Thomas Capricelli archive
Category: KDE

May 20, 2014

KDE Community: be liberal with ourselves, be harsh with others

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo, KDE
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(yes, the title is a tribute to the robustness principle)   Censored In quite an aggressive move, I’ve been censored by KDE. My blog has been removed from kdeplanet.  The only information I have so far is a mail (and this): SVN commit 1386393 by jriddell: Disable Thomas Capricelli’s blog for breaching Planet KDE guidelines CCMAIL:orzel@xxxxx […]

May 3, 2014

Fix Baloo on KDE using the same trick as once used with Nepomuk

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo, KDE
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update: this post made me banned from KDE planet in a very rough way   Nepomuk Problem Since the  daunting day of the kde 4.0 release, I’ve been struggling with nepomuk. I’m no random user, i know about low-level programming, i/o bound, cpu bound stuff, and I kinda tried to have it working. I failed […]

July 18, 2013

Release of EmergeActivity 2.1

by orzel
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Emerge activity is a small PyQt application aimed at Gentoo users that displays an “activity” graph of the emerges.  Here’s a typical example on my desktop computer : For those wondering, the huge increase in 2009 is when the Gentoo KDE team decided to split KDE packages, and the drop in 2011 is when I stopped […]

February 10, 2013

Yet another KDE QA failure

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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Just as lot of people here and elsewhere keep on denying KDE QA major problem, the 4.10 release is yet another proof of how bad the situation is. KDE cares so much that they already closed the bug with a oh-so-easy “not our fault”. Which is probably true, but still I consider that this shows a […]

November 9, 2011

EmergeActivity gets a graphical interface: releasing 2.0

by orzel
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I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ’emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time… until recently. So here it is. It is available for download from the homepage and as a mercurial clone.

September 18, 2011

A small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0

by orzel
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As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to play with. This is why I have introduced a new frontend, based on Qt, to play/decide about those options. First, […]

October 4, 2010

announcing qxv

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE, Software
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Well… you know how it is, you get used to a tool, and even if some brand new software is now available, you keep on using this old stuff. In his case, i’m speaking of xv, whose last release was in 1994. It’s still my default viewer for all image formats in my KDE/firefox/whatever settings. […]

January 10, 2010

Playing with clang and Qt

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome llvm-gcc which binds the gcc C/C++ frontend to the llvm backend. People (mostly Apple) have been […]

November 22, 2009

How to use flex and bison with qmake (my own way)

by orzel
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qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on.  Morever qmake supports for lex/yacc has several drawbacks, such as weird naming scheme, and (when using the tricks), dependencies are not building files in […]

November 10, 2009

Wonders from a KDE fan and developer about some KDE design choices

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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Technologies going forward.. Twenty years ago, I was reading some books about Unix at the local library. By the time, it was really difficult for me to see, touch, or test an actual unix system and reading books was the closest I could get. I remember that among the numerous very good ideas ™ in […]