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KDE Commit-Digest for 30th June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok sees a series of menu changes in the menus: playlist-related actions are harmonized, in Collection Browser levels: "Artist" level is renamed to "Track Artist", its behaviour is changed and it replaced by "Album Artist" by default
- Krita can smooth the pressure in Weighted Smoothing mode
- KDE Telepathy adds an option to always ask for file transfer destination directory
- Akregator support nested xml:base attributes
- Optimizations in KDE-PIM, Nepomuk, JuK, kdegames, Digikam, Dolphin
- GSoC work in Plasma, KStars.
KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Nepomuk adds new Indexer for EPub files
- KAlgebra supports fullscreen mode
- Artikulate gains new language models
- Krita implements a global alpha lock "Preserve Layer Alpha"
- In Amarok, volume fadeout is now also available for pause
- libkface adds a new preprocessing algorithm
- Optimizations in Nepomuk, Dolphin and rekonq
- GSoC work in Nepomuk and Digikam.
Akademy 2013 - Well Done
Akademy 2013 in Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain wrapped up on Friday, 19 July. According to one long-time KDE contributor, it was "A most awesome event."
Read MoreKDE Commit-Digest for 16th June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In kdelibs, kfiledialog remembers settings correctly
- Plasma applet for Network Management adds OpenConnect VPN plugin
- KDE Telepathy's authentication supports Google accounts
- Kopete activates webcam preview in settings dialog only if webcam tab is selected
- Zanshin adds DataStoreInterface that allows to decouple Akonadi access from the rest of the application (useful for testing, for example)
- Tellico Collection Manager allows Bibtex text to be drag/dropped on the main window to import
- Skrooge imports Microsoft Money documents (.mny), both protected and not
- Bodega server (Plasma Active Appstore) sees much work, including implementation of posting of assets, publishing and "Partner Manager" role
- Optimizations in Trojitá, KDE-PIM and KDevelop
- GSoC work in KStars and Kreversi.
Akademy 2013 - The Gatherings
After the presentations during the first two days of Akademy, people moved into action. Birds of a Feather sessions and workshops provided the opportunity to discuss, plan and hack. Being Akademy, there was also time away from work for relaxation and camaraderie. Akademy attendees, if there is anything missing, please add in comments.
Read MoreAkademy 2013 Day Two
Akademy 2013 in Bilbao finished its first day in grand style with a party and great music. Day Two had another impressive line-up of talks. Day Two official business wrapped up with sponsor presentations and the Akademy awards.
Read MoreAkademy 2013 is on
The main event on the KDE Calendar has begun. Akademy 2013 in Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain is underway.
Akademy Day Zero
Akademy 2013 activities got started on Friday, 12 July with the KDE e.V. Annual General Meeting (AGM). In the evening, people picked up their badges at early registration and partied at Hika Ateneo in Casco Viejo (Old Town Bilbao). As usual, people were delighted to see each other in person after working all year by IRC and email. Even first time attendees felt right at home. One person said, "It's amazing to see the face of someone I only know by their IRC nickname." The entertainment was live jazz featuring the leader of the local Akademy team, Danitxu (Dani) Gutiérrez Porset, on the trumpet.Akademy Day One
Akademy officially started on Saturday, 13 July 2013. A closely associated event, Akademy-es—the annual gathering of KDE-España—took place on the preceding Thursday and Friday with presentations in Spanish and Basque. KDE-España is the legal representative of KDE e.V. in Spain.Keynote and first talks
The opening keynote talk by Eva Galperin from the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed the impact and implications of NSA (U.S. National Security Agency) surveillance and other offenses to privacy. Eva gave an overview of these intrusions and described how almost all networking companies support it. Governments regularly buy software to spy on citizens—their own and others. To KDE developers, Eva implored, “You're the developers. You're our last and only hope. Build encryption software. Save us.”
The hallway during talks By Knut Yrvin
Kevin Krammer spoke about declarative widgets as KDAB has developed them. He showed how QML with widgets can create impressive UIs in a small number of lines of clear and easy to understand code. In his first demo, Kevin did some live coding, drawing applause several times. He explained some of the goals and considerations behind these technologies. He then showed how a single application can have significantly different user interfaces: one for users, another for staff and administration, and a developer UI incorporating all the others, which can load each of them with ease. Kevin also spoke about how the benefits of various interfaces to the same application go beyond different devices and formfactors. In the Q&A that followed the presentation, there was a question about the relationship between declarative widgets and the new widgets in Qt 5.1. Kevin sees declarative widgets as a step in moving from a traditional widget-based application to the flexibility of QML.
Read MoreA Year of the Linux Desktop
Around a year ago, a school in the southeast of England, Westcliff High School for Girls Academy (WHSG), began switching its student-facing computers to Linux, with KDE providing the desktop software. The school's Network Manager, Malcolm Moore, contacted us at the time. Now, a year on, he got in touch again to let us know how he and the students find life in a world without Windows.
Read MoreKDE ships July updates to 4.10 series
Today KDE released updates for its Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These are the latest in the series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 releases. The 4.10.5 updates contain many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the 4.10 release and are recommended updates for everyone running the 4.10 release series.
Read MoreKDE Commit-Digest for 9th June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In Calligra, the tag categories the user can define for various resources will update for any resource of the same type; in Krita, Pixel Selection can be converted into a Vector Selection
- KDevelop makes it possible to pull includes and defines from the CMake targets
- Battery applet animates the battery icon when charge is below 5%; batteries are sorted by name
- Plasma Media Center sees much work on youtube videos
- KGet merges work from GSoC 2012 on Metalink HTTP Headers
- KGPG sorts keys by domain name of email address
- Optimized calendar handling in KDE-PIM, file indexing in Nepomuk, gradients in Calligra, and Analyzer drawing in Amarok.