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conf.kde.in: Project Neon Returns With Bleeding Edge KDE Software

Friday, 11 March 2011  |  Valoriez
Announced today at conf.kde.in in Bengaluru, Project Neon is back, new and ambitious. Those of you who have been around KDE for a while might remember the old incarnation, which provided nightly builds of Amarok. Now the new generation of talented young Kubuntu developers announce that Project Neon is open for business! Project Neon provides nightly builds of the KDE Software Compilation trunk, with similar Amarok support also coming very soon. Project Neon is an easy way for new KDE contributors to get started without having to build the entire KDE-SVN tree and maintain the checkout. Additionally, dependencies are automatically handled and updated. This makes Neon suitable for a range of contributors such as new developers, translators, usability designers, documenters, promoters, and bug triagers. See the details on Techbase. The developers also have an active set of wiki pages for those who want to help with the project. The project uses the Launchpad infrastructure; the IRC channel is #project-neon on Freenode. Some screenshots are on the wiki.

Announcing Project Neon at conf.kde.in Today
According to Project Neon developers, running it will require latest stable or development release of Kubuntu. They say that it is possible to port Project Neon to other distributions, though there are currently no maintainers for other distributions working on the project. openSUSE also provide their own weekly build of the KDE source trunk.

Kudos to Philip Muškovac (yofel), Michał Zając (quintasan), Rohan Garg (shadeslayer), and Gaurav Chaturvedi (tazz) for their accomplishment! And thanks to Sheytan (Tomasz Dudzik) for the great artwork. Branding is important, and the developers of this project appreciate it.

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conf.kde.in Opens in Bengaluru

Thursday, 10 March 2011  |  Jriddell

Lighting the Auspicious Lamp
The first KDE and Qt conference in India has opened today in Bengaluru. conf.kde.in Conference has attendees from around the world as well as every state in India. Over 300 people were at the opening talks and many had to be turned away because the lecture theatre was full. The conference was opened by its main organiser Pradeepto Bhattacharya who introduced the dignatories K.N Raja Rao, Advisor for R.C.College of Engineering, B.S Satyanarayana, Vice-principal of the college and Sumithra Devi.K.S, Director of Master of Computer Applications Dept. The Lighting of the Auspicious Lamp ceremony was performed to open the conference. The attendees include KDE contributors, commercial software developers both who work with Qt and who want to learn about it, but the majority are students from Bengaluru and around India who use KDE & Qt and want to learn how to be part of the community and contribute.

The first session was by Lydia Pintscher who set the keynote for the conference with her talk "So Much to do, So Little Time". She introduced KDE and spoke about the elements that make it special, the high quality software, breadth of the project and most importantly the community.

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Schedule announcement for Camp KDE 2011

Tuesday, 8 March 2011  |  Justin Kirby
This year's event will feature keynotes from Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of Linux Foundation, as well as Carol Smith, program administrator for Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in. We also have a full array of exciting talks organized into four tracks, plus a panel discussion and hacking sessions. Read More

KDE Commit Digest for 27 February 2011

Monday, 7 March 2011  |  Vladislavb

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Calligra continues its activity including PPT and PPTX file support and an experimental Google Spreadsheets plugin
  • Work throughout Phonon and its backends including an improved finding of virtual devices from ALSA
  • KDevelop sees the implementation of a new shell command interface and improvements to the Valgrind parser and Ruby language support
  • A new interactive legend in Kalzium
  • Further work on Pick and Color Labels in Digikam
  • Major work on the PublicTransport Plasma applet
  • Keyboard navigation support added to the calendar applet
  • Work throughout Plasma-Mobile
  • Support for douban.com added to Tellico collection management software
  • New "partial seeding" extension in KTorrent
  • New configurable Samba browsing in system-config-printer-kde, the printing GUI
  • Get Hot New Stuff support for the new template system in Cirkuit
  • KDE Platform 4/Qt4 porting of KMLDonkey has begun
  • FreeBSD fixes in Gwenview
  • Bugfixing in KDE-Libs including Kioslaves
  • Bugfixing in KGPG, Amarok and KDE-PIM
  • Kolourpaint, KRuler, Skanlite, KSanePlugin, and KSnapshot move to Git

Read the rest of the Digest here.

