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Saturday 23 January 2010

Association Subscribers Manager and KDE

By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 23 January 2010, 00:36 - Association Subscribers Manager

Hi,

I was ask today if I have plan to better integrate Association Subscribers Manager with KDE. Since the answer can be of interest for other people that the person who asked me, I will (also) answer here.

First, Association Subscribers Manager is designed and developed to be multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, MS windows and Apple's Mac OS X). On some of the supported platforms, KDE is not really widely installed. And amongst the target audience of Association Subscribers Manager there are people who are far from being geeks. Those are facts.

In the other hand, I am a firm supporter of KDE, I use it everyday both at home and at work and I would like to integrate Association Subscribers Manager a lot more into KDE.

So, to answer the question : I will do it and make it possible to enable at compile time. At least until I made a clear evaluation of KDE on windows and mac os X (since I have no windows nor mac boxes, I am not friendly with those platforms and the state of KDE on them).

But considering the road things are taking it is likely that Association Subscribers Manager will get a better KDE integration before it's 3.3 release...

Arnaud Dupuis

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Friday 11 January 2008

Big day today : KDE 4.0.0 announcement and starting 10 days snowboarding

By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 11 January 2008, 07:49 - KDE

Hi,
Well almost everything was said in the title... The main information for the planet is the official KDE 4.0.0 announcement (and the huge party in Mountain View) ! I tried to help the dream to become true, and I want to thanks all the KDE core developers : THANK YOU SO MUCH !

Thanks to Aaron, Anne-Marie, Jonathan, Adriaan and all the community the next generation desktop is now a reality and for the sake of the Open Source community's dynamism it's a great news. And for the sake of my desktop it's even a greater news !
I just can't wait for the images/video/blog entries of the release party ! I hope you will enjoy the same feeling I did the first time I got Plasma running.
Now for my little announcement : as soon as the C++ part of the slack-get library is written, I'll write a Plasmoid which will allow you to stay up-to-date by just looking at your (beautiful) desktop !

Last but not least, starting today I take a break from all coding activities (slack-get as well as KDE), and go 10 days in the Alps trying breaking one or two legs on my snowboard !
I'll try to provide some pictures ;-)
If the internet can't climb to Val d'Isère, or if I'm so badly hurt that i can't use my laptop, or if i'm just too lazy to write a blog entry : see you in 10 days ! More probably : see you in few days.

Arnaud Dupuis

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Thursday 13 December 2007

Trolltech's big move !

By Arnaud Dupuis on Thursday 13 December 2007, 20:25 - KDE

TodayTrolltech announced that the Phonon back-ends they have developped are being hosted on KDE's SVN repository !
That's a hell of great news since it bring back-ends for both windows and Mac OS X KDE's port !
As a programmer I'm very excited with KDE 4 and all the things around like Phonon, Solid and the others. And since I'm a big fan of Qt I'm very glad that Trolltech made such a great move.
Keep going on !

Arnaud Dupuis

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