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For my hacking, I love to use the KDevelop IDE. Once in a while, I find myself working on a project that has different indentation styles depending on the filetype — in this case, C++ files, Makefiles, etc. use tabs, JavaScript and HTML files use 2 ... [More] spaces. I haven’t found this to be straight-forward from… Continue reading Different indentation styles per filetype → [Less]

Tonight, I spent some time on the balkony with my SLR, a glass of Shiraz and the most significant lunar eclipse of the century.

This week, Dan Vratil and me have merged a new feature in KScreen, Plasma’s screen configuration tool. Up until now, when plugging in a new display (a monitor, beamer or TV, for example), Plasma would automatically extend the desktop area to include ... [More] this screen. In many cases, this is expected behavior, but it’s not necessarily… Continue reading Connecting new screens → [Less]

At Akademy 2016, the KDE community started a long-term project to invigorate its development (both, technically and organizationally) with more focus. This process of soul-searching has already yielded some very useful results, the most important one ... [More] so far being agreement of a common community-wide vision: A world in which everyone has control over their digital… Continue reading KDE’s Goal: Privacy → [Less]

Since I’ve been playing with various home automation technologies for some time already, I thought I’d also start writing about it. Be prepared for some blogs about smart lighting, smart home and related technologies. Most recently, I’ve gotten ... [More] myself a few items from IKEA new product range of smartlight. It’s called trådfri (Swedish for wireless).… Continue reading IKEA Trådfri first impressions → [Less]

In the past weeks, we have noticed an increased interest in Plasma Mobile from different sides. Slowly, but surely, hardware vendors have discovered that Plasma Mobile is an entirely different software platform to build products on top of. For people ... [More] or companies who want to work or invest into Plasma Mobile, it’s always useful to… Continue reading Plasma Mobile Roadmap → [Less]

In the past days, the campaign to crowd-fund a privacy-focused smartphone built on top of Free software and in collaboration with its community reached its funding goal of 1.5 million US dollars. While many people doubted that the crowdfunding ... [More] campaign would succeed, it is actually hardly surprising if we look what the librem 5 promises… Continue reading 4 reasons why the librem 5 got funded → [Less]

There’s hardly a better way to spend a sunday diving, even in early fall when the weather gets a little colder and rainier. We went to Zeeland, at the Dutch coast, to a divespot named Langedijk for two shallow shore dives. The water was a somewhat brisk 14°C, but our drysuits kept us toasty even… Continue reading Diving Langedijk →

In one of my latest blogs, I’ve explained what convergence is, how Plasma benefits from it, and why we consider it a goal for Plasma. This time around, I’ll explain the how, how it works across the stack and how we implemented it. Naturally, this ... [More] article dives a lot deeper, technically, than my previous one.… Continue reading Plasma Convergence, technically → [Less]