Interested in Linux TUI applications? Learning how to play guitar? What about the CAGED system?

I suppose that you have already skipped this article.

Otherwise, let me introduce you to Geekar: a guitar learning application for the Linux terminal.

Features

Let's install it.

First, install fluidsynth using the package manager …

Just an ordinary day with a mobile device running Linux. Not with a communication device, aka a phone. I believe that a phone should offer very reliably just these features:

• Calls
• SMS
• E2E encrypted foss IM
• Deep sleep and push notifications (or any alternative for notifications without draining the battery …

I like e-book readers. In a couple of minutes, you can get the books you like and get started with reading them. Or RSS feeds and that random article you have marked as "read-it-later". The reading experience is nice. Thanks to the e-ink technology, eye strain is drastically reduced. You …

Glossaico 1.2 has been released. Glossaico is a free software application for language learning based on LibreLingo.

New features

• Desktop users can navigate using the keyboard
• Practice can be canceled without saving progress
• Translation infrastructure has been set up, and the user interface has been translated to Dutch, German …

Glossaico 1.1 has been released. Glossaico is a free software application for language learning based on LibreLingo.

What's new

Most of the work done for this release is related to code refactoring, testing and maintainability improvements. However, Glossaico users may be interested in a set of changes included in …

Linux applications with QML and Python? Why not? Python is a popular programming language. QML offers an intuitive way to create user interfaces. Kirigami provides useful UI components and implements UI/UX patterns for mobile and desktop. Let's fit these technologies together and create a simple application.

Prerequisites

Obviously, we …

The first stable version of Glossaico has been released.

Glossaico is a language learning application based on LibreLingo, created for mobile devices running Linux. However, you can also execute it on any environment where Python, Qt and Kirigami are available.

Glossaico on Plasma Mobile

This release offers three language courses …

The first beta release of Glossaico 1.0 is out for early adopters, testers and linux-on-mobile enthusiasts. Glossaico is a language learning application based on LibreLingo, a community-owned language-learning platform.

Glossaico has been created for mobile devices running Linux, but the technology stack it makes use of -Python and Qt- …

Amidst the covid19 pandemic, almost all conferences and meetings have been taking place online. Among them, there is a series of events held by free software (foss) communities, social and solidarity economy cooperatives and groups that defend human rights. Throughout this post, I will refer to them as TGFs (the …

The first bug fix release of Kongress, the conference companion application of the KDE community, is now available. Several fixes have been included in this release:

• The time displayed on talk notifications has been corrected
• Several crash scenarios of kongressac, the alarm checker of kongress, have been addressed
• Corner cases …

I am pleased to announce that Kongress 1.0 has been released. Kongress is a conference companion application enabling users to organize their participation in conferences.

The first release of Kongress offers the following features:

• The schedule of a collection of free software conferences, displayed in various ways: full, by …

Currently, Calindori works with calendar data provided by files that follow the iCalendar specification, without offering an out-of-the-box way to synchronize your calendars with external sources, e.g. with Nextcloud. However, this will change in the future. In specific, a plan for this feature has been devised. The first step …

Calindori 1.3, the calendar application for mobile and convergent desktop, is now available. In this release, user interface refinements, fixes and under-the-hood changes can be found.

New features and improvements

First, Calindori now makes use of the Solid wake-up features, when running on Plasma 5.20 or later. In …

Calindori 1.2 is out! Although a couple of versions have also been tagged, that's the first stable release of Calindori as a KDE application.

In this release, new ways to manage your schedule have been added, several rough edges have been smoothed out, and a set of mobile-desktop convergence …

In January, one month before travelling to Brussels for FOSDEM 2020 (do you remember when the conferences were taking place in the non-virtual world?), I was following a conversation on Mastodon. The discussion was about free software companion apps that could be used on the PinePhone in FOSDEM. Calindori, the …

The other day I wanted to connect to my PinePhone from my desktop computer. Since USB tethering is not functional yet on KDE Neon that runs on the phone, a wifi connection should have been established on the phone side to get access to a terminal. But if you would …

A new version of Calindori, the calendar application of Plasma Mobile, is now available. In Calindori 1.1, a set of new features has been added as well as the user interface has been improved, following the KDE human interface guidelines.

Event reminders

You can now add reminders to calendar …

Interested in getting started with Kirigami development in a few minutes? Since version 5.63 of the Kirigami framework, there is an easy way to do so: an application template. The template facilitates the creation of a new application, using CMake as the build system, and linking to Kirigami dynamically …

Have you ever wondered how KDE, a global community of volunteers, can successfully create and maintain such a large set of software projects? Projects that, among many others, include image and video editing applications, a powerful desktop environment and frameworks that make the work of developers easier. If you have …

About a year ago the phabricator tasks of Plasma Mobile were extensively revamped. We tried to make clear the objective of each task, providing helpful resources and facilitating onboarding. Looking at the features needed to reach the “Plasma Mobile 1.0” milestone, the calendar application was sticking out. So, Calindori …

As soon as I offered my mobile phone number for the proof of concept of sending an SMS from a phone running Plasma Mobile, I felt like a student in the Stanford Research Institute expecting the very first message via the ARPANET from UCLA . OK, that’s certainly an exaggeration …