As some of might now: I did a GSoC project for OpenSUSE this summer. The goal was to improve AppStream and the Software Center stuff on all Linux distributions. During my SoC project, I also created appstream-core, a small libraryRead more…
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 toRead more…
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 aboutRead more…
Software Center progress report
It’s been a very long time since my last blogpost, but you can be sure I haven’t gone lost! 😉 I was very busy with writing exams (and preparing for them) the last weeks, and university was giving me aRead more…
Hello openSUSE!
Hello Planet! I am Matthias Klumpp and I will work on making AppStream work for openSUSE as part of the Google Summer of Code this year. I study Molecular Biomedicine in my second semester in Germany and I use LinuxRead more…
Meet the Tux!
A little follow-up from my last post about birthday presents: I guess I can now consider me a real Linux user/developer, because I now own a big plush Tux, like every good Linux user should do: A great present ^^Read more…
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 thisRead more…
Birthday Presents…
…what you get if your friends know you’re doing Linux 😉 😀 …what you get if your friends know you’re doing Linux 😉 😀
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 operatingRead more…
KDE System Settings Usability
First of all: Everything in this blogpost is just my personal opinion. I am not a developer of KDE System Settings. I am also not a designer or usability-expert, so please just read this as a collection of subjective, personalRead more…