This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the new Share Like Connect project and recent work done on Nepomuk for KDE Release 4.7.
Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
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Intel AppUp Workshop at Desktop Summit
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
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Kallecarl
The DesktopSummit 2011 team is pleased to announce the Intel AppUpSM Application Lab: MeeGo Series. The session will take place at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany as part of the Desktop Summit. Intel® is the Platinum Sponsor of the Desktop Summit.
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KDE Ships Second 4.7 Release Candidate
Monday, 11 July 2011
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Sebas
Today, KDE has released a second release candidate of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute showstopper bugs and finishing translation and documentation that comes along with the releases.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd July 2011
Sunday, 10 July 2011
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Mrybczyn
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In Calligra, CMYK color support in Krita, improvements in Web widget of Kexi, updated RTF support and bugfixes
- Multiple improvements in Public Transport Widget, including a new filter structure and the possibility to highlight a stop
- Addition of development mode for system tray, DMS query optimization and other changes in Nepomuk
- Addition of manual creation of plain text emails in KDE-PIM
- Amarok now compiles with Clang
- Marble sees memory optimization in offline maps and GSoC work
- Fixes in font display, non-local URLs and other changes, removal of the last OpenGL code from kwineffects and fixes in global shortcuts in KDE's Plasma Workspaces
- Fixes in KMail, KAlarm, KDE-PIM, Juk, Amarok, NetworkManagement, and KDevelop.
Read the rest of the Digest here.
Read MoreKDE Ships July Updates
Saturday, 9 July 2011
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Sebas
KDE has released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform, the fourth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.6 series. These updates are recommended for everyone running 4.6.4 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.
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4.7 Release Celebrations - Think Global, Party Local
Thursday, 7 July 2011
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Kallecarl
There is a wiki page for the 4.7 parties. If you want to organize something, please add it there soon and start getting the word out. The release is planned for Wednesday, July 27th. This is a great cause for celebration.
Read MoreKDE Commit-Digest for 26th June 2011
Friday, 1 July 2011
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Mrybczyn
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Work on Wayland support in KWin continues
- In Calligra, among other changes, we can see performance improvement in plugins, fixed soft page break, added footnotes, and more work on DOC support
- Updates in brush, stroke, and font support in Kst
- Improved Python support in KDevelop
- Improved map quality in Marble
- GSOC work in SDK Dolphin plugin and Gluon
- Fix in QIF import in KMyMoney
- Skrooge sees properties that can be copies or links to a file
- Updated line wrap handling and multiple session management in Kate
- Bugfixing in KDevelop, KPhotoalbum, and Digikam.
Read the rest of the Digest here.
Read MoreFrom Platform to Frameworks -- KDE hackers meet in Switzerland
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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Sebas
In early June 2011, a sizable group of KDE hackers met high up in the Swiss Alps. In Randa, four co-located meetings took place to further KDE technologies. One of these groups, Platform 11, had as its goal to take the KDE development platform to its next level. This group consisted of about 25 people who work on and around kdelibs, the build-system, distributions, and 3rd party developers, and was intended to represent needs and wishes as completely as possible, while trying to find better ways to organize the KDE development platform.
Read MoreMeet Dirk Hohndel, Desktop Summit Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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Kallecarl
Dirk Hohndel
Dirk Hohndel will be the opening keynote speaker at this summer's Desktop Summit in Berlin, 6th - 12th August.
Read MoreKDE Ships First 4.7 Release Candidate
Saturday, 25 June 2011
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Sebas
KDE has released a first release candidate of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute bugs and completing translations and documentation.
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