[en] Welcome to euroquis.nl. Originally intended as a site for a European source-code-quality project, it now serves as the hub of my online presence. Most of what happens here goes on on the blog.

[nl] Welkom bij euroquis.nl. Dit was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als site voor een Europees code-kwaliteitsbeoordelingsproject. Nu is het centrum van mijn online aanwezigheid. Er gebeurt vooral wat op mijn blog.

Posts

  • Jul 3, 2020

    KSnip and Spectacle

    I have two screenshot applications installed – KSnip and Spectacle – because they offer different, and independently useful, functionality. Here’s some notes on what each does well.

  • Jun 29, 2020

    SPDX and the KDE FLA

    KDE repositories are switching over to SPDX identifiers following the REUSE.software specifications. This machine-readable form of licensing information pushes for more consistency in licensing and licensing information.

  • Jun 28, 2020

    KSysGuard

    Packaging a big stack like the software from the KDE community – Frameworks, Plasma, and all the applications and libraries and tools from the KDE Release Service – takes a fair bit of time and energy. The KDE-FreeBSD team works on both packaging and porting – making sure that KDE applications behave well on FreeBSD just like on other operating systems.

  • Jun 13, 2020

    Calamares default branch

    There’s plenty of definitions for the word “master” – my Oxford English Dictionary lists over thirty – and most of them are unproblematic. That is, they do what they say on the tin. There’s also a meaning connected to slavery. Slavery is an evil that I’m glad is partly destroyed from the world, sad that it is only partly destroyed; like smallpox, it should be gone.

  • Jun 12, 2020

    Calamares extensions and out-of-tree modules

    Calamares is a universal Linux installer framework. It provides a distribution- and desktop-agnostic set of tools that Linux distributions (and potentially FreeBSD as well) can use to build an installer for Live media (that is, ISO images). It is broadly themable, brandable, configurable and tweakable – the core repository contains 54 modules for various parts of the install process.

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