The KDE Continuous Integration system builds KDE software from scratch, straight from the git repositories, and usually from master (or whatever is considered the development branch). It’s been building for Linux for a long time, and has recently been expanded with FreeBSD servers as well. KDE sysadmin has been kind enough to provide two more VMs (with some more compiling “oomph”) so that we can keep up better, and the CI has just been expanded with all of the Plasma products. That means we’re now building KDE Frameworks, and the Plasma desktop.

Results are still in the sandbox, but will eventually end up in the maiin CI.

Frameworks are all blue (good) or yellow (not-quite-good .. but I can’t really tell what Jenkins’ criteria are for making something yellow). Plasma is now in-progress: what we’re trying to do is merge as much as we can from FreeBSD ports to upstream, so that code only needs maintainence once. Today’s small fix is dealing with PAM, where Linux has pam_syslog() defined in the library, and FreeBSD does not.

KDevelop 5.1.1 released

A new stable release for KIO GDrive is now available, version is 1.2.0. The main change is the integration with Plasma/KAccounts. Have a look at my previous post for more details.

You can find the link to the source code in the wiki page: https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive

Enjoy!

LaKademy 2017 group photo

Some weeks ago we had the fifth edition of the KDE Latin-America summit, LaKademy. Since the first edition, KDE community in Latin-America has grown up and now we has several developers, translators, artists, promoters, and more people from here involved in KDE activities.

This time LaKademy was held in Belo Horizonte, a nice city known for the amazing cachaça, cheese, home made beers, cheese, hills, and of course, cheese. The city is very cosmopolitan, with several options of activities and gastronomy, while the people is gentle. I would like to back to Belo Horizonte, maybe in my next vacation.

LaKademy activites were held in CEFET, an educational technological institute. During the days of LaKademy there were political demonstrations and a general strike in the country, consequence of the current political crisis here in Brazil. Despite I support the demonstrations, I was in Belo Horizonte for event. So I focused in the tasks while in my mind I was side-by-side with the workers on the streets.

Like in past editions I worked a lot with Cantor, the mathematical software I am the maintainer. This time the main tasks performed were an extensive set of reviews: revisions in pending patches, in the bug management system in order to close very old (and invalid) reports, and in the task management workboard, specially to ping developers with old tasks without any comment in the last year.

There were some work to implement new features as well. I finished a backends refactoring in order to provide a recommended version of the programming language for each backend in Cantor. How each programming language has its own planning and scheduling, it is common some programming language version not be correctly supported in a Cantor backend (Sage, I am thinking you). This feature presents a “recommended” version of the programming language supported for the Cantor backend, meaning that version was tested and it will work correctly with Cantor. It is more like a workaround in order to maintain the sanity of the developer while he try to support 11 different programming languages.

Other feature I worked but it is not finished is a option to select different LaTeX processors in Cantor. Currently there are several LaTeX processors available (like pdflatex, pdftex, luatex, xetex, …), some of them with several additional features. This option will increased the versatility of Cantor and will allow the use of moderns processors and their features in the software.

I addition to these tasks I fixed some bugs and helped Fernando Telles, my past SoK student, with some tasks in Cantor.

(Like in past editions)², in LaKademy 2017 I also worked in other set of tasks related to the management and promotion of KDE Brazil. I investigated how to bring back our unified feed with Brazilian blogs posts as in the old Planet KDE Português, utilized to send updates about KDE in Brazil to our social networks. Fred implemented the solution. So I updated this feed in social networks, updated our e-mail contact utilized in this networks, and started a bootstrap version of LaKademy website (but the team is migrating to WordPress, I think it will not be used). I also did a large revision in the tasks of KDE Brazil workboard, migrated past year from the TODO website. Besides all this we had the promo meeting to discuss our actions in Latin-America – all the tasks were documented in the workboard.

Of course, just as we worked intensely in those days, we also had a lot of fun between a push and other. LaKademy is also a opportunity to find old friends and make new ones. It is amazing see again the KDE fellows, and I invite the newcomers to stay with us and go to next LaKademy editions!

