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Qt 5.0 - Congratulations to the Qt Project

Monday, 24 December 2012 | Votick

Since its beginning in 1996, KDE has developed as an organization creating a wide range of software. From the start, KDE relied on Qt, the toolkit that helps to power KDE’s software. KDE and Qt have always worked together closely. This partnership has grown even closer since Qt development moved to the Qt Project. The quality of current and future KDE applications depends on innovation and improvements within Qt. A few days ago, the Qt Project achieved a major milestone—the release of Qt 5.0. The release included significant contributions from KDE Community members. Congratulations to everyone who made a contribution!

Notable features of Qt 5

More flexibility within QML, Qt Widget, Javascript and C++
Modularized codebase and consolidated platform abstraction
Dramatic improvements to graphics and and overall performance, including constrained hardware environments
Improved connectivity capabilities
User-friendly content handling
JSON support
New location APIs
Intuitive development interfaces for better coding efficiency

This release and the Qt ecosystem strongly support the continued growth of KDE and its development. KDE teams, projects, developers, and associates are grateful for the quality, consistency, efficiency, creativity and reliability of Qt.

KDE Ships First Release Candidate of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10

Wednesday, 19 December 2012 | Sebas

Today KDE released the first release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Thanks to the feedback from the betas, KDE has already improved the quality noticeably. Further polishing new and old functionality will lead to a rock-stable, fast and beautiful release in January, 2013. One particular change in this RC is an updated look to Plasma Workspaces. Read More

Krita Sketch - Mobile Artistry

Wednesday, 19 December 2012 | Annma

Imagine drawing anywhere with your tablet. It's now possible! KDE and KO GmbH have released Krita Sketch, the first tablet and ultrabook version of Krita, the award-winning digital painting application. Optimized for touch screens and developed with a QML interface, Krita Sketch provides everything needed to create artwork from beginning to end. Read More

Kate/KDevelop October Sprint: What's new in KDevelop

Monday, 17 December 2012 | Milian Wolff

This is the second part of the report on the joint Kate/KDevelop development sprint that took place in Vienna from the 23rd to 29th of October this year. It provides an overview of the changes in KDevelop. For more background and details about what happened with Kate during the sprint, make sure to read the first part of this report. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 9th December 2012

Sunday, 16 December 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

KDevelop adds "Switch To Buddy" plugin
Digikam's batch queue manager makes better usage of multiple CPU cores
KIO listDir uses time-based entry batching
Calligra better supports the mobi format
PartitionManager performs resizing of FAT and HPFS filesystems with parted 3.1 or above
KMix gains better keyboard control
Work on the new KScreen Daemon.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

15 years of KDE e.V. - Behind the Scenes

Thursday, 13 December 2012 | Jospoortvliet

As reported here two weeks ago, KDE e.V. has grown up since it was founded 15 years ago on November 27, 1997. From a body handling a few thousand euros for the yearly KDE meetings governed by a dozen members, it has evolved into a lean execution machine supporting many large and small events each year, taking care of legal matters, promotion, community management and more. KDE e.V. now has a dedicated employee and many members. Today, we take you on a virtual tour around Blue Gear Headquarters, to show you what's going on at the German registered non-profit association and how it affects the KDE community world wide. Read More

Season of Giving

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 | Wade

KDE holiday wallpapers!

For KDE, giving is always in season. In 2012, KDE community members all over the world met and collaborated with a strong desire to produce the best software possible. They've spent countless hours delivering new features, while supporting existing versions with timely releases and bugfixes. Working with students in programs such as the Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In and the Season of KDE, KDE mentors gave time and guidance towards developing new technical talent. Truly, the KDE Community thrives by giving all year round.

KDE is one of the largest free software communities in the world. This year, we paved the way for future growth by giving ourselves a Manifesto that promotes the best aspects of free software: openness, inclusivity and innovation. And yet, despite its size, KDE operates transparently and prudently through KDE e.V. and its Board. Every day, all over the globe, more and more individuals, schools, businesses and governments rely on KDE; they trust KDE to give them full control over their data and hardware and to support ongoing efforts to make technology open and available. This is a gift the KDE Community gives gladly to anyone who wants it.

It's time to party!

Tuesday, 11 December 2012 | Joseeantonior

Cool Cake.

As many of you may know, the release of KDE 4.10 is coming soon. That means the time for Release Parties is close and planning can start! These events can happen anywhere around the world, you just need to have somewhere to do it, some attendees, and the party will get started.

Wanna go?

Going to a release party is simple. Look at the wiki page and find one in your eare. If there isn't one yet, keep checking - we keep adding them. Then, show up, bring a smile, and you're guaranteed to have a good time. You'll meet new people or old friends, you'll hear the latest gossip, learn new tricks, or just find out what this KDE thing is all about.

But if you aren't sure if there will be one, how about you organize your own party?

KDE Commit-Digest for 2nd December 2012

Sunday, 9 December 2012 | Mrybczyn

This week's KDE Commit-Digest brings three stories: recent KDE-PIM activities, changes in Strigi and Google Code-In. The commit list includes:

Kate adds "Keep highlighting" next to the close button
KDevplatform optimizes document loading
KDEPIM updates holidays for several countries
libnm-qt implements GSM settings
Muon-backends gets extensive work, including being split in two--libmuonapt and libmuon (no QApt dependency)
Calligra's Experiment PaintOp now uses highly optimized Displacement option.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Contest: Create Konqi with Krita

Saturday, 8 December 2012 | Neverendingo

Konqui the friendly dragon has been KDE's mascot for over ten years. It's time for a new look!

So KDE forum admin Neverendingo is organizing a splendid contest together with the Krita community! There are two prizes: a DVD+Comics pack and the last original First Krita Sprint t-shirt! And of course undying fame! The jury consists of the well-known artists Animtim, Deevad and Nuno Pinheiro.