It’s with immense pleasure, I am posting this one. I stepped into development for KDE by fixing bugs in KStars.Earlier, my domain for development was very narrow and it was exposed to the KDE world when i met (in chat…i hope we will met in person soon) the current maintainer of KStars, Akarsh Simha.

Discussions with Akarsh gave pushed in lot of ideas into me regarding the development for Kstars. We discussed a lot on Community Integration of Kstars, which is a proposed project for Google Summer of Code, 2009. The results of our discussion were exciting.Thus i committed my first bug fix from bugs.kde.org. It was actually a wish, which said that If there is no proper font found, KStars should not render greek letters, and it should paint the letter name in plain text. In the current situation, there is no such difficulties since, every Gnu/Linux Distro ships at least one font ( DejaVu is a free font which can handle Greek Unicode) which can handle Greek Unicode characters.I discussed with Akarsh and we arriced at a conclusion that to provide an option(Check Box) in the Advanced Tab of Configure KStars dialog so that user can explicitly enable the support for Greek Letters in Plain Text too and also to check this in Startup Wizard.

But discussions in IRC on this subject made me not to implement that since most of the developers there were of the opinion that this is hinder the usability of the Application.Then, i committed the next Bug Fix, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181602 , which said that the Comet Names range display does not work. This was a minor bug, as both the maximum and minimum value of the QObject was set to zero. Hence, my work was to set a maximum value for kcfg_MaxRadCometName to a value of 500 AU. This was again lowered to 100 AU by Akarsh before checking in since comets more than 100 AU will be faint.

This was the very first work which i did for KStars and KDE too.