This year we had a problem that we must to address in next edition – all the participants were Brazilians. We need to think about how to integrate people from other Latin-America countries in LaKademy. It would be bad if the event become only an Akademy-BR.

Filipe and Chicão

So, I give my greetings to the community and put myself in the mission to continue to work in order to grown the Latin-America as an important player to the development and future of KDE.

Its been some time since I’ve posted any progress for AtCore. Some may wonder what we have been up to ..

• Implimented a Comand Queue

We would like to get some info from the printer while printing we need to have some method of flow control. AtCore now uses a command queue to send all commands. With the command Queue in place we have to handle stop and Emergency stop differently . For example Emergency Stop should skip the queue and be sent as soon as the button is pressed.

• Requesting Temperatue from the printer

After you connect to a FW plugin every 5 seconds a m105 will be send to the printer and the temperature results are put onto a pretty graph that Patrick made. In order to make the graph work we need read the M105 return and extract the data from it. While our current methods of parsing this info work its very specific to each firmwares return . Since these string can be differnt between fw versions it can crash so we are working on a way to do this better.

• Cleaned up the test Client Gui

The test clients GUI needed some love. All the widgets now live within a dock and the docks can be arranged how ever the user likes. I’ve also added a status bar to show the status of AtCore. We’ve also added a print job timer and remaining print time estimate. A Seperate axis control for relative was asked for by a user and I’ve added one that Lays wrote some time ago . It works well and allows for movements on 1, 10 or 25 units

• Fixed the windows build so that It builds and deploys correctly via craft

Lays has been working hard to get atcore buildable via craft. Now we can build and deploy AtCore (and testgui) from craft. After building we had a problem of not finding the plugins on windows and them not deploying to the correct path.I added some instructions for deploy and tweaked plugin detection on window. Everything is now working well.

On my last blog post I discussed about how some assumptions such as the platform developed on can affect our development. We need to minimize it by empowering the developers with good tools so that they can develop properly. To that end, I introduced runtimes in our IDE to abstract platforms (much like on Gnome’s Builder or Qt Creator).

There are different platforms that we’ll be developing for and they need to be easily reachable when coding and testing. Both switching and interacting transparently with the different platforms.

To that end I implemented 4 approaches that integrate different runtimes:

• Docker, allows you to develop directly against virtually any system. This is especially interesting because it enables to reproduce the environment our users are having: behavior on execution and project information (i.e. the imports are the ones from the target rather the ones on our local system). Docker is a wide-spread technology in the cloud, I hope many developers will see the value in integrating the deployed environment into the IDE while they are coding.
• Flatpak, is a solution that targets specifically desktop Linux applications. We are talking about distributing bundled applications to users, there we have the opportunity to integrate the tooling specifically to that end: from fetching dependencies to testing on other devices (see videos below).
• Android, as you know it’s something I’ve been pushing for years. Finally we are getting to a space where the IDE can help get some set up troubles out of the way.
• The local host, i.e. what we have now.

And remember KDevelop is extensible. Do you want snapcraft?, vagrant?, mock? Contributions are very welcome!

If there’s something better than a list of technologies and buzzwords, that’s videos. Let’s see why this could change how you develop your software.

One development, any platform

We get to develop an application and switch back and forth the target platform we are developing for.

Here I put together a short video that tests Blinken on different platforms:

• Executes the application locally (ArchLinux)
• Executes the application on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed through Docker
• Executes the application on Neon development through Docker

One development, any device

Using the right SDK is not enough proof that the application will work as expected on every device, especially those our users will be using. Being able to easily send our application to another device to test and play around with is something I had needed for longtime. Especially important when we need to test different form factors or input devices.

In this video we can see how we can easily test an application locally and when it works just switch to Android and send to the device for proper test on the smaller touch screen.

