Entering the blogosphere….
I intend to use this blog to give insights about my free software development stuff, which is mainly related to Qt/KDE, gentoo, and the linux kernel.
View ArticleToward release 1.0-alpha1 of Yzis
As some of you might know, I had to finish my Ph.D. and it took me a lot more time than previously planned. I’m happy to tell you that it is now finished. I’m officially a doctor in the field of...
View ArticleRelease of cvxprocessing-1.0-beta1 (+tomography)
I’m releasing part of the code developed during my PhD. Those are tools useful in the field of convex processing, and more precisely to solve a problem called convex feasbility problem. This is based...
View ArticleRelease of Yzis-1.0-alpha1
Ok, here it is, things have finally settled and we are happy to bring you the first alpha release for Yzis. The foundations are stabilizing, and we are now focusing on fixing bugs and porting to...
View ArticleStatic link with cmake under windows (Qt and others)
One of the great things about Qt is that you can compile the code under esoteric OSs (mmh?) like Windows or MacOS. Although I’ve almost never used windows, I did the packaging of yzis. I used the...
View ArticleYoutube web shortcut
You all know the web shortcuts for konqueror, don’t you ? (like gg: or wp: when you want to use google or wikipedia in alt-f2 or konqueror). Well, I find this really useful, but theres none for youtube...
View ArticleKonqueror web shortcut for gentoo packages
You’re going to think that I’m some kind of web shortcut maniac, but I really think I’m not. I’m using http://packages.larrythecow.org a lot, and only today did I think about creating a konqueror web...
View ArticleKDE 4.1.2 tagged, gentoo land frozen
I’m not a gentoo fan. Mainly because I don’t like the idea of being a ‘fan’. Being a fan in the Free Software world usually means being an extremist and i hate extremism. I nonetheless use almost...
View ArticleActivity extension for mercurial
This is something i’ve really been missing for long in mercurial : a way to display the activity of a repository. No, ‘hg churn’ is not the right answer, I want an idea of when the peaks of development...
View ArticleActivities gallery
While developing my recently released activity mercurial extension (and here too), I did a lot of tests on some quite famous/big projects. I’ve found the results to be quite interesting and decided to...
View ArticleOpale ported to qt4 and kde4
Opale was an application written using koffice that I use to handle my personal accounts. Long ago I have dropped support for koffice (mainly because of the crappy/undocumented/buggy chart API) and...
View ArticleKDE standard aboutbox is kind of close-minded
Back in the days of kde3, while writing a KDE application, I encountered quite a big problem while trying to use the aboutbox stuff from KDE (that means kaboutdata and the now called...
View ArticleFull blown kde-aware opale version
Since the release of opale-0.9, I have mostly worked on improving the (optional) KDE integration. And now if KDE is available, opale will use things like : KMainWindow, KApplication (session...
View ArticleMercurial bulk update
I don’t know about you, but I have on a lot of different places a directory called ‘hg’ with lot of different mercurial clones inside. Whether on the home of my several computers for my own projects,...
View ArticleFirst release candidate for Opale
One of my pet projects (A simple bank account manager focused on graphs and planning) is about to reach 1.0. This first release candidate has been tested on several Linux systems and Windows. It can...
View ArticleSupport for ‘long double’ in Qt tests.
Qt supports most types for most compilers…… but long double. I do not know why. When asking on #qt (IRC), people say that nobody seems to care. Well… I do. long double have some use in scientific...
View Articleupdating to KDE 4.2.1 : delete your plasma files (again)
Thanks to the great work of the gentoo KDE packaging team, I have been able to update to KDE 4.2.1 yesterday. And since then, a couple of processes suck up all my CPUs. The first one is a well-known...
View ArticleFixing qmake missing rule for *.ts -> *.qm
We are used to polished and great tools from the trolls, but qmake has always been the big exception to this: ugly documentation, lot of undocumented tricks, and missing features. For me the biggest...
View Articlehow to handle translations for an application that is both qt-only and KDE ?
I have the problem for my application Opale, which used to be KDE only and is now both Qt and KDE. The first thing I’ve done is to switch from *.po (gettext) to *.ts (qt), because Qt can not (or can it...
View Articlefeedback about converting eigen2 to mercurial
This week-end we did the final conversion of the eigen2 source code repository. I shall describe here the few problems we had, as a feedback to the community. Eigen original purpose was to help provide...
View ArticleWonders from a KDE fan and developer about some KDE design choices
Technologies going forward.. Twenty years ago, I was reading some books about Unix at the local library. By the time, it was really difficult for me to see, touch, or test an actual unix system and...
View ArticleHow to use flex and bison with qmake (my own way)
qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on. Morever qmake...
View ArticlePlaying with clang and Qt
You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome...
View Articleannouncing qxv
Well… you know how it is, you get used to a tool, and even if some brand new software is now available, you keep on using this old stuff. In his case, i’m speaking of xv, whose last release was in...
View ArticleA small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to...
View ArticleEmergeActivity gets a graphical interface: releasing 2.0
I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ’emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time…...
View ArticleYet another KDE QA failure
Just as lot of people here and elsewhere keep on denying KDE QA major problem, the 4.10 release is yet another proof of how bad the situation is. KDE cares so much that they already closed the bug with...
View ArticleRelease of EmergeActivity 2.1
Emerge activity is a small PyQt application aimed at Gentoo users that displays an “activity” graph of the emerges. Here’s a typical example on my desktop computer : For those wondering, the huge...
View ArticleFix Baloo on KDE using the same trick as once used with Nepomuk
update: this post made me banned from KDE planet in a very rough way Nepomuk Problem Since the daunting day of the kde 4.0 release, I’ve been struggling with nepomuk. I’m no random user, i know...
View ArticleKDE Community: be liberal with ourselves, be harsh with others
(yes, the title is a tribute to the robustness principle) Censored In quite an aggressive move, I’ve been censored by KDE. My blog has been removed from kdeplanet. The only information I have so far...
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