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Friday, 6 April 2012

KDE Commit-Digest for 1st April 2012

          <ul><li>KDev-Python's <a href="http://scummos.blogspot.com/2012/03/debugging-support-in-kdev-python.html">new debugger</a> gains a DUChain-supported local declaration list</li>

Digikam adds loc.alize.us support to their geolocation service

Okular now remembers exact bookmark positions and more than one bookmark per page

KWin adds Global Shortcut support for scripts and scripted effects and cursor-key navigation to Flip Switch and Cover Switch effects

Kickoff can now be used only with a keyboard

Katepart improves their auto-bracketing feature

Plasma applet Miniplayer reaches version 2.3, adding a track properties dialog, improved filtering and other improvements

NEPOMUK enables Virtuoso inference on all queries and includes optimization fixes

Calligra further unifies toolbox behavior across all its programs, implements support for loading/saving layer locks in the OpenRaster file format (ORA) and includes numerous bugfixes

Calligra's Krita adds a textured painting option for brushes inspired by David Revoy's article

Amarok adds the ability to move track position bookmarks by dragging

Konversation adds an option to restrict logging to private conversations

KMLDonkey releases 2.1.2 and 2.1.3, including various bugfixes, optimizations and new features

KAuth introducing unit tests, completing all the needed requirements to be ready for being part of frameworks

KSCD, JuK, and other applications in KDE Multimedia can now build outside of KMM

Plasma Mediacenter improves its playlist

Bugfixes in Jovie, KDevelop, KDE-Workspace, KDE-PIM, KMyMoney, Phonon-Gstreamer and Phonon-VLC.

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-01/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

KDE Ships April Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

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 4.8 series. 4.8.2 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 4.8.1 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 making encryption of multiple folders using GPG work, XRender fixes in the KWin window and compositing manager, a series of bugfixes to the newly introduced Dolphin view engine and improvements in the Plasma Quick-based new window switcher, which made its first appearance in 4.8.0. Kontact and its device counterpart Kontact Touch have received a number of important bugfixes as well as performance improvements. The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.1. Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.8.2, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.8.2 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 4.8.2 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.

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

The KDE and openSUSE communities welcome you to COSCUP 2012!

COSCUP is the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

KDE Commit-Digest for 25th March 2012

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Work in <a href="http://uml.sourceforge.net/">Umbrello</a> towards supporting the automatic layout of diagrams and exporting to the <a href="http://www.graphviz.org/">graphviz</a> dot format, along with optimization, bugfixes, and further migration of qt3 classes to qt4</li>

KDevelop sees further work on the new debugger, which now displays variable values in tooltips and has a proper queue and optimization

Kig refactors and improves the PGF/TikZ exporter

Digikam includes further work to support XMP sidecar files and fixes to compile on ARM processors

Okular's PDF Generator can now handle embedded movies

Dolphin (and Kdebase) now includes support for additional mouse buttons (forward, backward) for history navigation

Fancytasks 1.1.0 "Back in game" adds many improvements including toggle fullscreen, minimize, maximize and other actions, support for showing tasks from current activity only, own pin task action, per launcher task connecting rules and many bugfixes

QZeitgeist addd support for retrieving thumbnails for URLs

Kwin adds proper key navigation to layout-based window switchers and new "Present Windows" like Window Switcher layout, along with bugfixes

KWebkitPart adds HTML 5 local storage functionality, fixing broken behavior when using Owncloud services

KDE PIM improves the settings import, along with optimization and many bugfixes

Calligra improves the visual manipulation of tables, docx comments support, and Krita adds color mixing to the deform brush, along with many bugfixes

Plasma Media Center implements keyboard naviation along with many other essential components for a media player

Kdenlive now supports dragging from the effect stack to another clip and a new reset effect

Amarok introduces an improved Free Music Charts script

KMLDonkey introduces a new QML-based version for the N9 (and Meego) and improves performance for slower internet connections

Kde Telepathy introduces a new calling UI, support for video calls, improved support for Adium themes, display of recent group chats, and other improvements, optimizations and fixes

Oxygen monospace font improvements

Muon supports multithread object creation, improved UI for software sources, and bugfixes and optimizations

Kajongg introduces its own game server at kajongg.org.

