Tools as art
Just in time for KDE Plasma 6, Chromium 122 and Electron 29 have been released! They contain my patch that adds support for Wayland’s new cursor-shape-v1 extension protocol. When running natively in a Plasma 6 Wayland session, up-to-date Chromium-based browsers and Electron apps should now always use the correct mouse cursor theme and have the…
Starting with Qt 5.13 there’ll be an option in Qt deployment tools (-qmlimport) to specify custom import paths for Qt Quick libraries.
Today, on September 18th, 2018, the Russian-speaking KDE community launches its updated website on KDE.ru. The new website serves as the main page for the Russian-speaking community. It provides localized information about the community, product download links and the list of social network pages we maintain. It is also meant to help new members get…
Chaos Constructions is an annual computer festival held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is centered around demoscene — a form of computer art where participants write programs that produce short audiovisual presentations. Apart from the demoscene contests, you can enjoy computer-related seminars, live acts, and a computer exhibition. On 25-26th of August I was lucky…
This January, an amazing milestone has been passed by the Russian KDE community: our VK group, main local community page, got more than a thousand subscribers!Globally, that doesn’t sound like much, but that’s really a lot for a local page of a FOSS community! My participation started more than a year ago, and throughout the…
Hey blog! How about a new blog post? 🙂 There have been no messages from me for a while, mostly due to my exams, and I feel guilty of the silence. Now that’s high time I write about my experience. The most important event in my life for the past few months is the Google…
If someone asked me to describe Google Code-In with one word, I would definitely say “amazing”. And that’s not just a common word: that’s what this contest really makes me feel. To begin with, I learned about GCI by chance in a few days after its start. After registration and completing my beginner tasks, I…