Here we can see how we can just test an application by executing it remotely on another device. This is done by creating a bundle of the application, sending it to the device where we want to test it and executing it there.

Hassle-free contributions

You can’t deny it. You’ve wanted to fix things in the past, but you couldn’t be bothered with setting up the development environment. Both Flatpak and Docker offer the possibility to maintainers to distribute recipes to set up development platforms that can and should be integrated so that we can dedicate this 1 hour in the week-end to fixing that bug that’s been annoying us rather than reading a couple of wikis and – oh, well, never mind, gotta make dinner.

We can do this either by providing the flatpak-builder json manifest (disclaimer: the video is quite slow).

Or a Dockerfile.

You can try this today by building kdevelop git master branch, feedback is welcome. Or wait for KDevelop 5.2 later this year.

Happy hacking!

Once again a lot has been going on behind the scenes since the last release. The HTML gallery tool is back, database shrinking (e.g. purging stale thumbnails) is also supported on MySQL, grouping has been improved and additional sidecars can now be specified. Therefore the release of 5.6.0 will be (is already) delayed, as we would like to invite you to test all these features. As usual they are available in the pre-release bundles or obviously directly from the git repository. Please report any dysfunctions, unexpected behaviour or suggestions for improvement to our bug tracker.

The HTML gallery is accessible through the tools menu in the main bar of both digiKam and showFoto. It allows you to export pictures to a gallery that you can then open in any browser. There are many themes to select and you can create your own as well.

Already in 5.5.0 tests for database integrity and obsolete information have been introduced. Besides obvious data safety improvements this can free up quite a lot of space in the digiKam databases. For technical reasons only SQLite database were shrunk to this smaller size in 5.5.0. Now this is also possible for MySQL databases.

Earlier changes to the grouping behaviour proved that digiKam users have quite diverse workflows - so with the current change we try to represent that diversity.

Originally grouped items were basically hidden away. Due to requests to include grouped items in certain operations, this was changed entirely to include grouped items in (almost) all operations. Needless to say, this wasn’t such a good idea either. So now you can choose which operations should be performed on all images in a group or just the first one.
The corresponding settings lives in the configuration wizard under Miscellaneous in the Grouping tab. By default all operations are set to Ask, which will open a dialog whenever you perform this operation and grouped items are involved.

Another new capability is to recognise additional sidecars. Under the new Sidecars tab in the Metadata part of the configuration wizard you can specify any additional extension that you want digiKam to recognise as a sidecar. These files will neither be read from nor written to, but they will be moved/rename/deleted/… together with the item that they belong to.

Finally, the last important change done for the next version is to restore the geolocation bookmarks feature which do not work with bundle versions of digiKam (AppImage, MacOS, and Windows). The new bookmarker was been fully re-written and still compatible with previous geolocation bookmarks settings. It now able to display the bookmark GPS information over a map for a better usability while editing your collection.

Thanks in advance to everyone testing this new release and in general everyone using digiKam - we hope you keep enjoying this tool and spread the word!

Quick intro

Rust

KDevelop

What now?

The plan for the next month: parsing Rust code

Installers for Kate 17.04.1 are now available for download!

This release includes, besides bug-fixing and features, an update to the search in files plugin. The search-while-you-type in the current file should not “destroy” your last search in files results as easily as previously. The search-combo-box-history handling is also improved.

Grab it now at download.kde.org:  Kate-setup-17.04.1-KF5.34-32bit or Kate-setup-17.04.1-KF5.34-64bit

The Akademy programme (saturday, sunday) is actually pretty long; the conference days stretch into feels-like-evening to me. Of course, the Dutch are infamous for being “6pm at the dinner table, and eat potatoes” so my notion of evening may not match what works on the Mediterranean coast. Actually, I know it doesn’t since way back when at a Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla it took some internal-clock-resetting to adjust to dinner closer to midnight than 18:00.

Foreseen clock-adjustment difficulties aside, I have a plan for Akademy.

