kde · linux – 

What's cooking at the KDE Community Forums?

In the past weeks and days, the KDE Community Forums staff has been working to bring new features to improve even more the user experience. A few months ago, the staff was discussing the idea of finding a way to guide users to the most appropriate forum to post their questions or discussions. Now, thanks also to the return in service of one of our admins (welcome back, sayakb!) the feature is now being implemented, as the screenshots below will show.
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kde · science – 

Akademy: my own BoF

I'm going to Akademy 2010 image
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kde · linux – 

PyKDE4: new style signals and slots

Those who use PyQt and PyKDE4 are certainly familiar with the syntax used to connect signals and slots:
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kde · linux – 

The world of KIO metadata - checking the HTTP response from a server

Recently, I investigated how to perform some checks on web addresses using KIO for Danbooru Client. My old code was synchronous, so it blocked the application while checking, thus causing all sort of troubles (UI freezing, etc.). Therefore, making the switch to KIO was the best solution. However, I had one problem: how could I check the HTTP response?
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kde · linux – 

Learning by example

With my brand-new SVN account, I just committed some code to kdeexamples, KDE’s example code module. In particular, I committed a simple example which shows how to use KConfigXT via PyKDE4, a simplified version of what I wrote about here.
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anime · kde · linux – 

Danbooru Client 0.5 is out

Sometimes answering apparently harmless questions on instant messaging can have unexpected results. In particular, I was telling about Danbooru Client to someone and a question popped up “Why don’t you support pages?”. It seemed a nice idea, so I branched off the code (yay for git!) and started working on it.
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