The heroes we deserve

You may be aware that openSUSE Leap 42.2 is now in the release candidate stage, and there’s a lot of activity aimed at squashing those pesky bugs before they hit the final release. One particular bug proved to be quite tough to fix, and it was only solved thanks to the “heroes” mentioned in the title. This is the history of the bug. The report October 6th, 2016 - A bug iss reported against Plasma reporting a hard freeze of Plasma when using the Noveau driver, but not with the closed NVIDIA blob.

June 25, 2016

Two in one

As you may know (unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri for the past century) the openSUSE community KDE team publishes LiveCD images for those willing to test the latest state of KDE software from the git master branches without having to break machines, causing a zombie apocalypse and so on. This post highlights the most recent developments in the area. Up to now, we had 3 different media, depending on the base distribution (stable Leap, ever-rolling Tumbleweed) and whether you wanted to go with the safe road (X11 session) or the dangerous path (Wayland):

May 29, 2016

I have a problem...

Every day, a sizable number of people posts problems on the KDE Community Forums and the ever-helpful staff does their best to solve whatever issues they’re facing. But what exactly does one do when this happens? This post provides more insights on the process. NOTE: The following applies to my workflow for the Kontact & PIM subforum. Step 1: Someone posts a problem The questions posted are various, and range from simple tasks (“how I do XXX”) to very specific workflows.

May 1, 2016

Danbooru Client 0.6.0 released

A new version of Danbooru Client is now available! What is Danbooru Client? Danbooru Client is an application to access Danbooru-based image boards (Wikipedia definition). It offers a convenient, KF5 and Qt5-based GUI coupled with a QML image view to browse, view, and download images hosted in two of the most famous Danbooru boards (konachan.com and yande.re). Highglights of the new version Support for width / height based filtering: now you can exclude posts that are below a specific width or height (or both) New dependency: KTextWidgets Coming up next Sooner or later I’ll get to finish the multiple API support, but given that there’s close to no interest for these programs (people are happy to use a browser) and that I work on this very irregularly (every 6-7 months at best), there’s no ETA at all.

February 27, 2016

Of gases, Qt, and Wayland

Ever since the launch of Argon and Krypton, the openSUSE community KDE team didn’t really stand still: a number of changes (and potentially nice additions) have been brewing this week. This post recapitulates the most important one. I’d like the most recent Qt, please As pre-announced by a G+ post, the openSUSE repositories bringing KDE software directly from KDE git (KDE:Unstable:Frameworks and KDE:Unstable:Applications) have switched their Qt libraries from Qt 5.

February 19, 2016

Where are my noble gases? I need MORE noble gases!

As KDE software (be it the Frameworks libraries, the Plasma 5 workspace, or the Applications) develops during a normal release cycle, a lot of things happen. New and exciting features emerge, bugs get fixed, and the software becomes better and more useful than it was before. Thanks to code review and continuous integration, the code quality of KDE software has also tremendously improved. Given how things are improving, it is tempting to follow development as it happens.

January 23, 2016

HOWTO: Configure 389-ds LDAP server on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Recently I’ve been setting up LDAP authentication on CentOS servers to give a shared authentication method to all the compute nodes I use for my day job. I use 389-DS as it’s in my opinion much better to administer and configure than openLDAP (plus, it has very good documentation). As I have a self built NAS at home (with openSUSE Tumbleweed), I thought it’d be nice to use LDAP for all the web applications I run there.

December 8, 2015

Danbooru Client 0.5.0 released

October 18, 2015

Tip: opening and closing ports needed by a systemd service

Recently I’ve been testing out murmur, http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page server component, on my CentOS 7 server. Murmur requires specific ports being open to operate, and when using it I would open them manually, and close them after the session had been completed. I found it pretty tedious: I wanted to wrap it into a single call to the service, so I could enable my user (via sudoers) to be able to start and stop the service without worrying about elevating permissions to start and stop the firewall.

September 26, 2015

The Big Forum Cleaning

In the past week, the KDE Community Forums administrators had been discussing how to improve the current forum layout. There are a few reasons in favor of a reorganization. First of all, to reflect better what KDE is (a community that produces software). Secondly, to provide a better organinzation for all kinds of people: those that require support, those that offer support, and those who want to contribute. All of this within a (hopefully) logical structure.