• Attend a bunch of talks. Telemetry / User Feedback sounds like a must-see for me, and lightning talks, and Input Methods is something I know nothing about and should (hey, my work-work application is Latin-1 only and therefore can’t even represent the names of all of its developers properly, and that in 2017), and the analysing code and fuzzing talk connects way back to the English Breakfast Network days of KDE Code Quality.
• Hammer (and saw, and sand, and paint) on the KDE CI for FreeBSD; this will involve a fair amount of futzing with the base system, but also gently pushing changes to a whole bunch of repositories. KDE Frameworks 5 are mostly blue / yellow. It’s time to start adding higher layers of the software stack to the whole.
• BoF it up around CMake, FreeBSD, CI, and LDAP.
• Have fun at the day trip.

Hi, I'm Davide and I'm 22.
I was born on May 17th so I'm considering being accepted by KDE as a little gift.
The first month is usually related to "Community Bonding". What does it mean?

First of all, I created this blog. Here I'll post updates about Chat Bridge (now renamed to Brooklyn) and myself.
Then, I retrieved my KDE Identity account. The main problem was that I had lost my username.
So I wrote to sysadmin@kde.org and five minutes after the username was no longer a problem.
Shortly after I've done a lot of stuff, but I don't want to bother my readers.

After this boring to-do list, I've contacted my mentor to keep him updated.
We decided to start the development of the application and we defined how the app configuration file should be.
It is obviously open-source, you can use it for your projects! For now, it works only on IRC/Telegram but it will support soon also Rocketchat.
It can only support plain text, but it's temporary, don't worry.

I'm planning (but I've not decided yet because of university exams) to go to Akademy 2017 with some guys at WikiToLearn.
I can't wait to start coding!

What do you think about this project?
Do you have plans to use it?
Don't be shy, write me everything you want!


External links:

• Brooklyn repo: https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/davider/brooklyn.git/

The annual openSUSE Conference 2017 is upcoming! Next weekend it will be again in the Z-Bau in Nuremberg, Germany.

The conference program is impressive and if you can make it, you should consider stopping by.

Stefan Schäfer from the Invis server project and me will organize a workshop about openSUSE for Small and Medium Business (SMB).

SMB is a long running concern of the heart of the two of us: Both Stefan, who even does it for living, and me have both used openSUSE in the area of SMB for long and we know how well it serves there. Stefan has even initiated the Invis Server Project, which is completely free software and builds on top of the openSUSE distributions. The Invis Server adds a whole bunch of extra functionality to openSUSE that is extremely useful in the special SMB usecase. It came a long way starting as Stefans own project long years ago, evolving as proper maintained openSUSE Spin in OBS with a small, but active community.

The interesting question is how openSUSE, Invis Server and other smaller projects like for example Kraft can unite and offer a reliable maintained and comprehensive solution for this huge group of potential users, that is now locked in to proprietary technologies mainly while FOSS can really make a difference here.

In the workshop we first will introduce the existing projects briefly, maybe discuss some technical questions like integration of new packages in the openSUSE distributions and such, and also touch organizational question like how we want to setup and market openSUSE SMB.

Participants in the workshop should not expect too much presentation. We rather hope for a lively discussion with many people bringing in their projects that might fit, their experiences and ideas. Don’t be shy

In KDE we cover a mix of platforms and form factors that make our technology very powerful. But how to reach so many different systems while maintaining high quality on all of them?

What variables are we talking about?

Form factors

We use different form factors nowadays, daily. When moving, we need to be straight-forward; when focusing we want all functionality.

Together with QtQuick Controls, Kirigami offers ways for us to be flexible both in input types and screen sizes.

Platforms

We are not constantly on the same device, diversity is part of our lives. Recommending our peers the tools we make should always be a possibility, without forcing them into major workflow changes (like changing OS, yes).

Qt has been our tool of choice for years and it’s proven to keep up with the latest industry changes, embracing mobile, and adapting to massively different form factors and operating systems. This integration includes some integration in their look and feel, which is very important to many of us.

