Kevin Funk

Software Engineering Lead | Software, DevOps & Qt/C++ Specialist

📍 Germany http://kfunk.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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