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Plasma rocks Akademy
KDE's yearly world conference - Akademy - was held last week in Almería, Spain. Lots of interesting things happened in the Plasma-verse during Akademy 2017.
State of the Union
Read MorePlasma Team Discusses Web-browser integration, Bundled Apps and new Features
Plasma Team Gets Physical
Plasma Mobile, a Free Mobile Platform
Plasma Mobile offers a Free (as in freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling, customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile is Free software, and is now developed via an open process. Plasma Mobile is currently under development with a prototype available providing basic functions to run on a smartphone.
Read MorePlasma 5 Brings a Cleaner Interface on Top of a New Graphics Stack
Many distributions have packages to install or test images to try out although this 5.0 release should not be the default option yet. Plasma 5 is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5 and is due to have new releases on a three monthly cycle.
Read MoreKDE Releases Alpha Version of Next-gen Plasma Workspace
The converged workspace
Modern day computing device abilities are starting to blend with each other. Tablets can be used with a keyboard, phones can stream their screen contents to a television, laptops have gotten flip and touch screens. To deal with this, Plasma Next has been designed as a converged workspace shell. It will be able to switch on demand between workspaces optimized for these different form factors, like a tablet user interface turning into a traditional desktop workspace when paired with a keyboard and a mouse. Plasma will be easily extensible as new form factors emerge.The mechanism to adapt to different form factors is fully implemented and functional, but, as there is only one workspace available right now, it is not useful at this point. In the months to come, the Plasma team plans to make available additional workspaces, such as the tablet-oriented Plasma Active user experience, and the media-consumption-targeted Plasma Mediacenter.A note on versioning and naming: The code name "Plasma Next" always points to the upcoming release of Plasma, KDE's end user workspace. The current Alpha will become 2014.6, to be released in June of this year. If the team opts for a 6 month release cycle (still to be determined), Plasma Next will refer to the 2014.12 release once 2014.6 is out.
Read MorePlasma Team Gathers in Barcelona
Plasma 2 Technology Preview
Plasma Pow-wow Produces Detailed Plans for Workspace Convergence
Code review during the Plasma sprint
Last week, members of the Plasma team met in Nürnberg, Germany to discuss open questions on the road to Plasma Workspaces 2. The meeting was kindly hosted by SUSE and supported by the KDE e.V.. For the Plasma team, the meeting came at a perfect point in time: porting of Plasma to a new graphics has commenced, is in fact well under way, and has raised some questions that are best discussed in a high-bandwidth setting in person.
Read MoreKDE Ships January Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
KDE Ships First Release Candidate of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10
KDE Ships December Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
The list of 71 recorded bugfixes include improvements in the Dolphin file manager and Kontact email and groupware client. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications. The changes are listed on KDE's issue tracker. For a detailed list of changes that went into 4.9.4, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.4 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.9.4 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.9, please refer to the 4.9 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More
KDE Ships Second Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10
KDE Ships First Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10
KDE Ships November Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
The list of 86 recorded bugfixes include improvements in the Kate editor and Kontact email and groupware client, resulting from recent coding sprints the respective teams had. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications. The changes are listed on KDE's issue tracker. For a detailed list of changes that went into 4.9.3, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.3 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.9.3 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.9, please refer to the 4.9 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More
KDE Ships October Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin, Plasma and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications. The changes are listed on Bugzilla. For a detailed list of changes that went into 4.9.2, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.2 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. Read More
KDE Ships September Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. The changes are listed on Bugzilla, though this list might not contain all improvements since 4.9.0. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.9.1, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.1 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.9.1 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.9, please refer to the 4.9 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More
KDE Ships August Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.
These updates are the fifth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.
Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.
The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.4.
Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.8.5, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.8.5 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages.
To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.8.5 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.8, please refer to the 4.8 release notes and its earlier versions.
KDE Announces 4.9 RC2
KDE Announces 4.9 Beta2
KDE Ships June Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.3. Read More
KDE Announces 4.9 Beta1 and Testing Initiative
Announcing the Make Play Live Partner Network
KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
KDE Ships April Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Significant bugfixes include making encryption of multiple folders using GPG work, XRender fixes in the KWin window and compositing manager, a series of bugfixes to the newly introduced Dolphin view engine and improvements in the Plasma Quick-based new window switcher, which made its first appearance in 4.8.0. Kontact and its device counterpart Kontact Touch have received a number of important bugfixes as well as performance improvements. The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.1. Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.8.2, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.8.2 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.8.2 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.8, please refer to the 4.8 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More
Plasma Active Three Sprint
Plasma Active Three sprint - (top left to bottom right): Aleix Pol,
Martin Gräßlin, Marco Martin, Martin Klapetek, Martin Brook,
Sebastian Kügler, Laszlo Papp, Alex Fiestas, Dario Freddi,
Maurice de la Ferte
Not shown: Cornelius Schumacher, Fania Bremmer, Seif Lotfy,
Thomas Pfeiffer. (click for larger)
Last week, a group of Plasma Active hackers and designers met in basysKom's office in Darmstadt. The officially dubbed "Plasma Active Three Sprint" had as its goals to plan the next release of KDE's device-spectrum user experience, define work needed to accomplish this release, design user interfaces for new features and enhancements, and of course get cracking. Another point of focus was to work on a few things that need to be done before the launch of the SPARK, the first consumer device featuring a fully free and openly developed software stack, running KDE software.
