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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Calligra adds Okular generator for DOC/DOCX, based on the one for ODT
• Marble supports polygon moving, node deletion and adding polygon holes
• Solid offers more detailed battery status information
• KDevelop plugin controller architecture gains important optimizations
• Kdelibs sees config file parsing optimization thanks to reduced number of memory allocations
• Krita adds a Scalable Distance option to Weighted Smoothing
• In KDE Frameworks, Step has been ported to Qt5/KF5

Read the rest of the Digest here.

This is the first part of KDE & Freedom, a series of interviews with people who use and contribute to FOSS in their everyday lives. Please consider donating to the KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraiser. We need your help!

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• In KDevelop it is now possible to modify many include directories and defined macros at the same time
• KStars adds an "eyepiece view" feature to the observation planner; It renders a view of the eyepiece and DSS / other imagery if available, side-by-side
• Digikam adds a geotagging status for thumbnails when viewing the album
• Calligra adds Okular generator for ODT (and OTT) files
• Solid now has a proper Inhibition object, with start/stop methods
• Trojita implements PasswordWatcher for imap access
• Akonadi implements direct streaming of part data

Read the rest of the Digest here.

There will be a KDE exhibit at the upcoming LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference. The full conference takes place November 9 ‒ 14 in Seattle; the expo is open on the 12th and 13th. There is no charge to attend the expo.

Season of KDE is a community outreach program, much like Google Summer of Code that has been hosted by the KDE community for six years straight.

It is meant for people who could not get into Google Summer of Code for various reasons, or people who simply prefer a differently structured, somewhat less constrained program. Season of KDE is managed by the same team of admins and mentors that takes care of Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in matters for KDE, with the same level of quality and care.

Plasma 5

Today, KDE releases Plasma 5.1, the first release containing new features since the release of Plasma 5.0 this summer. Plasma 5.1 sports a wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. Thanks to the feedback of the community, KDE developers were able to package a large number of fixes and enhancements into this release, among which more complete and higher quality artwork following the new-in-5.0 Breeze style, re-addition of popular features such as the Icon Tasks taskswitcher and improved stability and performance.

Releases of KDE Frameworks are now a monthly feature. The release of KDE Frameworks 5.3 brings many small, but important fixes including:

• KWindowSystem has added features needed for future versions of KWin,
• KTextEditor used in Kate fixes memory leaks,
• Frameworkintegration was fixed for Qt 5.4, and
• KActivities can load plugins at runtime.

Qt Developer Days Europe is next Monday to Wednesday in Berlin. It features tutorials and talks on making the most of the Qt toolkit most KDE Software is based upon. Since Qt opened up its development process a large part of KDE Frameworks development has been to ensure close cooperation between the two projects. This has succeeded spectaularly well and at this Qt Dev Days an incredible over 50% of the speakers are active or past developers with KDE.