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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Rewrite of INDI code in KStars
• EPUB 2.0.1 export filter for Words finished in Calligra
• Improvements in dashboard and patch review in KDevPlatform
• Muon Package Manager provides more information on estimated time needed to commit updates
• Cantor adds support for scrolling with an active drag
• Kothic JSON parser for vector data tiles added to Marble
• Kate plugins benefit from better signalling making it easier for plugins to talk with each other
• Lightdm saves/restores last logged in user.

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Start of rewriting the Maxima backend in Cantor
• It is now possible to pause the background manager in KPhotoAlbum
• Refactoring in Kdenlive
• Implemented Latex plugin and Bugzilla, Youtube filter in KTelepathy
• Action support for author list in KRecipes
• Bugfixes in KDevPlatform, Nepomuk, Calligra.

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KDE Commit Digest is getting back up to speed!

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Work started on declarative canvas for Krita
• Work on Sphinx support and face detection in Simon
• Seamless login from LightDM-KDE to KSplash
• Improved KWin decoration engine when switching themes
• Aurorae Previewer added to Plasmate
• Support for config values in QML decorations in KDE-workspace
• Season of KDE (SoK) work in KStars
• Work on the import tool in digiKam
• New application: NepomukCleaner
• Bugfixes in Gwenview, kwebkitpart, kmix and others

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The Amarok music player is ten years old!

In the last twelve months, the Amarok team has made over 1100 commits and closed more than 1030 bugs. Besides making quality improvements, they released 2 new major versions of Amarok, updated the Amarok Handbook, attended conferences and had a big developer sprint in Switzerland along with much of the KDE Multimedia team. There were 5 successful Google Summer of Code projects and contributions to the Google Code-in. There is now a fully supported Windows version of Amarok that can be downloaded from the Amarok wiki. A lot has been accomplished.

"We are a community of technologists, designers, writers and advocates who work to ensure freedom for all people through our software."

Since it began more than 15 years ago, the international KDE community has grown bigger and more diverse than could have been imagined at the beginning. These forces created a need for clarity about what pulls us together as a community. Over the last six months or so, we have examined this critical issue, moving beyond assumptions and what has been taken for granted. In a rigorous project led by Kévin Ottens, many thoughts were distilled down to essentials. Today, we present the result of that effort: the KDE Manifesto.

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• • Improvements to the KStars QML UI.
  • KDE Frameworks ported to the new Qt5 event filter API.
  • Vishesh's work improving Nepomuk stability and design marches onward!
  • A handful of Amarok bugs were closed that were related to Phonon about-to-finish behaviors.
  • Multi-monitor support in lightdm Userbar theme.
  • The new "drawer" QML component added to plasma-mobile.
  • Kamera kioslave is able to use libgphoto2 2.5

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KDE has again taken part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as its biggest participating organization. Fifty-nine out of mind-boggling sixty projects have been completed successfully. Lots of new things have been learned, lots of code has been written and there's been plenty of fun. GSoC is over but the code has not gone away and the work is not finished. Over the next months, many of the students will continue to be part of KDE, integrate the code for future releases, improve it, maintain it, become more part of KDE. For now, however, pencils are down and we congratulate the students. It was a great summer and we enjoyed having you around!

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.9 series. 4.9.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.9 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.9.1 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin, Plasma and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications. The changes are listed on Bugzilla. For a detailed list of changes that went into 4.9.2, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.2 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Improvements in QML shutdown dialog
• KDE-PIM allows toggling full window view mode for Todo and Month views and gets a special character adding feature
• KTouch adds a skeleton for keyboard layout properties widget
• Digikam gets a new tool: filmtool, an automatic whitepoint finder
• In Kooka, the user can now drag and drop in the gallery
• Calligra supports animation motion along a path
• New Amarok's Context View is available.

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