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KDE: Debian's Builds of KDE/Plasma, Krita Report and KDE on Instagram
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 3rd of April 2020 02:15:46 PM Filed under
Norbert Preining: KDE/Plasma updates for Debian sid/testing
I have written before about getting updated packages for KDE/Plasma on Debian. In the meantime I have moved all package building to the openSUSE Build Service, thus I am able to provide builds for Debian/testing, both i386 and amd64 architectures.
[Krita's] April Development Update
With near infinite difficulty we managed to release Krita 4.2.9 in the last week of March… So now it's time to look ahead! All Krita developers work from home anyway, whether they do sponsored work or are volunteers, but it's quite hard to keep focus these days. Several of us are in quarantine, others are in lock-down — with people in Hong Kong, China, India, Russia, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, U.S.A, Canada, Mexico and Brazil we live under a wide variety of pandemic responses. The Libre Graphics Meeting in Rennes has been moved to 2021, as has the Krita Developers Sprint that was going to happen right after LGM.
But life goes on, and we're on the verge of another edition of Google Summer of Code. Krita has received a bunch of excellent proposals! Let's keep our fingers crossed for our prospective students!
And, of course, a lot is happening in Krita's repository! About two weeks ago we merged the resource management rewrite branch into master. Now, let's unpack this in what we've been doing, and what this means… For the past five years, we've been working on rewriting the way Krita handles things like brush presets, brush tip and tags. This turned out to be a huge amount of work, sucking up lots and lots of energy. But in March we felt we could risk merging everything into master so it would get into the development builds.
KDE on Instagram
Instagram is one of those social medium services and is run by everyone's favourite Facebook. The good side of it is that it's based on happy pretty pictures rather than angry people (Twitter) or political disinformation (Facebook) but the bad side of that is it is common to feel inferior because you're not as good looking as the people in the pictures. Well that's not a problem because everyone using KDE or helping out the community is automatically good looking.