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Akademy 2010 in Tampere, Finland
Thursday, 3 September 2009
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Sebas
The KDE community is proud to announce the location of next year's Akademy: Tampere, Finland. Akademy is the yearly world conference held by the KDE community to celebrate the Free Software desktop and work towards the future of KDE.
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DigiKam Digest - 2009-08-31
Thursday, 3 September 2009
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Mikmach
This week we saw finishing of work on new color management code; updating of libraw to stable 0.8.1 (28 new cameras comparing to previous 0.7.x stable release, API extension and fixes); optimizations in thumbnails display; preparations for 1.0-beta4 (released on 31st August).
Read the rest of the digiKam digest here!
First KDE 4.3 Update Available
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
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Jriddell
KDE has released the first update in its 4.3 series. Bugs have been fixed and translations made more complete. 4.3.1 includes a new Croatian translation. KMail and KWin have both recieved a lot of fixes and a crash when editing toolbars was solved making this an important update for all. The release info page has the links for source downloads and information on the distro packages which are currently available.
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Another Platform for KDE
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Stuart Jarvis
Learn where you areWhile the KDE community busied itself with preparations for the 4.3 release, KDE 4 continued to spread to new platforms with ReactOS user Davy Bartoloni reporting (machine translation of original Italian) some success in running KDE applications on that operating system.
Read MoreOn the PySide - interview
Monday, 24 August 2009
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Jospoortvliet
Recently the dot carried an article about the first public release of PySide, LGPL python bindings to Qt. We conducted a short interview with one of the people behind PySide, Nokia employee Matti Airas</a asking a few questions about this initiative.
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Simon - speech activated user interface for KDE
Saturday, 22 August 2009
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Troy
Every once in a while, the KDE community stumbles across a third party application that is well integrated into KDE, but has somehow managed to fly completely beneath the radar. One such application is called simon (small 's' intentional), a speech recognition program that integrates well with KDE and provides a means of interacting with KDE using voice recognition.
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New KMyMoney Frees Your Wallet
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Asoliverez
KMyMoney 1.0You don't know where your money is going? Trying to get a hold of your household budget? Have an investment portfolio and don't know how much money you earned or lost? You have money in many currencies and it's hard to count how much you actually have? KMyMoney can help you. KMyMoney strives to be the easiest open source personal finance manager to use, especially for the non-technical user. Based on tried and tested double entry accounting principles KMyMoney ensures that your finances are kept in correct order. Although many of the features can be found in other similar applications, KMyMoney strives to present an individual and unique view of your finances. Following the KDE's way of "sensible defaults with powerful configuration", KMyMoney offers a default configuration and templates to start managing your finances with minimum hassle, with the possibility to customize it to your liking.
Read MoredigiKam digest - 2009-08-16
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
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Mikmach
Looks like summer finally caught up with digiKam developers! This week the digest will be very short: ongoing work on refactoring color profiles code; libkdcraw updated to libraw-0.8.0-beta5 (support for RAW files bigger than 2GB); new features in Flickr export. A total of 10 bugs were closed (including several crashes) while 8 new ones were reported. Read the rest of the
digiKam digest here!
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PySide Brings LGPL Qt to Python
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
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Mairas
The PySide team is pleased to announce the first public release of PySide: Python for Qt. PySide is a project providing an LGPL'd set of Python bindings for the Qt framework.
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digiKam digest - 2009-08-09
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
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Mikmach
As usual, Mikolaj Machowski has compiled a commit digest of the work going on in Digikam on his blog. This excellent work deserves a more public spot, so from now you will find them linked on the dot. Those interested in the progress and new developments in the world of digital photography, be sure to click through to the digest!
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