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Where KDE is going - Part 2

Wednesday, 2 July 2014 | Jospoortvliet

This is the second half of the 'where KDE is going' write-up. Last week, I discussed what is happening with KDE's technologies: Platform is turning modular in Frameworks, Plasma is moving to new technologies and the Applications change their release schedule. In this post, I will discuss the social and organizational aspects: our governance. Read More

Akademy-es 2014: Great success in KDE's return to Málaga

Monday, 30 June 2014 | Tsdgeos

The ninth edition of Akademy-es was held last month in Málaga at the Telecommunications School of University of Málaga. Akademy-es had never been held in the city before but it is where the idea of Akademy-es began, during Akademy 2005, resulting in the first Akademy-es in 2006 in Barcelona. KDE old timer Antonio Larrosa is the link between both editions, being the local organizer of Akademy-es 2014 and Akademy 2005. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 11th May 2014

Monday, 30 June 2014 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Clang backend of KDevelop gains basic implementation of adjust signature assistant
Kscreen KCM has been rewritten; the interface has two parts: a view with monitors that can be dragged around to reposition screens, and a widget-based part, that provides detailed configuration for each screen, like resolution, rotation, etc
The screen locker gets the KCM back too
Akonadi gets incremental changes for MERGE and tag support for MERGE and APPEND
KMyMoney supports SQLCipher database driver
Plasma Media Center prioritizes photos taken by a camera-like device.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Randa Meetings Interview Three: Vedant Agrawal

Friday, 27 June 2014 | Devaja

Vedant Agarwala

Thanks again for your further support of the Randa Meetings fundraising. We have now reached almost 40% of the our goal and there is still time to go. Please help even more and spread the word. If we reach our goal we can have an even more stable Kdenlive, more applications ported to KDE Frameworks 5, further progress on Phonon, a look at Amarok 3, even better KDE educational applications, a finished port of GCompris to Qt and KDE technologies, an updated KDE Book, more work on Gluon and a new and amazing KDE SDK!

Where KDE is going - Part 1

Thursday, 26 June 2014 | Jospoortvliet

This article explores where the KDE community currently stands and where it is going. Frameworks, Plasma, KDE e.V., Qt5, KDE Free Qt Foundation, QtAddons - you heard some of these terms and want to know what all the fuss is about? A set of articles on the Dot aims to bring some clarity in the changes and constants of the KDE community in 2014 and further. This is the first article, diving into the technical side of things: Plasma, applications and libraries.

KDE is People

Today our technology goes much further than the humble beginnings in 1996, when we started out building a 'Desktop Environment'. KDE today has many hundreds of active developers. They make not only a 'desktop' (Plasma Desktop) but also a variant for tablets (Plasma Active) and TVs (Plasma Media Center); Plasma Netbook is already 5 years old!

Meanwhile, the KDE applications have gone beyond simple clocks and calculators – we have a full office suite, mail and calendaring, video and image editors and much more. Not only that, KDE applications are being ported to multiple platforms - not just Windows and Mac, but also Android and other mobile operating systems. And our libraries (being renamed to Frameworks 5) are going modular, making them freely available to a far wider audience than just KDE developers.

People of KDE is back

Monday, 23 June 2014 | Unormal

As Michael Bohlender (known to some e.g. for his GSoC project about Kmail Active last year) needed to do some interviews for his anthropology course at the university he decided to reactive the People behind KDE series or, as they are now named, the People of KDE series. Read More

Plasma Media Center 1.3 Available

Monday, 23 June 2014 | Shantanu

Plasma Media Center 1.2 was released as a Christmas gift. Now, we bring to you Plasma Media Center 1.3! As always, we have made sure to make it easier to enjoy your favorite videos, music and photos - both from your collection as well as online sources. A big focus has been performance improvements when showing you the media on your computer as well as general polish for the UI. Read More

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report for Q4 2013

Thursday, 19 June 2014 | Devaja

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report for the fourth quarter of 2013 features a brief note of all the activities and events carried out, supported and funded by KDE e.V in this span of time, as well as a short overview of the major events, conferences and mentoring programs. !ll of this in one document that you should not miss out on to know about almost everything that has been KDE in those four months! Read More

Randa Meetings Interview Two: Sanjiban Bairagya

Wednesday, 18 June 2014 | Devaja

Sanjiban Bairagya

First and foremost we would like to thank everybody that already supported the Randa Meetings fundraising. We have reached almost 1/3 of the our goal. Please help more and spread the word. If we reach our goal we can have an even more stable Kdenlive, more applications ported to KDE Frameworks 5, further progress on Phonon, a look at Amarok 3, even better KDE educational applications, a finished port of GCompris to Qt and KDE technologies, an updated KDE Book, more work on Gluon and a new and amazing KDE SDK!

KDE Commit-Digest for 27th April 2014

Sunday, 15 June 2014 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Umbrello adds find text in tree view, current diagram and all diagrams feature
KDE Telepathy can share images over common image sharing networks
Sflphone-kde adds security evaluation framework with GUI
Punctuation data is accessible to Jovie
Initial import of Application Menu aka (Homerun) Kicker
In IMAP-Resource, refactoring of retrieveitemstask introduces multiple improvements
Kexi is on the way to Qt5: Forms ported to Qt4's scroll area.

Read the rest of the Digest here.