Alien Pastures

The release schedule could have told you in advance – here we have the first installment in the KDE 4.8 series! The Slackware KDE 4.8.0 packages are ready for your enjoyment.. A good primer on the how and why of the modularization of KDE, resulting in an abundance of smaller packages compared to the big [...]

The KDE team has already released two betas of the upcoming KDE 4.8, but I am not so much in a hurry. First things first! There is the last update in the 4.7 series, which was released earlier today. The Slackware KDE 4.7.4 packages are ready and you can grab them if you like. For [...]

Those of you who use KDE as their desktop environment and also use my LibreOffice packages, will know that there are two major annoyances, related to KDE’s theming engine but ultimately caused by bugs in LibreOffice. Those annoyances are: Tooltips in LO applications show up as black text on black background, effectively rendering them useless. [...]

One thing that keeps boggling people’s minds when they use KDE is Akonadi, the framework used to access PIM-like data. PIM being “Personal Information Management”. Akonadi leaves me in the dark too, sometimes! If you want to know a bit more about how Akonadi sits at the core of your personal data management in KDE, [...]

Another month passes, and another maintenance release of KDE.arrives, we are up to 4.7.3 now. As usual, here are my KDE 4.7.3 packages for Slackware hot on the heals of the KDE team. For those who are trying my 4.7 packages for the first time and wonder why the hell am I offering so many [...]

KDE 4.7.2 fixes In the past week, fixes have been posted to the KDE packagers mailing list, asking us to apply those to our packages. Both fixes are important enough that I updated my kdelibs and kdepim-runtime packages. There is a fix for kdelibs of which Sebastian Trueg states “Hi packagers, sadly I introduced a [...]

I have been updating some of my Slackware packages in the past few days and at least some of them are important enough to write a bit about it. virtuoso Along with my packages for KDE 4.7.x I added an updated version of virtuoso “data management server” which powers a lot of the functionality in [...]

The last of the 4.6 series has arrived, and I thought it would be good to compile it for Slackware-current so that Pat Volkerding can concentrate on Slackware’s core: Please check the official announcement of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5 – and then proceed to download my packages for Slackware. I had hopes that version [...]

I may have been ranting about KDE’s future policies on source code packaging, but that does not mean I am unhappy with the software. Much to the contrary! So here it is again: KDE team is proud to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.6.4 – and I built you some nice packages for [...]

Hi Folks You surely noticed a bit of silence on this blog. Well, there was not much to say – I am not the twittering kind of guy who updates his readers where he’ll go out every night… I think I can lift the lid a little anyway. I have been working on several larger [...]