The KDE Applications 19.04 release announcement (read it if you haven't, it's very complete) mentions some of the applications are available at the snap store, but forgets to mention flathub.
Just wanted to bring up that there's also some of the applications available in there https://flathub.org/apps/search/org.kde.
All the ones that are released along KDE Applications 19.04 were updated on release day (except kubrick that has a compilation issue and will be updated for 19.04.1 and kontact which is a best and to be honest i didn't particularly feel like updating it)
If you feel like helping there's more applications that need adding and more automation that needs to happen, so get in touch :)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Thursday, February 07, 2019
KDE Applications 19.04 Schedule finalized
It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.04_Release_Schedule
Dependency freeze is March 14 and Feature Freeze a week after that, make sure you start finishing your stuff!
Dependency freeze is March 14 and Feature Freeze a week after that, make sure you start finishing your stuff!
Friday, January 11, 2019
Okular: PDF Signature + Certificate support has landed
As of a few minutes ago, i merged the code from Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan's GSOC to support showing PDF Signatures and Certificates in Okular.
Signature handling is a big step for us, but it's also very complex, so i expect it to have bugs and things that can be improved so testers more than welcome.
Compiling is a bit "hard" since it requires poppler 0.73 that was released a few days ago.
But thanks to flatpak, there's no need to compile it, you can run the KDE Okular Nightly on your system to try it
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.okular
Note: if you have okular installed from another flatpak repo (for example flathub) this will switch you to the KDE Nightlies, you may want to switch back after testing.
And then you can try the adobe sample pdf
flatpak run --share=network org.kde.okular https://blogs.adobe.com/security/SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf
And you should get stuff like this
Signature handling is a big step for us, but it's also very complex, so i expect it to have bugs and things that can be improved so testers more than welcome.
Compiling is a bit "hard" since it requires poppler 0.73 that was released a few days ago.
But thanks to flatpak, there's no need to compile it, you can run the KDE Okular Nightly on your system to try it
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.okular
Note: if you have okular installed from another flatpak repo (for example flathub) this will switch you to the KDE Nightlies, you may want to switch back after testing.
And then you can try the adobe sample pdf
flatpak run --share=network org.kde.okular https://blogs.adobe.com/security/SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf
And you should get stuff like this
Thursday, January 03, 2019
sjfonts 2.1 released
More than 11 years after sjfonts 2.0.2 was released today I'm announcing sjfonts 2.1
It contains two enhacements contributed by Yuri Chornoivan
* Delphine font now has the Euro sign
* Steve font now has "basic" Cyrillic characters
If by any chance your distribution is packaging them, update!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sjfonts/files/sjfonts/sjfonts-2.1/
Yes, it's on sourceforge ;)
It contains two enhacements contributed by Yuri Chornoivan
* Delphine font now has the Euro sign
* Steve font now has "basic" Cyrillic characters
If by any chance your distribution is packaging them, update!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sjfonts/files/sjfonts/sjfonts-2.1/
Yes, it's on sourceforge ;)
Friday, November 09, 2018
KDE Applications 18.12 branches created
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 18.12 release to them
We're already past the dependency freeze.
The Freeze and Beta is this Thursday 15 of November.
More interesting dates
November 29: KDE Applications 18.12 RC (18.11.90) Tagging and Release
December 6: KDE Applications 18.12 Tagging
December 13: KDE Applications 18.12 Release
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/18.12_Release_Schedule
We're already past the dependency freeze.
The Freeze and Beta is this Thursday 15 of November.
More interesting dates
November 29: KDE Applications 18.12 RC (18.11.90) Tagging and Release
December 6: KDE Applications 18.12 Tagging
December 13: KDE Applications 18.12 Release
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/18.12_Release_Schedule
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
KDE Applications 18.12 Schedule finalized
It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/18.12_Release_Schedule
Dependency freeze is in 2 weeks and Feature Freeze in 3 weeks, so hurry up!
Dependency freeze is in 2 weeks and Feature Freeze in 3 weeks, so hurry up!
Monday, September 24, 2018
Libre Application Summit 2018
Earlier this month i attended Libre Application Summit 2018 in Denver.
Libre Application Summit wants to be a place for all people involved in doing Free Software applications to meet and share ideas, though being almost organized by GNOME it had a some skew towards GNOME/flatpak. There was a good presence of KDE, but personally I felt that we would have needed more people at least from LibreOffice, Firefox and someone from the Ubuntu/Canonical/Snap field (don't get annoyed at you if I failed to mention your group).
The Summit was kicked off by a motivational talk on how to make sure we ride the wave of "Open Source has won but people don't know it". I felt the content of the talk was nice but the speaker was hit by some issues (not being able to have the laptop in front of her due to the venue being a bit weirdly layouted) that sadly made her speech a bit too stumbly.
