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Everyone is moving to git.kde.org
Except me that is… but only due to lack of rule-writing time.
Things
I haven’t updated in awhile. This isn’t going to be much better, but it’s something.
kdesrc-build update for Git migration
So this morning kde-core-devel was emailed to notify that a few projects that used to be hosted in kdesupport have moved to git.kde.org.
Benoît Mandelbrot
So it seems that Benoît Mandelbrot has died today.
Speed up!
So. Matthias Fuchs of Speeding up KGet with Callgrind fame pointed out to me on IRC the other day that KIconLoader seemed to still be using a lot of time to load icon image data, even when the icon should have already been cached.
Big update collection
Unfortunately I haven’t made any blog updates in awhile. I’ve been very busy between work and school (and I will likely spend this weekend working on a 20 page project that I’ve written 0 pages for ;). That doesn’t mean I have nothing to report though…
Timing belts
So… the engine on my Chevrolet Aveo abruptly stopped working today. Always a nice experience!
Another transition for kdesvn-build
So if you have been looking at Planet KDE or the kde-scm-interest mailing list recently you will have noticed that some of our intrepid sysadmins have started setup the systems that will be needed to migrate the KDE source code to Git. Konversation and Amarok have already switched.
Loading an icon with KIconLoader
Given that I’ve recently been mucking about in the internals of KIconLoader and gaining more knowledge about its inner workings, I’ve learned a bit about how the icon loading mechanisms work in the KDE platform. I thought it would make for an interesting entry so here I go: