Personal Blog of Kevin Funk

Icemon 3.2.0 release

Here's a new minor release of Icemon: 3.2.0. One big bug fix addressing problems with the scheduler discovery [https://github.com/icecc/icemon/pull/40] in newer Icecream releases and small coding style improvements. Here's the changelog for the 3.2.0 release: Bugfixes: - Fix broken scheduler

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Tips for streamlining KDE applications for deployment on Microsoft Windows

In KDE we have a great group of developers hacking on a variety of applications. We usually have no problems getting our software out to end users on Linux because distributions help us packaging and distributing our software. Where we do have problems, for the major applications, is ensuring our

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CI for Windows installer and macOS bundle generation: KDE Binary Factory

For some time now the KDE community has had a separate Continuous Integration system running which repeatedly generates Windows installers and macOS app bundles (DMG) for a specific subset of KDE projects. For a starter, all the KDevelop on Windows releases (read: 32-bit and 64-bit NSIS-based installers) are nowadays generated

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Trip report: Google Code-In 2016 Summit at Google headquarter

Heya fellow KDE people, just a couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to attend the Google Code-In Summit held in several locations scattered around the San Francisco Bay area. I can tell you first hand: It's been an awesome trip and I encourage anyone else to participate if

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Icemon 3.1.0 release

More than one year after the 3.0.1 release, here's a new minor release of Icemon: 3.1.0. Lots of bug fixes and small code refactorings, but also a few feature additions made it into this release. Here's the changelog for the 3.1.0 release: Features: -

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Q&A session: To all those using Kate for hacking on C++ -- Why don't you try KDevelop?

Let's start with some luridness: Now from the beginning: I got to know quite a few people in the past decade ( phew, I'm such a dinosaur!) who use Kate as their editor of choice to hack on C++ code, on a daily basis. While I totally agree Kate is an

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KDevelop: Seeking maintainer for Ruby language support

Heya, just a short heads-up that KDevelop is seeking for a new maintainer for the Ruby language support. Miquel Sabaté did an amazing job maintaining the plugin in the recent years, but would like to step down as maintainer because he's lacking time to continue looking after it. Here's an

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KDevelop for Windows available on Chocolatey now

You might have noticed there's KDevelop for Windows [https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-501-windows-released] out now... Which is already great in itself! But now it's also possible to install it via the super popular Windows package manager for Windows, Chocolatey [https://chocolatey.org/]. Here's all you need (in case you

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What's new in KDevelop 5.0?

Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0 [https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-500-released]! While the release announcement on kdevelop.org is kept short intentionally, this blog post is going more into depth, showing what's new

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KDE on Windows status update

Disclaimer: No, it's not dead :) During Randa we've discussed the KDE on Windows road map. There's been a brisk involvement of the Randa Meetings participants in the platform discussion sessions on Tuesday. Here's a brief summary of what's been going on. Installer creation Traditionally the KDE on Windows project has

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Working on KDevelop and KDE on Windows in Randa

[https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2016/] Right now, around 40 developers are working together on bringing KDE to other platforms in Randa [http://randa-meetings.ch/] (Switzerland) for an entire week. I just arrived Sunday evening, and we immediately started with discussions around KDE on different platforms. Not much coding has

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Building KDevelop 5 from source on Ubuntu 15.10

Note: These instructions apply for Ubuntu 16.04, too Recently, I've got several mails from people desperately trying to compile KDevelop on Ubuntu-based distros. Let's give them a hand by providing them a quick start guide! This is a brief version of what's in https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building

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Icemon 3.0.1 release

Exactly one year after the 3.0 release, here's the next patch release of the Icemon 3.x series. No major changes this time, merely bug fixes and small code refactorings. Here's the changelog for the 3.0.1 release: Bug fixes: - Added work-around for build for icecc.a

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Icemon 3.0 release

It is my pleasure to finally release Icemon [https://github.com/icecc/icemon] 3.0 to the public. If you don't know it -- Icemon is a GUI monitor for Icecream [https://en.opensuse.org/Icecream], a distributed compiler system. Debian/Ubuntu have been packaging the Git version for quite

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New porting helper: convert-to-cmake-automoc.pl

Disclaimer First time I wrote more than a one-liner in Perl, the Swiss Army chainsaw [http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html] of scripting languages. After quickly skimming the beginner's tutorial, (and no longer just copying Perl one-liners from Stackoverflow and friends), I consider myself ready to write

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Scripting GDB to execute commands at particular breakpoints

This might be old news for the more experienced programmers out there, but yes, we can script GDB to do $stuff whenever it hits a breakpoint. With GDB's logging to file feature this can be super handy when trying to get a backlog of backtraces whenever a certain event arises.

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Randa Report: Hacking on KDE and meeting friends

Hey there, I'm already back home and now like to you let you know what I've been doing the last week during the Randa Sprint in the Swiss Alps [http://randa-meetings.ch/]. Quick summay: It has been an immense event! View from our hacking room, in Randa, SwitzerlandLast week I've

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GSoC Status Report: Code Completion features

Context: I'm currently working on getting Clang integration in KDevelop into usable shape as part of this year's Google Summer of Code [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014]. See the initial blog post [https://kfunk.org/2014/04/28/gsoc-2014-improving-the-clang-integration-in-kdevelop/] for my road map. While we had basic

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Wrap-Up: Issues with QExplicitlySharedDataPointer (KSharedPtr successor)

Recently, when porting away from KSharedPtr [http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKSharedPtr.html] (which is now deprecated under KF5) to QExplicitlySharedDataPointer [http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/QExplicitlySharedDataPointer.html] in KDevelop's frameworks branch, I noticed an interesting issue in the QExplictlySharedDataPointer API. Suppose we have two classes

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GSoC Status Report (Week 2): Moving Assistants Infrastructure

Hey, In the first two weeks of my GSoC I've spent time on moving out lots of code from the current C++ language support into kdevplatform (the base of KDevelop, which contains all the non-language agnostic, reusable components for the IDE). Task recap: Assistants / Refactoring * Rename assistant: When you change

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GSoC 2014: Improving the Clang Integration in KDevelop

Hey, I'm happy to announce that I've been accepted as student for this year's Google Summer of Code [https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/]! This summer, I'll have the chance to improve the Clang [http://clang.llvm.org/] integration in KDevelop, something we (the KDevelop developers) have been working on

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I'm going^W^W I went to Randa

Hello World! This is my very first *Amarok* specific blog post. Yay! (Okay, admittedly I did not really blog at all since now. This will change now, of course!) As you may know, I've been a rather semi-active Amarok contributor until now, hacking Amarok's codebase to improve the User Experience.

Make vim act like nano

I just fell in love with vim ("the editor") after working for a very long time with nano. I love the way it highlights syntax, indents and copies/cuts/pastes visual blocks and stuff. But I don't like that it takes four+ key presses to save and quit a file.

Amarok ices script interface

An Amarok script which provides basic support for streaming your ALSA card output to Icecast (version 2 or later). It also features metadata update of the current playing track in Amarok. Suggestions are welcome! READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR REQUIREMENTS, ETC. Get it here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=

HOWTO Remove GMX Antispam Header from mails in kmail

I recently had enough of all the "*** GMX Antispam ***" lines in my kmail junk folder and tried to get rid off it. (It also marked false positivies in my incoming folder which also annoyed me). Here's a small guide to strip the "*** GMX Antispam ***" string from your mail's subject (notice: