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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• KWin adds "visible" property on EffectWindow needed by various effects and improves resolving whether a window is on local machine
• In KDE-PIM, Facebook resource is now installed by default
• Calligra gets a new tool to automatically fix trivial errors in source files
• Amarok resurrects Audio CD playback, at least with phonon-gstreamer
• Juk supports reading/writing Ogg Opus tags
• Rekonq migrates to Nepomuk2
• Kipi sees work on the infrastructure to upload to galleries in Imageshack.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

On January 18th, KDE released the third release candidate (RC3) for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.

Highlights of the 4.10 releases include:

• Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces -- Qt Quick is continuing to make its way into Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick, KDE's extension on top of Qt Quick, allows deeper integration with the system, as well as more powerful apps and Plasma components. Plasma Containments can now be written in QML (the declarative language in Qt Quick). Various Plasma widgets have been rewritten in QML. Many performance, quality and usability improvements make Plasma Desktop and Netbook Workspaces easier to use.
• New Screen Locker -- A new screen locking mechanism based on Qt Quick brings more flexibility and security to Plasma Desktop.
• Animated Wallpapers -- Thanks to a new Qt Quick-based wallpaper engine, animated wallpapers are now easy to create.
• Improved Zooming in Okular -- A technique called tiled rendering allows Okular to zoom in closely while reducing memory consumption. Okular Active, the touch-friendly version of the powerful document reader, is now part of the KDE combined releases.
• Faster indexing -- Improvements in the Nepomuk semantic engine allow faster indexing of files. The new Tags kioslave allows users to browse their files by tags in any KDE-powered application.
• Color Correction -- Gwenview, KDE's smart image viewer, and the KWin window manager all now support color correction and can be adjusted to the color profiles of different monitors, making for more consistent representation of photos and graphics.
• Notifications -- Plasma's notifications are now rendered using Qt Quick. Notifications themselves, especially power management, have been improved.
• New Print Manager -- Printer set up and job monitoring have been improved thanks to a new implementation of the Print Manager.
• Kate, KDE's Advanced Text Editor, received multiple improvements based on user feedback. It is now extensible using Python plugins.
• KTouch -- KDE's touch-typing learning tutor has been rewritten and features a clean, elegant user interface.
• KDE Games improvements -- Many parts of libkdegames have been rewritten. Porting instructions for third party developers are available.
• KSudoku now allows for puzzles to be printed.
• KJumpingCube has seen many improvements that make the game more enjoyable.

More improvements can be found in the 4.10 Feature Plan. We want to give this release a good testing in order to continue to improve the quality and user experience of KDE software.

A New Year, a new Amarok! The Amarok Team is proud to present the new Amarok 2.7, codenamed "A Minor Tune".

This version comes with the following brand new major features, developed during last year's Google Summer of Code:

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Marble supports KML (Keyhole Markup Language) tag writers in multiple places and improves flexibility in map themes
• Okular offers a GUI to configure text/graphics anti-aliasing and text hinting
• DrKonqi shows date and time of a crashed application
• Krita adds QML export and line smoothing support
• Kdenlive screen capture uses FFmpeg now
• PublicTransport distinguishes stop names from IDs in the engine
• Amarok is now more responsive loading large directory structures into playlist.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Google Code-In work fixes various issues found by the EnglishBreakfastNetwork's code checker Krazy
• Simon sees model reworking and restructuring
• libkdcraw updates libraw and supports new cameras (digiKam)
• Konsole adds an option to disable ctrl+ zooming
• In Calligra, better integration of pencil tool into Krita.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Keynote at Qt Dev Days 2012 Silicon Valley (photo by ICS)

Background

Qt Developer Days 2012 Silicon Valley was an opportunity to show the strong relationship between Qt and KDE, the interrelated structures of Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and the substantial value that KDE brings to the Qt ecosystem.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Calligra increases modularity step by step; Words allows for ebook cover images to be added
• Batch Queue Manager in Digikam offers more options to end users
• Nepomuk FileIndexer gives plugins better control over indexing; indexing based on MIME types is now available
• KTorrent introduces a more user-friendly syndication interface
• Rekonq sees work on cookie management in private browsing mode
• Apper adds a feature to automatically download updates (without installing) and sees multiple other improvements
• PublicTransport gets global QML dashboard.

Read the rest of the Digest here.