Avast, We Be Getting Slandered, Yar
Poisonous people. They exist everywhere, sucking the light and good out of things and repurposing them for all sorts of nasty activities. Like the rest of KDE, and the rest of the software world (both...
View ArticleOh god: I had to use VBA
I'm working on putting together the Camp KDE 2009 videos using the excellent Kdenlive, a non-linear video editor whose name is, well, an acronym for KDE Non LInear Video Editor. More on Kdenlive in a...
View ArticleWhere *are* those Camp KDE videos anyways?
Hello there. I have good news and bad news regarding the Camp KDE videos.The Bad NewsI've run into a series of setbacks regarding getting them prepared for posting. The first was that the Monday I...
View ArticleQt 4.5 RC1 packages for Intrepid, built with -graphicssystem raster
Update: These packages are for testing only! Things that rely on the default native backend WILL break. If you want a build of Qt 4.5 RC1 for Intrepid without -graphicssystem raster, try pollycoke's...
View Article#kde-soc
Just a note to make people aware that #kde-soc exists. There's basically no activity in there right now, which is rather expected, but as SoC-related activities pick up steam so will the channel....
View ArticleCamp KDE videos: Come and get 'em
After a month's delay, they're done.In the interim (after the delays mentioned in my last post on this topic), my poor, underpowered desktop machine has endured transcode after transcode (from the...
View ArticleAmarok Power User Feature: Batch-mode collection scanning
A long-requested feature has been a way to decouple Amarok's collection scanning from its GUI. There are various use-cases for this. For one, it can actually help us with debugging, by allowing us...
View ArticleLicensing to Kill
Could FLEXlm be one of the world's worst-designed programs?They've just rechristened it FLEXnet Publisher, and I can only think it's to try to get away from existing FLEXlm stigmas. It's so bad that...
View ArticleGSoC 2009: Application Submitted
Today the application for KDE to participate in GSoC 2009 was submitted. They check out our ideas page when they're evaluating applications, so be sure to get your ideas up there! We'll hear back by...
View ArticleGSoC 2009: We're in!
We've been accepted to participate in GSoC 2009. Hooray!This means we have a lot of great work ahead of us. The first order of business is that everyone that wants to be a mentor needs to sign up at...
View ArticleReminder: Student Application period for GSoC2009 open...
...NOW! Students have until April 3rd to get their applications finalized and turned in. Good luck! Continue reading "Reminder: Student Application period for GSoC2009 open..."
View ArticleGSoC 2009: Student Application Deadline Reminder
Remember: the student application deadline is April 3rd at 19:00 UTC. If you are a student, you should be checking for comments and revising your application while you still have the chance. If you...
View ArticleImportant: Submit your GSoC application *NOW*
Google has just asked all students to ensure that their application is submitted *now*, even if they are not done. You will still have until 19:00 UTC April 3rd to modify them, but Google is having...
View ArticleGSoC 2009: Last chance for student applications
A friendly reminder: you have just under 24 hours to get your applications updated (if you are a student...you've already submitted it, right?) or to get students to update their applications (if you...
View ArticleFree Developer Sprint for North American GSoC students!
For anyone that hasn't seen the Dot story, check it out. Continue reading "Free Developer Sprint for North American GSoC students!"
View ArticleAmarok Power User Feature: Batch-mode collection scanning (Redux)
A long time ago I promised to post an update when I got incremental batch scanning working. Well, as it turns out, that happened a long time ago too, but I never got around to writing the Wiki page...
View ArticleAFT Embedded Tagging: now on FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis, Ogg/FLAC, and Ogg/Speex!
I've blogged about Amarok File Tracking before and there's a lot of information about it on the wiki. For those that haven't heard about the goodness of embedded file tracking, check out those links....
View ArticleUTF-8 and Your Music
A heads-up on something new in Amarok SVN (and coming in 2.2 for those of you not living on the bleeding edge): We've had various bug reports over the years relating to character sets and collation,...
View ArticleMySQL Server Support -- Promised and Delivered
We told you it was coming. Sure, that was a while back, so you probably thought we forgot about it. Or maybe you thought we were simply playing politics, tossing empty promises to our users....
View ArticleAFT fixed on the Playlist
Yes, another one of my semi-habitual posts about AFT. Just a short one though. In revision 992942, I finally fixed a bug that has kept AFT working for the playlist in certain situations (although it...
View ArticleMore Info on Gitorious.org
Today at the Akademy General Meeting, it was mentioned that Gitorious.org is being seriously looked at as a hosting solution for our Git repositories (as opposed to running an instance of Gitorious...
View ArticleDB changes -- call for benchmarkers!
I've done some work in trunk over the past week that may have a huge impact on many of you Amarokers. Read on, and if you can do some benchmarks for me, fantastic. First, the schema/table changes....
View ArticlePresenting the KDE network on Facebook
Many KDE developers are on Facebook. A while back I wondered if it would be possible to have an official KDE developers' network on Facebook -- after all, there are networks for schools, jobs, cities,...
View ArticleAFT and MusicBrainz track identifiers
A heads-up: Amarok File Tracking can now use MusicBrainz track identifiers for its embedded IDs. This means people that have used Picard to tag their files but not amarok_afttagger can still get some...
View ArticleCamp KDE 2010 Announced!
I'm pleased as punch/as a fat cat/etc. to point you to The Dot (specifically here) to see the official announcement and some details. More details will be forthcoming soon (and especially as we get...
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