I had the pleasure of having an excellent white water kayak trip to Northern Norway in the Summer of 2026. Here s some notes for my own benefit and anyone who is interested. We previously did a trip to the popular Sjoa area which worked great. So this year we booked to go further north in Continue reading "White Water Kayak Trip Scotland to Northern Norway Summer 2026"
I passed the British Canoeing advanced qualifications of Stand Up Paddleboard Coastal Leader and SUP Open Water Coach Award. Here s some notes for my own interest and anyone else s. I did Coastal Leader training twice (once had a second day cancelled because the weather was too good). This gave me experience of a range of Continue reading "British Canoeing Stand Up Paddleboard Coastal Leader and…
I did the Open Water Coach Training for Stand up Paddleboard. Here s my notes for my own use and anyone else who wants them. The terminology is a bit messy (which is the same for all paddling really). Partly this is because the environmental remits are necessarily a bit different for paddleboards which can be Continue reading "Paddle UK SUP Open Water Coach Training"
I reverted my name back to Jonathan Riddell and have now made a new uid for my PGP key, you can get the updated one on keyserver.ubuntu.com or my contact page or my Launchpad page. Here s some pics from Akademy
https://openuk.uk/openuk-september-2024-newsletter-1/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7238138962253344769/ Our 5th annual Awards are open for nominations and our 2024 judges are waiting for your nominations! Hannah Foxwell, Jonathan Riddell, and Nicole Tandy will be selecting winners for 12 categories. ? The OpenUK Awards 2024 are open for nominations until Sunday, September…
Plasma Pass is a Plasma applet for the Pass password manager This release includes build fixes for Plasma 6, due to be released later this week. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-pass/Sha256: 2a726455084d7806fe78bc8aa6222a44f328b6063479f8b7afc3692e18c397ceSigned by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org>https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop. It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources. This 6.0.0 release requires to be built with extra-cmake-modules from KF 6 which is not yet released, distros may want to wait until next Continue reading "Oxygen Icons 6 Released"
This project is creating a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoap library. The name is short for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Simple Object Access Protocol Web Services Addressing Discovery Client. It is used by the SMB KIO worker from kio-extras. kio-extras will have two releases as part of KDE’s 6th Megarelease, one for Qt 5 Continue reading "KDSOAP WS-Discovery Client 0.4.0"
Ruqola 2.1.0 is available for packaging. Ruqola is a chat app for Rocket.chat. This release can build with Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. It can also build with Qt 6 and the soon to be released Frameworks 6. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/SHA256: 65295cc39f24f046305bc73df4bcc6e561bd8b8b125537290ce5b5b62488fffd Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell…
Ruqola 2.1 Beta (2.0.81) is available for packaging and testing. Ruqola is a chat app for Rocket.chat. This beta release will build with the current release candidate of KDE Frameworks 6 and KTextAddons allowing distros to start to move away from Qt 5. URL: https://download.kde.org/unstable/ruqola/SHA256: 2c4135c08acc31f846561b488aa24f1558d7533b502f9ba305be579d43f81b73 Signed by…
It s a pleasure to be on the OpenUK New Year s Honours list for 2024. There s some impressive names on there such as Richard Hughes of Packagekit and other projects at Red Hat, Colin Watson who was at Ubuntu with me and I see is now freelance, Mike McQuaid was previously of KDE but is now Continue reading "OpenUK’s 2024 New Year’s Honours List"
KTextAddons is a library with Various text handling addons used by Ruqola and Kontact apps. It can be compiles for both Qt 5 and 6 and distros are advised to compile two builds for each until Ruqola is ported to Qt 6. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ktextaddons/ SHA256: 8a52db8abfa8a9d68d2d291fb0f8be20659fd7899987b4dcafdf2468db0917dc Changelog Drop unused KXmlGui dependency Adapt to new…
KDiagram 3.0.1 is an update to our charting libraries which fixes a bug in the cmake path configuration. It also updates translations and removes some unused Qt 5 code. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiagram/3.0.1/ sha256: 4659b0c2cd9db18143f5abd9c806091c3aab6abc1a956bbf82815ab3d3189c6d Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell…
An updated stable release of XWayland Video Bridge is out now for packaging. https://download.kde.org/stable/xwaylandvideobridge/ sha256 ea72ac7b2a67578e9994dcb0619602ead3097a46fb9336661da200e63927ebe6 Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org>https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg Changes Also skip the switcher Do not start in an X11 session and opt out…
I did my Surf Kayak Leader assessment with Paul Bramble in south west Wales and pleasingly I passed. I booked on not quite knowing what to expect, there wasn t much pre course information and it was mostly because because the date was convenient. Turns out Wales is beautiful and has great surf beaches, the geography Continue reading "British Canoeing Surf Kayak Leader Assessment"
KDiagram is two powerful libraries (KChart, KGantt) for creating business diagrams. Version 3.0.0 is now available for packaging. It moves KDiagram to use Qt 6. It is co-installable with previous Qt 5 versions and distros may want to package both alongside each other for app compatibility. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiagram/3.0.0/SHA256:…
KWeatherCore is a library to facilitate retrieval of weather information including forecasts and alerts. 0.8.0 is available for packaging now URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/kweathercore/0.8.0/SHA256: 9bcac13daf98705e2f0d5b06b21a1a8694962078fce1bf620dbbc364873a0efeSSigned by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org>https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg This…
qqc2-breeze5-style is a theme used by Plasma Mobile. This alpha release is a re-bundling of the Plasma/5.27 branch of qqc2-breeze-style. It is for use by distros shipping alpha releases of Plasma 6 so that Qt 5 apps continue to be themed appropriately. URL: https://download.kde.org/unstable/qqc2-breeze5-style/ SHA256: 813f9da4861567e70d1eccf3a3a092d802ac9475a91070fb47fa8766f3c1e310 Signed by…
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop. It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources. This is the first (and likely only) pre-release, versioned 5.245.0, and it will have a stable release alongside KDE Frameworks 6 in February. Distros Continue reading "Oxygen Icons 6 Alpha Released"
This project is trying to create a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoaplibrary. The name is short for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Simple Object Access Protocol Web Services Addressing Discovery Client It is used by the SMB KIO worker from kio-extras. kio-extras will have two releases as part of KDE s 6th Megarelease, one for Qt Continue reading "KDSOAP WS-Discovery Client 0.3.0"