KSudoko adds settings to control the look and feel of 3-D puzzles and three new Roxdoku puzzles

Kdegames now includes support for players chatting with each other

Bugfixes in Konsole, Kate, Help Center, KMix, Folderview, Oxygen-GTK, KGPG and Knights

Work is being done on statistics showing "0".

Thursday, 29 March 2012

KDE Cascadia & LinuxFest Northwest

KDE Cascadia will be held in partnership with LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) in Bellingham, Washington on April 28 and 29, 2012. This is a pilot of regional KDE gatherings in conjunction with established grassroots FOSS conferences. The goals are to reduce the effort and expense associated with a single annual stand-alone meeting, and to increase user and developer involvement in KDE. The LFNW Organizers warmly welcome the KDE Community.

Thursday, 29 March 2012

KDE PIM Needs You!

About a month ago, the KDE PIM team had their yearly sprint in Osnabrück. At this sprint, there was much new code, squashed bugs and considerable progress. One important thing on the table was the future of KDE PIM. Read on to learn how YOU can help fullfill the potential of KDE PIM!

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

KDE Commit-Digest for 18th March 2012

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li><a href="http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/">Akonadi</a> improves Google Applets and Exchange 2003 support</li>

Simon introduces additional "finalize" step for command plugins

KWin now supports live updates for thumbnails in tabbox and a new example script: "demands attention on current desktop," along with many bugfixes

KDevelop adds the ability to store a .kdev4 file in a project directory, opening files at a given line, and includes further work on a new debugger, as well as many bugfixes

Kdesrc-Build introduces support for bzr (libdbusmenu-qt).

Tab completion and smart completion implemented across Cantor's backends including Maxima, Qalculate, Sage, Octave and Scilab

Okular introduces improved support for videos in pdf documents

Work in Plasma Active on threaded models and multitouch selecting

Dolphin introduces support for dynamic roles

In Calligra, Krita introduces a texturing paintop option and Karbon improves XFig support, along with many bugfixes throughout it's applications

Much work on Media Center, which now supports loading backends, playing media and storing thumbnails

In Kdenlive, image sequences can now start at an arbitrary frame

Rekonq introduces support for Google Sync Bookmarks along with many bugfixes

Many improvements to the KDE Sprints website

KTorrent adds IPv6 support to DHT (BEP 32) and improves DHT code

Bug fixes in KDE-PIM, Oxygen-GTK, KDE Telepathy, Umbrello, Digikam, Plasma, Muon, and Massif-Visualizer

Krita 2.4 is dedicated to the memory of Jean Giraud Moebius

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2012-03-18/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

Monday, 26 March 2012

KDE Enhances Mirroring Network

KDE deployed a new mirror network this weekend. The mirror network is used to spread released software to users. In the old system, users had to select a mirror server manually. The new system selects a mirror automatically, based on the country where the user is located. If there is no mirror for that country, a mirror is selected based on continent. In either case, mirrors that are geographically closer are preferred. If there is an even better mirror—such as one in the same network as the user, it is preferred over all others. Here is the current list of the official KDE mirrors.

Information about files

For each available file, the KDE mirror network has a special information page. For example, here is the page for analitza, which holds a list of mirrors. But it is not just a simple list; it will only show the mirrors that are up and running, and the ones that can actually serve the file. It will look different to each user, listing the best mirrors depending on the user's location.

The information page also shows checksums, PGP signature (if available) and Metalinks. Clicking on a Metalink launches a download manager like KGet that starts downloading the file from several mirrors at the same time, by file section. The Metalink metadata holds information about checksum for each section to ensure that the complete file was downloaded correctly.

Saturday, 24 March 2012

KDE e.V. Report for Q42011

The report of KDE e.V. for the fourth quarter of 2011 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported in the last 3 months of last year. The report has a message from the President of the Board reflecting on the first 15 years of KDE and looking forward to more opportunities. There are stories about exciting product announcements and the various sprints that produced exceptional results.

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Kdenlive: Superior Video Editor ... not just for pros

Video editing has evolved from a niche market in the computer world to something that computers are simply expected to do. It's a tall order to be everything to everyone. But if any video editing software comes close to that mark, it's Kdenlive—a KDE Applications star. With a strong commitment and a plan for making major improvements, the Kdenlive team is raising money. Please help out if you can.