AurelienGateau

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About me

  • French, living in a small village not too far from Paris.
  • KDE developer working for Canonical, part of the Desktop Experience team.
  • Using Linux since quite some time (first distribution was Red Hat 5.1).

Interests

  • Software development, especially user interface.
  • Drawing.
  • Snowboarding.

Contact

Personal Contributions

  • Developer of Gwenview, a KDE image viewer

  • Developer of Colibri, passive notifications for KDE (kde-apps page)

  • Often tries to polish the user interface of KDE applications (last work so far, Get Hot New Stuff)

Canonical Contributions

  • Implemented Message Indicator support for KDE
  • Ported a few KDE applications to KStatusNotifierItem, KDE new systemtray protocol

  • Created dbusmenu-qt, used by KStatusNotifierItems|AppIndicators to present their menus on DBus, ensuring consistent menu rendering on GNOME and KDE

  • Currently working on a global menubar based on dbusmenu (Article on my blog about it)

Plans for Kubuntu

  • Get more involved in the development of Kubuntu specific tools. Not necessarily creating new ones myself ; rather helping out existing development by answering Qt/KDE development questions and polishing user interfaces.

  • Improve Kubuntu default configuration to ensure out-of-the-box-awesomeness Smile :)