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KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd December 2013
KDE Ships January Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These updates are the fifth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.11 series. Plasma Workspaces and the KDE Platform are frozen and receiving only long term support. Workspace development efforts are focused on Plasma 2; current generation Plasma Workspaces will continue to receive updates until August 2015. KDE Platform is in transition to Frameworks 5. So this release is focused on KDE Applications. The release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, and will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.
Read MoreFrameworks 5 Tech Preview
What is Frameworks 5?
The KDE libraries are currently the common code base for (almost) all KDE applications. They provide high-level functionality such as toolbars and menus, spell checking and file access. Currently, 'kdelibs' is distributed as a single set of interconnected libraries. Through KDE Frameworks efforts, these libraries have been methodically reworked into a set of independent, cross platform classes that will be readily available to all Qt developers.The KDE Frameworks—designed as drop-in Qt Addon libraries—will enrich Qt as a development environment with functions that simplify, accelerate and reduce the cost of Qt development. Frameworks eliminate the need to reinvent key functions.
Read MoreKDE at FOSDEM 2014
KDE will be at FOSDEM in Brussels on 1&2 February this year. We will have a stall both days showing off the latest builds of Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2. Saturday will see our Desktop devroom which is shared with GNOME, LXDE and Unity. There will be a a panel discussion with the governing bodies of the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. (the association that supports KDE), a presentation about KDE Frameworks 5, and a personal account of challenges and triumphs—"Do you have to be brain damaged to care about desktop Linux?.
Read MoreKDE Commit-Digest for 15th December 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Marble adds support for cyclestreets.net bicycle routing, showing journey duration for OSRM routing
- KHelpcenter adds alphabetical sorting for modules and category reorganization to make it easier to use
- Akonadi speeds up appending new items
- Plasma improves change wallpaper animation
- Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 effort includes porting and enabling SMB kioslave to Qt5/KF5.
KDE Commit-Digest for 8th December 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Artikulate enables initial learner profile support
- Marble gets implementation of movie capturing
- Calligra gains Apple Keynote document import filter
- Choqok gets initial Pump.io implementation
- KWin improves icon handling: uses a QIcon in client for the icons instead of Pixmaps and now all sizes are available in one QIcon allowing easy access the best fitting one
- Plasma improves crash recovery for plasma-shell
- KNotes is converted to Akonadi
- Interesting work in progress: server-side search in Akonadi, online banking including sending credit transfers in KMyMoney.
Open Hardware for KDE
As was the case when KDE started, community-developed, freedom-oriented technology is necessary to break the stranglehold of large companies that are more committed to managers and investors than to users. But this won’t be easy and it can’t be left to a few people. The entire KDE Community has a stake in the outcome. For that matter, this should be a concern to anyone who develops free and open software, anyone who uses it, anyone who benefits from it. And that includes just about everyone using technology today.
Read MoreKDE Commit-Digest for 1st December 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDevelop adds advanced features for string formatting completion in Python
- Kate's vim mode gains even more options
- Amarok can read lyrics from tags
- KDE Telepathy supports haze/sipe protocol via a new plugin
- Rekonq adds global zoom setting
- KDE Frameworks continues in klipper, system tray, KAlgebra and more.
Plasma 2 Technology Preview
KDE's Plasma Team presents a first glimpse at the evolution of the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma 2 Technology Preview demonstrates the current development status. The Plasma 2 user interfaces are built using QML and run on top of a fully hardware accelerated graphics stack using Qt5, QtQuick 2 and an OpenGL(-ES) scenegraph. Plasma 2 is a converged workspace shell that can run and switch between user interfaces for different formfactors, and makes the workspace adaptable to a given target device. The first formfactor workspace to be demonstrated in this tech preview is Plasma Desktop, showing an incremental evolution to known desktop and laptop paradigms. The user experience aims at keeping existing workflows intact, while providing incremental visual and interactive improvements. Some of those can be observed in this technology preview, many others are still being worked on.
Read MorePlasma Media Center 1.2 Released In Time For Christmas
Welcome to PMC 1.2
New Features and Improvements
Working with feedback from users since the previous release, the team has implemented many cool new features and a variety of improvements and bug fixes.
PMC Artist Images
Artist and Album Cover Retrieval From now on, your collection will look better and it will be quicker to locate that album you want to listen to. While PMC already used album covers contained in your music files, this new release enables PMC to go to last.fm and fetch new album covers and artist images!
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