Klaus Weidenbach
3 weeks ago
No webarchive in Konqueror with WebKit
When you use the WebKit webbrowser module in #Konqueror some of the nice features under extra are gone. Like the webarchive tool which I use often. Took me quite long to figure this out. :-/
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Good article about Akonadi and Nepomuk and the changes in the last releases.

Semantic Desktop: Akonadi and Nepomuk | Muktware on Muktware
Praised, cursed, often misunderstood, what are KDE's semantic desktop tools for anyway?
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Creating sieve scripts with KMail
These improvements look really nice to create sieve scripts. Still need to port several local filters to sieve.

What's in my mind " News in kdepim 4.11: Improve sieve support (2/2) on Aegiap
When we want to create a script sieve, we need to know Sieve language, and we don’t use all days this language so it’s easier to create typo and error. So I decided for 4.11 to create an assistant to generate sieve code. By default end user prefers to use GUI to create filters (as sieve script is using for filter mainly). In KMail filter GUI is...
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
3 months ago
Lessons to learn
Two very intersting post-mortems about the trouble with git.kde.org from last weekend and what you could learn about backing up Git repositories.

Distillation - Me, my blog, and my Johnson by Jeff Mitchell on Jefferai
How KDE's 1500-repository Git system was nearly destroyed, and how we're preventing it from happening again.
Distillation - Me, my blog, and my Johnson by Jeff Mitchell on Jefferai
Backing up huge numbers of Git repositories isn't as simple as you might think. Here's why.
Categories: Git , KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
3 months ago
KDE's wonderful usability | Muktware on Muktware
KDE is what I consider the most usable desktop environment there is. But what makes it so?One thing that makes it so is it's configurability, which is often the target of criticism. Another is the way
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
4 months ago
What a day of wonderful releases...
#KDE SC 4.10 and #Openfire 3.8.0 got released today!

Was already wondering the last days if the HTTP 500 for the Openfire Roadmap site was a sign. Quite surprised to see this release today.

KDE's improvements are really impressive. Nice work on Nepomuk and PIM.
Categories: KDE , Release , Openfire
Klaus Weidenbach
8 months ago
"The Mobile Interface That Works"
Plasma Active: The Mobile Interface That Works " Linux Magazine on Linuxpromagazine
To express myself mildly, I'm not a fan of interfaces for mobile devices. At best, they seem clumsy makeshifts, tolerable only because no...
Categories: KDE , Plasma Active
Klaus Weidenbach
8 months ago
Plasma Active 3
Still waiting for a Vivaldi, but no news when it will be available. Maybe should buy an Archos 80 G9 so I can start using #PA3.

KDE - Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps on Kde
KDE has released the 3rd stable version of Plasma Active, KDE's device-independent user experience. The Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works well across a range of devices. Its Activities function gives users a natural way to organize and access their applications, files and information. Plasma Active Three noticeably improves the user experience with its enhanced and expanded set of apps, improved performance and a new virtual keyboard.
#039 #pa3
Categories: KDE , Plasma Active , Release
Klaus Weidenbach
10 months ago
Too bad no #KDE SC 4.9.1 tonight for my desktop. rsync is just telling me after 1 1/2 hour to-check=332/601. Something is way too slow tonight.

:pillow
#kde
Categories: Slackware , KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
11 months ago
A New Hope: Open KDE Devices
Aaron Seigo at #Akademy 2012 about the problems to get open devices. Very interesting talk and also the explanation to the delays again for the #Vivaldi.

http://files.kde.org/akademy/2012/videos/A_New_Hope_Open_KDE_Devices_-_Aaron_Seigo.m4v
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
11 months ago
How Contour became Plasma Active
Klaus Weidenbach
11 months ago
digiKam orientation not applied correctly anymore
Updated #digiKam to 2.7.0 and now the exif orientation correction is not working anymore during import. Someone has the same problems? Did I miss to update some settings?
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
11 months ago
Getting impressed by KDE again and again. The upcoming KDE SC 4.9 will be a real amazing release. I would love to attend #Akademy next time and meet the people from the community.


Btw, someone interested from #Indonesia to organise a #KDE SC 4.9 release party? I should be in Indonesia around that time and would love to meet other KDE enthusiasts.

http://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Release_Parties/4.9 on Kde
This page is for KDE SC 4.9 release party listings. Please follow the following template for readability and keep it sorted. ...
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
12 months ago
KDEdu
The design of the KDEdu homepage is really cute. One of the nicest I have seen.

The KDE Education Project - The KDE Education Project on Kde

We make free educational software for children and adults, students and teachers. We make software for you....
Also very impressive list of available educational applications.
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
12 months ago
KDE SC 4.9rc1
I have just updated #Slackware current that will become soon Slackware 14.0 and updated #KDE SC 4.9rc1 from Alien's ktown-repository.

Just had a small problem that plasma-desktop was crashing when logging in with my user. Other users had no problems. After deleting all ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* files I could login without a problem. All my sessions have been still there, so everything was allright. Just had to customize the desktop widgets a bit again.

KDE SC 4.9 really rocks! Activities work really amazing now and you have much more control over it. Also contact synchronisation with #ownCloud works again. Had some problems since the ownCloud 4.0 update. The desktop feels really responsive, quick and smooth. I <3 it!

Too bad Slackware 14 won't ship KDE SC 4.9. :-(
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
LinuxJournal about Plasma Active
Already bit old, from the release of PA2, but it presents some ideas of it quite good.

Plasma Active - a New Approach to Tablet Computing on Linuxjournal

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)? ...
Nice said Aaron:
"...right now, there is too much focus on created devices that serve the owner of the application store and focus on consumption of new devices just for the sake of the newness of the device".
Categories: KDE , Plasma Active
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
KDE Plasma Netbook
Nice article about #KDE #Plasma Netbook in Linux Magazine. It is great to see how all the ideas from KDE4 getting into shape and how modular and flexible it is. Just take a look also on Plasma Active for tablets. :-)

KDE Plasma Netbook Revisited on Linux-magazine

With Unity, Cinnamon, and Gnome 3 getting all the buzz, it's easy to overlook other interesting projects that attempt to rethink the traditional desktop metaphor. Case in point, the KDE Plasma Netbook interface. Despite its moniker, the KDE's alterna...
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
WACkiness
This is really impressive work. Being able to selectively disable API access for apps. #WAC #Plasma #HTML5

More WACkiness on Vizzzion

After Marco had added initial support for WAC apps to Plasma, I’ve spent a few cycles on taking this to a next level. WAC apps are apps written in HTML5 which are shipped as packaged websites with everything needed included in the package. On top o...
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
KDE May updates released
Nice work on the Kontact Suite. Updating tonight :-)

KDE - KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform on Kde

May 4, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.
These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates...
Categories: KDE , updates
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
aseigo
nice screencast from Sebas showing recent Plasma Active developments: http://ur1.ca/9501a


Plasma Active Development Snapshot by Sebastian Kügler on YouTube
Categories: KDE , tablet
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
KDE Mirrors on an OpenStreetMap map
This is a really interesting visualization of KDE's mirror servers I think.

http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors-map.html on Kde

#KDE #mirror #OSM
Categories: KDE
Klaus Weidenbach
1 year ago
KDE SC 4.8.2
Time to upgrade my #Slackware machine to #KDE SC 4.8.2 :-)
Categories: Slackware , KDE
Performance: Database: 0.153, Network: 0.633, Rendering: 0.023, Parser: 0.029, I/O: 0.022, Other: 0.137, Total: 0.998