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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li><a href="http://okular.kde.org/">Okular</a> now supports searching for words with ligatures</li>

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-27/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

The international KDE community today announced that it will offer itself up in an exciting lottery. Even though the prize is far more substantial than that offered in El Gordo, the entry fee is a mere €100, which can be spread over a year (equating to less that €2 per week).

Xompu (website in German - some basic information in English) is a new German company whose goal is to provide an easy-to-use complete computer, backed up by service support. Xompu released their computer a few weeks ago. And guess what? It runs Plasma Desktop and other KDE software.

Camp KDE 2011 is nearly upon us, but that hasn't stopped the organizers from continuing to add to the fun. Be sure to check out the Camp KDE web site for the final agenda as well as speaker bios.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Commands can now be entered as bookmarks in Konsole, along with general bugfixing
• Bugfixes and work throughout Calligra including an improved freehand tool, further improvements to the importing of MS Office files, and improved support for rotated shapes
• Start page improvements in Plasmate
• Improved Python auto-completion and lex/yacc file extensions support added in KDevelop, along with many bugfixes
• Higher order functions now supported in KAlgebra
• Improvements in face detection in Digikam along with many bugfixes
• Work throughout Plasma-Mobile including an improved activity switcher and a PhoneManager application
• Usability improvements in K3b
• Puzzle list sorting in Palapeli
• Work in Gluon
• Refactored wizard for BlueDevil
• A large number of improvements to FreeBSD support in KSysGuard along with many other bugfixes
• Bugfixing in Nepomuk, Trinity, KWin, Amarok and NetworkManager.

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-20/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Improved support for DOC, ODF, and Google Docs along with general bugfixing in <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a></li>

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-13/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

For the 7th year in a row KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code. We are delighted to be able to work with great students throughout the summer again. To find out more about the program visit the GSoC website and pay special attention to the FAQ and timeline.

The KDE PIM community gathered at Osnabrück, Northern Germany for a weekend in February. The discussions covered recent achievements in KDE PIM, the current state of the community and applications, and brainstorming about the future and new cohesive and social applications. The meeting as usual had many attendees and was hosted, as in each of the previous 8 years, by Intevation GmbH. The agenda reflects the breadth and scope of this year's meeting, ranging from website maintenance to release engineering to features and tools.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Strigi analyzers now read metadata in their own threads, solving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror
• Global shortcuts can now be used to switch between keyboard layouts
• Collections shared over NFS & SMB/CIFS networks return to dynamic collections in Amarok along with a refactoring of how plugins are managed
• In KStars, labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines, and comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode
• New grouping by drag and drop in Digikam and other work
• Support for Mobile Broadband on/off switch together with general bug fixing in NetworkManager
• Support for SWIFT mt940 files and new "bubble" and "stacked area" graphs in Skrooge
• Feature work and bug fixing throughout Calligra
• Work on bookmark handling in KOffice
• Work on video capture support in Phonon, equalizer support in Phonon-Gstreamer, and optimizations throughout Phonon-VLC
• Revamped UPnP plugin in KTorrent
• Work on Oxygen-Gtk and Oxygen icons
• New PSTricks backend for Cirkuit
• First steps for OS X framework support in Smoke
• Work on the collection scanner in OwnCloud
• Bug fixing in Konsole, Kdesrc-Build, KDE-PIM, Kopete, Rekonq, and Krusader.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

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There have been tutorials on a number of topics. Frederick Gladhorn gave one on Qt Quick, covering the QML language and how to use it to make dynamic designer led user interfaces. A Calligra talk by Mani Chamdrasekar showed how Calligra can be embedded in any Qt application to use OpenDocument similar to how WebKit can be embedded. This was followed by a tutorial taking participants through creating an application which includes Calligra. Jonathan Riddell took students through the lengthy journey of creating an application in PyKDE, the various fiddly bits to get that into a state where it can be released, then packaging it and putting it into Kubuntu. Other tutorials included Qt Model/View and VCreate Logic's Generic Component Framework.