KDE Fund-raising and Kwave Update
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Unicorn Media ☛ Repent Walpurgis! It’s the Big Halloween Fundraiser Special
KDE started trick or treating early, and will continue after it's late.
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Nate Graham ☛ Help fight the proprietary software monsters!
KDE’s yearly fundraiser is now live, with the theme of spooooky proprietary software. Go check it out — no, really! It’s great!
I think this one absolutely nails it, because the stories there are relatable. They describe common problems with proprietary software most of us have personally experienced in our journeys to the FOSS world, and how FOSS fixes it.
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Kwave Update - October 2024
Kwave Update - October 2024
Kwave is an audio editor based on the KDE Frameworks. It was started in 1998 by Martin Wilz, and Thomas Eschenbacher has been the main developer since 1999. In recent years development has slowed. I wanted to do some software development and contribute to KDE, and I’m interested in audio, so towards the end of 2023 I started working on Kwave.
Kwave had not been ported to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 yet, so that’s what I started working towards. My first merge requests were to update deprecated code. (MR Convert plugin desktop files to json, MR Port away from deprecated Qt API, MR port away from deprecated I18N_NOOP macros, MR bump KF5_MIN_VERSION and update where KMessageBox API has been deprecated, MR port QRegExp to QRegularExpression)