Author name: sgmoore

KDE, Kubuntu, Linux, Open Source Software, Packaging, snaps

KDE Applications snaps 25.04.3 released, plus new snaps and fixes!

I have released 25.04.3 I have upgraded the QT6 content snap to 6.9! Fixed a bug in kde-neon* extensions with cmake prefix path. New snaps! Audex: A CD ripping application. GCompris – An excellent childrens education application Labplot – Scientific plotting Digikam – 8.7.0 with exiftool bug fixed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501424 Krita – 5.2.11 – Excellent Graphic art platform ( compares to Photoshop ) kgraphviewer – Graphiz .dot file viewer I am happy to report my arm is mostly functional! Unfortunately, maintaining all these snaps is an enormous amount of work, with time I don’t have! Please consider a donation for the time I should be spending job hunting / getting a website business off the ground. Thank you for your consideration!

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KDE Application snaps 25.04.2 released!

Release notes: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.2/ Now available in the snap store! Along with that, I have fixed some outstanding bugs: Ark: now can open/save files in removable media Kasts: Once again has sound WIP: Updating Qt6 to 6.9 and frameworks to 6.14 Enjoy everyone! Unlike our software, life is not free. Please consider a donation, thanks!

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KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 with Major Bug Fix!,Life ( Good news finally!)

Snaps! I actually released last week 🙂 I haven’t had time to blog, but today is my birthday and taking some time to myself! This release came with a major bugfix. As it turns out our applications were very crashy on non-KDE platforms including Ubuntu proper. Unfortunately, for years, and I didn’t know. Developers were closing the bug reports as invalid because users couldn’t provide a stacktrace. I have now convinced most developers to assign snap bugs to the Snap platform so I at least get a chance to try and fix them. So with that said, if you tried our snaps in the past and gave up in frustration, please do try them again! I also spent some time cleaning up our snaps to only have current releases in the store, as rumor has it snapcrafters will be responsible for any security issues. With 200+ snaps I maintain, that is a lot of responsibility. We’ll see if I can pull it off. Life! My last surgery was a success! I am finally healing and out of a sling for the first time in almost a year. I have also lined up a good amount of web work for next month and hopefully beyond. I have decided to drop the piece work for donations and will only accept per project proposals for open source work. I will continue to maintain KDE snaps for as long as time allows. A big thank you to everyone that has donated over the last year to fund my survival during this broken arm fiasco. I truly appreciate it! With that said,  if you want to drop me a donation for my work, birthday or well-being until I get paid for the aforementioned web work please do so here: GoFundMe Patreon Github Donorbox

KDE, Kubuntu, Linux, Open Source Software, Packaging, snapcraft, snaps, Software, Software development

KDE Snaps and life. Spirits are up, but I need a little help please

I was just released from the hospital after a 3 day stay for my ( hopefully ) last surgery. There was concern with massive blood loss and low heart rate. I have stabilized and have come home. Unfortunately, they had to prescribe many medications this round and they are extremely expensive and used up all my funds. I need gas money to get to my post-op doctors appointments, and food would be cool. I would appreciate any help, even just a dollar! I am already back to work, and continued work on the crashy KDE snaps in a non KDE env. ( Also affects anyone using kde-neon extensions such as FreeCAD) I hope to have a fix in the next day or so. Fixed kate bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503285 Thanks for stopping by.

KDE, Kubuntu, Linux, Open Source Software, Packaging, snaps, Software, Software development

KDE Applications 25.04 Snaps and Kubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 Released!

Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence 😆 https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kde ! In addition to all the regular testing I am testing our snaps in a non KDE environment, so far it is not looking good in Xubuntu. We have kernel/glibc crashes on startup for some and for file open for others. I am working on a hopeful fix. Next week I will have ( I hope ) my final surgery. If you can spare any change to help bring me over the finish line, I will be forever grateful 🙂

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