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New year, new life (or KDE and GTK integration)
Or as they say in Spanish: año nuevo, vida nueva. Well, or not. My new year started the 1st December actually, when I got my engineering degree, but I’ll talk about the project some other day. Today...
View ArticleNext KDE Workspace Iteration
As it has already been said in the Plasma mailing list, we’re planning the next iteration of the KDE Workspaces. For this project, we’d like to start with gathering a group of people to figure out a...
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Explore applications with Muon Discover
As some of you know, I’m working for Blue Systems, during the recent months it’s been on improving some bits of muon and developing a new front-end that we’ve called Muon Discover. The idea is simple....
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Discovering your OS and beyond
Some time ago, I already talked about the project I started along with Blue Systems called Muon Discover. For those who didn’t follow, it’s some software to get to know the resources your OS is...
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Changing wallpapers
The fresh air of the Swiss Alps is good for many things. I came here to work on KDE Edu mostly but I’ll be reporting first about some contribution to Plasma. During the last weeks I’ve been working,...
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My first year at BlueSystems
About one year ago, the 1st December 2012 I graduated, and by the same dates I started working for BlueSystems. Since we usually consider year periods like achievements, I thought it was a good...
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Muon Discover, new version, new features, new look
A new Muon release is approaching and I wanted to use this occasion for sum up a little what happened in the Muon area, in view of the forthcoming 2.0 version. The first thing you’ll notice is the...
View ArticlePlasma Next: All for one, and one for all
I haven’t been directly involved in Plasma development in the past a lot, only since very recently, because of my job at BlueSystems. Ever since I started working on the Plasma Desktop Shell, I’ve had...
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Porting Muon Discover to KF5
Muon has been a project that I’ve been very eager to port and iterate for a longtime. I’m happy with the 2.0 series, lots of changes were made and it has served us well. More importantly though, we...
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Communicating from Plasma 5
Porting KDE Telepathy to Qt 5 and Plasma 5 I started working on that port back in the last KDE Telepathy sprint in Barcelona last April. Back then, I started to work on it because I have been doing...
View ArticleIdentities, I usually don’t stop being myself
One of the most interesting developments I’ve seen recently inside KDE is KAccounts (or Web Accounts, as it used to be called). It’s not even a KDE project, but a project Nokia started some years ago,...
View ArticleSuggesting new ways: Kamoso 3.0 Technology Preview
The world changes, and with it, we change too. For this new version of Kamoso we wanted to iterate what we’re presenting. The Camera Since we’re using GStreamer, we could take advantage of newer...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile SDK
Where are the giants? When approaching this issue I had been thinking about the issue for a while. I had mainly 2 problems: I was rather frustrated with previous Linux-based systems so far and the one...
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Discover more in 2017
With 2017 starting, we’re getting ready for the next Plasma 5.9 release and with it a new Discover release. This will be a special release for two main reasons: further add-ons integration and...
View ArticleGetting Free Software into our users’ hands
In KDE we cover a mix of platforms and form factors that make our technology very powerful. But how to reach so many different systems while maintaining high quality on all of them? What variables are...
View ArticleTracking a QObject’s life
Why? One of the interesting things about QML is that it leverages OOP property semantics of QObject to drive its declarative workflow. How? We attach into any QObject the developer requests and monitor...
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