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An important topic at Akademy 2008 is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk, but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many developers here. Read on for more of what is discussed here. Read More

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for hiding/showing system icons in Plasma, support for using the native Windows start menu where appropriate, with more work in the "Previewer" applet and "TabBar". Better filtering support in the "FolderView" applet. Various work toward Amarok 2, including visual changes, work on playlists, and initial support for MTP devices. Work on a welcome screen in Parley. Initial commit of a "Sky Calendar" tool in KStars. A Twitter plugin in Marble. Trials with network games in KTank. Keyboard actions for switching tabs in Konsole. OpenSoundSystem (version 4) support in KMix. Quick extract and batch extract interfaces in Ark. "Automatic computer shutdown after downloading" functionality in KGet. Experimental mouse pressure and rotation for sumi-e painting in Krita. Text support for the WMF import filter in KOffice. KGo is added to playground/games. KDE 4.1.0 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here. Read More

During the Emsys-sponsored Mobile and Embedded day at Akademy 2008, Nokia distributed 100 N810 internet tablets to KDE developers, and gave around 50 more for the project to distribute to worthy sub-projects. Read on for more. Read More

The second day of Akademy 2008 started a bit later in the morning than the previous one, yet somehow most visitors managed to look much more tired. Maybe the social event (read Nokia sponsored beer) from yesterday has something to do with that. Although tired, people visit the talks and write code, so you can expect more code, discussions and blogs today. Read on for more! Read More

Developers from Nokia and Mozilla have been working hard to port the Mozilla Platform and Firefox to Qt and there are now some solid results available. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available, and you can download the sources from Mozilla's mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central Mozilla branch to make the port official. KDE Dot News spoke to developer Oleg Romaxa from Nokia who came to Akademy 2008 from Finland. Read More

On Monday at Akademy, KDE's yearly world summit, the KDE e.V. held its general assembly, covering a wide range hot topics, regarding licensing and community scalability. While part of the meeting is dictated by intricacies of German association law, the AGM also provides a way of effectively solving issues arising in the KDE community and deciding on ways to move forward as an organisation. This year's KDE e.V. General Assembly endorsed a Code of Conduct, the Community Working Group and a Fiduciary License Agreement for KDE contributors. Read More

Fabrizio Montesi of italianaSoftware showed at Akademy how JOLIE brings new ways of interaction through the network to KDE. One of his examples is the ECOS media controller that organises control of your multimedia player (in our case that's Amarok of course) through web interfaces, handheld devices and other applications. JOLIE takes care of synchronising and concerting all those different interfaces. Read on for more details. Read More

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The "Web Browser" Plasmoid now uses the Konqueror bookmarks system, and gains support for favicons. Improvements to the D-Bus interface of Plasma, with continued developments in the Plasmoids-on-Screensaver project. More animations in Plasma, and custom colors support in the "Binary Clock" and "Notes" applets. First implementation of a browserbar, and wheel scrolling support in the "Previewer" applet. A new "Screen Management" Plasmoid for showing connected displays. Start of a set of 40 Oxygen weather icons, for use in various Plasma applets and across KDE. Basic implementation of javascript window operations in WebKit-KDE. More work in DVCS support in KDevplatform (the basis of KDevelop4). Initial work on a Kross backend and automatic Qt bindings for Lua. A QtScript module for scripting C# applications. The start of a flashcard mode in Parley. Return of spellchecking support in the KPhotoAlbum annotation dialog, and improved spellchecking support in Kopete chat windows. "SystemC" syntax highlighting in Kate. Start of using Akonadi to store contacts in KPilot. A new "Albums" context view applet, and a "Script Console" script (using Qt bindings) in Amarok 2. Playback of DVD ISO's in DragonPlayer. Support for EMule collection files in KMLDonkey. Support for the NX protocol in KRDC. More page transition effects in KPresenter. Start of work on an authorization framework in the Kexi "Web Forms" project. A PackageKit backend plugin in the Shaman package manager. KDiff3 moves from playground/devtools to extragear/utils. Start of porting KMathTool to KDE 4. The KHotKeys redesign is merged back into kdebase. A new KWin branch for window tiling experimentation. Initial import of DarkRoom, an experimental raw decoder based on top of libkdcraw. Read the rest of the Digest here. Read More

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for Q1 and Q2 2008, covering January to March, and April to August 2008. This document includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the first two quarters of 2008, as well as event summaries and future plans. All long-term KDE contributors are welcome to join the KDE e.V. Read More

In the final presentation of the talk days at KDE's yearly world summit, Akademy 2008, the KDE-PIM hackers surprised the KDE community with a couple of announcements, covering nearly all aspects of PIM-related data handling. After demonstrating the Kontact suite on Windows and Mac OS during this year's LinuxTag, the KDE-PIM team continues to raise the bar for competitors on the enterprise desktop. Read on for more details. Read More