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KDE Commit Digest for 20 February 2011

Saturday, 5 March 2011  |  Vladislavb

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>New "processor information" page and FreeBSD fixes in KInfoCenter</li>
  • Calendar fixes for the Indian National Calendar
  • Work in system-config-printer-kde
  • Fixes throughout kdelibs including crashes due to lack of disk space
  • New charsets and a charset conversion tool in Okteta
  • Support for Mercurial and BitBucket in KDevelop
  • Voice navigation support in Marble
  • New Bulgarian keyboard layout in Ktouch
  • New plugin "Generate Graph" in Rocs
  • Work in Gluon including the start of an animated sprite renderer
  • More work on Color Labels and Toolbar layout in Digikam
  • Dependency on libplasma removed from kwineeffects library in KWin
  • Workthroughout Plasma and Plasma-mobile
  • Start to annotation cleanup in Nepomuk
  • Updated holidays for Korea, Croatia, UK, and Hungary in KHolidays (KDE-PIM)
  • Improved PPT, DOC, and DOCX support and work on SmartArt in Calligra amongst bugfixing and optimizations
  • Krdc and Krfb ported to new Telepathy
  • New "networkmanagement" dataengine and bugfixes in Knetworkmanager
  • Performance optimizations to previews in Dolphin
  • Bugfixing in Kamoso.
    •             <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-02-20/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.Read More

    KDE Ships March Updates, Codenamed "Helga"

    Friday, 4 March 2011  |  Sebas
    In many parts of the world, spring is around the corner. Time for some spring cleaning, and that's true for your desktop and netbook as well. With 4.6.0 being about a month in the wild, it's time for the first round of updates. The KDE team has made available "Helga" (bearing version number 4.6.1), a series of updates to Desktop and Netbook workspaces, applications and the KDE frameworks that make developers' lives so much easier. The changelog lists some of those fixes, but there are more that are not contained in the changelog. 4.6.1 is also the first release served mainly out of KDE's new Git-based development infrastructure. As usual, 4.6.1 only contains bugfixes and translation updates, so we expect smooth sailing for everyone who upgrades from 4.6.0 or earlier versions. Enjoy Helga! Read More

    Qt and the Future of KDE

    Thursday, 3 March 2011  |  Cschumacher
    Following Nokia's recent announcement about its future smart phone development strategy, KDE has received a lot of questions. Many of these questions have been related to the future of KDE and KDE's commitment to the Qt framework. In this statement we set out what we see as a bright future for Qt and KDE software. Read More

    KDE Commit Digest for 13 February 2011

    Wednesday, 2 March 2011  |  Vladislavb

    In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

              <ul><li>Fixes and Optimization in KWin, including NVIDIA related fixes</li>
  • Bugfixing in KDE-Libs including fixes for MacOSX
  • Work in Calligra including new stencils from the Dia shape repository and support for DNG files in Krita
  • Personal finance manager Skrooge gains a timeline in reports and the possibility to merge payees
  • Reorganization of the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) in Kaffeine
  • Beginnings of work to support GHNS for templates in Cirkuit
  • Possibility to generate keyboard presses using your remote control in KDE-Utils
  • Work on a new Color Label widget in Digikam 2.0
  • Further development in communications softwares telepathy, kopete, and konversation
  • Work and fixes in Okular, KDevelop, KGet, Rekonq, KOffice, KDE-PIM and Oxygen-GTK
  • Digikam and Kipi-Plugins migrate to Git!
    •             <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-02-13/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.Read More

    Desktop Summit CFP and Registration open

    Monday, 28 February 2011  |  Sealne

    The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organised by the GNOME and KDE communities, in Berlin, Germany from the 6th August 2011 to the 12th August 2011. Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC and Akademy are the world's largest gatherings of those involved with the free desktop or mobile user interfaces. Developers, artists, translators, community organisers, users, and representatives from government, education, and businesses and anyone else who shares an interest are welcome. GNOME and KDE are Free Software communities that drive the user interfaces of many Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops, or personal media centers. This year, for the second time, both communities have decided to organise a single, joint conference. We anticipate over a thousand participants, covering both projects as well as related technologies.

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    Qt Everywhere: Community Android Port Announces Alpha Release

    Thursday, 24 February 2011  |  Stuart Jarvis

    The Necessitas team, led by Bogdan Vatra, is pleased to announce the first alpha release of Necessitas, a Qt SDK for the Android mobile platform.

    The release contains the following:

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