A shiny new release fresh out of the oven

The Kubuntu and KDE team has been hard at work for the last 6 months, which has culminated into a rocking Kubuntu 14.04 release which introduces a whole bunch of new features, the most important of which are : A new semantic search framework for KDE SC 4.13, leading to faster email and file searches […]

New Touchpad management app in Kubuntu 14.04

Hot on the heels of the new driver manager, we have the new touchpad management app that we introduced in Kubuntu 14.04. The new app replaces the old Synaptiks touchpad management app and has many more buttons and settings that you can twiddle and tweak to get the best experience. The Kubuntu team would like […]

New Driver Manager for Kubuntu

Hola Kubuntu users Ubuntu ‘recently’ deprecated jockey and moved to ubuntu-drivers-common. ubuntu-drivers-common is a python backend which will try to figure out which drivers are best suited to your system. Up till Kubuntu 13.10 we were still relying on the backend called Jockey which is python2 , however for the 14.04 cycle, one of our […]

Introducing Project Neon 5 ISO’s

Everyone working on KDE Frameworks Five and Plasma Workspaces 2 is eager to bring you the next iteration of the desktop experience. However, wouldn’t it be awesome if you could play with all the shiny stuff just a bit earlier? 😉 I’ll assume you’re nodding your head right about now, so without further ado I […]

Kubuntu Munich bug squashing ( with a hint of Doctor Who )

I was in Munich last weekend squashing bugs with the rest of the Kubuntu team as well as the Debian team at the LiMux offices. Loads of stuff got done or on its way to being done. The most important aspect of the bug squashing for me was to upstream packages from Kubuntu to Debian […]

Joining Blue Systems

Ahoy there! Just a small update to tell everyone that I’ve joined Blue Systems and will be working on Kubuntu and KDE full time! 😀

Looking for a job

I’m looking out for a job, something that involves a combination of one or more of the following : Qt, KDE, VoIP (NAT traversal), and K/Ubuntu (Debian packaging). Feel free to contact me if you know of anything at rohan16garg AT gmail DOT com. If you’re coming to Akademy, even better, you can meet me in […]

A update!

It’s been a long time since I blogged, primarily because I was busy with college stuff and working on a couple of cool projects. Now that I have some spare time, I can talk about some of the stuff I’ve done over the past 7-8 months. libnice At the Desktop Summit last year, George K. […]

KDE Doc Camp Day 2

KDE was selected for the awesome KDE Doc Camp Sprint here in Mountain View. Our primary aim is to write a beginner’s guide to KDE Development. The booking is coming along quite nicely, we have fleshed out a table of contents and a couple of chapters. Andy Oram from O’Reilly Media is helping us with […]

Woshibon weekend

Phew, what a week, I’m so glad it’s over. To begin with, I had  exams this entire week, which essentially meant I could not contribute to either KDE or Kubuntu , and seeing how I absolutely hate coursework, it felt like an eternity 😛 But, at the end of the week, I started working on […]