So. I was wondering, which nice distro specific tools do exist in debian/gnome or in $other/kde that debian/kde is missing? We have kalternatives for managing alternatives, we have a update notifier frontend in progress and after google summer of code,…
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Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers bugs
A while ago, something happened to the bugs reported against KDE in debian. It is best illustrated like this: I’ve chosen to name it Eckhart slope. Thanks. For full graphs, see http://alioth.debian.org/~pusling-guest/pkg-kde-buggraphs/
A Qt frontend to aptitude as a GSoC project?
I’m currently trying to convince (and hopefully succeeding) Daniel Burrows to co-mentor a Qt frontend for aptitude. But for that a student is needed. http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/Aptitude-Qt for first draft of project. http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc for information about GSoC and debian and #debian-soc on…
Toying with maemo and rotating apps
I have been playing a bit around with Maemo and writing Qt apps for n900. I ended up needing a rotation aware QMainWindow a couple of times, so I ended up abstracting it away in my own MaemoMainWindow, which I…
Subclassing QMutex considered harmful
If you are using QMutex, you are probably writing threaded applications, and thus want to use helgrind (part of valgrind). helgrind has some support for threading and mutexes in Qt, but not fully. If you try to run a app…
Matthew Rosewarne
Over the last months, I have been asking people in KDE irc channels and in Debian KDE channels wether they have heard from Matthew Rosewarne, on irc known as Mukidohime. No one had. Very recently, I uploaded one of his…
kde4.3 rc2
Most of it now available in a debian/experimental near you. Special thanks to George Kiagiadakis for doing much of the hard work. Also thanks to Martin Alfke. I do now also claim that we have the best packaged and best…
Linuxtag
So. Now I’m almost prepared for linuxtag Location: Berlin – check Found a couch – check (thanks andreas) Ticket – check put in the debian booth schedule – check Seen the venue – missing That’s for tomorrow. see you there
Debian/KDE status
So. Finally, we got KDE 4 series in Debian/Testing, more accurate, KDE4.2.2. Thanks to the rest of the Debian/KDE team for working on this, including sitting on their hands when wanting to fix bugs, and a special thanks to the…
