Note about QML plasmoids and dataengines
There is quite a lot of work going on in plasma land at the moment. For PlasmaWorkspace 4.10 you may expect an overhauled visual appearance and an overhauled user interface on some plasmoids. The two...
View ArticleNotifications, let the redesign begin
So, it seems it’s that time of the year again… the plasmoid used in KDE Plasma Desktop to display notifications and the progress of transfer jobs started to really show its age, due to some bad...
View ArticleActive three
Today we have a new release of Plasma Active: quite some time passed since the last release last year. OGG version Applications Plasma Active 3 has several new applications out of the box, to reinforce...
View ArticleLazy loading QML
What is one of the most important things while writing a QML UI? the answer is pretty easy: KISS. There are several reasons: the first is of course a reason that is pretty valid in any UI in general:...
View ArticleNew QML components: IconItem
Last post was about a new QML component available in Plasma workspace 4.10 with an important design pattern that comes with it: Lazy loading everywhere when possible. Next couple of posts will be about...
View ArticleNew QML components: Know thy dialogs
Today part of “what to expect in 4.10 in QML components”: Dialog. The Dialog components have been introduced in plasma since sone time, and are documented in the usual page. The components that may be...
View ArticleTime to refresh some air
In the last entries I posted some screenshots of some upcoming features in the Plasma Workspace in 4.10, and they shown also a glimpse of another thing: a new default theme, on which I was working on...
View ArticleHelp make Plasma Active 4 shine
Plasma Active 3 was released on 15th October 2012, and since then, work on the next version has not stopped for a minute, now the work on Plasma Active 4 is well on the way. Another important release...
View ArticleActive, images and devices
As I wrote before, we are trying to make PA4 as stable as possible, and as well as it was noted by some people, this involves also having images for a wide variety of devices. What I’m doing, is kindof...
View ArticleKDE on improv, now with videos
I’m finishing the images of the OS that will be shipped by default on the Improv. As soon they are finished they will be available for download, alongside recipes on how to build new ones from scratch....
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