How to enable Software Center support on your distribution

Hi! My SoC project is nearly finished now, which unfortunately doesn’t mean that we will have a completely usable Software Center on all distributions – but the most difficult steps are done, all specification issues solved and I talked to many people from other distributions about the AppStream project and we made lots of progress. […]

PackageKit now parallelized!

With the most recent release of PackageKit, PackageKit 0.8.3 (published last Monday!), all my changes regarding parallelization have been merged into our master branch, which means parallelization features are now available for backends to use! Yay! The best thing about the new parallelization is that it will have an incredibly high impact on PackageKit’s speed: […]

Ein kurzes Update…

Ziemlich lange war es – zumindest was den deutschsprachigen Teil dieses Blogs angeht – extrem still geworden. Das lag zum größten Teil an meinem Studium, was einen großen Teil meiner Zeit beansprucht, zum anderen aber auch an vielen weiteren Projekten, die ich parallel noch mache oder gemacht habe. Von diesen besonders interessant für die Leser […]

Listaller 0.5.4 released!

And again, a new release of Listaller is out. But this release is special, it is probably the most important Listaller release so far. I’m glad to announce the availability of the first usable release of Listaller. “Usable” in this case means that you can build Listaller packages, without having to worry that their format […]

Keine Skype-Integration in Linux

Die absolut ätzenste Anwendung, die ich unter Linux nutze, ist für mich Skype. Der proprietäre Skype-Client lässt sich nur mit einigen Hacks überhaupt zum reibungslosen Betrieb zwingen, stürzt bei mir mindestens einmal die Woche ab und ist nicht wirklich speichereffizient. Zudem ist Skype das einzige Protokoll, was sich nicht in das globale Kommunikationssystem Telepathy integriert. […]

Wanted: KDE color management KCM

I don’t know how many of you are reading Planet GNOME, but I bet not too many. 😛 That’s why I’d like to draw your attention to this blogpost by Richard Hughes. Color management is present in all modern operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Apple OS-X, as well as GNOME has support for it […]