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KDE Commit-Digest for 6th February 2011

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 | Dannya

          <ul><li>KWin developer Martin Gräßlin works hard on porting KWin’s graphical effects to OpenGL ES, with the effects receiving many visual improvements in the process</li>
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Michel Ludwig on Kile, KDE Platform 4 and Git

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 | Vanloon

After investigating the work being done on KBibTeX a few months ago, we turn our attention to Kile, KDE's LaTeX and TeX editor. LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system built on top of the typesetting system TeX. It is frequently used for scientific publications as an alternative to word processors. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 30th January 2011

Monday, 21 February 2011 | Dannya

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Work on the CSV importer in <a href="http://www.kmymoney2.sourceforge.net">KMyMoney</a></li>

Work across the board in Calligra, including improved PPT format support

Work on video and sending/recieving files with the Yahoo protocol in Kopete amongst other changes

Work on search history support in KDevPlatform

New Booksmarks Manager (including support for importing bookmarks) in Marble, amongst many bug fixes

Much work throughout Kst including optimisations

KFileDialog now automatically chooses file type from typed extension

Work on the Public Transport Plasma data engine

Improvements in ad blocking code in KWebkitPart

Features and bugfixing in KDE-PIM, Lionmail, and Knights

Fixes for header-protected RAR and 7z files in Ark

Audio streaming support in Gluon

Optimisation and feature work in Digikam

Optimisations in the Webslice Plasma widget

All launcher config reading/saving has been moved into the new Group Manager

KDE-SDK's Kdesrc-Build moves to Git

KDE-PIM libs move to Git

Fsview is now Qt3Support-free

Bugfixes in Gwenview, Konsole, KPat, Rekonq, Muon, Oxygen-Gtk and throughout Plasma and its addons.

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KWin Embraces New Platforms with OpenGL ES 2.0 Support

Friday, 18 February 2011 | Mgraesslin

Over the last few months the KWin development team worked on bringing the Window Manager for KDE's Plasma workspaces to mobile devices. This has required porting the compositing code to OpenGL ES 2.0, the open graphics API for programmable embedded graphics hardware. With the migration of KWin's codebase to git, the code was imported into the master development tree to be part of the next release of the KDE Platform. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd January 2011

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Minor features are added to <a href="http://www.digikam.org/">Digikam</a> and the "Public Transport" Plasma applet</li>
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KDE Commit-Digest for 16th January 2011

Sunday, 13 February 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

This week, the KDE developers are again heavily focusing on readying the soon-to-be-released KDE Software Compilation 4.6
Bug fixes can be found throughout the stack and in a wide range of applications
Many bug fixes are going into extragear applications such as Amarok, the KDE Development stack, and KDevelop itself, as well as into KDE-PIM and the KDE office suites
There are also a number of optimizations in various areas
Few and rather small features are added to else where in KDE software, mainly in Marble, Calligra, and the graphics applications
RSIBreak is preparing for release.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 9th January 2011

Friday, 11 February 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Beginnings of type support for lists in KDevelop’s Python plugin
Cantor’s Qalculate backend is improved
KStars gains a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between OpenGL and native backends
Marble sees improvements to the "Postition Marker" configuration dialog, gets "Earthquake" and "Overview Map" configuration dialogs and a planet option for the map creation wizard
Bug fixes to Plasma and its applets, KDE PIM, Phonon, and Amarok
Bug fixes to KIO Slaves and a large fix for the implementation of KIO Slaves in Rekonq
The table of contents generator in Calligra Words is improved
Improvements are made to Office Open XML format importing in Calligra
KMyMoney gets an improved .csv file importer
Skrooge can import Money Manager EX files
Work is done on action editor for Krita
KPlato is renamed to Calligra Plan and gets more view options and other improvements to Gantt charts
A prototype mobile version of Kexi is introduced
Cirkuit supports GHNS
Kamoso supports Nepomuk and more webcams
Apper, formerly known as KPackagekit, gets a single KDE Control Center Module for its settings and its updater and gains an option to stop checking for updates when on battery power
Nepomuk’s performance is improved
The majority of KMail is ported to the KConfigXT architecture
Rekonq gains a user agent switcher
Kiosk gets bug fixes for application compatibility and a feature for file browsing restrictions
TagLib now has full read/write support for FLAC files
GStreamer becomes the preferred Phonon backend and is able to install plugins automatically
The Oxygen 16x16 mimetype icons are finished
The Akonadi KDE system tray, KAlternatives and Krusader move to Git.

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conf.kde.in Announces Talks, Keynotes and Registration

Tuesday, 8 February 2011 | Jriddell

There is only a month to go before the first KDE and Qt conference in India opens. The event will be headlined by three keynotes speakers talking on the effects of technology on culture, the law and what makes our community tick. Talks and workshops have been announced and registration is open for anyone planning to attend. Read on for details.

The Keynotes

Runa Bhattacharjee is a translator for KDE and other projects who works for Red Hat. Her talk on Traditional Hues and Technology will look at the way culture is being changed by computers and the significant impact open source is having on this process.

Camp KDE 2011 Announced

Saturday, 5 February 2011 | Seele

We are excited to announce Camp KDE 2011 which will be held April 4 and 5, 2011 in San Francisco, California at the Hotel Kabuki. Camp KDE is co-located this year with the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit which takes place April 6 and 7. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 2nd January 2011

Friday, 4 February 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Bug fixes in Digikam, Plasma and its applets, Kate, Solid, and throughout KDE-PIM, Calligra, and the Oxygen style
Fixes in libktorrent including fixes to work properly with D-Link DIR 635 routers
Runtime switching between the new OpenGL and QPainter backends in preparation for a "Beta" OpenGL rendering mode in KStars for KDE 4.6
Themable cross-hair and compass in Marble
Work on new Cirkuit backends
Work on the online game Knights
Work on the Python parser in KDevelop
Implementation of undo/redo across files in Digikam
"Net Usershare" support added to KSambaShare
Work on a new KWelcomeWidget in Plasma
New usb:// subsystem implemented in Solid
History visited count added to Rekonq
Work on filters in Krita
Work on DVB support in Kaffeine
Features and optimizations throughout Smb4k
Nuno Pinheiro does major work on all 22x22 mimetype icons in the Oxygen icon set.

Read the rest of the Digest here.