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KDE Commit Digest for 15 May 2011

Thursday, 19 May 2011 | Vladislavb

Further bugfixing, optimization and feature work in Calligra including improved DOC, DOCX, WMF, MSO and SVM file support
Krita sees an updated Phong Bumpmap and Get Hot New Stuff support for presets
A group of database-related bugs fixed in Digikam
The Strigi Indexer has been moved to a separate process to allow for a more robust Nepomuk Service
KTorrent sees a revamped Scanfolder plugin
Copy/paste support and "ctrl+mouse wheel" zooming integrated in Step
KCalendarSystem and the Locale KCM now support alternative (localized) Week Number Systems
New Date/Time widgets developed by the KDE-PIM team moved to KDE-Libs alongside bugfixing
KWin now supports raster graphics and has basic multihead support
Option to wake from suspend for a selected alarm in KDE-PIM
NetworkManagement sees bugfixing and automatic BSSID selection support
Support for MMS in KGet allowing multiple connections per download
Continued work on folder icons, this time 22x22, in Oxygen
More robust DAAP protocol parsing in Amarok alongside other bugfixing
Bugfixing and optimization in Juk
Layout improvements in Muon
Bugfixing in KDE-Workspace, KMyMoney, and Ark.

Open Collaboration Services Next Sprint

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 | Djszapi

Over the weekend of May 14th and 15th, the Open Collaboration Services Next sprint took place at the Physics Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Seven experienced developers participated in this event--some of them coming directly from <a href:"http://www.linuxtag.org/2011/en.html">Linux Tag--in order to meet face to face, create new bonds, and discuss current and future issues around Open Collaboration Services. Read More

Promo Sprint 2011

Monday, 16 May 2011 | Justin Kirby

The KDE Promo team has just wrapped up a busy weekend at their sprint in Southampton, England. The group set out with an aggressive agenda and accomplished many of their goals throughout the weekend. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 8th May 2011

Friday, 13 May 2011 | Vladislavb

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Continued work throughout <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a>, including improvements to MS 2003 and MS 2007 file support, working anchors and server-based project creation</li>
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KDE Commit-Digest for 1st May 2011

Friday, 6 May 2011 | Vladislavb

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Calligra sees improvements to PPT and DOC support and work on SVM support and specifications amongst further bugfixing
Initial GSOC work on OpenStreetMap (OSM) rendering in Marble
NetworkManagement sees much bugfixing, support for Bluetooth tethering and a KAuth implementation
Solid's NetworkManager device interface updated to NM-0.8.2
Work throughout Plasma and Plasma-Mobile including QML Bindings for Plasma::ToolTips, a CLI tool allowing the addition of remote plasmoids and a small Remote Widgets browser along with much bugfixing
KWin now supports shadows with XRender and sees a slew of further bugfixing and optimization
Continued work on Skrooge
Kaffeine switches from Xine to VLC
Rekonq implements Opera-like feature to load favorites with Ctrl+Number
Work on QtRuby 3.0
Klipper now uses Prison for barcodes
Work on Oxygen icons
Middle mouse button on tab now changes the highlight color in Kate
Further work on the PublicTransport plasmoid
New Brazilian keyboard layout and bugfixing in KTouch
Android-Qt now has JIT support
Bugfixing and optimization of DrKonqi
Bugfixing in Digikam, KPhotoAlbum, KIO, KDE-PIM and Kile

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Ships May Updates

Friday, 6 May 2011 | Sebas

May 6th, 2011. Today, KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. This update is the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.3 brings many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.6 series and is a recommended update for everyone running 4.6.2 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. Read More

KDE e.V. Publishes Final Report for 2010

Tuesday, 3 May 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

KDE e.V., the non-profit organization that supports the KDE community in legal and financial matters, has just published its report for the fourth quarter of 2010 (pdf).

The report summarizes KDE activities in the last three months on 2010, including sprints and trade shows attended by KDE contributors with the support of KDE e.V. It features the individual supporting membership campaign 'Join the Game', and how KDE benefits from it. There is a showcase for community artwork, including the report itself. New KDE e.V. members are presented, as is an overview of KDE e.V.'s finances.

New look for KDE Edu

Saturday, 30 April 2011 | Apol

The KDE Edu Team is proud to present its new website at http://edu.kde.org as the central place to start to discover KDE Edu.

With this new website, we are also officially presenting the new KDE Edu logo as the stamp for KDE in Education. The logo emphasizes the opportunity for people to grow their knowledge freely in various fields with KDE Edu programs. The concept was started in May 2010 by Alexandre Freitas and finalized by Asunción Sánchez Iglesias.

KDE Commit Digest for 24 April 2011

Friday, 29 April 2011 | Vladislavb

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Bluetooth tethering support and much bugfixing seen throughout NetworkManagement
Further work on user management and public link sharing in OwnCloud amongst refactoring of the installation form layout, the media player and general bugfixing
Calligra sees further work on Kexi's Modern Menu, encoding autodetection with the ascii import filter and docx support among further bugfixing
KPresenter renamed Calligra Stage
Improvements to tagging in Digikam among other bugfixing
Work on MKV subtitle support in Phonon-VLC
Work on 3d Scene support in Step
Session support added for keyboard layouts in Kxkb
Grub2 support added to KDM
Support for RightToLeft in SystemSettings
Zeitgeist support added to Amarok through Phonon
KTorrent sees a revamp of its shutdown plugin along with crash fixes
Initial work on a task editor in the RememberTheMilk Plasma addon
Optimizations and other work in Plasmate
Kile sees further work and bugfixing
Work on the intuitiveness of KFileDialog's filtering
KMix's icon now turns to "muted" when at zero volume
Further work in Oxygen and Oxygen-GTK
Bugfixing in KIO, KDE-PIM, Plasma and its addons, KWin and Telepathy.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Google Summer of Code Projects Accepted & the Return of Season of KDE

Monday, 25 April 2011 | Areichman

The KDE community is excited to accept 51 students into the Google Summer of Code program this year. Their projects will touch KDE on almost every level, and integrate the students into our community. Some are likely to become longtime KDE contributors. The next month will be spent on community bonding, getting to know the people and the code behind the project they'll be working on. From May 23rd until the end of August, they'll be working with their mentors to complete their own projects. Accepted proposals for 2011 are varied, including improvements in the KIO file transfer protocol, file sharing on a personal cloud server, and more. New form factors will be worked on in the Plasma Media Center project along with mobile profiles for Amarok and Marble. Students will also be adding QML Video support to Phonon, integrating Telepathy into the Plasma workspace, and further modularizing the Kwin Window Manager. Many other applications will get a helping hand this summer as well. Krita, part of the Calligra Office Suite, accepted 4 students this year; Digikam and Marble each accepted 3 students. Kate, Okular and Calligra Stage will each have 2 projects. Other accepted projects include the creation of an easily accessible, high quality KDE technology demo similar to Qt's, the ability to have a single login for any KDE site through identity.kde.org integration and the beginnings of a framework to conduct usability surveys.

For the full list of accepted projects, please see the GSoC website.