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Simon Speech Recognition Project Moves to KDE

Sunday, 8 April 2012
Simon, KDE's speech recognition software, has recently migrated from Sourceforge to KDE's Git infrastructure. Developed to allow people with physical disabilities to control their computers entirely by voice, Simon has found its way into voice-controlled media centers in homes for the elderly and most recently in assistive care-giving robots. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 1st April 2012

Friday, 6 April 2012

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>KDev-Python's <a href="http://scummos.blogspot.com/2012/03/debugging-support-in-kdev-python.html">new debugger</a> gains a DUChain-supported local declaration list</li>
  • Digikam adds loc.alize.us support to their geolocation service
  • Okular now remembers exact bookmark positions and more than one bookmark per page
  • KWin adds Global Shortcut support for scripts and scripted effects and cursor-key navigation to Flip Switch and Cover Switch effects
  • Kickoff can now be used only with a keyboard
  • Katepart improves their auto-bracketing feature
  • Plasma applet Miniplayer reaches version 2.3, adding a track properties dialog, improved filtering and other improvements
  • NEPOMUK enables Virtuoso inference on all queries and includes optimization fixes
  • Calligra further unifies toolbox behavior across all its programs, implements support for loading/saving layer locks in the OpenRaster file format (ORA) and includes numerous bugfixes
  • Calligra's Krita adds a textured painting option for brushes inspired by David Revoy's article
  • Amarok adds the ability to move track position bookmarks by dragging
  • Konversation adds an option to restrict logging to private conversations
  • KMLDonkey releases 2.1.2 and 2.1.3, including various bugfixes, optimizations and new features
  • KAuth introducing unit tests, completing all the needed requirements to be ready for being part of frameworks
  • KSCD, JuK, and other applications in KDE Multimedia can now build outside of KMM
  • Plasma Mediacenter improves its playlist
  • Bugfixes in Jovie, KDevelop, KDE-Workspace, KDE-PIM, KMyMoney, Phonon-Gstreamer and Phonon-VLC.
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 25th March 2012

    Sunday, 1 April 2012

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>Work in <a href="http://uml.sourceforge.net/">Umbrello</a> towards supporting the automatic layout of diagrams and exporting to the <a href="http://www.graphviz.org/">graphviz</a> dot format, along with optimization, bugfixes, and further migration of qt3 classes to qt4</li>
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 18th March 2012

    Wednesday, 28 March 2012

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li><a href="http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/">Akonadi</a> improves Google Applets and Exchange 2003 support</li>
    
  • Simon introduces additional "finalize" step for command plugins
  • KWin now supports live updates for thumbnails in tabbox and a new example script: "demands attention on current desktop," along with many bugfixes
  • KDevelop adds the ability to store a .kdev4 file in a project directory, opening files at a given line, and includes further work on a new debugger, as well as many bugfixes
  • Kdesrc-Build introduces support for bzr (libdbusmenu-qt).
  • Tab completion and smart completion implemented across Cantor's backends including Maxima, Qalculate, Sage, Octave and Scilab
  • Okular introduces improved support for videos in pdf documents
  • Work in Plasma Active on threaded models and multitouch selecting
  • Dolphin introduces support for dynamic roles
  • In Calligra, Krita introduces a texturing paintop option and Karbon improves XFig support, along with many bugfixes throughout it's applications
  • Much work on Media Center, which now supports loading backends, playing media and storing thumbnails
  • In Kdenlive, image sequences can now start at an arbitrary frame
  • Rekonq introduces support for Google Sync Bookmarks along with many bugfixes
  • Many improvements to the KDE Sprints website
  • KTorrent adds IPv6 support to DHT (BEP 32) and improves DHT code
  • Bug fixes in KDE-PIM, Oxygen-GTK, KDE Telepathy, Umbrello, Digikam, Plasma, Muon, and Massif-Visualizer


  • Krita 2.4 is dedicated to the memory of Jean Giraud Moebius
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 10th July 2011

    Friday, 15 July 2011

    This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the new Share Like Connect project and recent work done on Nepomuk for KDE Release 4.7.

    Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

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    KDE Commit-Digest for 12th June 2011

    Friday, 17 June 2011

    This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the status of Phonon-Xine and an update on the new Wayland support in KWin.

    Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

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    KDE Commit-Digest for 5th June 2011

    Friday, 10 June 2011

    This week, the Commit Digest includes a featured article about Kst, the fastest real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool.

    Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Work on C++0x support in KDevelop, including support for variadic template parameters in the parser, new browser-like tabs, and many bugfixes throughout KDevPlatform
    • In Plasma, suspend/hibernate services added to the powermanagement dataengine, battery applet replaced with QML port from Plasma-Mobile, and many bugfixes
    • Work on .xlsx, .doc, and VML support in Calligra, along with support for baseline shift, a new preset chooser widget in Krita, initial commit of the Krita Animator plugin, and much bugfixing
    • Further bugfixing and work on NM09 support in NetworkManagement including manual setting of speed and duplex mode for ethernet and advanced permission settings
    • Work on Kartesio (plots the best fit of a mathematical curve) to support scientific notation
    • Finishing work on Cantor's Scilab backend
    • GSOC work on making the canvas use the new QGraphicsView in Umbrello
    • Oxidization data added to elements in Kalzium
    • GSOC work on Commit Dialog in Dolphin, among additional bugfixing
    • Start of javascript API support in Share-Like-Connect, among other work
    • Further work on Telepathy-Presence-Applet
    • More work on IM icons in Oxygen
    • Improved file uploader and work on the media player in OwnCloud
    • Use of Qt gesture framework in Marble
    • Bugfixing in Konqueror, KWin, KDE-PIM, KMyMoney, Amarok, and Juk

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit-Digest for 29th May 2011

    Friday, 3 June 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li><a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a> sees improved support for many file formats, an auto-updating Table Of Contents, configurable full-screen mode, column breaks, working even/odd headers/footers, and much bugfixing throughout</li>
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    KDE Commit Digest for 15 May 2011

    Thursday, 19 May 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Further bugfixing, optimization and feature work in Calligra including improved DOC, DOCX, WMF, MSO and SVM file support
    • Krita sees an updated Phong Bumpmap and Get Hot New Stuff support for presets
    • A group of database-related bugs fixed in Digikam
    • The Strigi Indexer has been moved to a separate process to allow for a more robust Nepomuk Service
    • KTorrent sees a revamped Scanfolder plugin
    • Copy/paste support and "ctrl+mouse wheel" zooming integrated in Step
    • KCalendarSystem and the Locale KCM now support alternative (localized) Week Number Systems
    • New Date/Time widgets developed by the KDE-PIM team moved to KDE-Libs alongside bugfixing
    • KWin now supports raster graphics and has basic multihead support
    • Option to wake from suspend for a selected alarm in KDE-PIM
    • NetworkManagement sees bugfixing and automatic BSSID selection support
    • Support for MMS in KGet allowing multiple connections per download
    • Continued work on folder icons, this time 22x22, in Oxygen
    • More robust DAAP protocol parsing in Amarok alongside other bugfixing
    • Bugfixing and optimization in Juk
    • Layout improvements in Muon
    • Bugfixing in KDE-Workspace, KMyMoney, and Ark.

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit-Digest for 8th May 2011

    Friday, 13 May 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>Continued work throughout <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a>, including improvements to MS 2003 and MS 2007 file support, working anchors and server-based project creation</li>
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 1st May 2011

