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Opinion: Why KDE is People, Not Software
Friday, 14 January 2011
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Oriol
As the first of several opinion pieces exploring current issues in KDE, we offer you a video of Aaron Seigo explaining how KDE's success as a community producing all kinds of software led to outgrowing our old name, the "K Desktop Environment", what KDE means now and why it matters.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 5th December 2010
Thursday, 13 January 2011
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Dannya
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Various work on Lokalize, the computer-aided translation system
- Fixes and updates to Marble
- Crystal, the new desktop search applet has seen major fixups
- Major bugfixing throughout KDE-PIM
- Various bugfixing and feature work in KOffice, including work on multithreading with ThreadWeaver and Flake optimizations
- Major work on the Muon package manager, including a GUI for searching and transaction cancelling
- Various optimizations and work on a new RAW import tool in Digikam
- Porting to the new KDE Power Management System across the board
- A new "Recent Documents" Plasma dataengine committed
- Internal work on NetworkManagement libraries and the NetworkManager backend
- Work on supporting Windows CE (mobile) in KDE-PIM, Solid, kdelibs, and other places
- Work on Skrooge
- Nuno Pinheiro continues his massive updating of the Oxygen icons (48x48 sizes this time).
Read the rest of the Digest here.
Read MoreNew Behind KDE 'Platform' Series Launches with Patrick Spendrin
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
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Jriddell
Behind KDE is our site for interviews with KDE contributors and a new series is being started by Pau Garcia i Quiles. The theme of the series is the different platforms that KDE is available for. The first interview is with Patrick Spendrin. Patrick works on the KDE Windows project and tells us how the project works, what can be done with it, how he got involved and how you can get involved. Future articles in this series will talk about Mac, BSD, Solaris and other platforms.
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When Will You Join the Game?
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
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Agata
Back in June, KDE e.V. launched its individual supporting membership program, asking everyone to Join the Game.
There are many good reasons to support KDE with a regular financial contribution - it enables KDE e.V. to have a predictable and stable income. That can be used to plan support for contributors and events that help speed up development of KDE software, enhance our promotion efforts and help grow our community. However, our contributors and users are scattered throughout the world and have many different backgrounds and their reasons for contributing are likely to be just as diverse. We caught up with our 125th supporting member, Paul Eggleton to ask him why he Joined the Game.
Read MoreWindows Team Releases Updated KDE Applications
Sunday, 9 January 2011
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Panda84
The KDE Windows team is delighted to announce the release of Windows packages from KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4. This release is doubly important because it returns the KDE Windows Initiative to the headlines after a lot of hard background work, and because it brings the some of the latest KDE software to Windows users.
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January Stable Updates Available
Friday, 7 January 2011
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Sebas
Today, KDE has issued a series of stable updates to the Plasma workspaces, the various applications and the KDE development frameworks, versioned 4.5.5. Between 4.5.4 and 4.5.5 there have been 54 commits to the codebase, so the somewhat meagre changelog does not include all the fixes. The usual rules apply, so this update only includes bugfix and translation update. KDE recommends everyone running 4.5.4 or earlier versions to install this update.
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Party Time!
Thursday, 6 January 2011
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Skfin
It has been several months now since the previous set of major releases by KDE and it is time for some more! KDE's Plasma workspaces and the KDE Platform will all reach version 4.6 on 26 January and many of KDE's application teams will also be unveiling new versions of their software on that day.
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4.6 RC2 Available, Last Chance to Test
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
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Sebas
KDE Commit-Digest for 28th November 2010
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
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Dannya
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
<ul><li>Non-destructive editing (with an interface fully adapted to versioning) arrives in <a href="http://www.digikam.org/">Digikam</a>, along with work on demosaicing and interpolation options, and filters</li>
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Season of KDE 2010
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
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Damnshock
This year was the 4th Season of KDE. Season of KDE (SoK) allows KDE to help support students and worthwhile projects who didn't manage to get one of the limited places in the Google Summer of Code program. Each SoK student works on their chosen project with a mentor from KDE with experience in that area to help and guide them.
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