kde - Personal Blog of Kevin Funk

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...

https://kfunk.org/2017/12/20/tips-streamlining-kde-application-for-deployment-microsoft-windows/

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...

https://kfunk.org/2017/11/17/kde-binary-factory/

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 yo...

https://kfunk.org/2017/07/12/trip-report-google-code-in-summit-at-google-headquarter/

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 releas...

https://kfunk.org/2017/04/06/icemon-3-1-0-release/

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++ c...

https://kfunk.org/2017/01/10/using-kate-for-hacking-on-c-why-dont-you-try-kdevelop/

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 ...

https://kfunk.org/2016/11/30/kdevelop-seeking-maintainer-for-ruby-language-support/

You might have noticed there's KDevelop for Windows 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 Wind...

https://kfunk.org/2016/10/21/kdevelop-for-windows-available-on-chocolatey-now/

Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0 ! While the release announcement on kdevelop.org is kept short intentiona...

https://kfunk.org/2016/08/23/whats-new-in-kdevelop-5-0/

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 session...

https://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/

Right now, around 40 developers are working together on bringing KDE to other platforms in Randa (Switzerland) for an entire week. I just arrived Sunday evening, and we immediately started...

https://kfunk.org/2016/06/13/working-on-kdevelop-and-kde-on-windows-in-randa/

> 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...

https://kfunk.org/2016/02/16/building-kdevelop-5-from-source-on-ubuntu-15-10/

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 ...

https://kfunk.org/2016/02/08/icemon-3-0-1-release/

It is my pleasure to finally release Icemon 3.0 to the public. If you don't know it -- Icemon is a GUI monitor for Icecream , a distributed compiler system. Debian/Ubuntu have been packaging t...

https://kfunk.org/2015/02/08/icemon-3-0-release/

DISCLAIMER First time I wrote more than a one-liner in Perl, the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages. After quickly skimming the beginner's tutorial, (and no longer just copying Perl one...

https://kfunk.org/2015/01/11/new-porting-helper-convert-to-cmake-automoc-pl/

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 ...

https://kfunk.org/2014/08/29/scripting-gdb-to-execute-commands-at-particular-breakpoints/