Devices & Quality Assurance

We are targeting different devices, we need to allow developers to test and make it easy to reproduce and make the most out of the testing we get, learn from our users.

Whatever is native to the platform. APK (and possibly even Google Play) on Android, Installers on Windows and distribution packages for GNU/Linux.
Furthermore, we’ve been embracing new technologies on GNU/Linux systems that can help a lot in this front including Snap/Flatpak/AppImage, which could help streamline this process as well.

What needs to happen?

Some of these technologies are slowly blooming as they get widely adopted, and our community needs as well to lead in offering tooling and solutions to make all of this viable.

• We need straightforward quality assurance. We should ensure the conditions under which we develop and test are our users’ platforms. When facing an error, being able to reproduce and test is fundamental.
• We should allow for swift release cycles. Users should always be on fresh stable releases. When a patch release is submitted, we should test it and then have it available to the users. Nowadays, some users are not benefiting from most stable releases and that’s makes lots of our work in vain.
• Feedback makes us grow. We need to understand how our applications are being used, if we want to solve the actual problems users are having.

All of this won’t happen automatically. We need people who wants to get their hands dirty and help build the infrastructure to make it happen.

There’s different skills that you can put in practice here: ranging from DevOps, helping to offer fresh quality recipes for your platform of choice, improving testing infrastructure, or actual system development on our development tools and of course any of the upstream projects we use.

Hop on! Help KDE put Free Software on every device!

Hi everyone, is everything ok? I hope so.

Today, I will talk about my week working on Krita during this community bonding period that ends next Sunday.

You probably are asking, why I put a Garfield comic here. First, I love cats and Garfield :). Second, I figure out that represents what open source community needs, more consistency and constant work. Boud told me sometimes that we need to commit and be in touch with the community every day. It's a problem, send a huge modification or do not enter in IRC for a long time. I'm trying to be more constant because is not all about code.

This week was pretty cool why I could know more the community, talking with users and devs to define the initial set for the Krita's showcase.

• Monday - I opened a discussion in the Krita’s forum to obtain new suggestions for the Krita’s showcase.

• Tuesday - I was trying to understand some current features of the Krita that users told me like Image Reference and Palette.

• Wednesday - I organized and wrote all suggestion of users from the forum and from the IRC on the phabricator task.

• Thursday - I asked more experienced devs for help with suggestions in the task thread, as you can see here.

• Friday - A day to solve some personal problems.

• Saturday - I wrote an answear with my guideline for the GSoC period.

That’s it for now. Thanks, Krita community. Until next week, See ya!!

Today I streamed the first half of the Plasma 5.11 wallpaper production, and it was an interesting experience. The video above is the abridged version sped up ~20x, heavily edited to the actual creation, and should be a fun watch for the interested.

It looks like there’s another full work-day that needs to go into the wallpaper still, and while I think I’ll also record the second half I don’t think I’ll livestream it; while I’m very appreciative of the viewers I had, it was quite a bit of extra work and quite difficult to carry on a one-man conversation for 8 hours, while working, for at most a few people. Like I said, I will still record the second half of the wallpaper for posterity, I simply don’t think I’ll be streaming it. I do think I’ll keep streaming the odd icon batch, as those are about as long as I want, so they can be kept to a digestible hour.

The wallpaper as it is is based on an image of a reef along with a recent trip to the beach during the Blue Systems sprint. There’s still a long way to go, and I can easily see another 8 hours going into this before it’s completed; there’s water effects, tides, doing the rocks, and taking a second pass at the foam – among other things – especially before I hit the level of KDE polish I’d like meet.

Looking at it, I may also make a reversed image with only the shoreline components for dual-screen aficionados.

Within the next week or so I’ll post the next timelapse after I complete the wallpaper.

