The future of kdesrc-build packaging
The last official release of the kdesrc-build tool to build KDE was 1.15.1, nearly three years ago. For some perspective, this is when we were in the process of preparing KDE Software Compilation 4.9...
View Articlekdesrc-build updates and tips
A few years back, I shifted kdesrc-build to a release model where it was to be used essentially straight from the git-master version. This was both beneficial from a time management perspective, and...
View ArticleKDE in 2017
It’s time for the end of 2017 KDE fundraiser, and so this is good a time as any during the year to take a step back and publish a retrospective on the work we’ve individually done in 2017.For those...
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Animated Plasma Wallpaper: Asciiquarium
Years ago, for KDE 3, I had ported a console “asciiquarium” to operate as a KDE screensaver, called “KDE asciiquarium“. By KDE 4.2, it was included as part of the kdeartwork module by default.Since...
View ArticleDebugging issues booting a PC in 2018
I figured out a solution to a hardware troubleshooting problem I’ve had going off and on for at least a couple of years. I feel like others might run across it and, not knowing anywhere better to note...
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Fancy status updating in kdesrc-build
New Interfaces for kdesrc-buildA few weeks back, a fellow KDE developer asked me in the IRC development channel whether I had thought about adding a GUI for kdesrc-build, to supplement (or even...
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Going to Akademy
Happy to participate in a tradition I’ve admired from afar but never been able to do myself… until this year. My tickets are bought, my passport is issued, and I’m going to Akademy! Hope to see you all...
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Akademy retrospective
I had an amazing time with the KDE community in Vienna this past week at Akademy. In fact it was my first Akademy despite contributing to KDE for so long, but Vienna was a great reason to make my first...
View ArticleMoved to Jekyll
If you can see this, that means that the migration of my blog to Jekyll should be complete. Yay!WordPress was actually quite good to me and quite easy to maintain and use. As uncomplicated as the...
View Articlekdesrc-build updated for Gitlab Migration
This weekend the KDE Sysadmins completed the migration of KDE git modules to our Gitlab-based source code management stack as discussed for months now, and recently posted to kde-cvs-announce as a...
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