video chats, now based on GStreamer 1.0Lots of fixes and speed improvementsTarballs...
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