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Minuet 26.08: call for testers

Minuet is a KDE's application for music education. It helps students and musicians train their ears with exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. Minuet 26.08 is shaping up to be a particularly exciting release, with new ways to practice, a redesigned interface, and support for more

New Kirigami-Addon's Onboarding Module

Even well-designed applications can become difficult to understand when their main workflows involve multiple controls, pages, or unfamiliar interaction patterns. Expecting users to discover these features on their own may lead to frustration, abandoned tasks, and additional support requests. Kirigami-Addons' onboarding module addresses this problem by presenting contextual guidance

From Prompt to QObject: Building an LLM-Powered Action Runtime for Qt Applications

TL;DR: this post presents an introspectable action runtime for AI-enabled Qt applications, where selected QObject instances are exposed through a smart-object registry, translated into a bounded planning context, and mutated through previewable, validated plans. The approach relies on Qt’s existing meta-object system, using Q_PROPERTY, Q_

Integrating ChatGPT in Qt Applications

ChatGPT, LLMs, and other generative AI tools have recently been the center of attention and excitement in the tech world. Have you considered creating a simple quiz game with our favorite UI toolkit, featuring content generated on-the-fly by ChatGPT? How challenging could that be? Let's find out! :) Here&

Announcing LaKademy 2019

Hi there, The seventh edition of the KDE Latin-American Summit (LaKademy 2019) is ready to go! It will take place at Salvador-Bahia, northeastern Brazil, from 14th to 17th November. 24 participants, hopefully accompanied by some local guests, will meet at Superintendency of Information Technology of Federal University of Bahia for

ISO Qt para Android + Qt3D (nova versão)

UPDATE: nova versão disponível: (ISO) (instruções) . Novidades desta versão: Qt 5.12.1. Qt Creator 4.8.1. Toolchain C++ baseada no Clang. Android SDK 4333796. Android NDK r19b. Emulador Android. Virtual Device Android x86_64 já configurado no Qt

Announcing QtCon Brazil 2018

We are happy to announce that the 2nd edition of the first Qt conference in America Latina ( QtCon Brazil 2018 ) is gonna happen from 8th to 11th November, in São Paulo. The first edition of QtCon Brazil happened last year, also in São Paulo, and brought

Akademy 2018 in lovely Vienna!

Attending Akademy - the annual KDE contributors summit - is always a quite intense experience. This year it happened from 11th to 17th August in the lovely city of Vienna, Austria. It was a quite special edition. We got a higher number of attendees, including some people who have been

KDE-edu 2017 Sprint in Berlin

From October 7th to 15th I went to Berlin for attending three KDE-related events in a row. While quite exhausting, it's a nice way to optimize your contributions, mostly when you need to travel between continents to enjoy all the awesomeness of the free software world. From 7th

meg@akademy2017

Hi there, It's been a while since my last post over here. After being drained with a lot of work on the very first edition of QtCon Brasil , we all had to take some rest to recharge our batteries and get ready for some new crazinesses. This post

Announcing QtCon Brasil 2017

Hi there, It's been almost a year since I, Filipe and Aracele were having a beer at Alexander Platz after the very last day of QtCon Berlin, when Aracele astutely came up with a very crazy idea of organizing QtCon in Brazil. Since then, we have been maturing

One week to LaKademy 2017 \o/

LaKademy is the annual Latin-American KDE Summit, a sprint-like meeting where Latin-American KDE contributions meet for coding, translation, and more.

Minuet in KDE Applications 16.12: code convergence, tablet UX and Windows release

With KDE Applications 16.12, Minuet brings a new UI, with improved navigation, better rendering in tablets, and now it's also working on Windows.

Minuet at QtCon/Akademy 2016

From 1st to 8th September, I was in Berlin attending both QtCon and Akademy . Akademy is already well-known as a quite intense and exciting meeting, where KDE contributors from all over the world get together to hack and discuss the upcoming awesome things we want to deliver. This year, as

Minuet 0.2: massive refactoring and Android version available

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of KDE Minuet for Android. Download it from Google Play Store and start enhancing your musical skills \o/