    Friday, 6 May 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Calligra sees improvements to PPT and DOC support and work on SVM support and specifications amongst further bugfixing
    • Initial GSOC work on OpenStreetMap (OSM) rendering in Marble
    • NetworkManagement sees much bugfixing, support for Bluetooth tethering and a KAuth implementation
    • Solid's NetworkManager device interface updated to NM-0.8.2
    • Work throughout Plasma and Plasma-Mobile including QML Bindings for Plasma::ToolTips, a CLI tool allowing the addition of remote plasmoids and a small Remote Widgets browser along with much bugfixing
    • KWin now supports shadows with XRender and sees a slew of further bugfixing and optimization
    • Continued work on Skrooge
    • Kaffeine switches from Xine to VLC
    • Rekonq implements Opera-like feature to load favorites with Ctrl+Number
    • Work on QtRuby 3.0
    • Klipper now uses Prison for barcodes
    • Work on Oxygen icons
    • Middle mouse button on tab now changes the highlight color in Kate
    • Further work on the PublicTransport plasmoid
    • New Brazilian keyboard layout and bugfixing in KTouch
    • Android-Qt now has JIT support
    • Bugfixing and optimization of DrKonqi
    • Bugfixing in Digikam, KPhotoAlbum, KIO, KDE-PIM and Kile

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 24 April 2011

    Friday, 29 April 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Bluetooth tethering support and much bugfixing seen throughout NetworkManagement
    • Further work on user management and public link sharing in OwnCloud amongst refactoring of the installation form layout, the media player and general bugfixing
    • Calligra sees further work on Kexi's Modern Menu, encoding autodetection with the ascii import filter and docx support among further bugfixing
    • KPresenter renamed Calligra Stage
    • Improvements to tagging in Digikam among other bugfixing
    • Work on MKV subtitle support in Phonon-VLC
    • Work on 3d Scene support in Step
    • Session support added for keyboard layouts in Kxkb
    • Grub2 support added to KDM
    • Support for RightToLeft in SystemSettings
    • Zeitgeist support added to Amarok through Phonon
    • KTorrent sees a revamp of its shutdown plugin along with crash fixes
    • Initial work on a task editor in the RememberTheMilk Plasma addon
    • Optimizations and other work in Plasmate
    • Kile sees further work and bugfixing
    • Work on the intuitiveness of KFileDialog's filtering
    • KMix's icon now turns to "muted" when at zero volume
    • Further work in Oxygen and Oxygen-GTK
    • Bugfixing in KIO, KDE-PIM, Plasma and its addons, KWin and Telepathy.

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 17 April 2011

    Friday, 22 April 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li><a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a> sees further work on modern menu, pdf export, soft page breaks, autoshapes support, and vertical alignment support amongst continued bugfixing and optimization</li>
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    KDE Commit Digest for 10 April 2011

    Saturday, 16 April 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • KIO Proxy continues to receive an overhaul for KDE 4.7 with fixes and features including SOCKS proxy support, functions for obtaining multiple proxy URL addresses and support for obtaining system proxy information on Windows and Mac platforms
    • Amidst much bugfixing, Calligra gains a map widget in Kexi, improved xlsx support, initial porting to the new textlayout-library, "search from cursor" support, improved OpenOffice.org interoperability, and a more robust table of contents generator
    • Work to turn KMix into a plasmoid alongside work on improved PulseAudio support, UTF-8 support, and memory leak fixes
    • The start of a new simple editor and re-written spellchecking support in Parley
    • Further work on the routing manager in Marble amidst much bugfixing
    • Digikam's theme engine is ported to KDE's engine, closing 7 related bugs
    • Large merger of Exif, Iptc, and Xmp editors into a common dialog in Kipi-Plugins
    • Amongst much bugfixing, KDevelop gains support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross
    • A new code import wizard in Umbrello
    • SVG file support and EPS and PDF export added to Kst
    • KWin gains support for diagonal navigation in mouse emulation
    • Plasma widgets gain access to the QScriptEngine
    • Improvements to Storage and File Watch services in Nepomuk deprecate the removable storage service
    • Much bugfixing and work on Rekonq leading up to 0.7 release
    • Initial avatar support and tootips added to Telepathy-Contact-List amongst other bugfixes
    • Further work on Oxygen-GTK and new Oxygen icons
    • Ksaolaji gains profiles, a marbletilecache cleaner and basic NewStuff support
    • Implementation of Achievement and Forum services in Attica
    • More touch options added to the Wacom Tablet KCModule
    • Object-Oriented Rewrite System (OORS) highlighting rules added to Kate
    • Improvements to the animated sprite renderer in Gluon
    • Adblock fixes in KWebKitPart
    • Much bugfixing throughout KDE-PIM and NetworkManagement.

