So KDE is getting older…
And from KDE Spain we don’t want to let the next 14th October to pass by without a proper birthday party. That’s why we have put together 4 mini-events/birthday parties around the country to celebrate...
View ArticlePairs and ugly applications
Hi! Some time ago I blogged about a new game for KDE Edu, a memory-enhancing cards game. It was getting dusty in my scratch repository until Marco Calignano had the strength to push some features that...
View ArticleNew year, new life (or KDE and GTK integration)
Or as they say in Spanish: año nuevo, vida nueva. Well, or not. My new year started the 1st December actually, when I got my engineering degree, but I’ll talk about the project some other day. Today...
View ArticleKamoso Sprint
Kamoso sprints are special. There’s no travelling involved, there’s no big deal other than managing to find the correct day to meet with Alex Fiestas and spend some KDE time. I think that Alex will...
View ArticleYou’re welcome to KDevelop!
Sometimes it’s hard to get started using a tool, some people call it white page syndrome, in KDevelop we had the gray page syndrome: I guess you see what I mean. To solve this problem we discussed many...
View ArticlePairs is finally in KDE Edu
It’s been a long way, it’s made us struggle with ugliness at some point, but now we have Pairs in place to be released with the next KDE 4.9 Beta. Also it will come with a great new UI drawn by Abhash...
View ArticleDiscovering your OS and beyond
Some time ago, I already talked about the project I started along with Blue Systems called Muon Discover. For those who didn’t follow, it’s some software to get to know the resources your OS is...
View ArticleChanging wallpapers
The fresh air of the Swiss Alps is good for many things. I came here to work on KDE Edu mostly but I’ll be reporting first about some contribution to Plasma. During the last weeks I’ve been working,...
View ArticleChanging point of views, the Commit Digest
I’ve usually contributed to KDE by developing software itself, I’ve done other things from KDE Spain as well, as many presentations but that’s not really my focus. What I’d like to discuss today is my...
View ArticleGSoC proposals, from both sides
So Google Summer of Code 2013 has been presented already and there’s many people asking about it. From my perspective, GSoC has changed quite a bit over the years, so I have. When it started I was...
View ArticleKDE, the present and present+1
Usually I don’t blog because there’s not much going on. Lately it’s been because there’s been too much things going on. As always in communities, it’s not something somebody is doing in his corner, but...
View ArticleKDE 4.12, KDE Frameworks 5 and Barcelona
Summer is almost over, so it’s time to get our things together. A new release is always a good opportunity to get together and getting some things done. Last Friday we gathered, some had some good...
View ArticleSmoothing the transition to Qt5/KF5
Hi, If you’ve been following development in KDE recently, you might have the feeling that either it’s not changing much or we’re doing things that are not having an immediate impact on our daily life....
View ArticleKDE SDK Next, how will we develop in a year?
Since the beginning of my involvement in KDE and, more specifically, my involvement with KDevelop, many people have come to me and said that what we “actually need” is an SDK. So far, I never gave this...
View ArticleKDE Software on Android
Despite my involvement in KDE and free software operating systems, one of the features I’ve always loved from Qt is how we can use it to develop an application that can be used on any platform. Since I...
View ArticlePorting your project to Qt5/KF5
One of the things I’ve been asked recently quite often is about where’s the information regaring the needed port to KF5. I’ll use this blog post as reference. Documentation We have quite some...
View ArticlePlasma Next: All for one, and one for all
I haven’t been directly involved in Plasma development in the past a lot, only since very recently, because of my job at BlueSystems. Ever since I started working on the Plasma Desktop Shell, I’ve had...
View ArticleMathematics that you can touch
These last months have been intense, so intense I needed a bit of a distraction. I’ve always felt some kind of curiosity for the world of 3D printing and, as I’ve said in different occasions, I always...
View ArticlePorting Muon Discover to KF5
Muon has been a project that I’ve been very eager to port and iterate for a longtime. I’m happy with the 2.0 series, lots of changes were made and it has served us well. More importantly though, we...
View ArticleCommunicating from Plasma 5
Porting KDE Telepathy to Qt 5 and Plasma 5 I started working on that port back in the last KDE Telepathy sprint in Barcelona last April. Back then, I started to work on it because I have been doing...
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