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KDE Ships Third Beta of Applications and Platform 4.12

Sunday, 24 November 2013 | Unormal

KDE has released the third beta of the 4.12 versions of Applications and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Your assistance is requested. Read More

conf.kde.in 2014

Wednesday, 20 November 2013 | Devaja

conf.kde.in 2014 is taking place February 21 – 23, 2014 in Gandhinagar, India. The conference is a vibrant occasion for sharing ideas, knowledge and, most importantly, support and enthusiasm for KDE and for open source. It is an event for both new and experienced technology enthusiasts. Collaboration and freedom are the main features. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd November 2013

Tuesday, 19 November 2013 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

In KTouch there is an easy way to train on self-supplied texts, resolving a feature regression in a much improved way
Systemtray makes the grid view more dynamically sized, removes pulse animation when battery is low to save energy even more
KCachegrind adds "cost per function call" column in the call view
KDEConnect improves package dispatch to the different plugins
Konversation makes it possible to disable notifications for certain highlights
Important optimizations in Kate code completion and Dolphin item sorting.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Akademy-fr in Toulouse, 23 and 24 November 2013

Saturday, 16 November 2013 | Morice-Net

Akademy-fr takes place in Toulouse next week. Akademy-fr is the meeting of KDE France.

We welcome contributors, users, people who want to become either of those, anyone interested in free and open source software, freedom and community. This is an opportunity to learn about the latest from KDE, to discuss technical points with technical contributors, and to discover how to use the wide range of KDE software.

KDE Ships Second Beta of Applications and Platform 4.12

Thursday, 14 November 2013 | Tsdgeos

KDE has released the second beta of the new versions of Applications and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Your assistance is requested. Read More

KDE Edu 2013 sprint

Monday, 11 November 2013 | Cordlandwehr

From October 24 to October 30, the KDE Educational team (KDE Edu) gathered for its annual work sprint at the Computer Science faculty of Universidad de A Coruña, Spain. The sprint was a mixture of hacking, discussing, getting to know more about Spanish culture, socializing, and meeting new team mates. The hot topics were: Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 27th October 2013

Sunday, 10 November 2013 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Big change in screen management: krandr is removed and replaced by kscreen
New backends in Cantor: Scilab backend returns with syntax highlighting, tab-completion and more; new Python2 backend is added
Kate adds advanced completion list filtering: abbreviation and "contains" matching
Skrooge now imports (csv, qif) support date format like: 31Dec2012
Okular adds audio and video support for epub
Sflphone KDE gets fully implemented global presence tracking
KReversi is ported to QML.

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KDE Ships First Beta of Applications and Platform 4.12

Friday, 8 November 2013 | Tsdgeos

KDE has released betas of the new versions of Applications and the KDE Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 20th October 2013

Monday, 4 November 2013 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Improvements to KPasswordDialog
Nepomuk adds File Extractor for the binary MS-Office formats (doc, xls, ppt)
KGPG shows more information
Okular improves searching code
Multiple modules re-enabled in KDE Frameworks 5.

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KDE Commit-Digest for 13th October 2013

Wednesday, 30 October 2013 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

KDE Telepathy adds an ability to edit the name of your favorite chat rooms for quick joining
In Skrooge, operations can be split by date
Kooka does image transformations in a background thread to reduce wait time
Okular supports more transformations, including the ones dictated by Exif metadata
Bug fixes in KDevelop, Dolphin, KMail

Read the rest of the Digest here.