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Bring Your KDE Application to the Masses with Bretzn

Monday, 31 January 2011 | Leinir

Bringing things together...

Apart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is the code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for a very long time: How do you get your applications to your users?

This is particularly a question for the many developers of KDE applications that are not part of KDE's six monthly Software Compilation releases. These developers must either provide binaries for a range of distributions themselves or hope that distribution volunteers will do the packaging for them.

KDevelop 4.2 Supports Latest KDE Releases

Monday, 31 January 2011 | Milian Wolff

Only three months after the last feature release, the KDevelop hackers are proud and happy to announce the release of KDevelop 4.2. As usual, we also make available updated versions of the KDevelop PHP plugins. Read More

KDE at FOSDEM Next Weekend

Friday, 28 January 2011 | Jriddell

Next weekend (5-6 February 2011) is FOSDEM, one of the largest gatherings of Free Software developers in the world. KDE will be in Brussels with a stall and as part of the crossdesktop devroom. KDE talks will cover: education, an introduction to Qt and Qt Quick, Phonon, KDE on Windows and mentoring. In the crossdesktop devroom, there will be other talks on topics such as application distribution and games development, which will be interesting to KDE developers too. In the main track, there is a talk on Qt WebKit. That's not to mention the many other tracks of talks or the legendary Beer Event. See you there. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 26th December 2010

Friday, 28 January 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>New features in <a href="http://edu.kde.org/marble/">Marble</a>, including support for imperial units when generating driving instructions, new earthquake and OpenDesktop community online service plugins, a map creation wizard</li>
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Amarok Insider, Written By Google Code-In Students

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 | Jriddell

The latest Amarok Insider features the writing of seven Google Code-In students, writing nine different articles. They range from an interview with developer Bart Cerneels to "How To install a new script in Amarok". Besides the mentors, students were able to get assistance and encouragement in their tasks and research from Amarok developers and users in the #amarok IRC channel on Freenode, which is what makes these articles of such high quality. Read More

Behind KDE: Nuno Pinheiro

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 | Jriddell

Oxygen designer Nuno Pinheiro has done an interview for People Behind KDE. He discusses his work on KDE Platform 4.5 and how he organises (or not) his busy week, "At the end of the week I don't know what I did on Monday". He reveals where his inspiration for artwork comes from, how to become an artist and the secret to design success, "First and most important is imagination". Read More

KDE Puts You In Control with New Workspaces, Applications and Platform

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 | Sebas

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines.Some highlights include: Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 19th December 2010

Wednesday, 19 January 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>The intense work throughout <a href="http://pim.kde.org/">KDE-PIM</a> and <a href="http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/">Akonadi</a> continues</li>

Nuno Pinheiro continues his massive updating of the Oxygen icon set, this time with 32x32 icons

Many bugs fixed in Phonon due to the extension of a hardware database

Simon Edwards introduces the "first big PyKDE4 update for the coming KDE SC 4.6."

KSnapshot is ported to Windows

digiKam gains an image history feature

The KWebkitPart gains automatic ad filtering

Fixes in the NFS:// KIOSlave

Bug fixes and optimizations in Amarok, KAlgebra, KDevelop, Marble, Plasma, KOffice/Calligra, and the new UDev back-end for Solid

Work on Krita's Assistants amongst other things

A new Public Transport Runner in Plasma

HAL is officially retired for KDE software on Linux

Oxygen-gtk is re-licensed under the LGPL v2 or later

Tellico 2.3.2 is tagged

Aki and AkiIRC move to Git.

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2010-12-19/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 12th December 2010

Sunday, 16 January 2011 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Bug fixing efforts throughout the KDE development platform and applications after the release of KDE SC 4.6 Beta 2</li>
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Amarok 2.4 "Slipstream" Released

Saturday, 15 January 2011 | Teo

After a longer than usual and especially intense development period, the Amarok team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 2.4, codename "Slipstream".

This release brings significant performance, usability and stability improvements. Many bugs have been fixed, especially in the context pane, and the collection scanner has been rewritten from scratch. Notable features that have been added to this release include: