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carlschwan.eu KDE Apps Initiative

A bit like Nate’s “5 minutes bugs” initiative, I’m announcing a new initiative to improve our applications ecosystem. The goal is to improve the quality and quantity of KDE applications and the number of application contributors. For anybody who knows me, it is not that surpr...

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Improvements to QTextDocument
  • I wonder why you implemented part of markdown, rather than using QTextDocument’s existing markdown support. Is something that you need missing?

    I'm already using QTextDocument markdown support. Just QTextDocument markdown support doesn't include all the WYSIWYG functionalities.

  • carlschwan.eu Improvements to QTextDocument

    uses QTextDocument for it’s WYSIWYG text editor. This is surpringly quite powerful and thanks to some code borrowed from KMail rich text editor, it wasn’t hard to implement huge part of the markdown specification. But while QTextDocument is great, I hit quickly some limits. This is why I...

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    carlschwan.eu Kirigami Addons 1.1.0

    It’s again time for a new Kirigami Addons release. Kirigami Addons is a collection of helpful components for your QML and Kirigami applications. FormCard I added a new FormCard delegate: FormColorDelegate which allow to select a color and a new delegate container: FormCardDialog which is a new...

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    AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.
  • Is there a dedicated page tracking updates specifically to KDE Connect?

    It is part of KDE Gear, so generally in the gear release announcement. The last few releases were not that big in term of feature but the next one includes some goodies.

    Does Connect use BTLE?

    KDE Connect will have the Bluetooth backend enabled by default with the next gear release (24.02). I'm not sure if this is BTLE or normal Bluetooth.

    Could you guys implement an auto tethering option between phone/PC?

    No idea :(

    How instant are notifications synced?

    For me it is pretty instant. I never miss my Bereal notifications thanks to it :)

    Do notifications disappear on one side or the other when viewed on one or the other platform?

    Yes

    Maybe implement a “link to KDE” notification toggle to mirror the “link to windows” functionality of Android?

    No idea :(

  • Why don't you donate (or donate more) to KDE?
  • I donate periodically to KDE, but my major gripe is that I don’t know where the money is going. They have no financial reports that can be easily found

    The yearly reports of the KDE e.V. can be found in https://kde.org/community/donations/

    individual projects don’t have a donation button

    this is because giving money individually to a KDE subproject is a lot of logistic and unless the project is big and receive a lot of money, the amount collected for the individual project won't be enough to do anything meaningful for the project. But we had a trial with Kdenlive specific fundraising, which worked reasonably well last year so maybe we will see more subprojects specific fundraising in the future.

    there’s no public tracking of their income or expenditure like on opencollective

    yeah aside from the graphs in https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/#working-groups_ we don't publish detailed logs of every single transactions as they contain private details like how much our contractors are getting paid. KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit in Germany and the tax offices is very vigilant that nothing weird happens.

    it’s not easy to find KDE devs (aka who is actually on the KDE team) so that one could sponsor individual devs

    This developers accepting donations often have this info on their website. It's also possible to find KDE related people on liberapay https://liberapay.com/search?q=kde

  • Meta: downtime this weekend

    Apologies for the downtime of lemmy.kde.social. I made a minor update to our lemmy instance on Friday and this was a bad idea as this broke the server. I roll-backed our server from the last backup but ended up with the same issue. I unfortunately didn't had the time to investigate the issues during the weekend.

    I finally got time to fix the issue and it turned out to be caused by a missing update of the upstream docker-compose file that I missed to apply on the server which caused an internal DNS issue between the frontend and backend.

    Lesson learned, I won't do any update on a Friday anymore.

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    Lemmy app from KDE?
  • It would be great to have and I actually started writing tiny bit of code for this, but unfortunately my bandwidth is already saturated with maintaining merkuro, tokodon, neochat and a bunch of other apps.

    But if someone is interested in writing an app, I'll be happy to help a bit.

  • carlschwan.eu Frameless view with QtWidgets

    One design characteristic of our QtWidgets is that they contain a lot of frames and frames inside other frames. This worked well with Oxygen style and its skeuomorphism shadow, less so with Breeze. I first thought this was inheriten with QtWidgets and couldn’t be fixed without much effort. But fortu...

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    Kirigami Addons 0.11.0 is out!
    carlschwan.eu Kirigami Addons 0.11.0

    Kirigami Addons 0.11.0 is out! This release brings a bunch of new components. Since I forgot to write an announcement for the 0.10 release, I will mention some of the new features of 0.10 too. Banner (0.10.0) This helpful component is similar to Kirigami.InlineMessage and can be used as the footer o...

    Kirigami Addons 0.11.0

    This release brings some nice new components for your Kirigami and QML apps.

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    Akademy 2023 blog posts

    Here are some blog posts from KDE contributors about their experience in Thessaloniki:

    • David Redondo: https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/2023/07/24/akademy2023.html
    • Nate Graham https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/23/akademy-2023/
    • Kevin Ottens https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2023/07/17/report-from-akademy-2023/ and https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2023/07/22/akademy-2023-is-over-lets-see-what-comes-next/
    • Méven Car http://www.bivouak.fr/dolphin-at-akademy-2023/
    • Kai Uwe Broulik https://blog.broulik.de/2023/07/hot-summer-akademy-2023-in-thessaloniki/
    • Carl Schwan https://carlschwan.eu/2023/07/24/akademy-2023/
    • Volker Krause https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/07/28/kde-akademy-2023.html
    • Niccolo https://blog.nicco.love/i-went-to-akademy/
    • Alexander Lohnau https://write.as/alexander-lohnau/my-first-in-person-akademy-thessaloniki-2023
    • Scarlett Gately Moore https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-akademy-2023-sunburns-and-kde-snaps/
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    Federation bug fixed

    I applied https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/114 to lemmy.kde.social, this should fix some federation bug and I can now follow this community with my Mastodon account by searching for @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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    Day trip for Akademy announced
    akademy.kde.org Day trip - Wednesday

    Place: Dion and Mount Olympus Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023 Time: tbd Our journey to Myth and History starts by visiting the ancient city and sanctuary of Dion, dedicated to the most important and powerful Olympic God , Zeus, the king of ancient Greek Dodecatheon and the ruler of the universe.

    Day trip - Wednesday

    Need a break after the amazing sessions at #Akademy2023?

    Get ready for a day trip to Dion and Mount Olympus! Explore ancient ruins, marvel at stunning landscapes, and feel the mythical aura of this legendary place.

    For more details and registration, visit: https://akademy.kde.org/2023/daytrip/

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    This week in KDE: we released SDDM 0.20.0, finished porting Plasma 6 to KSvg, improved the performance of Wayland with multi-GPU systems, and tweaked the look of widgets in the panel
    pointieststick.com This week in KDE: SDDM

    This week SDDM–the venerable login manager used by KDE and some other DEs–finally got a new release after two and a half years! This work was pushed through by a variety of KDE contribu…

    This week in KDE: SDDM
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