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Representing KDE at XDC 2018

October 31, 2018

Last month the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC) was held in A Coruña, Spain. I took part as a Plasma/KWin developer.

The Future, the Past and FOSDEM

February 2, 2018

A recap of what happened in the last few months and what are my plans for the future.

Preparing Patches

August 25, 2017

In this last week of my GSoC project I aimed at bringing my code into its final form. The goals for that are simple.

End In Sight

August 18, 2017

We count the last days of 2016 so it's time for a little recap...

Another Iteration and One Tough Bug

August 11, 2017

One more time I decided to start from the beginning and try another even more radical approach to my Xwayland GSoC project than the last time. I have now basically written a full API inside the Present extension, with which modes of presentation can be added.

Moving Forward

August 4, 2017

I reworked this week huge parts of my code and I have a feeling that I'm on the right track. I wrote a second mail to the xorg-devel mailing list and the feedback I got back was also way more positive than on the first try.

A New Beginning

July 28, 2017

After receiving negative feedback in regards to my code I decided to start over. Read here to learn more.

A Small Update

July 21, 2017

This is just a small update on what I am currently working on for my Google Summer of Code project. More content will come in the following weeks

Difficulties and Success Stories

July 14, 2017

I provided in the past few weeks some general information about my project and hopefully helpful documentation for the multiple components I'm working with, but I have not yet talked about the work I'm doing on the code itself. Let's change this today.

The GSoC Idea

July 7, 2017

Let's explore the basic idea for my Google Summer of Code project for X.Org. This means talking about how Xwayland currently handles the graphic buffers of its applications, why this leads to tearing and how we plan to change that.

Understanding Xwayland - Part 2 of 2

June 30, 2017

After last week's overview of XWayland we will dig deeper this time into the inner workings of XWayland.

Understanding Xwayland - Part 1 of 2

June 23, 2017

In this week's article for my ongoing Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project I give an overview of XWayland's inner working.

Google Summer of Code - now with X.Org

June 16, 2017

One of my project ideas got accepted to Google Summer of Code and I now have the opportunity to work on a very interesting project concerning Xwayland for the X.Org Foundation.

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