Then we had a bunch of flatpak related talks, ranging from the new freedesktop-sdk runtime, from very technical stuff about how ostree works and also including a talk by our own Aleix Pol on how KDE is planning to approach the release of flatpaks. Some of us ended the day having BBQ at the house the Codethink people were staying. Thanks for the good time!
I kicked off the next day talking about how we (lately mostly Christoph) are doing the KDE Applications releases. We got appreciation of the good work we're doing and some interesting follow up questions so I think people were engaged by it.
The morning continued with talks about how to engage the "non typical" free software people, designers, students, professors, etc.
After lunch we had a few talks by the Elementary people and another talk with Aleix focused on which apps will run on your Plasma devices (hint: all of them).
The day finished with a quizz sponsored by System 76, it was fun!
The last day of talks started again with me speaking, this time about how amazing Qt is and why you should use it to build your apps. There I had some questions about people worrying if QtWidgets was going to die, I told them not to worry, but it's clear The Qt Company needs to improve their messaging in that regard.
After that we had a talk about a Fedora project to create a distro based exclusively in flaptaks, which sounds really interesting. The last talks of LAS 2018 were about how to fight vandalism in crowdsourced data, the status of Librem 5 (it's still a bit far away) and a very interesting one about the status of Free Software in Research.
All in all i think the conference was interesting, still a bit small and too GNOME controlled to appeal to the general crowd, but it's the second time it has been organized, so it will improve.
I want to thank the KDE e.V. for sponsoring my flight and hosting to attend this conference. Please Donate! so we can continue attending conferences like this and spreading the good work of KDE :)
Check out the great group photo at #LASGNOME! Thank you for all the participant and speakers for posing for us :-) pic.twitter.com/v7pPmcCBV1
— LAS GNOME (@LASGNOME) 8 de setembre de 2018
Libre Application Summit wants to be a place for all people involved in doing Free Software applications to meet and share ideas, though being almost organized by GNOME it had a some skew towards GNOME/flatpak. There was a good presence of KDE, but personally I felt that we would have needed more people at least from LibreOffice, Firefox and someone from the Ubuntu/Canonical/Snap field (don't get annoyed at you if I failed to mention your group).
The Summit was kicked off by a motivational talk on how to make sure we ride the wave of "Open Source has won but people don't know it". I felt the content of the talk was nice but the speaker was hit by some issues (not being able to have the laptop in front of her due to the venue being a bit weirdly layouted) that sadly made her speech a bit too stumbly.
Then we had a bunch of flatpak related talks, ranging from the new freedesktop-sdk runtime, from very technical stuff about how ostree works and also including a talk by our own Aleix Pol on how KDE is planning to approach the release of flatpaks. Some of us ended the day having BBQ at the house the Codethink people were staying. Thanks for the good time!
Soon, @tsdgeos tells us all about KDE Applications releases in @LASGNOME. @kdecommunity pic.twitter.com/ODnxEZ77xv
— Aleix Pol (@AleixPol) 7 de setembre de 2018
I kicked off the next day talking about how we (lately mostly Christoph) are doing the KDE Applications releases. We got appreciation of the good work we're doing and some interesting follow up questions so I think people were engaged by it.
The morning continued with talks about how to engage the "non typical" free software people, designers, students, professors, etc.
The @kdecommunity and @Codethink people having interesting discussions over sushi at #LAS2018 pic.twitter.com/O5lH1hPTlk
— Albert Astals Cid (@tsdgeos) 7 de setembre de 2018
After lunch we had a few talks by the Elementary people and another talk with Aleix focused on which apps will run on your Plasma devices (hint: all of them).
The day finished with a quizz sponsored by System 76, it was fun!
The KDE spies team wasn't very successful at #LASGNOME trivial, but had lots of fun :) @tsdgeos @AleixPol @maru161803399 @albertvaka pic.twitter.com/k0172A3Vk1
— Albert Astals Cid (@tsdgeos) 8 de setembre de 2018
The last day of talks started again with me speaking, this time about how amazing Qt is and why you should use it to build your apps. There I had some questions about people worrying if QtWidgets was going to die, I told them not to worry, but it's clear The Qt Company needs to improve their messaging in that regard.
Learning about Qt in the @LASGNOME from @tsdgeos @qtproject pic.twitter.com/Vr5Raj10Su
— Aleix Pol (@AleixPol) 8 de setembre de 2018
After that we had a talk about a Fedora project to create a distro based exclusively in flaptaks, which sounds really interesting. The last talks of LAS 2018 were about how to fight vandalism in crowdsourced data, the status of Librem 5 (it's still a bit far away) and a very interesting one about the status of Free Software in Research.
All in all i think the conference was interesting, still a bit small and too GNOME controlled to appeal to the general crowd, but it's the second time it has been organized, so it will improve.
I want to thank the KDE e.V. for sponsoring my flight and hosting to attend this conference. Please Donate! so we can continue attending conferences like this and spreading the good work of KDE :)
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