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KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Here's an update on recent KDE application development on KDE.news:

KStars is probably the most feature-rich free astronomy software around and the 3.5.9 release adds some exciting new features. HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) is a technology that provides progressive high resolution images of the sky at different zoom levels. KStars fully supports online HiPS where data is downloaded from online servers and cached to be displayed on the Sky Map.


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KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 27, 2022 14:32 UTC (Mon) by jriddell (subscriber, #3916) [Link] (5 responses)

Oh nice thanks for picking this up.

In KDE we have some apps which get released as a bundle (because the app maintainers have better things to do than schedule and make releases). This is KDE Gear.

And some apps make their own releases (because the maintainers want more control) so to keep the world updated for these self-released apps I write this update every few months.

I'm also keen to promote the idea that KDE apps are available on Windows, Mac, Android and new Linux container formats like AppImage, Snaps and Flatpaks. We love Linux distro packages but we also want to use every other method to get our software out there.

KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 28, 2022 6:52 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (4 responses)

As a Gentoo user the idea of just using upstream binaries for KDE is becoming tempting... the distro's KDE maintainer is so abusive I've given up reporting build bugs.

KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 29, 2022 5:17 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Reporting the build failures upstream instead of to Gentoo might be a reasonable workaround, as long as the failures aren't due to the Gentoo packaging? Or perhaps their CoC could be of some assistance.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Code_of_conduct

KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 29, 2022 6:25 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (2 responses)

If someone is abusive, CoC needs to be invoked to have that person disciplined or removed/replaced.

KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 29, 2022 11:49 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

That's some amazing optimism you have there.

I've found in practice Gentoo's CoC isn't worth the electrons it's written on; I've only seen it meaningfully enforced once, it was for a thing that people had been campaigning years before it existed to do something about (removing the part of the forum that served as a beachhead for Stormfront and 4chan users for over a decade), and it was a slow ham-fisted effort that didn't effect meaningful positive change in the end.

I have a sneaking suspicion their CoC was only added at all because Sony® has their fingers deep in the distro and someone there demanded checkbox compliance. They've pushed similar farcical changes through, like an "Authors" file in the main repo that listed the company as the sole author of it all until a developer eventually added themselves out of spite.

In any case I'd rather spend my time working with people who *want to* be worked with. Disciplining someone who's seemingly made it their life's goal to make Ulrich Drepper look friendly and helpful in comparison won't accomplish much.

KDE Apps Mid-Year Update (KDE.news)

Posted Jun 30, 2022 12:14 UTC (Thu) by kevanenjoyslinux (guest, #158721) [Link]

Is this the Gentoo KDE repository, or just Gentoo's Gentoo repository's KDE packages?

Asking because if you haven't tried KDE's repository, I haven't had any issues with it


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