Not only, but to a large extent I worked in the last few months on foundational improvements to KWin’s DRM backend, which is a central building block of KWin’s Wayland session. The idea in the beginninng was to directly expand upon my past Atomic Mode Setting (AMS) work from last year. We’re talking about direct scanout of graphic buffers for fullscreen applications and later layered compositing. Indeed this was my Season of KDE project with Martin Flöser as my mentor, but in the end relative to the initial goal it was unsuccessful.

The reason for the missed goal wasn’t a lack of work or enthusiasm from my side, but the realization that I need to go back and first rework the foundations, which were in some kind of disarray, mostly because of mistakes I did when I first worked on AMS last year, partly because of changes Daniel Stone made to his work-in-progress patches for AMS support in Weston, which I used as an example throughout my work on AMS in KWin, and also because of some small flaws introduced to our DRM backend before I started working on it.

The result of this rework are three seperate patches depending on each other and all of them got merged last week. They will be part of the 5.10 release. The reason for doing three patches instead of only one, was to ease the review process.

The first patch dealt with the query of important kernel display objects, which represent real hardware, the CRTCs and Connectors. KWin didn’t remember these objects in the past, although they are static while the system is running. This meant for example that KWin requeried all of them on a hot plugging event and had no prolonged knowledge about their state after a display was disconnected again. The last point made it in particular difficult to do a proper cleanup of the associated memory after a disconnect. So changing this in a way that the kernel objects are only queried once in the beginning made sense. Also from my past work I already had created a generic class for kernel object with the necessary subclasses, which could be used in this context. But still to me this patch was the most “controversial” one of the three, which means it was the one I was most worried about being somehow “wrong”, not just in details, but in general, especially since it didn’t solve any observable specific misbehaviour, which it could be benchmarked against. Of course I did my research, but there is always the anxiety of overlooking something crucial. Too bad the other patches depended on it. But the patch was accepted and to my relief everything seems to work well on the current master and the beta branch for the upcoming release as well.

The second patch restructured the DrmBuffer class. We support KWin builds with or without Generic Buffer Manager (GBM). It made therefore sense to split off the GBM dependent part of DrmBuffer into a seperate file, which gets only included when GBM is available. Martin had this idea and, although the patch is still quite large because of all the moved around code and renamed classes, the change was straight forward. I still managed to introduce a build breaking regression, which was quickly discovered and easily to solve. This patch was also meant as a preperation for the future direct scanout of buffers, which will then be done by a new subclass of DrmBuffer, also depending on GBM.

The last patch finally directly tackled all the issues I experienced when trying to use the before that rather underwhelming code path for AMS. Yes, you saw the picture on the screen, the buffer flipping worked, but basic functionality like hot plugging or display suspending were not working at all or led to unpredictable behaviour. Basically a complete rewrite later with many, many manual in and out pluggings of external monitors to test the bahaviour the problems have been solved to the point I consider the AMS code path now to be ready for daily use. For Plasma 5.11 I therefore plan to make it the new default. That means that it will be available on Intel graphics automatically from Linux kernel 4.12 onwards, when on the kernel side the Intel driver also defaults to it. If you want to test my code on Plasma 5.10 you need to set the environment variable KWIN_DRM_AMS and on kernels older than 4.12 you need to add the boot parameter i915.nuclear_pageflip. If you use Nvidia with the open source Nouveau driver, AMS should be available to you since kernel 4.10. In this case you should only need to set the environment variable above on 5.10, if you want to test it. Since I only tested AMS with Intel graphics until now, some reports back how it works with Nouveau would be great.

That’s it for now. But of course there is more to come. I haven’t given up on the direct scanout and at some point in the future I want to finish it. I already had a working prototype and mainly waited for my three patches to land. But for now I’ll postpone further work on direct scanout and layered compositing. Instead the last weeks I worked on something special for our Wayland session in 5.11. I call it Night Color, and with this name you can probably guess what it will be. And did I mention, that I was accepted as a Google Summer of Code student for the X.org foundation with my project to implement multi buffered present support in XWayland? Nah, I didn’t. Sorry for rhetorical asking in this smug way, but I’m just very happy and also a bit proud of having learned so much in basically only one year to the point of now being able to start work on an X.org project directly. I’ll write about it in another blog post in the near future.

