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KDE Brazil at Latinoware 2012

Saturday, 3 November 2012 | Araceletorres

Just as another year is passing by and summer is on its way, KDE Brazil gathered and fled south, just like migratory birds. Dragons are like birds, you know? Konqi the KDE Dragon is a little bigger than a bird, but he still has wings. We all had a common destination in this trip, the beautiful Itaipu, the biggest water-powered power plant in the Americas. (It used to be the biggest in the world, but a bigger one was built in Asia last year.) Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 16th September 2012

Monday, 29 October 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Amarok adds support for mod, s3m, it and xm with TagLib 1.8
Konsole can trim spaces at end of line
Conquirere replaces KBibTeX online search with the Metadata Extractor plugin version
Work on packagekit dataengine for use in application launchers in KDE-Workspaces; ongoing work on KDE Frameworks
Amarok updates Amazon store support
Bugfixes in KDE-PIM, KDE base applications, Calligra.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 2nd September 2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

KActivities enables logging of desktop events
Scripts can add menus to useractions menu in KDE-Workspace
Keyboard navigation works in Kickoff GUI
KWin's global D-Bus interface splits into two
New KNumber library in KCalc
New options in the KStars field of view (FOV) calculator
Various optimizations: Ruby parser in KDevelop, Akonadi database accesses
Bugfixes in KDE-Workspace, KDE-libs, NEPOMUK, KStars, KDE-PIM, Calligra.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 9th September 2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Konsole reimplements KDE3's print screen functionality
Calligra adds animation tool docker for editing shape animations
KDE-Workspace splits SceneOpenGL into a concrete SceneOpenGL1 and SceneOpenGL2
In KStars, Star Hopper now takes the field of view from the current visible FOV symbol
Okular optionally shows a complete file path in window title
Updated internal libraw in libkdcraw supports new cameras

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 26th August 2012

Thursday, 25 October 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Calligra adds a new application, Author
Kexi gets support for user data storage and remembers column widths of table views
Aurorae supports Plastik's configuration options
KGeography can scramble colors
PublicTransport improves the presentation of a journey
User can configure application shutdown time in KDE Workspace
Numerous refactorings in KDE Workspace in Bookmarks runner, including new support for Chrome/Chromium bookmarks, and both Chrome and Firefox favicons
Phonon-VLC offers a new state: paused before playing.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE PIM October Sprint

Thursday, 25 October 2012 | Kevkrammer

While not as traditional as the annual KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrück near the beginning of each year, a second meeting around October/November is starting to become a tradition of its own. Similar to last year and in contrast to the Osnabrück meetings—which usually focuses on discussing ideas and planning—this year's October sprint again concentrated on improvements to existing features. Read More

Akademy 2013 in Bilbao

Thursday, 18 October 2012 | Sealne

Bilbao will host Akademy 2013 from the 13th to 19th of July next year.

Kaixo KDE!

In Basque (the primary language of Bilbao), the letter K is used to change verb case and also to make plurals of some words. For the hard C sound, Basque uses the letter K.

Lots of Basque words include K: Kaixo (hello), teKnologiaK (technologies), Kalitatea (quality), BerriKuntza (innovation), asKatasuna (freedom), Kultura (culture), Kidetasuna (fellowship), Komunitatea (community), esKuluze (generous), etorKizuna (future), eusKera (Basque language). The letter K is at home in Euskal Herria (Basque Country).

Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps

Monday, 15 October 2012 | Kallecarl

KDE has released the third stable version of Plasma Active, KDE's device-independent mobile user experience. The Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works well across a range of devices. It is designed for personalized productivity, a complete mobile experience right from the first start-up.

KDE celebrates Ada Lovelace Day with tutorials

Sunday, 14 October 2012 | Kallecarl

Today, KDE celebrated its 16th birthday. On October 14, 1996, Matthias Ettrich started KDE. Since then, amazing women have helped make KDE what it is today. Women like Anne-Marie Mahfouf, Eva Brucherseifer, Alexandra Leisse, Celeste Lyn Paul, Anne Wilson, Claire Lotion, Lydia Pintscher, Myriam Schweingruber, Claudia Rauch and many many more. Women have shaped both KDE code and KDE community. Read More

2012 Randa Report [with updates]

Friday, 12 October 2012 | Kallecarl

“From the hacking rooms, we hear the whistle of the train as it travels up and down the Matter Valley. Most of us arrived on that train, and soon will be leaving. Another amazing mass KDE sprint is coming to an end, and again a lot has been accomplished.”

Randa Planning photo by Valorie Zimmerman

In September, several teams met in Randa, Switzerland for the fourth such Sprint Intensive. As expected, there was substantial progress as the teams worked on their individual projects and across projects. The work done at the Randa meetings involves both future-oriented discussions and detailed bug fixing and coding, all done ultimately to delight KDE users.

Each of the project teams—Accessibility (a11y), Plasma, KDE Edu and Multimedia—have provided a synopsis of their accomplishments below. The actual results of their work will appear in future versions of KDE software.