Somewhat updated list of C++, Qt and KDE bits
I'm Tomaz Canabrava, a developer with over 20 years of experience with compiled and non compiled languages. Having worked for projects in large and small companies, I have a broad understanding of the software development process. My strong focus is in Rust, a systems programming language that I use to build high performance, reliable software. My previous focus was in C++ with Qt. You can see the…
Back in March at FOSSASIA in Bangkok, I got invited to visit the OpenKylin team in Shanghai. I mentioned it briefly at the end of that report, and here we are — the follow-up post.
I went to FOSSASIA Summit 2026 in Bangkok, and I took the time to write this report because of how much things happened in three days, also because I am not much of a blogger. FOSSASIA is Asia's big open source event and this year it took place at True Digital Park West - a rather exageratted shopping mall and convention center, which was great because whenever I was hungry I could just quickly go…
KDE has a symbiotic relationship with many linux distros, since while we develop our software we also use particular versions of linux, I personally use archlinux as my distro of choice for many years being the only distro that I manage to bare for more than six months ( and I believe I am using it for more than 15 years already so that counts). The "recipe" for packaging KDE software for arch is…
The Problem with C++ Tooling An ISO accepted C++ tooling is inexistent, so each project will choose their own toolings based on personal preference, and sometimes, based on Corporations preferences, and unfortunately there's no common ground on what should be used. There are some programs that got the Standard by consensus , like CMake . But even tough, projects will choose handmade makefiles ,…
Welcome to the first "Codevis Weekly Update" What is Codevis? Codevis is a tool to help developers manage large codebases, sponsored by Bloomberg, developed by Codethink and hosted on the KDE Infrastructure, with all that, completely opensource with a permissive license. Codevis uses a mix of technologies to do what it does, mainly LLVM and Clang to do the heavy lifting of understanding C++…
It's been a Long long time without posting anything. Not that i'm lazy (well, a bit). But I have been working on a lot of things related to KDE this past few years, and I was finally able to release and opensource Codevis. I know this post is as small as a tweet, just checking if the integration is stil working
This year konsole kept the momentum it gained in 2020, and implemented quite a lot of userful new features. We Finally implemented Reflow, thanks to the combined effort of me and Carlos Alves - that was one of the most requested features of konsole for the entire history of the project. Ahmad Samir fixed tons of issues in konsole, all around the codebase, he's the person with most commits on…
I'm using for my own personal projects a generator for c++ preferences for quite a while, I'll not say that it's heavily tested as KConfigXT is, but it is also much more simple than it. While talking about it to a fellow developer he asked me how hard it would be to port the thing to KConfig (as the main backend I used was QSettings) - and the result is quite nice, the port toook less than a day,…
Konsole is having a resurge in the moment, it's the terminal emulator of choice for the power user that wants to break the 4th wall in *nix systems. Right now it can do almost all the things I want it to do, and a few more. Since last year you can use splits in Konsole, with full drag & drop support between tabs and windows. {% include youtube.html id="f9Y1pul8smQ" %} You can also use Konsole to…
Some terminals like Tilix and Terminator offers the possibility to split the screen recursively, and I started to add the same thing to konsole. Konsole is usually said to be the swiss army knife of the terminal emulators, and if you didn't try it yet, please do. We offer quite a lot of things that no other terminal emulator offer.
Wayland needs a different mindset when you are programming, you cannot just assume things works the same way as in as X11. One of my first patches to konsole was the rewrite of the Tab Bar, and a different way to deal with Drag & Drop of the tabs. In my mind - and how wrong I was - I could assume that I was dragging to a konsole main window by querying the widget below the mouse.
We are seeing a strange trend nowadays: The terminal is being more widely used in windows, after they fixed the broken cmd.exe and MS is actually actively promoting their terminal applications like Visual Studio Code and the new Windows Terminal, but on the other hand the Unix world was always terminal based, even if you tend to use the Desktop Environment for your daily needs you probably also…
Konsole has been ready for many many years, and got almost 10 years without anything really exciting being added, mostly because the software is ready, why should we modify something that works to add experimental features?