Kevin Funk

Software/DevOps Engineer. KDE developer and FOSS enthusiast.

📍 Germany http://kfunk.org

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:

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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'

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