Dolphin bug fixes in KDE 4.8.1
First of all, hello Planet KDE! Most readers of Planet KDE probably think that Dolphin development is done almost exclusively by a single person. I figured that starting my own blog might be a good way...
View ArticleDolphin forum at forum.kde.org
When I recently read a blog post about KDE applications which have their own forum at forum.kde.org, I wondered if Dolphin should get a forum as well. I had a quick look at the KDE forums and found out...
View ArticleDolphin keyboard search improvement in KDE 4.8.2
If you read my previous post, you know that there is a Dolphin forum at forum.kde.org. Thanks to a couple of very active forum members who are doing a really amazing job, many user questions are...
View ArticleDolphin 2.1 and beyond
You have probably heard last week that Peter stepped down as Dolphin maintainer. I would like to thank him for the good collaboration that we had during the last years. It was a great pleasure to work...
View ArticleHow to get started with Dolphin development
First of all, I would like to say thanks to everyone who provided help and support since I took over Dolphin’s maintainership. Two patches have been contributed already (1, 2 – the first one will be in...
View ArticleDolphin bug fixes in KDE 4.9.1
You’ve probably heard that KDE 4.9.1 is out. I did not get much coding done myself last month, both because real life keeps me busy and because reviewing patches, reading incoming new bug reports and...
View ArticleDolphin bug fixes in KDE 4.9.2
Here is a summary of the issues that have been fixed in KDE 4.9.2, which has been released today: Bug 304752: Do not show a ‘-’ if some additional information about an item is unavailable. See git...
View ArticleHelp Dolphin by triaging bugs!
This blog post is for you if: you want to help to improve Dolphin, no matter if you have programming skills or not, you want to know more about how quality assurance in a free software project works,...
View ArticleDolphin Bug Triaging Update; Bug Fixes in KDE 4.9.3
The bug triaging event which I announced here recently has already yielded a number of very nice results: About 50% of all Dolphin bugs have been triaged already. Some of them were fixed just after...
View ArticleOn the way to Dolphin 2.2
KDE 4.10 Beta 1 has been released this week, so I thought it would be nice to summarize the changes that went into the master branch during the last few months. Here is a current screenshot that shows...
View ArticleHow to make Dolphin crash less, and other changes in KDE 4.9.4
A few weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night and could not sleep (fortunately, this happens very rarely). I took the advice that I once read, got up and tried to do something useful. I checked...
View ArticleRecent mailing list problems
This is just a short notification for anyone who tried to subscribe to or send a message to the kfm-devel mailing list recently. These actions have probably failed because there was a configuration...
View ArticleDolphin 2.2 is there!
I told you about the changes in Dolphin 2.2 some time ago already. Here is a summary of the last bugs that were fixed during the beta/RC phase: Bug 311582: Fix another “View fails to update after...
View ArticleDolphin bugs fixed in February 2013
Last week KDE released the latest bug fix release. It contains the following changes in Dolphin: Bug 315298: Fix crash when clicking an action in the context menu for a removed device in the Places...
View ArticleDolphin bugs fixed in March 2013
Here is a summary of the bug fixes that Dolphin users who upgrade to last week’s release can benefit from: Bug 288824: Fix the problem that no custom icons are shown for folders which are accessed via...
View ArticleDolphin bugs fixed in April 2013
Here are the bugs which were fixed in Dolphin for last week’s release: Aureliéns efforts to make our hover animation as good as possible were not over yet: one little bug remained after his recent...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On Algorithmic Complexity, Part 1
When people develop and maintain software, they usually try to make sure that their code not only works well, but also that it runs fast. There are many different ways to make code perform better. It...
View ArticleDolphin bugs fixed in May 2013
Again, we have a new bug fix release. Here are the bug fixes that Dolphin users who upgrade can benefit from: Bug 304918: Update the ‘Recently Accessed’ and ‘Search For’ sections of the Places Panel...
View ArticleDolphin bugs fixed in June 2013
The last bug fix update for Dolphin 2.2 has been shipped recently. Here is a summary of the changes that you can enjoy if you upgrade: Bug 320823: Rename the right item when items are added to the view...
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