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Time is up, and we are home again. KDAB has once again proved to be a great host, and so has the city Berlin. We have had a great and productive weekend. Read on to learn more details about the KOffice 2008 meeting in Berlin. Read More

Some 20 KOffice developers have gathered at the KDAB offices to discuss and prepare the upcoming release of KOffice 2.0. Read on to learn about what the meeting is for and what is on the agenda to be sorted before the big release. Read More

Issue 13 of Amarok Insider, the official Amarok newsletter is out. It discusses the evolution of Amarok's interface, reveals the release plans, covers some of the biggest features of the upcoming version 2.0, and much more. Download links for Windows and OS X versions of the Amarok 2.0 beta are included. Read More

The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Change" (also known as KDE 4.1.3), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Change is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. The info page points to the sources and the distros quick with their packaging: Debian, Kubuntu and openSUSE. Read More

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for image file previews in the "FolderView" Plasmoid, which are enabled by default. Kross support for making comic providers using scripting languages in the "Comic" Plasma applet. First fully-working version of the QEdje script engine for Plasma is moved into kdereview, then into kdebase. More progress in the "Weather" Plasmoid, more integration of D-Bus in PowerDevil. A more accessible configuration option to enable "show my bookmarks" as the start page in Konqueror. Initial implementation of session management in Konsole. Support for editing multiple languages at the same time with the scripting API of Lokalize. First version of an Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) generator for Okular. A collection of new data plugins in Kst. Configuration support for thumbnail cache options in Gwenview. Support for playing music during a slideshow in kipi-plugins (used by Digikam, etc). Preliminary support for the PIMO concept in NEPOMUK (a key idea of the framework). More refinements to the search bar in Kate. First parts of a "partly-usable" Media Devices applet in Amarok 2. "Ink" receiving support, and the ability to preview file transfers for the WLM protocol in Kopete. More work on a "cost breakdown" view in KPlato. Work on improving the handling of lists in the "TextShape" of KOffice. A draft of a TCP-based real-time syncing model in Okteta. Optimisations in KDevelop and KHTML. Removal of the wizard in Parley. Kapman moves from playground/games to kdereview. Initial import of KJots rewrite, with plans to port to Akonadi, NEPOMUK, and Plasma. Read the rest of the Digest here. Read More

KDE 4.2 is approaching. Now that the end of the creative feature implementation phase is almost at an end with the Hard Feature Freeze on the 17th of November, BugSquad is once more striving to help the developers clean up their old bug reports and do the best it can to prevent new, vital bugs creeping into our release. Read More

The Amarok team announces the third beta release of Amarok 2.0, codename Ataksak. It includes a database importer for users of Amarok 1.4, who want to keep their statistics and ratings, as well as a lot of bugfixes and improvements. The playlist, statusbar and Last.fm integration got a major overhaul and are a lot more stable and polished now. First scripts are showing up and make Amarok 2 really rock. For more information please read the release announcement. Packages are available for Debian, Kubuntu and Windaes. Read More

The Call For Presentations deadline for Camp KDE 2009 will be Friday, November 21. Due to the compressed planning of this event, deliberation will be held over the weekend and selected presentations will be announced on Monday, November 24 so that travel decisions can be made. Read More

News emerged recently that Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) were working on their first IDE for Qt, code named Project Greenhouse. Today saw the release of the first technical preview under the name Qt Creator. The initial release is binary only, and under the terms of the Qt preview license, but the final release will be released with source code under a GPL compatible license. The initial release is available for Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows. Read on for a users review. Read More

Today sees the release of Kubuntu 8.10 featuring the latest KDE 4.1 desktop. The Kubuntu developers have been hard at work, integrating this major new version into a completed desktop. The settings and artwork have been kept close to KDE's defaults to ensure the best face of our favourite desktop shines through. Desktop effects have been enabled by default for cards which support it thanks to the wonderful KWin and package management comes via a brand new version of Adept. Printer Applet and System Config Printer KDE were written to ensure a complete user experience, both are now part of KDE itself. Update Manager, Language Selector and plenty other tools have been reworked for KDE 4. Upgrade, download or request a free CD. Read More