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Seems that this year a lot of KDE hackers will go to FOSDEM and I won’t be an exception !

I have not defined my roadmap (yet), but at least I’ll have a couple of meeting regarding the future of KBluetooth, and sooner than you think I’ll come back with great news about Bluetooth+KDE.

If you’re in the FOSDEM and you have doubts or ideas about Bluetooth+KDE ping to me I’ll be around *KDE* stuff in there.

cya!

Months ago, I started to take care of a forgotten piece of KDE, kde-bluetooth. After a lot of work and an almost clean the bugtrack of bugs, I’m proud to announce KBluetooth 0.4!

These are the highlights:

• The official name is now "KBluetooth".
• A lot of crashes have been fixed, KBluetooth should not crash now.
• File transfer (send/receive) reported to work for everybody with any kind of device.
• Improved the input pairing (Almost all devices working).
• Huge improvements in the UI.

Known problems:

• The speed in notifications is not accurate nor working right

Notes for packagers:

• Since the first RC, I only had fixed BUGS, and almost every commit since then contains an atomic fix, so please upgrade to the 0.4 final or apply the patches yourself, but do not get stuck in the previous RC’s, doing that you’ll waste the time of your bugtracker people, as well of kde bugtracker crew and mine.
• A tag has been created in tags/kbluetooth/0.4

Note for users:

• Ask to your distribution for the final 0.4 version of KBluetooth, the only and original one !

In the next days, I’ll write a series of entries about KBluetooth, the list is not final tough:

• Review of KBluetooth 0.4
• Collaborate with KBluetooth (Developers and users)
• Short term future, KBluetooth 0.5
• KDE+Bluetooth future

Finally:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kbluetooth?content=112110

Hi!

Is time to resume my adventure in the lands of KDE, I had to stop it because of work, I’m creating a new business together with ereslibre and edulix and we are kind of busy.

Returning to the topic, in this second part of the adventure I’m not going to change my focus, so I’ll continue hacking on kbluetooth, kamoso and ktuberling.

Here comes a small todo list I’ll try to accomplish:

• Finish 0.4 release of KBluetooth (2 crashes to be fixed)
• Release KBluetooth 0.5 (I’ll talk about it in a other blog post).
• Post at least once a week.
• Start to develop the new Bluetooth solution for KDE.
• Finish KTuberling easy switch.
• Kamoso++
• KTuberling++

Something I’d like to hack on is the xrandr support, but I don’t want to open more fronts not until at least I have kio_bluetooth working.

And well, this is all! I hope to blog in a few days announcing KBluetooth 0.4

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As everybody should know by now, tsdgeos is moving to another city (Dublin) and of course is getting a new job. Is because of this job that Albert is not able to continue with his collaboration with anything that have to be with games. Life sometimes has this unintended consequences :/

So well, as you know, I created a patch some month/weeks ago which adds a small feature to KTuberling (will be available in kde 4.5). Since I like the code, and I’m a “friend? :p” of tsdgeos I proposed myself to Albert to continue with KTuberling at least until he can go back to his *games* duties :p

So, this is my roadmap for KTuberling in KDE SC (KSC?, I don’t like the new branding sorry ._.) 4.5:

1. Support to switch between playgrounds using easier way
2. Possibility to export the playground in some simple web 2.0 service
3. Add Get Hot New Stuff  (in discussion)

If you have any ideas please, drop a bug to bugs.kde.org so we can evaluate it.

Cya!

At home!

After my “small” holidays in Paris, I’m back home. Despite my intentions of finishing some ktuberling/kamoso/kbluetooth work on this holidays

as you may have noticed I didn’t, sorry for that I only had time to keep myself up to date with kde planet/mailist/commits, leaving only the last 3 days of kde activities as homework to when I’ll come back.

So now, I’ve read everything I had to, as well as answering dozens of emails and I’m ready to hack on KDE again and to finish my kde homework’s.

The first thing I’m going to do is to prepare the release of kbluetooth 0.4, as well as to write the property announcement of the project, which will be splited in 3/4 post.

Then some more work on Kamoso will follow (add webcam basic controls), and finally I have to finish the ktuberling patch.

That’s all at the moment!.

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See you soon Paris

As maybe you have noticed I’m kinda offline these days, this is because I’m in Paris in some sort of holidays. While I’m here my internet/code hours will be reduced to the mornings, from 10:00 to 14:00 (local hour), I’m using the rest of the day for walking trough those beautiful streets.

