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KDE Ships April Updates to Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces

Tuesday, 1 April 2014 | Unormal

Today KDE released updates for its Applications and Development Platform, the fourth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.12 series. This release also includes an updated Plasma Workspaces 4.11.8. Both releases contain only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Read More

KDE Ships First Beta of Frameworks 5

Tuesday, 1 April 2014 | Jospoortvliet

Today KDE makes available the first beta of Frameworks 5. This release is part of a series of releases leading up to the final version planned for June 2014 following the second alpha last month. This release marks the freeze of source incompatible changes and the introduction of the Frameworks 5 Porting Aids.

Frameworks 5 Porting Aids

To ease the porting of KDE Platform 4 based applications, the Frameworks team has brought the 'Porting Aids' group into existence. These Frameworks contain kdelibs4 modules and API's that are being deprecated in KF5 and are provided only to assist applications in porting to KF5. As such these Frameworks will only have a limited support period, currently planned to be three release cycles. Application developers are strongly encouraged to port away from these Frameworks during this support period to prevent dependency on obsolete and unsupported code. Once support is ended, some unofficial development may continue on some modules, but they will not be part of the officially supported Frameworks release.

Currently, the following Frameworks belong to this group:

KDE Ships Release Candidate of Applications and Platform 4.13

Friday, 28 March 2014 | Unormal

KDE has announced the Release Candidate of the 4.13 versions of Applications and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues. Read More

KDE to Attend Freedesktop Summit 2014

Friday, 28 March 2014 | Jospoortvliet

Next week, from Monday the 31st of March to the 4th of April (Friday), developers from the major Linux desktops (GNOME, KDE, Unity and RazorQt) will meet in Nuremberg for the second Freedesktop Summit. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 16th February 2014

Saturday, 22 March 2014 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Amarok merges advanced track statistics importers (a GSoC project)
KDevelop allows language plugins to provide styles to formatters
Konsole stores terminal size in the profile, each profile can now set desired column and row size; allows users to specify css file for tab bar style (this can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc)
Kwallet replaces SHA with PBKDF2-SHA512+Salt
Porting to Qt5 and Frameworks 5 continues, we have initial ports of kfind and konq.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Ships Third Beta of Applications and Platform 4.13

Thursday, 20 March 2014 | Unormal

The KDE community today released the third beta of Applications and Development Platform 4.13. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues. Read More

KDE wins Linux New Media Readers Choice Award 2014

Tuesday, 18 March 2014 | Cschumacher

Last week at CeBIT, KDE won the Linux New Media Readers Choice Award 2014 (link to German language Linux Magazine) for the best Linux Desktop Environment. 46% of the readers of Linux New Media's global publications voted for KDE. Runner-ups were GNOME with 18% and XFCE with 13%. Other awards went to CyanogenMod, Raspberry Pi, Bitcoin, Puppet, Tor and Git. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 9th February 2014

Saturday, 15 March 2014 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Akonadi server now supports searching via 3rd party search plugins which means it can retrieve results very quickly; it also supports server-search (searching items not indexed by a local indexing service)
Systemtray allows DBus-activation for Plasmoids
Dolphin and KMail's messagelist filter and search windows have been ported to Baloo
Okular adds tabbed interface
In KDevelop, it is now possible to jump to runtime output error messages
Kate adds keyword-based completion model
Google Drive API support has been added.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Ships Second Beta of Applications and Platform 4.13

Thursday, 13 March 2014 | Unormal

The KDE community today released the second beta of Applications and Development Platform 4.13. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues. Read More

Applications 4.13 Coming Soon, Help Us Test!

Wednesday, 12 March 2014 | Jospoortvliet

Last week, the first beta of Applications and Platform 4.13 was released. This week, beta 2 is coming. The openSUSE team has already asked its users to start the testing engines and that request extends to the entire community of KDE users!