KDE Connect

Last week I decided to take KDE Itinerary for a test tour. Between the train rides there was also time for some KDE stuff. FOSDEM After writing an exam on Friday afternoon I took a train to Frankfurt. I did so not to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the area around Frankfurt central station at … Continue reading FOSDEM & Plasma Mobile Sprint →

Last week I took a train to Berlin for the KDE Frameworks 6 kickoff sprint. A lot has been said about it by my fellow attendees already, so I won’t go into detail much. Work on Qt 6 has begun and with Qt 6 a version 6 of the KDE Frameworks is due. This will … Continue reading KDE Frameworks 6 sprint →

In case you don’t know yet, KDE sponsors developer gatherings around the world, “sprints”, to hack for a few days on a specific topic. This summer, for the second time ever, we organized one for KDE Connect! This time, the people from SUSE hosted us ... [More] at their offices in the beautiful city of Nuremberg, Germany, … Continue reading KDE Connect Sprint 2019 in Nuremberg → [Less]

From 19.6. to 25.6. I attended this year’s combined Plasma and Usability & Productivity sprint in the beautiful city of Valencia. It was a great opportunity to meet old and new friends, drink beer and sangria on the rooftop and of course do some ... [More] hacking. First we discussed about the future development of Plasma, especially … Continue reading 2019 Plasma and Usability & Productivity sprint → [Less]

As most of you know KDE Connect has recently been removed from Google Play due to a policy violation with regard to our SMS and telephony features. While the public outcry helped to get it back in with all features remaining this is just yet another example of how new Android policies make it harder … Continue reading KDE Connect and Android →

My last post shows how to create a stub Python/Kirigami app that doesn’t do anything. Time to change that! In this post we’re filling the screen with some controls. Kirigami Pages Kirigami apps are typically organized in Pages. Those are the ... [More] different ‘Screens’ of an app. If you come from the Android world you can … Continue reading Creating a Plasma Mobile App 1 – Basic Controls → [Less]

KDE is happy to announce that we will be part of Google Summer of Code 2019. GSoC is a program where students recieve stipends to work on free software for 3 months. Getting paid for open source work, that’s the dream, right? KDE Connect is ... [More] participating with 3 interesting projects that also involve other areas … Continue reading Google Summer of Code with KDE Connect → [Less]

From February 4th until February 9th I attended a Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin, Germany. I met a lot of people that share the vision of an open, privacy-friendly mobile platform. However, we all agree that such a platform can only succeed if there ... [More] are enough people sharing that vision creating suitable apps for it. … Continue reading Creating a Plasma Mobile application → [Less]

Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on. Targeting Android Oreo As of this month app updates uploaded to Google Play need to target Android 8. This has several ... [More] implications. Targeting Oreo comes with an updated Support Library, which forces us to drop … Continue reading KDE Connect – New stuff 0x3 → [Less]

Since a few months KDE Connect has a Telegram group to discuss development. Since the over 100 people joined. I did not expect such an interest in it. Few people asked to have this group bridged to an IRC channel since they prefer IRC over Telegram. ... [More] I’m happy to announce that we finally made this … Continue reading KDE Connect on IRC and Matrix.org → [Less]