Thursday, January 27, 2022

KDE Gear 22.04 release schedule finalized

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It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_22.04_Schedule   Dependency freeze is in six weeks (March 1...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Okular: Signing of unsigned signature fields has landed

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Up to today, Okular would kind of error out when opening a PDF file that contains a signature field that was unsigned (think like the old sp...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Okular PDF digital signature improvements coming "soon" thanks to NLnet

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Starting on January I will be working on a project named "Improve Okular digital signature support" that has received a grant fro...
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Monday, November 08, 2021

KDE Gear 21.12 releases branches created

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Please make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 21.12 releases to them. We're already past the dependency freeze, so no n...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

KDE Gear 21.12 releases schedule finalized

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 It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_21.12_Schedule   Dependency freeze is in four weeks (Novem...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

PSA: Don't insult or physically threaten people to try to convince them you are right

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Sadly I have had to disable comments in my previous blog because there is a being [that probably passes by human if you look at them] that s...
Friday, September 17, 2021

American English speakers: Kiev or Kyiv ?

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A while ago there was a merge request created for KGeography asking to change Kiev to Kyiv saying "this is the official transliteration...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

Poppler 21.09 will have a massive speed increase for PDF files that use lots of save/restore PDF commands

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Take the file from poppler issue 1126 . It's a file that doesn't look super complicated, a map of some caves. With Poppler 21.08 it ...
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Saturday, July 10, 2021

KDE Gear 21.08 releases branches created

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Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 21.08 releases to them We're already past the dependency freeze. The Feature Fre...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Everything we release in KDE Gear is maintained

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During Akademy some members of the community said stuff like "app/library XXX and YYY are not maintained even if we ship them in KDE Ge...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

KDE Gear 21.08 releases schedule finalized

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It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_21.08_Schedule   Dependency freeze is in four weeks (July 8...
Monday, May 31, 2021

How i ended up fixing a "not a bug" in Qt Quick that made apostrophes not being rendered while reviewing an Okular patch

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But in Okular we don't use Qt Quick you'll say! Well, we actually use Qt Quick in the mobile interface of Okular, but you're rig...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

KDE Gear 21.04 is coming this week! But what is KDE Gear?

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Let's dig a bit in our history. In the "good old days" (TM) there was KDE, life was simple, everything we did was KDE and ever...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Submit your talks now for Akademy 2021!

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As you can see in https://akademy.kde.org/2021/cfp the Call for Participation for Akademy 2021 (that will take place online from Friday the ...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

KDE Gear 21.04 releases branches created

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 Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 21.04 releases to them We're already past the dependency freeze. The Feature Fr...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Okular: Should continuous view be an okular setting or a document setting?

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In Okular:   Some settings are okular wide, if you change them, they will be changed in all the future okular instances, an easy example is ...
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Friday, February 05, 2021

21.04 releases schedule finalized

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It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/release_service/21.04_Release_Schedule Dependency freeze is in five...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

AVIF support for KImageFormats just landed

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Thanks to Daniel Novomeský we will have support for AVIF images in KImageFormats starting in the next release. We have (and by we I mean hi...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

CMake: Use new style imported targets to link libraries

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 What does that mean? It means this https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/commit/3129b642f996589f1c7fcee513741e1993924241 That is, you ad...
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Planned obsolence for Android phones

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Four years ago I bought a OnePlus 2 for 319€, nowdays it still is good hardware, it's better or as good as most of the mid to low end ph...
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