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Behind KDE: David Faure
Thursday, 23 September 2010
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Tomalbers
This week the Behind KDE interview is with a well known old-timer. He is the guru of kdelibs, but do you know what he does for KDE Sysadmin? Or should I say 'did'? Leave a comment if you get his old timer joke. Meet the one who moved files manually in the CVS era. Meet the guy who developed for KDE before some of you were even born. See how Charm and jazz play an important role in his life. Meet David Faure!
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Hot Off The Press: Amarok Insider 15 and Amarok 2.3.2
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
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Valoriez
Amarok Insider 15 available now, includes the articles:
- What's New in Amarok
- Interview with a Developer: Leo Franchi
- Podcasts on your Mobile Device
- Automated Playlist Generator
- Weekly Windows Build Now Available
- Organizing a Music Collection
The Insider explores Amarok for the user, looking at features, development, and how to
get involved with the project.
Nokia Releases Qt 4.7 with Qt Quick
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
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Jriddell
Nokia has released Qt 4.7. It features some impressive performance improvements through hardware accelerated compositing in QtWebkit, a new text renderer and painting improvements on OpenGL. Notably Qt Quick is included, featuring the new QML (Qt Meta-Object-Language) language for writing programs based on outcomes. According to the release, QML is "an easy to learn, declarative language that ‘describes’ the interface of a program and how it behaves." Sources are available from the FTP server.
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Anthony Kolasny Explains How KDE Software is Used At Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
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Justin Kirby
While it is easy to focus on many other strong points of KDE software, one aspect that deserves a closer look is the ability for it to support science. Back in July, you may have caught the Dot story on "KDE-Science" discussing the background and initial call for engaging the scientific community. Today we would like to highlight some of the advances that have occurred since then and present a real world example of how KDE software is already helping to support research.
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KDE Imaging Group Meets in France
Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Mck182
The team concentrated their efforts on refining and building upon this year's Google Summer of Code projects. digiKam had three GSoC projects this year: face detection and recognition by Aditya Bhatt, geotagging features by Gabriel Voicu and non-destructive image editing, and image versioning by Martin Klapetek. The results of this work will be included in the upcoming digiKam 2.0 version along with Kunal Ghosh's Season of KDE work—scripting support for digiKam. Of course, none of this work would have succeeded without the great mentors and digiKam developers, with whom the students could work side-by-side at the sprint: Marcel Wiesweg, Michael G. Hansen and Gilles Caulier.
Read MoreIkhaya interviews Aaron Seigo about the Past, Present and Future of KDE
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
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Serenity
Ikhaya, the news portal of ubuntuusers.de, has a two part interview with Aaron Seigo, lead Plasma developer and designer (part one and part two).
Aaron tells how he first got involved with KDE after seeing KDE 2.0's compelling design and getting his first patch accepted. He also reports the progress of KDE software spreading to mobile devices. In addition, the interview includes details about the challenges and successes of moving from KDE 3 to the new KDE Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces.
Read MoreKDE Science: Thomas Friedrichsmeier on RKWard, Toolkits and the KDE Platform
Monday, 13 September 2010
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Einar
As reported a few months ago, KDE software has plenty of use among scientists, who may use Plasma workspaces for their daily jobs or develop applications on top of the KDE Platform.
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Behind KDE: Meet David Solbach, the "Unknown SysAdmin"
Friday, 10 September 2010
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Tomalbers
In this week's Behind KDE interview, we talk with one of the unknown powers behind the sysadmin team, David Solbach. David is the maintainer of reviewboard.kde.org. However, there's much more to David than code review and contributing to KDE. He can also design and develop diagnostic blood analyzers and tell you what it was like to take a hit from the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
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KDE Brazil Team Spreads the Word at FISL
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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Sandroandrade
Help Test the Next Generation of KDE's Kontact
Friday, 3 September 2010
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Sebas
The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications. While the first bits of Akonadi integration already made their entry in KAddressBook as delivered with 4.4, this beta includes Akonadi versions of most of the other Kontact components, including email using the new KMail2.
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