PDF Generation
PDF generation of the KDE docs is something we get asked for every so often, and it turns out to be less easy than you might suppose. There are quite a few tools around that will do the conversion in...
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Apologies to anyone who downloaded the PDF generation tarball yesterday and found that it didn't work. My fault :-}. The updated version should work better. It does a couple more things - centres...
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So, after a small diversion to watch a slightly amusing troll ply his trade in #kde, I got to work on reviewing the tips database for ktips. Unfortunately, it seems not to have received much love...
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Well, this really was the week that was. Last weekend, I managed to juggle two separate visitors to Oxford, despite them turning up at more-or-less the same time, and the later one coming on about 12...
View ArticleDe gustibus non est disputandum
So it doesn't really have much to do with anything, but I completed the Times crossword yesterday - first time I've finished one of the daily ones. Worth a blog entry, I think.And exams will be over in...
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It's been so long since I last blogged that I don't know what to include and what to leave out. In case anyone noticed my absence from IRC or mailing lists, I should say that my disappearance was, like...
View ArticleEnd in sight
The hours I've sunk into the second take at PDF generation are beginning to pay off. I've got most applications' docs in kdebase, kdepim and kdenetwork to produce some sort of PDF output, even if it's...
View ArticleaKademy: Me three! (or, "Argh!")
Apologies to those reading on Planet KDE for the blank post - either the blogger editor or my checkout of Konqueror managed to eat my whole post. Let me see if I can remember it...My fourth day at...
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I'm tempted to try to beat Rainer in the "most delayed report aboutakademy" post, but I'll let it suffice to say that akademy was greatfun: Málaga's a great place, and the organising team did a...
View ArticleMini-tip
For want of anything more interesting to write about, here's a little tip I came up with in response to a user's question on #kde.The situation was this: The user has a konsole open with four tabs,...
View Article"Kafkaesque, isn't it?"
An amusing bit of randomness that makes life more interesting: it turns out that some teenager in Québec goes by the MSN user name of accengrave at hotmail.com, whereas I'm accentgrave at hotmail.com....
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If I'd had a pound for every time some KDE user has said somethingalong the lines of "If I could code, I'd contribute to KDE," Iwouldn't be writing this on a laptop that was bottom-of-the-line whenI...
View ArticleSerendipity
So I said I'd write some mini-howtos on non-coding ways to get involved with KDE. Kevin Krammer has beaten me to it, and he has some good information and insights. I don't have time to write a full...
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I've got a little bit of free time, so here's the first in what willhopefully become a series of hints and tips about getting involved inKDE without having to learn C++.Today's topic is bug triage....
View ArticleWhatsThis?
If you read kde-core-devel or kde-devel, you'll have already heard about the proposal which the HCI team has produced for KDE 4. With input from usability, accessibility and documentation folks,...
View ArticleWe're all coders now!
Or at least, I am (kinda). It's great to get a code patch into KDE (even if it is only about three lines long), having committed lots of docs over the years. And I can't resist saying that it proves...
View ArticleChangelog
Carsten suggests that the changelog should be in XML. So, in the spirit of avoiding the work I have to do to pass my degree, I hacked up a little XML changelog, with some XSL to turn it into HTML. The...
View ArticleLet's go away for a while
Exams are looming, so it's time for my annual disappearance from all things KDE. If you need to get hold of me, I'll be checking my email (philip-rodrigues-at-chch-ox-ac-uk).
View ArticleBugs!
Following a post on kde-devel about the number of UNCONFIRMED konqueror bugs, a few of us are going to try having a "konqueror bug triage day" this Wednesday, 30th Aug. We'll meet at 3pm UTC (10am CST,...
View ArticleGrand!
They said it couldn't be done[1], but we've got the number of unconfirmed Konqueror bugs (excluding wishlists) below 1000, from 1305 a couple of weeks ago:Unconfirmed konq bugs.There are also a huge...
View ArticleMore bug triage!
We've got another bug triage extravaganza planned for this weekend, the 6th-7th. So if you're free and you feel like helping KDE, drop by #kde-bugs on irc.freenode.net for a bit - it's really easy, and...
View ArticleResult!
Just a quick post to say that the Konqueror bug triage weekend was a huge success. Some highlights:Getting the number of unconfirmed konqueror bugs (excluding wishes) down from over 950 to below...
View ArticleGuest blog!
So I'm playing at being a real blog writer, and having a guest blogger for this post. I guess Kurt Pfeifle needs no introduction, but here's some relevant info:Kurt is a long-time KDE contributor, and...
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In the true spirit of the lazy web, I'll put this out and see if anyone wants to take it up:I'd like to improve kbugbuster to help with KDE bug triage. One of the main limitations at the moment is that...
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