Category Archives: KDE

More general articles about KDE.

Braindump 0.8.0

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

A bit overdue, the first release of Braindump is available. It has been a while since I announced the project of making a tool that gather allow to dump your thoughts into an electronic form. For those who have forget … Continue reading →

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Krita, a painting application, not really new news

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

The time when Krita was borne as KImageShop, as a Gimp-for-KDE is long gone. Not sure when this idea was killed, but it is clear that it has never really be the intention of the current team. The ambiguity of … Continue reading →

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Krita’s Hackfest, meeting with the Blender guys

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

During this week, Boudewijn is hosting Sven, Lukas and me for a Krita hackfest, dedicated to bug fixing, performance, UI improvement. Among the major improvements brought by that week are improvement in the memory consumption, thanks to a collaboration between … Continue reading →

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The difficult choice of removing features

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

Adding a new feature is usually considered easy in the open source world, and then it is taken for granted. Removing a feature, on the other hand, it is a different story. It is not about making Krita less useful, … Continue reading →

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Krita Meeting 2010 – Day 2

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

Yesterday was the second day of the krita meeting 2010. It was oriented toward technical discussions, and UI design discussions. In the technical area, I and Dmitry had a long talk on how to improve the filter API, to make … Continue reading →

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How to find where an exception is emited with Qt ?

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

When an exception is thrown and not catched in a Qt application, it get catched by Qt’s event loop, and the following message is displayed in the console: Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing exceptions … Continue reading →

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Inserting shapes/images in KOffice

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Cyrille Berger

A while ago, in a praise of karbon 2.0 I wrote, someone commented on the “lack” of tools in karbon, as opposed to inkscape. And from forum posts, or identi.ca, it seems to cause some confusions. For instance, there is … Continue reading →

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OpenGTL 0.9.5 and Darkroom 1.3

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Cyrille Berger

Today I am making a joint release of OpenGTL and Darkroom, for the main reason that I have made quiet a lot of bug fixes in OpenGTL that are needed to get a fully working Darkroom. OpenGTL 0.9.5 Among the … Continue reading →

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