Hi there,

It's been almost a year since I, Filipe and Aracele were having a beer at Alexander Platz after the very last day of QtCon Berlin, when Aracele astutely came up with a very crazy idea of organizing QtCon in Brazil. Since then, we have been maturing such an idea and after a lot of work we are very glad to announce: QtCon Brasil 2017 happens from 18th to 20th August in São Paulo.

QtCon Brazil 2017 is the first Qt community conference in Brazil and Latin America. Its goals are twofold: i) provide a common venue for existing Brazilian and Latin-American Qt developers, engineers, and managers share their experiences on creating Qt-powered technologies and ii) disseminate Qt adoption in Latin America, with the purpose of expanding its contributors base, encouraging business opportunities, and narrowing relationships between sectors like industry, universities, and government.

In this first edition of QtCon Brazil, the conference will focus on cross-platform development enabled by Qt. With that, the meeting can benefit a wider range of stakeholders, with interest in all sort of platforms, including desktop (Windows, Linux, and OS X), mobile (Android and iOS), embedded, and IoT. We are bringing together experienced Qt specialists from Brazil and overseas to delivery a state-of-art program of talks and training sessions that illustrate how Qt has been used as enabling technology for many sectors in industry.

QtCon Brazil 2017 will take place in São Paulo – the most important technical, social, and cultural hub in Brazil and the world’s tenth largest GDP. São Paulo is easily reachable from most of Brazilian airports, provides satisfactory infrastructure regarding the venue and accommodation, and is a strategic place to augment the achievements of this first edition of QtCon Brazil. The venue where the meeting will happen is Espaço Fit, a multifunctional conference center with an auditorium for 220 people and that provides all required infrastructure regarding multimedia equipments, Wi-Fi, and catering services. Espaço Fit is located in São Paulo downtown – at Avenida Paulista – it is easily reachable from airports, in a walking distance from metro stations, and nearby a large array of hotels.

QtCon Brasil 2017 is kindly sponsored by The Qt Company, Toradex, openSUSE and KDE. It has also the valuable support for logistics and outreach of Carreira RH and Embarcados. Thank you all for making QtCon Brasil possible.

You can find more information (in portuguese) at QtCon Brasil webpage. Also, be sure to follow us in QtCon Brasil Twitter, Facebook and Google+ pages.

ICC Examin allows since version 1.0 ICC Color Profile viewing on the Android mobile platform. ICC Examin shows ICC color profile elements graphically. This way it is much easier to understand the content. Color primaries, white point, curves, tables and color lists are displayed both numerically and as graphics. Matrices, international texts, Metadata are much easier to read.

Features:
* most profile elements from ICC specification version 2 and version 4
* additionally some widely used non standard tag are understood

ICC color profiles are used in photography, print and various operating systems for improving the visual appearance. A ICC profile describes the color response of a color device. Read more about ISO 15076-1:2010 Standard / Specification ICC.1:2010-12 (Profile version 4.3.0.0), color profiles and ICC color management under www.color.org .

The ICC Examin App is completely rewritten in Qt/QML. QML is a declarative language, making it easy to define GUI elements and write layouts with fewer code. In recent years the Qt project extended support from desktop platforms to mobiles like Nokias Meego, Sailfish OS, iOS, Android, embedded devices and more. ICC Examin is available as a paid app in the Google Play Store. Sources are currently closed in order to financially support further development. This ICC Examin version continues to use Oyranos CMS. New is the dependency to RefIccMAX for parsing ICC Profile binaries. In the process both the RefIccMAX library and the Oyranos Color Management System obtained changes and fixes in git for cross compilation with Android libraries. Those changes will be in the next respective releases.

The FLTK Toolkit, as used in previous versions, was not ported to the Android or other mobile platforms. Thus a complete rewrite was unavoidable. The old FLTK based version is still maintained by the same author.