[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

  • Aug 31, 2019

    Akademy Ahead!

    I'm going to Akademy 2019

  • Aug 30, 2019

    Plasma session weirdness in FreeBSD

    We – the KDE-FreeBSD team – have been puzzling over sessions management for a bit when running a Plasma desktop (plain X11) on FreeBSD. There’s something tricksy going on with ConsoleKit sessions:

  • Aug 18, 2019

    KDE Frameworks 5.61, Applications 19.08 in FreeBSD

    The KDE community’s large software product releases – Frameworks, Plasma, and Applications – come down the turnpike with distressing regularity. Like clockwork, some might say. We all know Plasma is all about clocks.

  • Aug 14, 2019

    Lazy Qt Models from QVariant

    In Calamares there is a debug window; it shows some panes of information and one of them is a tree view of some internal data in the application. The data itself isn’t stored as a model though, it is stored in one big QVariantMap. So to display that map as a tree, the code needs to provide a Qt model so that then the regular Qt views can do their thing.

  • Aug 12, 2019

    Instant Workstation

    Some considerable time ago I wrote up instructions on how to set up a FreeBSD machine with the latest KDE Plasma Desktop. Those instructions, while fairly short (set up X, install the KDE meta-port, .. and that’s it) are a bit fiddly.

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