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 3 April 2011

    Sunday, 10 April 2011

    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
    • Work on KDevelop-Python
    • Support for Windows Live Photo Gallery tags in Digikam
    • Application uninstall feature added to Kickoff
    • Work throughout Skrooge including improvements to category editing and initial work on a Scheduled Operations applet
    • Work on handling multiple selections in DVD ripping view in K3B
    • Phonon-Gstreamer now supports subtitles
    • Memory usage optimizations for big puzzles and replacement of the tabwindow interface by a standard XMLGUI window in Palapeli
    • Improved handling of URL drag and drop handling in Rekonq along with other bugfixing
    • Mechanism for adding new contacts and spell checking added to Telepathy
    • The Wacom Tablet KConfig Module now has an extra tab page for touch features and support for different tablet areas for the stylus and touch
    • Rework of panel management in Krusader
    • Improved handling of special characters in Owncloud's media player
    • Feature and usability work on guidance mode and the routing info box in Marble
    • Repair of printing regressions in KHTML
    • Bugfixing in Oxygen-GTK.

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 27 March 2011

    Saturday, 2 April 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li><a href="http://okular.kde.org/">Okular</a> now supports searching for words with ligatures</li>
    
  • Work on new NetworkManager 0.9 branch in NetworkManagement and PEAP-GTC wireless authentication suppport
  • A new plugin which provides a rating and an annotation menu action for files and folders (Dolphin/Konqueror) from Nepomuk
  • A new dataengine in Plasma that returns Activities thumbnails
  • Support for newer Linux kernels and extended support for terabytes and petabytes in KSysGuard along with many bugfixes
  • New multithreaded puzzle class put to work in Palapeli, removing the first-run assistant and adding puzzle list sorting
  • Proof-of-concept implementation of games as plugins for Tagaro
  • Automatic updating of comics added to the Comic Strip plasmoid
  • Fixes for S/FTP connections in Dolphin and other applications using the FTP KIO Slave
  • Work on improved table layout in Calligra, improved DOC support, and many bugfixes
  • Bugfixing in Amarok including fixes for IPod Classic detection
  • Bugfixing throughout Rekonq in preparation for the next release
  • Bugfixing in KDevelop, Digikam, Kst, and KTorrent.
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 20 March 2011

    Saturday, 26 March 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Commands can now be entered as bookmarks in Konsole, along with general bugfixing
    • Bugfixes and work throughout Calligra including an improved freehand tool, further improvements to the importing of MS Office files, and improved support for rotated shapes
    • Start page improvements in Plasmate
    • Improved Python auto-completion and lex/yacc file extensions support added in KDevelop, along with many bugfixes
    • Higher order functions now supported in KAlgebra
    • Improvements in face detection in Digikam along with many bugfixes
    • Work throughout Plasma-Mobile including an improved activity switcher and a PhoneManager application
    • Usability improvements in K3b
    • Puzzle list sorting in Palapeli
    • Work in Gluon
    • Refactored wizard for BlueDevil
    • A large number of improvements to FreeBSD support in KSysGuard along with many other bugfixes
    • Bugfixing in Nepomuk, Trinity, KWin, Amarok and NetworkManager.
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    KDE Commit Digest for 13 March

    Wednesday, 23 March 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>Improved support for DOC, ODF, and Google Docs along with general bugfixing in <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a></li>
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    KDE Commit-Digest for 6 March 2011