Well, this is it at the moment,  tomorrow I’ll announce something in this blog, something that lot of people has been waiting for :p

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Hi again!

Seems that was yesterday when I wrote my last post, but the truth is that almost 1 month has passed sorry for that Despite not being posting with regularity I have been working hard on KDE, mainly focused on Kamoso/KBluetooth and researching something that might become my third KDE contribution/project.

Well, the next week I’ll take a break of all my duties (work/kde/free software) and I’ll travel to Paris at my brother’s home, I hope that will be there where I’ll find more time to post on the blog.

Focusing on the Title’s topic, today I have been working on a small contribution I have been promising to Albert Astals (aacid) for something like… 2 years? If I remember correctly was in Akademy-es 2007 when I said to him that I would implement it. The feature is really small but it has allowed me to investigate deeper the model/view framework which I have to say is really hot!

Well that’s all at the moment! screencast and bye!




Download the video here

**The design is not final and is not committed yet.

Hi everybody!

Two days ago at morning, I was very bored I don’t remember exactly why, so I decided to hack a bit on Kopete, which is imho the KDE application which needs more love. I was wondering what I can add to it and after a few ideas I decided to implement the idea apol gave to me some days ago, be able to take pictures from the webcam, and set it as an avatar.

Well, this is the result after 1 hour of work (It was only 1h mainly because of kdevelop, it rocks!):

You can download the video from here

The first patch to implement it is waiting for review at: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1532/ Once it has been accepted I’ll submit the big one. I’m open for more ideas like that,I’ve no time to implement big features in software that I’m not completely involved with, but I can do things like this.

I hope you like it and please, drop a comment or send me an email if you have more small ideas!

Hi everyone!
After a few days of “non-computer” I’m back with the batteries charged at 100% and with a small list of things to be done in the next days. This is the list:

Reach kamoso 1.0 version (I hope in 1week max):
Kamoso is the codename for a project I’m doing with Aleix pol (apol) and in theory with ereslibre (he’s kinda offline), is a Photobooth/Cheese clone, written in Qt/C++. The project is developed on gitorious and within a few days we hope reach the first stable version, which mainly will have this features:

1. Take picutres.
2. Choose which webcam to use.
3. Record video.
4. Record video with voice.
5. Some web 2.0 exports (facebook, youtube etc).
6. Maybe some effects too.

Finally we’re going to use libvlc for the video work, yes! vlc has an exported library which provide a quite straight forward api to deal with video stuff.
Currently we’re working on cleaning the plugin structure and to port our current video code to libVlc. If anybody wants join us more developers are welcomed, so just drop an email to alex (at) eyeos (d0t) org or to aleixpol (at)kde (d0t) org or maybe even better, just clone the repository on gitorious !

Research kbluetooth4 (in 1 or 2 days)
I’m not only talking about a code research here, the main point is to know why kbluetooth4 is not part of kde trunk (or at least part of extragear), and try to fix this situation, with this I mean write wherever kbluetooth4 needs to become an application ready to be part of those “sections”.
In the meanwhile I contact with the maintainers, I’ll try to add some configuration menus to be able to specify where the received files are saved.

Phonon Audio/Video input
This is in my list, the most low priority point, and it is the most low priority point because it makes me feel small ._. I’ll try to push some effort here, and with that aim other ppl to write input stuff in other backends, but from my most humble opinion, phonon needs more developers, and needs Krezt back :p. By the way, my TODO for phonon input is:

1. Learn how gstreamer works (api level).
2. Fill the current interface for avdevice (list devices etc, all using gstreamer).
3. Start to expand the gstreamer backend to be able to output input content.

I’ve chosen gstreamer because it already have input support, but maybe I’ll switch to the VLC, since I’ll use libvlc in kamoso.

Well, this is more or less all! I’ll try to keep the blog up to date with the progresses I made in those points.

The last, but not less important, this is the drink I’m taking to celebrate my “come back” !

Duff beer

In case you have lost it, now you’ve the chance of view it in video! the kde-commtis channel full of people waiting to know who will win the 1M commit!
Finally as you maybe already know, ervin with an akonadi commit won the one million (thanks you?) commit.

Kde 1 million commits:

You can download the video from here