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This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the Kdenlive video editor.

Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Among other work, Calligra sees improved OOXML, DOCX and MSWord support, Recent Projects assistant implemented in Kexi and numerous bugfixes
• Window decoration support for Wayland clients and other Wayland-specific modifications are added to Kwin
• Event loop in the IndexScheduler is added in Nepomuk
• Reduced memory usage for timezones in KDE-Libs by using a private class in KTimeZoneBackend
• Reworked item retrieval for Maildirs in KDE-PIM
• Fixed magnitude parameters calculation for comets in KStars
• Fixes to pgf and OpenMP support in Digikam
• Bugfixes in Krusader, including crash during a file move
• Added Qt Mobility Location plugin as a position provider in Marble
• Added working archiver and extractor in Gluon
• Bugfixes in KDE-Libs, KDevelop, Amarok, NetworkManagement.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

The Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin, Germany Needs Your Help.

Are you attending the Desktop Summit? Are you interested in helping the GNOME and KDE communities organize this year's Summit? Do you want to work with other Free Software enthusiasts to make the Desktop Summit rock? Would you like to own one of the exclusive Desktop Summit Team T-Shirts?

Claire Rowland

Claire Rowland, user experience guru, will be a featured keynote speaker at this summer's Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin.

Be the voice of Marble

Record your voice speaking a handful of turn instructions like "bear left!" and participate in the Voice of Marble contest. With a bit of luck, your voice will be chosen as the default speaker for voice guidance in Marble's next version (1.2, to be released in July 2011).

The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities in Berlin, Germany from the 6th August 2011 to the 12th August 2011.

This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the status of Phonon-Xine and an update on the new Wayland support in KWin.

Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Among much bugfixing and optimization work, Calligra sees further improvements to .doc, .xls, .xlsx, and .odt support, work on Stage, new Kexi web widgets, improvements to Save Incremental support, finishing touches to the new strip presets picker, and flow and opacity functionality in Krita equal to Photoshop®
• In KDevelop, major bugfixing and work on the new implementation of the "Ideal" UI, jumping to error lines in the executescript plugin, cleanup of the patch review toolview, new sessions runnner, autosaving and more
• Much work in NetworkManagement, including further NM09 support and enabling of Nm08Connection's importer
• Initial implementation of a Wayland Server in KWin
• Amarok sees much bugfixing, a scripting interface added to KNotify, and drag and drop suppport between any collections
• Bugfixing and feature work in Skrooge, including graphs in the "Bank and Account" page
• Phonon-VLC adds .s3m and .xm as supported mimetypes
• Support for RAW images in HTML export in Kipi-Plugins
• Preview support for ICO files in Dolphin, along with bugfixing
• Font DPI now fully configurable by the user
• Work on Plasma's Share-Like-Connect project
• OwnCloud sees work on a media player and on the initial setup of a sharing app
• Bugfixing throughout Gwenview, KDE-Libs, KDE-Workspaces, and Juk

Read the rest of the Digest here.

A talk being delivered

As usual in these events, there was a classic mixture of presentations, coffee, hallway conversations, social meals and, most importantly, a wide exchange of ideas to recharge batteries for future work in the KDE community.

This week, the Commit Digest includes a featured article about Kst, the fastest real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool.

Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Work on C++0x support in KDevelop, including support for variadic template parameters in the parser, new browser-like tabs, and many bugfixes throughout KDevPlatform
• In Plasma, suspend/hibernate services added to the powermanagement dataengine, battery applet replaced with QML port from Plasma-Mobile, and many bugfixes
• Work on .xlsx, .doc, and VML support in Calligra, along with support for baseline shift, a new preset chooser widget in Krita, initial commit of the Krita Animator plugin, and much bugfixing
• Further bugfixing and work on NM09 support in NetworkManagement including manual setting of speed and duplex mode for ethernet and advanced permission settings
• Work on Kartesio (plots the best fit of a mathematical curve) to support scientific notation
• Finishing work on Cantor's Scilab backend
• GSOC work on making the canvas use the new QGraphicsView in Umbrello
• Oxidization data added to elements in Kalzium
• GSOC work on Commit Dialog in Dolphin, among additional bugfixing
• Start of javascript API support in Share-Like-Connect, among other work
• Further work on Telepathy-Presence-Applet
• More work on IM icons in Oxygen
• Improved file uploader and work on the media player in OwnCloud
• Use of Qt gesture framework in Marble
• Bugfixing in Konqueror, KWin, KDE-PIM, KMyMoney, Amarok, and Juk

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Thomas Thwaite, designer and technologist, will be a featured keynote speaker at this summer's Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin.

Thomas is perhaps best known through his Toaster Project. The Toaster Project was an attempt to build a toaster from raw, self-mined materials. The project exposed the complexity of seemingly simple and everyday technology. It leaves us to wonder how technology will change our lives in the future, and shows how we all need others to get even simple products.