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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Kate gets new features in the vim mode
• All built-in effects move into a library KWin links against
• KTranscript module for dynamic translation moved from KJS to QtScript
• KDE-PIM starts supporting gdrive and Box.com
• KNavalbattle makes the ship red if it cannot be placed instead of hiding it
• Umbrello makes Enable/Disable Undo option work
• Bug fixes in Okular, Konsole, KDE-PIM, Calligra.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Today we proudly feature an interview with Bernard Gray from De Bortoli Wines, an Australian winemaking company.

Hot and Dry in Australia

We spoke with Bernard Gray who has worked for the company for over 10 years in an IT project management and development role. He is, in his own words: "a tertiary qualified programmer, and has been involved in either core development or supporting development with a few Open Source distros/projects over the years".

See the announcement on kde.org for more information and links to downloads. For information about Frameworks 5, see this earlier article on the dot.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• KDM has been removed
• KDE-PIM improves the attachment editor; better ability to switch between inline and linked attachments, allows undo/redo archive mail
• Skrooge adds options in "Income & Expenditure" dashboard widget
• Nepomuk adds Baloo migrator
• KGeography porting to KF5 in progress
• Bug fixes in KDevelop and more.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Today KDE released updates for its Applications and Development Platform, the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.12 series. This release also includes an updated Plasma Workspaces 4.11.6. Both releases contain only bugfixes and translation updates; providing a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

In the second week of January, KDE's Plasma team gathered in the Blue Systems office in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss and work on the next generation of KDE's popular workspace products. The meeting comes just at the right time, as the Plasma team has just finished a first technology preview, which puts the base technology in place and allows for an evaluation of the current progress. It also gives an opportunity for more refined plans for a first stable release.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Umbrello offers more intelligent context menus: when multiple widgets are selected, a context menu is shown containing only the actions that work on the whole selection; better undo support and visual properties improvements
• Marble supports nautical miles as a measurement system
• Digikam improves detection of new images on the camera and sees a bug in face detection fixed
• Krita improves usability of Shade Selector
• Multiple bug fixes in Krita, digikam, KMyMoney and more.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Clicking a Geo URI link will now open Marble; Stars plug-in (Moon and Sun) rendering sees improvements
• Okular sees improvements in Find and Undo/Redo actions
• Kate makes AltGr enabled keyboards work in vim mode
• Choqok implements Pump.io APIs
• Naval Battle shows enemies' ships after the game ends
• KDE Frameworks 5 work includes splitting the katession.h/.cpp files and unit tests.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

conf.kde.in was announced in November, to take place February 21 – 23, 2014 in Gandhinagar, India. This three-day conference, the biggest KDE event in India, will bring together Qt developers, KDE contributors, open source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate and create around Qt and KDE technology.

Today KDE released updates for its Applications and Development Platform, the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.12 series. Starting with the next Applications and Development Platform release, 4.12.2, there will also be a maintenance release of Workspaces 4.11.6. This release contains only bugfixes and translation updates; it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.