Posted in KDE on April 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I wrote a few KDE tips for a new French Linux magazine: Linux Pratique Essentiel. It’s the first time I write for a magazine, thanks to Diamond Editions for asking me to collaborate to this!
I bought the magazine and it’s quite good. It does a good job at presenting Linux software in a way “non-geek” [...]
Posted in Gwenview, KDE on March 29, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Thanks to the hard work of Ilya Konkov, Gwenview now features nice thumbnail bars. You can find one in the new fullscreen bar:
And an expandable one in view mode:
As a consequence, I removed the “Preview” mode which was redundant. One less icon in the toolbar!
Posted in Gwenview, KDE on March 17, 2008 | 18 Comments »
By popular request, I moved the zooming actions to Gwenview status bar and introduced a zooming slider, as can be seen on this shot:
The nice thing about this change is that it removes quite a few buttons from the default toolbar. I am still not sure whether I like it or not, and would [...]
Posted in Gwenview, KDE, tagged job on March 12, 2008 | 16 Comments »
As you may remember, I have been trying to find a Qt/KDE-related, free-software-friendly job for a while. Unfortunately it didn’t work out, so I had to resign myself to look for a more ordinary position.
After publishing my resume on a popular french job website, I got literally overflowed by consulting companies willing to hire me. [...]
Posted in Gwenview, KDE on February 9, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Thank you Aaron for the very nice post about Gwenview. It’s true that I, mere mortal, can’t compete with your blogging rate :-). To answer one of the comments in Aaron post: In SVN, Gwenview does feature multiple undo/redo support. No need to fill a wishlist on b.k.o!
Posted in Gwenview, KDE on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was a bit worried about the way Solutions Linux would go this year. We had no proper booth and I was expecting either no one would find us or we would have to face a mass of angry users coming to us yelling that KDE4 was worse than KDE3.5, destroyed their data, flashed the [...]
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 [...]
