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KDE Releases Second Alpha of Necessitas

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Necessitas is the project bringing Qt to the Android operating system. It has recently become part of KDE and now celebrates its second alpha release - its first as part of KDE.

Lead developer Bogdan Vatra explains the reasons for making Necessitas a KDE project:

"YES, we've joined KDE, because we share the same goals; to make Qt more powerful, more accessible, and to keep it free for everyone."


KDE Commit Digest for 22 May 2011

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This week, the Commit Digest includes a featured article about Gluon, the free platform for creating and distributing games.

Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • First implementation of a user secret agent in NetworkManagement along with further work on NM-0.9 support
  • Better guessing of zoom levels and an offline address search database generator in Marble

KDE Commit-Digest for 8th May 2011

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Continued work throughout Calligra, including improvements to MS 2003 and MS 2007 file support, working anchors and server-based project creation
  • Work and optimization throughout KDE-PIM, including support for Kolab and LDAP servers requiring authentication and a big wizard revamp
  • Further improvements to terminal integration (with KonsolePart) in KDevPlatform and PyKDE4

KDE Commit Digest for 17 April 2011

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Calligra sees further work on modern menu, pdf export, soft page breaks, autoshapes support, and vertical alignment support amongst continued bugfixing and optimization
  • KMLDonkey fully ported to KDE4 / Qt4, removing all Qt3 dependencies
  • Sound support added for 5 new languages in KLettres

KDE Commit Digest for 3 April 2011

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Initial implementation of new shadows in KWin
  • Bugfixing and feature work throughout Calligra, including further work supporting missing MS Office 2003 autoshapes, improved support for DOC, DOCX, and ODF file formats, a new EPUB-ODF import filter, and work on an initial Modern Menu implementation and a new map widget in Kexi
  • Improved support for 3G connections in NetworkManagement along with other bugfixes