    Monday, 14 March 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Strigi analyzers now read metadata in their own threads, solving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror
    • Global shortcuts can now be used to switch between keyboard layouts
    • Collections shared over NFS & SMB/CIFS networks return to dynamic collections in Amarok along with a refactoring of how plugins are managed
    • In KStars, labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines, and comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode
    • New grouping by drag and drop in Digikam and other work
    • Support for Mobile Broadband on/off switch together with general bug fixing in NetworkManager
    • Support for SWIFT mt940 files and new "bubble" and "stacked area" graphs in Skrooge
    • Feature work and bug fixing throughout Calligra
    • Work on bookmark handling in KOffice
    • Work on video capture support in Phonon, equalizer support in Phonon-Gstreamer, and optimizations throughout Phonon-VLC
    • Revamped UPnP plugin in KTorrent
    • Work on Oxygen-Gtk and Oxygen icons
    • New PSTricks backend for Cirkuit
    • First steps for OS X framework support in Smoke
    • Work on the collection scanner in OwnCloud
    • Bug fixing in Konsole, Kdesrc-Build, KDE-PIM, Kopete, Rekonq, and Krusader.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 27 February 2011

    Monday, 7 March 2011

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    • Calligra continues its activity including PPT and PPTX file support and an experimental Google Spreadsheets plugin
    • Work throughout Phonon and its backends including an improved finding of virtual devices from ALSA
    • KDevelop sees the implementation of a new shell command interface and improvements to the Valgrind parser and Ruby language support
    • A new interactive legend in Kalzium
    • Further work on Pick and Color Labels in Digikam
    • Major work on the PublicTransport Plasma applet
    • Keyboard navigation support added to the calendar applet
    • Work throughout Plasma-Mobile
    • Support for douban.com added to Tellico collection management software
    • New "partial seeding" extension in KTorrent
    • New configurable Samba browsing in system-config-printer-kde, the printing GUI
    • Get Hot New Stuff support for the new template system in Cirkuit
    • KDE Platform 4/Qt4 porting of KMLDonkey has begun
    • FreeBSD fixes in Gwenview
    • Bugfixing in KDE-Libs including Kioslaves
    • Bugfixing in KGPG, Amarok and KDE-PIM
    • Kolourpaint, KRuler, Skanlite, KSanePlugin, and KSnapshot move to Git

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

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    KDE Commit Digest for 20 February 2011

    Saturday, 5 March 2011

    In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>New "processor information" page and FreeBSD fixes in KInfoCenter</li>
    
  • Calendar fixes for the Indian National Calendar
  • Work in system-config-printer-kde
  • Fixes throughout kdelibs including crashes due to lack of disk space
  • New charsets and a charset conversion tool in Okteta
  • Support for Mercurial and BitBucket in KDevelop
  • Voice navigation support in Marble
  • New Bulgarian keyboard layout in Ktouch
  • New plugin "Generate Graph" in Rocs
  • Work in Gluon including the start of an animated sprite renderer
  • More work on Color Labels and Toolbar layout in Digikam
  • Dependency on libplasma removed from kwineeffects library in KWin
  • Workthroughout Plasma and Plasma-mobile
  • Start to annotation cleanup in Nepomuk
  • Updated holidays for Korea, Croatia, UK, and Hungary in KHolidays (KDE-PIM)
  • Improved PPT, DOC, and DOCX support and work on SmartArt in Calligra amongst bugfixing and optimizations
  • Krdc and Krfb ported to new Telepathy
  • New "networkmanagement" dataengine and bugfixes in Knetworkmanager
  • Performance optimizations to previews in Dolphin
  • Bugfixing in Kamoso.
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    KDE Commit Digest for 13 February 2011

    Wednesday, 2 March 2011

    In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>Fixes and Optimization in KWin, including NVIDIA related fixes</li>
    
  • Bugfixing in KDE-Libs including fixes for MacOSX
  • Work in Calligra including new stencils from the Dia shape repository and support for DNG files in Krita
  • Personal finance manager Skrooge gains a timeline in reports and the possibility to merge payees
  • Reorganization of the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) in Kaffeine
  • Beginnings of work to support GHNS for templates in Cirkuit
  • Possibility to generate keyboard presses using your remote control in KDE-Utils
  • Work on a new Color Label widget in Digikam 2.0
  • Further development in communications softwares telepathy, kopete, and konversation
  • Work and fixes in Okular, KDevelop, KGet, Rekonq, KOffice, KDE-PIM and Oxygen-GTK
  • Digikam and Kipi-Plugins migrate to Git!
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