Wonders 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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