Let’s assume you want to display the logo of your company in your Qt app. Most probably that logo has just single color with an alpha channel.But: Having the color hard coded in the image is not nice, there are users (like me!) out there, who use a custom (dark!) color scheme. Meaning: If your logo is black/dark and assumes a bright background and you just embed it blindly in your app, I probably won’t see it since the background will be dark in my case.

Here is a solution for the simple case of a mono-colored PNG with an alpha channel which I came up with:

No I’m not a nutjob who talks about the rapture (epic fail btw.). Instead, I’m talking about my time as a bachelor student. I’ve just handed in my thesis after weeks of work on it. You might have noticed by my recent absence from KDE hacking. But rest assured. Now I’m back again :)

Hey all!

I wanted to quickly notify you all about the availability of KDevelop 4.2.0 final, you can download it here: http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/kdevelop/4.2.0/src/ . Most people should be fine with waiting for updated packages from their distributor though.

Good news everyone, part 1 for today:

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.1.2, a pure bug fix release without new features. Anyone using the 4.1 branch is urged to upgrade to this new version as soon as possible. Keep in mind that if you are using KDE 4.6 or higher, you need the 4.2 branch. This release works fine with KDE 4.4 or 4.5 though.

Note: This is - probably - the last release in this branch. We are now concentrating on 4.2 and what will become 4.3 eventually.

Good news everyone!

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.2 Beta 2. This is a bugfix release over the first beta release two weeks ago. Every tester is urged to update, any updated feedback and bug reports are highly appreciated.

To download it: http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.1.81/src