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Akademy Photos 1

Uninstall — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:58:52 +0000

KDE SC 4.5 Wallpapers

Uninstall — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:01:41 +0000

The wallpaper contest has ended and now I can announce that KDE SC 4.5 will have 12 shiny new wallpapers:

Autumn, Grass, Hanami and Stripes will be part of kdebase, while all the other wallpapers will go into kdeartwork.

Thanks to:

Alexandre Courbot (Hanami, Korea)
Helena Świderska (Yellow Flowers)
Ivan Čukić (Stripes)
Jonas Arnfred (Blue Wood)
Jorge Sandín (City at Night)
Piotr Adamek (Autumn)
Risto Saukonpää (Chess, Dragonfly, Field, Grass)
Sebastian Schubert (Osterkaktus)
and to everyone who has sent photos.

KDE needs you :)

Uninstall — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:34:24 +0000

KDE SC 4.5 will be released soon in August and we would love to see some of your photos beeing part of the KDE SC wallpaper collection

If you want to participate you must keep to 3 fundamental rules:

you must be the author of the photograph, you must provide your full name and you have to state the license (lgpl v3 is better).
entries must be at least 1920×1200 resolution and a copy of the photo in RAW format (if available) is apprecitated.
you must send your photographs to davide.bettio@kdemail.net before the 13th of june with the word “WALLPAPER” in the subject

Your wallpapers will be evaluted by some of the KDE artists and the best wallpapers will be released with KDE SC 4.5.

more tokamak photos

Uninstall — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:32:12 +0000

Plasma and QGesture*

Uninstall — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:16:09 +0000

Plasma has support for mulitouch events but for some reasons I can’t get any QGestureEvent, does anyone have any idea about why QGesture doesn’t work with Plasma?

It seems that QGestureRecognizers can receive QEvent::TouchBegin but they can’t receive QEvent::TouchUpdate or QEvent::TouchEnd.

Any idea?

tokamak

Uninstall — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:41:54 +0000

Plasma Web Browser and WebKit

Uninstall — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:30:59 +0000

Recently I’ve been working on the web browser plasmoid and since yesterday it’s possible to use it like a complete stand alone browser (with advanced rendering capabilities thanks to QtWebKit), moreover Plasma::WebView has been recently ported to KGraphicsWebView so it has KDE integration too.

The summary of recent changes is:

Plasma::WebView does the same (and better) with less lines of code.
Plasma::WebView uses now a KDE integrated WebKit.
Web Browser now supports windows (with overlays).
The progress bar has been replaced with a ProgressComboBox (like rekonq).

By the end of the tokamak plasma will provided to users a complete web experience.

tokamak 4

Uninstall — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:02:51 +0000

designing good user interfaces (2 – Removing Useless Clutter)

Uninstall — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Useless clutter

Less clutter

The groupbox in the first UI is completely useless and it only adds more clutter for free, so it has been removed in the second UI. What we get is a less cluttered UI and every widget is grouped by the tabwidget.

designing good user interfaces (1 – Label Alignment)

Uninstall — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:07:21 +0000

Bad Label Alignment

Good Label Alignment

The first UI has a wrong label alignment (KDE 3.x alignment), while the second UI has the right label alignment (KDE 4.x alignment).
HIG on techbase

Label placement in forms