Bernie @[email protected]

#Fedora 34 #KDE Spin Planning Switch To #Wayland
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-34-KDE-Wayland-Plans

I'm more excited about the upcoming Rust talk than the C++20 one that just finished... but honestly it's going to be a much harder migration path 😕

#Akademy2020 #kde #cpp #rust

This is the first time I see a flow chart used to justify the design decisions.

This is what it is like to refactor a complex class hierarchy while considering new requirements, performance, compatibility, amount of effort... yeah, it's twisty like that. But nobody illustrates it so clearly.

#Akademy2020 #KDE #Qt

It's been a very good year for #KDE.

Four years ago, I tried contributing a small bugfix, but the developer onboarding documentation was an inconsistent mess, building from source was a dependency hell, and you needed multiple separate accounts for each piece of infrastructure...

Today, all those obstacles are gone: I was able to contribute a few patches by following the #GitLab flow that many developers are already familiar with.

#Akademy2020

The second talk, "KDE is All About the Apps" had technical challenges, but managed to make some good points:

- Many #KDE apps are good on their own merit
- There's no reason why a #GNOME user, or even a Mac, Windows or Android user, shouldn't be using them
- Often, there's a perception of bundling reinforced by the app's name, website and description
- KDE apps should be taking advantage of existing app stores where users go look for software

https://conf.kde.org/en/akademy2020/public/events/211
#Akademy2020

Tons and tons and tons of Plasma 5.20 features, bugfixes, and UI improvements
https://pointieststick.com/2020/08/28/this-week-in-kde-tons-and-tons-and-tons-of-plasma-5-20-features-bugfixes-and-ui-improvements/

#kde #plasma #linux

Interview with Nate Graham, the all-purpose KDE volunteer and community coordinator.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/08/19/interview-with-bigdaddylinux/
#KDE

Kdenlive 20.08 is out with a beautiful UI and lots of improvements.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/08/kdenlive-20-08-is-out/
#KDE

A boatload of improvements and new features landed this week on #KDE #Plasma 5.20 😲

https://pointieststick.com/2020/08/14/this-week-in-kde-highlight-changed-settings-and-much-much-more/comment-page-1/#comment-13008

The structure of #KDE, or how anarchy sometimes works

https://pointieststick.com/2020/08/04/the-structure-of-kde-or-how-anarchy-sometimes-works/

This week in #KDE: screencasting and shared clipboard on #Wayland
https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-screencasting-and-shared-clipboard-on-wayland/

Awesome, gotta build KDE from source and take Wayland for another spin! 🤩

Anyone watching the #GUADEC livestream?

Even though I primarily use #KDE, #GNOME often sets the direction for all Linux desktops by being the first to adopt new technology: Wayland, systemd user sessions, multiseat, and (hopefully soon) HDR support.

Krita, OpenGL and Qt
https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/krita-opengl-and-qt/

Portability in the age of 3D API wars...

#qt #krita #kde #gl

This week in KDE: Get New Stuff fixes and more

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/17/this-week-in-kde-get-new-stuff-fixes-and-more/
#kde #plasma

Konsole in 2020
https://tcanabrava.github.io/2020/07/16/konsole-in-2020/
#kde

Oh wow, my contribution to KWin is being credited in this week's #KDE update. 😊

The summary says "Window decorations now display correctly when using a 10-bit screen", which would be quite retro. It's actually 10-bit per color component, or 30-bit. Also known as "deep color" or HDR10.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/10/this-week-in-kde-new-features-galore/

I'm trying out Sourcetrail, and it's the first cross-reference tool I see that's actually good enough to browse a large C++ codebase.

Finally, I'm starting to make sense of Qt Quick's intricate class hierarchy and call graph. 🤩

#cpp #qt #kde

My first bugfix for kwin was just merged:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/97

I thought my change was triggering a crash deep inside Qt, but the crash disappeared when I rebuilt Qt in debug mode... Hopefully my first contribution won't cause stability issues 🙂

#KDE #Qt

If you use #KDE on #Fedora, then I recommend these COPR repos for an up-to-date experience:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkyral/qt5-unstable/
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkyral/kf5-unstable/
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkyral/plasma-unstable/
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkyral/apps-unstable/

(they contain stable KDE releases, it's only the Fedora packaging work that's considered unstable).

Nate Graham recently bought a laptop with a 4K display and has been hard at work fixing various longstanding High DPI problems in #KDE.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/08/high-dpi-update/
@Maryam