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KDE Development in action.


PyKDE WebKit TutorialOctober 12

For last Kubuntu Tutorals Day and again at Ubuntu Developer Week I gave a quick introduction to PyKDE creating a simple web browser using Qt's WebKit widget.

Now I have put the Python KDE tutorial on techbase so you can learn how to make a web browser too.

Microblogging on PlanetOctober 12

I added microblogging support to Planet KDE. A surprising number of KDE developers seem to be communicating their lives over Twitter so it seems something that should be opened up for all to read. It's in a sidebar that you have to click to show so it shouldn't get in the way if you're not interested. It's a bit of an experiment, I'm not entirely convinced of the usefulness of it but we shall see. Currently only Twitter is known to work but it's probably not hard to ensure other microblogging sites work (does Facebook let you have a public status update feed?). I expect the content of the microblogs will be generally more personal than normal blogs, currently it's quite Amarok biased since those Amarok people love Twitter. You can add yourself through the normal means, editing the config file, submitting a bug or poking me on IRC.

Also in Planet KDE news, if you missed out a couple of days you may find you've missed out on important blogs. No more with the old blogs page which shows the next 30 blogs.

Ooh, new KDE forums. Lovely to see another piece of the improved KDE infrastructure in place.

svn.kde.org down temporarilyOctober 10

Another few hours until it comes back, apparently.

You can read more details about it at
http://news.opensuse.org/2008/10/10/power-outage-in-area-where-most-opensuse-servers-are-located


The pre-baked approach to building softwareOctober 8

Mostly convenience foods are fun but loaded with sugar and salt. But building software needn't be inconvenient or make your waistline or disk requirements start to bulge. I've been pushing the openSUSE Build Service to anyone in the KDE community who'll listen, since making tiny tweaks to existing codebases with minimum effort is exactly what it's designed to do.

So here's a worked example to go from a new Build Service account to a built, tweaked RPM in 5 minutes*.

Aaron just asked for testing for a patch to the KDE 3 codebase, since he doesn't have a build tree for KDE 3 any more. We'll take the existing openSUSE 11.0 kdebase3 package, and make a customised version including the patch, and finally have a repository online that Aaron can point his comma-as-decimal-point using users at to test.

Go to your home project
Add subproject 'KDE3'
Add repository: Click Advanced, find KDE:KDE3/openSUSE 11.0 and add it
Link package kdebase3 from KDE:KDE3

Get the sources:
$ osc checkout home:wstephenson:KDE3 kdebase3
Add the patch:
$ mv aseigo_kdesktop_comma.diff home:wstephenson:KDE3/kdebase3
$ cd home:wstephenson:KDE3/kdebase3
$ vi kdebase3.spec
Tell the build service about








kubuntu 8.10 and KDE 4.1 rock !October 7

Just a short note: yesterday I booted my laptop with a brandnew kubuntu 8.10 beta CD.

How to put it, this rocked so much !!!

KDE 4 really is beautiful !

The graphics effects were running smoothly, it seems integrated Intel graphic was indeed a good choice Smiling
And also now finally the Intel 3945 WLAN just worked, using the iwl3945 driver Smiling
With kubuntu 7.10 this was still really much more fiddling around than I expected, to get it finally somewhat working with the ipw3945 driver.
But 8.10 - it just worked Smiling

Alex