Author Archives: myriam

Great students, great work done!

Posted on 14/02/2012 by myriam

During 2 months a couple of students aged between 13 and 17 have been helping to solve KDE tasks during the Google Code-In contest. As last year I did mentor a few of them, 19 to be precise. To …

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Get your Christmas presents: Amarok 2.5 and KDE 4.7.4 on Windows!

Posted on 26/12/2011 by myriam

Our KDE-Windows team has been working silently in the background to present you a whole new experience: You can now use your preferred Desktop experience and Audio player on MS Windows, too!

Indeed, Amarok 2.5 is the first stable version we release …

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When is a bug report useful?

Posted on 20/10/2011 by myriam

Every now and then we get the same complaints about bug reports again: Either it is a complaint by the user who feels her/his report doesn’t get enough attention from the developers or it is the developers who complain …

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Last week in Amarok

Posted on 13/01/2011 by myriam

The last days working towards a release
We plan to release Amarok 2.4 at the end of this week and our developers have concentrated their efforts on fixing release blockers and eventual regressions. A lot of users helped us with …

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Last week in Amarok

Posted on 14/12/2010 by myriam

Since we were quite busy in the last weeks, here comes a report about the last month in Amarok. The main reason for this delay is the following:
We released Amarok 2.4 beta !

You can read all about the beta …

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Podcast: Ian Monroe on KDE Masters of the Universe

Posted on 09/11/2010 by myriam

Gamaral at Work. Image by Martin Cathrae

KDE developer and master conspiracy theorist Gamaral has recorded a new Podcast episode of KDE and the Masters of the Universe. This time, the main guest is Amarok developer Ian “THE BEARD” …

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How to submit patches for Amarok

Posted on 30/09/2010 by myriam

If you followed the Amarok development in the last 18 months, you have seen us move from SVN to Gitorious, and finally to KDE’s own git implementation, projects.kde.org. For patch submitters  and other external contributors there was always a …

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Seventeen…

Posted on 25/05/2010 by myriam

.. is the total number of countries where the Multimedia/Edu sprint participants in Randa are from. You read that right: seventeen! We had developers from Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland (the Netherlands), Italy, Norway, Peru, Poland, …

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Want to test the phonon-vlc backend? Here you go :)

Posted on 04/04/2010 by myriam

As some of you might have read in Mark Kretschmann’s blog, we now have a fairly good phonon-vlc backend that already works better in many ways than other available backends. It is still in alpha stage, but we would …

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Show your Love on Valentine’s Day :)

Posted on 12/02/2010 by myriam

I usually boycott this marketing day of the flower business, since it is exactly that, a very well orchestrated campaign of the flower producers to guarantee their income in the bad season between Christmas and Mother’s Day, but this …

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