Read MoreKDE Ships March Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Release 4.8: Features, Stability, Performance
KDE Makes Second 4.8 Release Candidate Available
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KDE Makes First 4.8 Release Candidate Available, Adds Secret Service
Today KDE released the first release candidate for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Compared to Beta2, RC1 contains hundreds of fixes. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release a rock-solid 4.8 in January.
Highlights of 4.8 include:
- Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces -- Qt Quick is making its way into the Plasma Workspaces. The new Plasma Components provide a standardized API implementation of widgets with native Plasma Look and Feel. The device notifier widget has been ported using these components and is now written in pure QML. KWin's window switcher is now also QML-based, paving the way for newly designed window switchers.
- Dolphin's file view has been rewritten for better performance, scalability and more attractive visual appearance.
- KSecretService optionally enables shared password storage, making your saved passwords available to many other applications, leading to a more secure system and better integration of non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma workspaces.
- Many performance improvements and bugfixes improve the overall user experience, making the KDE Applications and Workspaces more productive and fun to use than ever before.
As usual, bugs can be reported, verified and found at bugs.kde.org.
Read MoreStable Update 4.7.4 and Testing Release 4.8 Beta2 Available
KDE Makes 4.8 Beta1 Available for Testing
KDE's November Updates Improve Nepomuk Stability
Plasma Active on NVidia Tegra 2
KDE's October Updates Improve Kontact Performance
KDE Ships September Updates
Release 4.7 - New Features, Improved Stability and Performance
KDE Ships Second 4.7 Release Candidate
KDE Ships July Updates
From Platform to Frameworks -- KDE hackers meet in Switzerland
In early June 2011, a sizable group of KDE hackers met high up in the Swiss Alps. In Randa, four co-located meetings took place to further KDE technologies. One of these groups, Platform 11, had as its goal to take the KDE development platform to its next level. This group consisted of about 25 people who work on and around kdelibs, the build-system, distributions, and 3rd party developers, and was intended to represent needs and wishes as completely as possible, while trying to find better ways to organize the KDE development platform.
Read MoreKDE Ships First 4.7 Release Candidate
New Kontact Suite Brings Next-Gen Groupware to Desktop and Mobile
KDE Ships First 4.7 Beta
KDE Ships May Updates
KDE Ships April Updates, Congratulates GNOME
KDE Ships March Updates, Codenamed "Helga"
KDE Puts You In Control with New Workspaces, Applications and Platform
January Stable Updates Available
4.6 RC2 Available, Last Chance to Test
4.6 RC 1 Available, KDE PIM Delayed
December Updates Further Stabilize KDE's 4.5 Series
4.6 Beta1 Brings Improved Search, Activities and Mobile Device Support
KDE Ships November Updates: 4.5.3
KDE Ships October Updates
Help Test the Next Generation of KDE's Kontact
KDE Releases 4.5.1
This release will make 4.5 users lives more pleasant by adding a number of important bug fixes, bringing more stability and better functionality to the Plasma Desktop and many applications & utilities. Check the changelog for details about many of these improvements. Read More
KDE e.V. Publishes Quarterly Report for Q2 2010
KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.5.0
KDE today celebrates its semi-annual release event, making available new releases of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Development Platform and a large number of applications available in their 4.5.0 versions.
Read MoreRC3 is Out: Codename: "Canny"
KDE's Flagship Conference Akademy Concludes: Pushing for Elegance and the Mobile Space
4.5 RC2 Available
Second Beta for KDE SC 4.5 Available for Testing
Well, that looks promising, but more of that testing (and helping us fix issues!) is needed. So here is another snapshot for you to grind your teeth in.
The usual boilerplate applies as well: This release does not meet production quality requirements and should be regarded as testing ground. Read More
Join the KDE Game at Linuxtag 2010
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.4 Out
KDE SC 4.5 Beta1 Available
4.4.3 Is Upon Us
KDE Releases Software Compilation 4.4.2
The Tokamak4 Files: Solid
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Out Now
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 Introduces Netbook Interface, Window Tabbing and Authentication Framework
Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented. The KDE community would like to thank everybody who has helped to make this release possible.
