Posted in KDE on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
KDE Release party at Toulouse was great! It was a pleasure to meet again with David Faure, Laurent Montel and Anne-Marie Mahfouf as well as meeting Kévin Ottens and Alexis Ménard for the first time. Kudos to Kévin and Alexis for the organisation of the event, and much thanks to Alexis for hosting Laurent and [...]
Posted in KDE, tagged css, qt on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whenever I wanted to use standard colors from QPalette within my Qt stylesheet definitions, I used to write code like this:
QColor color = palette().highlight().color();
QString css = QString(”QLabel { color: %1; }”).arg(color.name());
setStyleSheet(css);
Today I discovered an hidden feature of Qt stylesheets (either that, or I missed it in the doc): you can reference QPalette colors from within [...]
Posted in Gwenview, KDE on January 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
So it’s here, KDE 4.0.0 is out. This release has a special meaning for me: it’s the first one to include Gwenview in the kdegraphics module. This means it’s also the first time a new version of Gwenview is released without me building and uploading tarballs and announcing them on various sites, thanks to the [...]
Posted in KDE on January 10, 2008 | 16 Comments »
A critic I often heard about KDE applications is that they are usually not correctly sized. I mean: when you start a KDE application for the first time, you often need to resize the window or adjust splitters to get a comfortable user interface.
Back in the old Windows days, people were complaining that they couldn’t [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged job resume on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am currently available for hire.
I am looking for a Qt developer position, preferably working on open source projects. Extra bonus points if the job involves spending time working on KDE. I live in France, near Paris, but have no problem with telecommuting.
If your company is looking for an experienced Qt/KDE developer, contact me. You [...]
