Compiling all of Qt5, KF5, Plasma5, kdepim5, apps...
KDE Project: KDE GeneralI see a very high value in compiling my own Qt, and on top of it all the KDE-made software that I use. This makes it very easy to fix bugs and add improvements to the software I...
View ArticleUnlocking wallet during startup
KDE Project: KDE GeneralWhile setting up plasma5 I found a solution for something that had been bothering me forever. Basically, while session management is restoring all windows, the wallet isn't open...
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Icon theme deployment on Windows, Mac OS and mobile platforms
KDE Project: KDE GeneralDuring the Randa meeting I implemented some magic in KIconThemes to generalize a design initially made by Christoph Cullmann for Kate.On platforms other than Linux/BSD, icon...
View ArticleRunning applications and unittests without "make install"
KDE Project: KDE GeneralIn our Akademy presentation, Kévin and I showed the importance for a better developer story to be able to work on a KDE module without having to install it. Running unittests...
View ArticleUpgrading to OpenSUSE Leap 15.0
KDE Project: KDE GeneralUpgrading from Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0... How hard can it be? Well, there was a bit of fighting necessary. One fight due to an encrypted root partition, another one due to NVIDIA...
View Article2018 Toulouse PIM sprint report
KDE Project: KDE PIMLike every year, the PIM developers met in Toulouse for a bit of bugfixing ;)Except for Dan Vratil, we forgot to blog about it, here's a belated blog post with what we did...
View ArticleLibreOffice doesn't start if QT_NO_GLIB is set
KDE Project: KDE GeneralThat was a surprising find. Libreoffice wouldn't start anymore (just some splash screen with a progressbar, then nothing happens).After some debugging (comparing my normal zsh...
View Article2019 Toulouse PIM sprint report
KDE Project: KDE PIMLike every year, a number of KDE PIM developers met in Toulouse for a bit of bugfixing.Discussions and decisions There were a number of those, the most important ones being about...
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News from KDE PIM in July/August 2019
KDE Project: KDE PIMFollowing Volker's last blog on this topic, here are some highlights of the recent work that has been done around Kontact / PIM during this summer. First of all, stats: there were...
View Articleunique_ptr difference between libstdc++ and libc++ crashes your application
KDE Project: DevelopmentThanks to the KDE FreeBSD CI, which runs our code on top of libc++, we discovered an interesting difference between libstdc++ and libc++'s implementation of unique_ptr. This is...
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