Entries Tagged as 'KDE'

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Small applications missing in KDE 4

I have been working in the last weeks in the removal of the last pieces of KDE 3 from the Debian archive and I have found there are a lot of packages that is sad having to remove. If you are looking for a good idea/excuse to learn and improve your KDE 4 / C++ [...]

Monday, February 7th, 2011

post and pre-release fun

The last weeks before a Debian release are usually boring with respect to working on new stuff since unstable is pretty much closed to development. Now that the release is finished, this fun is back \o/ I have been in an ‘upload frenzy’ since yesterday night and I have updated some packages in unstable: KOffice[1] [...]

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

KOffice 2.3.0 and future

It took a bit of time due to the holidays, but KOffice 2.3.0 is finally available from Debian experimental (give some hours to your mirror to sync!). If you are unstable user don’t be afraid to fetch it from experimental, it is there only because the Squeeze freeze. Squeeze will ship with KOffice 2.2.1, while [...]

Friday, May 28th, 2010

KOffice 2.2.0 packages for Debian

As some of you might have seen, KOffice 2.2.0 was finally released today. Quoting the release announcement: “There are still areas in the user interface that we want to work on before stating that KOffice is fit for the general public. We are, however, at a stage where we think that KOffice can be used [...]

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

Following Qt 4.6.2, uploaded a couple of weeks ago, KDE 4.4.3, has finally found its way to unstable in the last 48 hours. Given KDE 4.5.0 is not expected until August, it is likely the next point release, 4.4.4, will be the KDE version included in next Debian stable, Squeeze. What this means: go and [...]

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

DudesConf 2010

Thanks GPUL (and Ghandalf!) for another perfect conference. Coruña, April 2010, Dudesconf 2010 (spanish)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Not the Debian-KDE post you were waiting for

Sorry! I cannot tell you when KDE 4.4 will be uploaded to unstable. I am not working on that. My initial plan was writing about other tasks I am planning to work on and asking for your help. But I realized people would be more interested in knowing about KDE 4.4 packages. Once you know [...]

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

How to get your bugs solved in Debian+KDE

Imagine you have found a bug in your Debian running KDE, a nasty one, and you want to get it resolved. What you should do? This is centered on KDE and Debian but most of it is useful in general. First Case: You have a problem and you have no idea whether it is a [...]

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Introducing http://news.debian.net

In short: what is http://news.debian.net? It is an unofficial news website where you can read and submit news about what is going on in the Debian project. I have always missed having something similar to “KDE Dot News” in Debian. I refer to KDE’s news place because it is the project I more closely follow [...]

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Creating a new GPG key

I wanted to renew my GPG key for some time and after reading the latest news, I finally have generated a new key today. pub 4096R/6AA15948 2009-05-10 Key fingerprint = 7A33 ECAA 188B 96F2 7C91 7288 B346 4F89 6AA1 5948 uid Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org> uid Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org> sub 4096R/2497B8B2 2009-05-10 [...]