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Haiku is nice!

It's two or three days that I boot Vista just to play some games and watch DiVx.The other time is spent writing code on my Haiku gcc4 installation, I'm really happy!

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IM Kit Contact List

These days I'm working on IM Kit again.The documentation was updated, I packaged its dependencies binary packages for Haiku (available here) and I started a new client: im_contact_list.It's still WIP...

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vCard support for jabber and gtalk

Great things are coming!Besides gcc4 build fixes I (almost completely) implemented vCard support in order to close #323 for our jabber and gtalk protocol add-ons.

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Let's celebrate Haiku R1A1!

Finally, Haiku R1 alpha1 is here!I also found a nice demo with 7 mpeg4 videos and an important Italian magazine is talking about Haiku! :)

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Piove!! Governo Ladro!

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Maui

Some years ago I started several projects all based on the Linux kernel and GNU userland with the intent to create a better desktop user experience.I was not satisfied by GNU/Linux distributions in the...

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Hacking on documentation

Tonight is a pretty boring night, instead of coding for the Vision operating system I'm writing some documentation.Writing documentation is always boring but sooner or later I must start doing it in...

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Qt AccountsService

Recently I started working on a Qt 5 addon for AccountsService.AccountsService is a D-Bus service for accessing the list of user accounts and information attached to those accounts, as its web site...

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Hawaii System Preferences

With the imminent release of Qt 5.1, QML is going to be a serious tool for desktop applications development.With QtQuick Layouts and QtQuick Controls we can finally create complex user interfaces and...

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Hawaii System Preferences, Part 2: How preflets are loaded

System Preferences can be extended with plugins.Plugins inherit PreferencesModulePlugin and return a new PreferencesModule instance that has preflet information such as name, description, icon name,...

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Hawaii memory usage

Since Hawaii 0.2.0 is closer I wanted to collect some stats about its memory usage.Measuring resources usage reliably is a bit hard, but it seems that KSysGuard provides detailed results and keep...

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Hawaii responsive user interface

This was written after FOSDEM but never had the time to finish it and do the video so with too many months of delay I've got some time in my hands to post about the Hawaii desktop environment...

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Updates and plans for the next Hawaii version

QtDay and FOSDEM are over and I finally took some time to update the plans for the next Hawaii version.First things first. Next Hawaii iteration will be the 0.3.0 release.At first I thought to do minor...

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2048 with QML

So apparently everyone's crazy about the 2048 game.I'm probably the last guy on Earth that discovered it but I really enjoy it.Since my phone doesn't have a data plan I decided to port the game to QML,...

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Maui using Mer

Back in Sep 2012 I sent an email to the Qt Interest mailing list showing off Hawaii and what I was doing.After that I've been contacted by a couple of people from the Mer Project that explained to me...

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What's coming to Green Island: part 1

I want to share with you some of the progress I recently made.This is not all, more will come in another post.Multi output support: part 1Green Island now supports multiple outputs.QtCompositor only...

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Maui using KDE Frameworks 5

In the past months cooperation has increased between Maui, KDE and LXDE developers, not only regarding libraries, but also key components such as SDDM (which has become the new standard for Qt based...

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What's coming to Green Island: part 2

In the previous installment I forgot to post a screenshot of multiple output windows.Here it is:The first big chunk of code for multiple output support was recently merged into the qtwayland dev...

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QtAccountsService 0.6.0

We are proud to announce a new QtAccountsService release.QtAccountsService is a Qt-style API for the AccountsService D-Bus service available for both C++ and QML.Highlights of this release:Use...

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How to make your Qt application icon appear on Wayland task managers

Several months ago I was redesigning the Hawaii launcher.Now Green Island offers a class called ApplicationManager that emits signals when an application is registered or unregister (that is when a...

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SDDM 0.12.0 released

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of SDDM 0.12.0. This release features working Wayland sessions for the first time, but the greeter is still running on Xorg. This means that you will...

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Qt Virtual Keyboard support on Hawaii

Ever since Qt Virtual Keyboard was introduced a couple of years ago I desired to integrate it with Hawaii, especially considering the effort to make the whole workspace adapt to different devices...

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SDDM v0.16.0

SDDM is a Qt based Display Manager used by multiple desktops, such as Liri, KDE and LXQt. After a little more than one month since v0.15.0, I released SDDM v0.16.0 today. It contains a few bug fixes,...

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SDDM v0.17.0

We are happy to release a new SDDM with a few improvements.SDDM is a Qt based graphical login manager developed in a collaborative fashion by people from Liri, KDE and LXQt.This new version include the...

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SDDM v0.18.1

We are happy to release a new SDDM version.SDDM is a Qt based graphical login manager developed in a collaborative fashion by people from Liri, KDE and LXQt.This time around we made a point release...

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