The other day I finally replaced my trusty Thinkpad T480s I bought 6½ years ago. Overall, I was still pretty happy with it and even gave it a little refresh early last year (RAM upgrade, bigger SSD, new keyboard) but the CPU was really starting to show its age when compiling. I’m almost as picky as Nate when it comes to laptops but the P14s Gen 5 AMD (what a mouthful) checked more boxes than most laptops I looked at in recent years.| blog.broulik.de
You may have read about my new-found fondness for Plasma’s Clock app. Following the development of a “Picture in Picture” protocol for Wayland, I remembered how I once saw someone put up a little timer window during a lunch break while screen-sharing a presentation. I figured, I wanted that, too!| blog.broulik.de
KIO (KDE Input/Output) is what allows KDE applications to transparently and asynchronously access files, both local and over the network. It also provides many of the user interfaces for manipulating files, such as the Places panel, Open/Save dialog, folder properties, new file menu, and many more. The other day I went through some of its … Continue reading KIO Goodies| Kai Uwe's Blog
Qt Contributor’s Summit 2025 is taking place in Munich in May. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it this year, so let’s talk about some of my recent contributions to our favorite cross-platform UI toolkit.| blog.broulik.de
The M is silent. In computing this stands for the underlined letters in menus that can be triggered using an Alt+Letter key combination, one that you can remember and apply later to navigate around more quickly.| blog.broulik.de
Like every year I take a couple of days off at the end of the year to wind down and spent time with the family. The year has brought many major changes, both to KDE and to me personally: We did the KDE MegaRelease 6, the next major update to KDE’s software suite. Plasma 6 further made Wayland the default graphical session. I also spent a lot more time in Qt itself, particularly Qt Wayland, rather than KDE code. Anyhow, between family visits and feasts there’s always some time for quality ...| blog.broulik.de
(originally titled “On Dead Trees”)| blog.broulik.de
While I do have a Qt git build on my machine that I use for development, I usually only test individual applications and functionality but hardly ever run my full Plasma session on it. This means that for day-to-day use I typically only get to enjoy new Qt features once they have actually been released.| blog.broulik.de
I reverted my name back to Jonathan Riddell and have now made a new uid for my PGP key, you can get the updated one on keyserver.ubuntu.com or my contact page or my Launchpad page. Here’s some pics from Akademy| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
https://openuk.uk/openuk-september-2024-newsletter-1/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7238138962253344769/ Our 5th annual Awards are open for nominations and our 2024 judges are waiting for your nominations! Hannah Foxwell, Jonathan Riddell, and Nicole Tandy will be selecting winners for 12 categories. ? The OpenUK Awards 2024 are open for nominations until Sunday, September 15.. Our 5th Awards again celebrate the UK’s leadership and … Continue reading "OpenUK Awards ...| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-pass/| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop. It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources. This 6.0.0 release requires to be built with extra-cmake-modules from KF 6 which is not yet released, distros may want to wait until next … Continue reading "Oxygen Icons 6 Released"| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
This project is creating a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoap library.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
One of the key components to using a Plasma Wayland session is obviously the Qt Wayland Client module for running Qt applications in a Wayland environment. While it has been successfully deployed to millions of devices over the years, there’s still a few areas that feel like they haven’t been touched much since its inception as part of the Qt Lighthouse project, what turned into QPA, the Qt Platform Abstraction.| blog.broulik.de
Ruqola 2.1 Beta (2.0.81) is available for packaging and testing. Ruqola is a chat app for Rocket.chat. This beta release will build with the current release candidate of KDE Frameworks 6 and KTextAddons allowing distros to start to move away from Qt 5. URL: https://download.kde.org/unstable/ruqola/SHA256: 2c4135c08acc31f846561b488aa24f1558d7533b502f9ba305be579d43f81b73 Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.orghttps://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
It’s a pleasure to be on the OpenUK New Year’s Honours list for 2024. There’s some impressive names on there such as Richard Hughes of Packagekit and other projects at Red Hat, Colin Watson who was at Ubuntu with me and I see is now freelance, Mike McQuaid was previously of KDE but is now trying a startup with Mac packager Workbrew for Homebrew.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
The new year has just begun and we have six weeks left before the final release! The most noticeable change since my last post is obviously that we have decided on the wallpaper to be used in Plasma 6.0! But of course there’s more going on under the hood than just that.| blog.broulik.de
KTextAddons is a library with Various text handling addons used by Ruqola and Kontact apps. It can be compiles for both Qt 5 and 6 and distros are advised to compile two builds for each until Ruqola is ported to Qt 6.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
KDiagram 3.0.1 is an update to our charting libraries which fixes a bug in the cmake path configuration. It also updates translations and removes some unused Qt 5 code.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
An updated stable release of XWayland Video Bridge is out now for packaging.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Plasma Browser Integration version 1.9 on the Chrome Web Store. This is a maintenance release shipping a couple of important changes as well as the usual translation updates. The extension now ships 46 different localizations and will of course continue working just fine under the upcoming Plasma 6!| blog.broulik.de
KDiagram is two powerful libraries (KChart, KGantt) for creating business diagrams.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
KWeatherCore is a library to facilitate retrieval of weather information including forecasts and alerts.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
One of the the less apparent omissions in Plasma’s Wayland session compared to X was the lack of a prompt for terminating an unresponsive app. Of course, you should never see one because any decent app will just crash and quit rather than get stuck. Nevertheless, over the course of three evenings I spent way too much time making the “KWin Killer Helper” work on Wayland and while at it revamped its user interface entirely.| blog.broulik.de
qqc2-breeze5-style is a theme used by Plasma Mobile. This alpha release is a re-bundling of the Plasma/5.27 branch of qqc2-breeze-style. It is for use by distros shipping alpha releases of Plasma 6 so that Qt 5 apps continue to be themed appropriately.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
* new release 1.3| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary