Carl Schwan

I’m happy to announce the 1.1 release of Arianna.

It’s already two years since I last looked at KDE git history.

I’m happy to announce the first bugfix release of Arianna.

My second release of the day: Kirigami Addons 0.8.0.

I’m happy to announce the initial release of Arianna.

Buttons are a fundamental element in user interfaces, but it’s easy to make some accessibility mistakes when using icon-only buttons in QML.

This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the European Commission.

I am happy to announce Tokodon 23.02.

Happy new year!

I’m happy to announce the release of Tokodon 22.11.2 (and 22.11.1 who I released earlier this month and forgot to properly announce).

Just a small note that Kirigami Addons 0.5 was released yesterday.

Last month, I was in Saumur (France) to attempt a KDE Promo sprint.

Tuesday night, I managed to break the screen of my laptop.

KDE PIM is the set of applications that helps you manage your email, contacts, appointments, tasks and more.

During my long train trip to the Linux App Summit 2022, I started working on a contact book feature in Kalendar.

KDE is all about the Apps is one of the current goals of the KDE community.

In the months since the KDE PIM July-August report there have been two patch releases for Kontact, and over 1400 changes made by more than 40 contributors have been integrated.

QML is a nice technology but it sometimes feels that some parts of KDE Frameworks aren’t neatly integrated with it.

Last Saturday we had an improvised NeoChat mini development sprint in a small hotel room in Berlin in the occasion of the 25th anniversary of KDE.

I’m happy to announce the 0.2 release of KQuickImageEditor.

The NeoChat is happy to announce the 3 major version of NeoChat.

A few weeks ago, the Krita project announced the Krita Dev Fund.

Last week I attended and even gave a small talk to the Linux App Submit (LAS).

Today, I decided to look at KDE git history and look at the project’s health as a whole.

Over the last few weeks, I redesigned the default Plasma Calendar bringing it more in line with the design we want for Breeze Evolution.

In the Linux world, gettext is the gold standard for translating content.

Apps.kde.org is a great website listing all the KDE applications and their addons.

There was many changes over the last few months in KDE developer documentation tooling.

Exactly 2 months after NeoChat 1.0, the NeoChat team is happy to announce a new release of NeoChat.

Following my last blog post about using Rust and Lyon to create custom shapes.

One of the advantages of QWidgets when building a Qt application is the ability to build in a simple way custom widgets with the QPainter API.

This version fixes several bugs.

I’m happy to announce the projects selected for Season of KDE.

I was recently interviewed with Tobias by the Matrix folks about NeoChat as part of Matrix Live.

Update 29.01.2023: Adapted the code to work with Mastodon 4.0 and replaced linuxrocks.online by floss.social Update 15.03.2023: Thanks to @veronica@mastodon.online, this code now handles replies in a lot nicer way.

Matrix is an instant messaging system similar to Whatsapp or Telegram, but uses an open and decentralized network for secure and privacy-protected communications.

I’m happy to announce the release of Doxyqml 0.5.1.

KDE.org now uses Hugo.

I’m happy to announce the successful deployment of the new identity system in KDE, codename MyKDE.

The Season of KDE is a 3 weeks long program that provides an opportunity for people to do mentored projects for KDE.

This month a few cool things happened to the KDE websites.

Kontrast is a contrast checker available for desktop and mobile devices.

The new website for kde developement information was deployed during the Akademy and contains many information about building awesome stuff using KDE tools and large collection of Qt based libraries.

Koko is a great image viewer designed for Plasma Mobile.

Started a long time ago and only finished now, I have the pleasure to announce the publication of a new homepage for the KDE community.

This month KDE web developers worked on updating more websites and some progress was made in a new identity provider and a lot of other exiting stuff and a lot of background work was also done.

A unified theme?

This is the first post in a monthly series about improvements to the KDE websites.

The Bugzilla integration in the KDE wikis is now usable again.

Halloween was the perfect occasion for me to hack together a dark theme for more KDE websites.