Read MoreKDE SC 4.4 RC3 Released
Interview with KDABian Stephen Kelly
KDE SC 4.3.5 Released
KDE SC 4.4 Release Candidate 2 Out: Camp KDE
KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Release Candidate 1 Available
The first KDE SC (KDE SC, what's that?) release (albeit not a stable one) is the first release candidate for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 which will be released on February 9th. In between, there is a second release candidate planned already, RC2, on 20th January. In the 4.4 beta cycle, we have reduced the time it takes us to package and deliver the test releases, so our testers get the freshest tarballs ever, leading to shorter test-and-fix cycles. KDE SC 4.4.0 is also the first release to be based on Qt 4.6 which became available in December. We have therefore decided to insert another release candidate to make sure we deliver the best KDE Software Compilation to date with KDE SC 4.4.0. Read More
2nd Beta of KDE SC 4.4 Available
KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 1 Released
KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4 Released: Codename "Cold"
KDE 4.3.3 Out Now: Clockwork
Developer Days 2009: Qt Grows
KDE 4.3.2 Available
Third Plasma Summit Lifts KDE Desktop To Higher Grounds
Remote Controlling KDE
Dutch Plasma hacker Rob Scheepmaker presented the results of his work on sharing and controlling Plasma applets and KDE applications over the network. He presented how the user can easily share locally installed widgets over the network. As an example, he showed how to share the "Now Playing" Plasmoid with other machines and users on the local network. The "Now Playing" Plasmoid can now be used to control the media player running on another computer, all using KDE's Plasma technology. Under the hood, a number of technologies for communicating, orchestrating and announcing local services is used. For announcing the availability of an applet on the network, the Zeroconf protocol is used. The orchestration and transferring of applets, data and control commands happens using the JOLIE and QtJolie technology. The remote widget support is another long-planned feature for Plasma which will become available in the 4.4 release, as Scheepmakers worked hard to ready the API and polish the user interfaces to meet KDE's standards for inclusion in a main module. "The remote control of a media player on another computer is only the tip of the iceberg of what we make available across the network. Prepare for some completely new and truly innovative collaboration and interaction features coming up using this unique new technology", Scheepmaker lets us know.
Read MoreAkademy 2010 in Tampere, Finland
Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
KDE 4.3.0 Released: Caizen
- Plasma, KDE's desktop interface and KWin, KDE's window and compositing manager are now working more closely together. Desktop effects and the Plasma shell now share their themes, and it is also possible to have separate sets of Plasma widgets and wallpapers on each virtual desktop. The new Air theme makes a visual difference. It is much lighter than the Oxygen theme, which is still available through the Desktop Settings dialog.
- On the applications front, KDE 3 users will like the new tree view in System Settings, which more closely resembles KDE 3's KControl. Dolphin, KDE's file manager, now show previews of images contained in a directory as an overlay for the directory icon. Hovering over it enables a slideshow of the images in the directory the icon represents.
- KDE's development platform has become more stable, more performant, leaner and at the same time more complete. For Plasma applet developers, there is now a geolocation plugin that makes it possible to query the current location. This is used in the OpenDesktop applet to show people near you. The new KDE PolicyKit library provides a mechanism for applications to authorise certain actions based on profiles. A KDE-style API makes it secure and easy to temporarily elevate privileges for an application.
KDE 4.3 RC3 Released
KDE 4.3.0 RC2 Codenamed "Canteras" Released
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KDE e.V. Elects New Board of Directors
Release Candidate for KDE 4.3.0 Out
KDE 4.3.0 Beta 2 Out, Codenamed "Crumping"
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Platinum Sponsors Announced: Nokia's Qt Software and Maemo
The KDE and GNOME communities are happy to announce the Platinum sponsors of the upcoming Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Nokia's Qt Software and Maemo will be the main sponsors of the event, which will be held from 3rd to 11th of July 2009 in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, Spain.
Read MoreKDE 4.2.4 a.k.a. CornRow Released
KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Signals Beginning of Bug Hunting Season
Get in gear ready for test-driving KDE 4.3 and help us ironing out kinks for everybody's KDE pleasure. Read More
KDE Team Releases KDE 4.2.3
PIM Hackers Boost Akonadi Into The Future
On Friday afternoon, after everybody arrived, the meeting started with a series of presentations to get everybody on the same page with respect to progress in various parts of Akonadi. Read More
"Cano" (KDE 4.2.2) Out in the Wild
Byfield "KDE Developers are Headed in a Definite Direction"
KDE4 Version of Digikam Photo Management Available
KDE 4.2.1 provides the "Cream" on top of KDE
LinuxQuestions.org: KDE Desktop Environment of the Year 2008
Congratulations everybody, we rock! KDE was again able to secure the precious LinuxQuestions.org desktop environment of the year award for 2008. The prize is a testament to the great and innovative work done on the KDE applications, desktop and in extension the KDE platform. Put another way, it is a testament to a community that based on excellence and technically sound solutions manages to be a beacon for innovation in the Free Software world.
Read MorePlasma Team Looks at the Future
Over the last weekend, the Plasma team held their second meeting in Porto, Portugal. The meeting was organised by Akademy Award winner Nuno Pinheiro inviting the Akademy Award-winning Plasma team to his home country. The meeting was kindly hosted by the Departamento de Engenharia Informatica (Department of Software Engineering) of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. The Plasma team (and most probably many of the KDE users) are grateful for being provided this opportunity to collaborate on the desktop.
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