by Dave | Mar 2, 2013 | Tinker Blog
It’s odd but even though KDE is built on QT, QT apps can look rather… bad in KDE. QT has a bunch of styles built in, but Oxygen, the KDE default, is not built-in. The way it can be used is through the shared QT libraries in the Linux distribution (or I...
by Dave | Feb 28, 2013 | Tinker Blog
For a long time at the company I work, our signatures were something that varied quite a bit. Now, thankfully, there’s a policy about it. You may be surprised that I say thankfully since people in general don’t like to be told what to do. Two reasons: 1)...
by Dave | Jan 15, 2013 | Tinker Blog
We all make mistakes sometimes, even me. And when it comes to computers I sometimes make messes that I then have to clean up. This is one of those times. Do a search for Nepomuk and mostly you find things like “Help! Nepomuk is eating all of my CPU” or...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2013 | Tinker Blog
Not too long ago I decided to switch back to KDE as my desktop environment. My reasons were aesthetic and technical. I do think that Canonical’s Ubuntu plans are great. I like a lot of what they’re doing. But it’s all a mish-mash of technologies and...
by Dave | Nov 1, 2012 | Tinker Blog
One thing that I love doing is genealogy and family history. As part of that I volunteer as an indexer, indexing the vast amount of historical records amassed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). Yes, I’m a Mormon. The records...
