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Second Calligra Release Available

Wednesday, 15 August 2012 | Jriddell

Calligra—the productivity suite from KDE—has made its second release. The nine applications in the suite have all received new features and bug fixes, such as improved table editing in Words, neater cell editor in Sheets and a compositions docker in Krita for movie storyboard generation. Read More

Support the 2012 KDE Randa Meetings: Inspired and Intense

Monday, 13 August 2012 | Kallecarl

The KDE Randa Meetings are a small gathering of KDE contributors in the village of Randa, Switzerland. For the fourth year, the intense Randa sprints will include key KDE projects and top developers, all collaborating concurrently under one roof, isolated from noise and distractions. Funds are being raised to support the meetings. Read More

Digia Committed to Thriving Qt Ecosystem

Thursday, 9 August 2012 | Nightrose

Following the recent announcement that Digia will be acquiring the complete Qt business from Nokia, Digia has set out its plans in a letter to the KDE Community.

Digia Director of R&D, Tuukka Turunen, sets out their aims of securing the future of Qt as the best cross-platform development framework and seeking greater cooperation with KDE and other partners in the Qt ecosystem.

An Opportunity to Contribute to Research and KDE

Wednesday, 8 August 2012 | Seele

A research team from the University of Maryland Baltimore County has launched an online study to explore the usability of KDE notifications. Participants are asked to describe a recent KDE notification experience to deepen the understanding of what makes a good or bad notification. Results from the research will help improve the usability of KDE notifications, and will make a contribution to the academic field of Human-Computer Interaction. Read More

KDE Ships August Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

Monday, 6 August 2012 | Sebas

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the fifth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.4 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 and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.4. Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.8.5, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.8.5 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.8.5 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.8, please refer to the 4.8 release notes and its earlier versions.

4.9 Releases – Quality, Stability

Wednesday, 1 August 2012 | Kallecarl

KDE has announced its Version 4.9 Releases to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Development Platform, dedicated to the memory of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. The full announcement has details. Read More

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Friday, 27 July 2012 | Kallecarl

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Introducing Project Neon KVM

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 | Rohangarg

Background

Project Neon provides daily builds of KDE modules for Kubuntu. It is an easy way to get the latest code without having to build the entire KDE-Git/SVN tree and maintain the checkout. Project Neon is unstable, but it installs alongside stable packages. It is suitable for contributors such as new developers, translators, usability designers, documenters, promoters, and bug triagers. With Project Neon, people can experiment freely without risk to a working KDE environment.

Project Neon is especially useful for reporting bugs. With its daily builds, bugs can be reported in the most timely manner. The more time that elapses between when a bug is introduced and when it is reported, the more difficult it gets to find it and fix it. With Project Neon, a bug can be reported on the same day that it is introduced.

Akademy 2012 Survey and Videos

Sunday, 22 July 2012 | Sealne

Now that Akademy 2012 is behind us and life is getting back to normal, we can now share videos and slides from the conference talks with those who weren't there. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 8th July 2012

Saturday, 21 July 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Kexi's data handling library KexiDB became a common component of Calligra
Remote installer implemented in Plasmate
Work on the GUI for video slide shows in Kipi
Smarter manual save dialog in Skanlite
Digikam can be compiled with paralelized PGF codec
DocumentCursor class added to Kate
Activity ranking plugin in its own thread and a separate GlobalShortcuts plugin added to KActivities
Work on recursive move replay in KDE-PIM
In Phonon-VLC, new videomemorystream is implemented and vdo is based on it now
Performance improvements in KDE-PIM
Important refactoring work in libksane and kdelibs
Bug closing continues: 320 opened, 843 closed.

Read the rest of the Digest here.