Category : Kde

KDE Wikis: where should I write?

Posted on: 27 February 2017 /
Categories: Kde

Hi there, TL;DR If you don’t know, go there first: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Documentation_in_wikis Some documentation issues I’ve been asked a lot lately about some directions to document new projects in KDE. I’ve seen as well an awesome tutorial being published on Planet KDE, with a very wrong address. To counter that I wrote a page [1] that

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I’ve been trying KMail and…

Posted on: 17 September 2016 /
Categories: Kde

During Akademy, I saw that a lot of people had a very modern looking Mail program, which I didn’t know, and I was surprise to hear it was KMail. I used KMail at work (during the whole year, yes this year), on a KDE4 station, and honestly, I didn’t like the experience. At all. So

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QtCon: Plasma 5 running smooth on ARMv7!

Posted on: 4 September 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Disclaimer: This is no official announcement, I report something I observed and that I found amazing. Today at QtCon, I was introduced to a Plasma 5 session running on a Odroid-C1+ (using ARMv7, running Debian). I was very amazed to see that it runs very smooth, and is very responsive. Moving windows, placing plasmoids on

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Akademy: Let’s talk about music player and documentation

Posted on: 27 August 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Hey, I’ll be at QtCon and Akademy in Berlin, mostly as observer, I guess 🙂 I’ll have also two workshops/discussions on Tuesday 6th (see [1]). Music player For some time now, there were threads [2] about designing a new music player. The VDG people came up with a vision and some first design ideas [3]

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The KApiDox poll results (at last!)

Posted on: 16 July 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Hey! I add to put on the side most of my contributions for some times, as I’m finishing my master thesis in end August, and that I still have some exams in parallel. However it’s important that I give you a feedback about what you expect KApiDox to be. I already apologies, this post is

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Writing up-to-date tutorials with Doxygen

Posted on: 15 June 2016 /
Categories: Kde

The other day we were discussing on #plasma about KApiDox and what the Plasma team needed to write awesome documentation. Sebas and Martin were specially complaining about the fact that keeping a tutorial up-to-date was difficult because it is only text which will never be compiled for real by the writer, or not as presented.

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KApiDox (or api.kde.org): I need your input !

Posted on: 11 June 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Hi there! As you might know, I’m the new maintainer of KApiDox, and by that I’m more or less responisble of the api.kde.org website. KApiDox used to be a script for generating the KDE Frameworks (KF5) API. This is however changing: I would like to generate all KDE APIs with this tool. It is on

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The future of KApiDox

Posted on: 30 April 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Hello there, I’ve been working hard to enhance KApiDox. I’d like to come back on what it is for, what I did and what I see for its future. Tl;dr I created a new branch in the KApiDox repository [1] and it’s currently in review on ReviewBoard [2]. Please review it, and if you have

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We reorganized (most) of the wikis, we need you!

Posted on: 17 March 2016 /
Categories: Kde

…This post explains in more details what have done on the Community and Techbase, and what belongs where… So we worked a lot on Community and the structure changed. It’s what I want to write about here. More details can be found here: https://community.kde.org/Help:Contribute https://techbase.kde.org/Help:Contribute What goes where? What goes in Community? You have a

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Sprint at CERN: things got done!

Posted on: 17 March 2016 /
Categories: Kde

Whhoooo! Almost one week before I only gave a thought to write this post. Reading myself again, I think I have to much to say… Let’s split so that you don’t get (too much) bored 🙂 The sprint This sprint was my first meeting with KDE contributors. I broke the first rule my parents told

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