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it’s time to get ready for Qt 5/KDE 5

Uninstall — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:20:38 +0000

While plans for Qt 5 have been announced a lot of KDE software still depends on deprecated libraries like Qt3Support and KDE3Support. Qt 5 will not include Qt3Support, so all the code that is using it has to be rewritten. This is a huge list of cpp/h files that are using Qt3Support and KDE3Support. We must fix this issue as soon as possible.

KDE on mobile phone #0 (building ofono)

Uninstall — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:53:20 +0000

Sadly KDE mobile phone stack hasn’t been accepted as google summer of code project (we had other 50 proposals with higher priority). Personally I don’t agree, so I plan to work on it anyway.

If you want to build a KDE mobile stack that is able to connect to GMS/UMTS/CDMA network you need to build ofono (or any other similar daemon) as first thing. You just need to download phonesim and ofono from here. Then you just have to build both with ./configure && make. If you want you can run both from source directory (but you’ll need to copy src/ofono.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ofono.conf).

Ofono configuration is rather simple, you just have to copy the following configuration in /usr/local/etc/ofono/phonesim.conf.

[phonesim]
Driver=phonesim
Address=127.0.0.1
Port=12345

Now you are ready to run phonesim and ofono.

Our mobile phone stack depends also on ofono-qt library.

We love fresh wallpapers :)

Uninstall — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:15:43 +0000

As usual we would like to see new wallpapers included in the next KDE SC release and we need your help. So a new wallpaper contest is started!

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 4.7.

git, wallpapers and kdeartworks

Uninstall — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:20:58 +0000

Moving artworks to git might be a bad idea: everytime you clone a git repository you are doing a copy of the whole repository including the history. For this reason if you plan to update frequently your artworks you should consider to keep your artworks on a svn server, so users are not forced to clone all the previous artworks.

For this reason workspace wallpapers (kdebase/workspace/wallpapers) and kdeartwork will not be moved to git. So don’t forget to continue to checkout artworks from SVN!

You can get default base wallpapers from /trunk/KDE/kde-wallpapers/
You can get kdeartwork from /trunk/KDE/kdeartwork/

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 … Continue reading →

tokamak

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