Adventures in Open Source Development
KDE Gears 26.04 hit beta phase just a few days ago, so it is time to give an update on the new features in KJournald. For 26.04, the main release goal was to have a natural integration of systemd user services and system services in the log view workflow. This means: Revisiting the overall UI Continue reading KJournald 26.04 Features
A surprising long time passed since my last status update about KJournald. So it s time again to shed some light on the recent changes. KJournald is a KDE project that provides graphical browsing UI for journald log databases. For those who never heard the term journald , journald is the system logging service of systemd and Continue reading KJournald Update January 2026
Since I am planning to go on vacations very soonish (actually, just idling the time until I head for the airport ), I think it is good time to wrap-up the recent changes in the KDE Yocto area. As you might have noticed, 4 weeks ago there finally was an in-person FOSDEM again. It was great Continue reading KDE Yocto Updates
New year, new RISC-V Yocto blog post \o/ When I wrote my last post, I did really not expect my brand new VisionFive-2 board to find its way to me so soon But well, a week ago it was suddenly there. While unpacking I shortly pondered over my made plans to prepare a Plasma Bigscreen Continue reading Running Plasma on VisionFive-2
What is a vacation without a nice side project? My small x-mas project was to get my RISC-V Allwinner D1 Nezha board finally into a state that it shows anything on the connected HDMI-port. Any, yeah!!! , it works: This picture shows qmlscene rendering a rotating yellow rectangle at 2 fps (speed is limited due Continue reading Getting a First Picture on my Nezha RISC-V Board
tl;dr : There is nothing wrong with any of the mechanisms in the subject, you just have to be careful when combining them all. Long title, but the combination is important. Recently, I had an embedded device on my desk, which drove me to claiming quite strongly that this is not possible what is happening Continue reading Reproducible Builds, Read-only FS and How a Persistent QML Cache then Can…
Time is running and already a couple of weeks passed since I have been at this year s Akademy in Barcelona. It was great to (finally again!!!) meet people in person and talk about free software projects, while eating tapas our having nice beer. One of the topics on my agenda was the next iteration of Continue reading KDE Yocto Updates
Since the weather was not very inviting for much activities during the x-mas to new-year s vacation, I used the time to tie together a new tech preview update of kjournald. Apart from a very few changes in the library part of kjournald, i.e. the model/view filter logic that provides simplified access to journald databases, the Continue reading kjournald v0.0.3
My insight from this summer: it s surprising how many tricky corner cases exist when you only want to implement just a simple listview but handling large amounts of data 🙂 I learned this while making my small pet-log-viewer-app nicer and more usable. To recap, I started this small project called kjournald to scratch to a Continue reading kjournald v0.0.2
In KDE we have this awesome meta-build system, called kdesrc-build . It allows developers to compile tens and hundreds of KDE (and also external!) projects with only a few command line interactions. Since a few years, specifically after the migration from SVN to Git, it is the de-facto standard way for many contributors to update and Continue reading QtCreator and kdesrc-build Integration