The jury of this year’s KDE Akademy Awards, being by tradition representatives of last year’s winners, has selected the hex editor Okteta in the category “Best Application”. Thanks to them for this appreciation, even more for a niche application 🙂 Though, appreciation for what, as there are no details? The last new feature was added … Continue reading Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award| Attracted by virtual constructs
Are you the C++ experienced reader to solve the following challenge? Given a class C (edit: covered by binary compatibility needs) with the overloaded methods foo() and foo(A a): class C { public: …| Attracted by virtual constructs
A major part of the on-going preparations of version 6 of the KDE Frameworks is to see that the API breakage due to happen versus version 5 is mostly an API dropage. And software using KDE Framewor…| Attracted by virtual constructs
Old, but stable, even more in when it comes to the feature set, and still getting its polishing now and then: your simple editor for the raw data of files, named Okteta. What started in 2003 as a h…| Attracted by virtual constructs
[[Sic, 2016. This post about the results of studying the situation with the translation systems in software by KDE during the Randa event in 2016 had been a draft all the time due to being complica…| Attracted by virtual constructs
((Dumping here the info collected as reminder to self, but also everyone who might wonder and search the internet. If you know a proper place to put it, please copy it there.)) When working on addi…| Attracted by virtual constructs
How some evening supermarket shopping is triggering some API work… Human Mind vs. Machine Mind Some time ago I ran into a variant of a self-service checkout system in a supermarket which, whe…| Attracted by virtual constructs
Or: More preparation for the autumn of version 5 of KDE Frameworks Consumer and producer interest in legacy in a library API During the development life-time of a library in a API-compatible major …| Attracted by virtual constructs
And what about… While talking about the build time improvements seen by avoiding the use of Qt module header includes Volker Krause wondered: in chat regarding the compile time improveme…| Attracted by virtual constructs
Wait a minute… Having come across sources using include statements for some Qt module headers (like #include ), memories arose about a check from the static analyzer tool krazy …| Attracted by virtual constructs
