Posts 

Categories

Akademy

KDE Commit-Digest for 6th February 2011

Wednesday, 23 February 2011  |  Dannya

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

          <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>
  • KWin’s problematic "Shadow" and "Snow" effects are removed and await a better implementation in the future
  • Muon supports offline installation of packages and gains a .deb format thumbnailer plugin
  • Improvements are made to the artistic style formatter in KDevelop
  • A "Color Label Selector" is implemented in Digikam, which also sees an update of its internal libraw library which provides improved support for more cameras
  • Support for asynchronous SFTP downloading is implemented in kio_sftp
  • BlueDevil can now share files with an OBEX FTP server
  • Initial work on a user interface to control change tracking options in Calligra
  • Cirkuit gains options for manual and automatic backend selection
  • The functionality for creating a Table of Contents in Calligra Words is improved
  • The game dialog of Knights is redesigned
  • A large refactoring of the code for the KPatience game is done
  • Bug fixes in Kst, the Kipi plugins, Digikam, power management, kdelibs, the Plasma Desktop, KDE-PIM, Calligra/KOffice, Amarok, Kopete, and KTorrent
  • Plasma-addons, kdebase, kdelibs, the KDE Build Tool and KDE’s Qt copy (qt-kde) move to Git.
    •             <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-02-06/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

    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.
    •             <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-01-30/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

    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>
  • Importing MySQL database tables is now supported by Kexi
  • Calligra Plan’s scheduling speed is significantly improved
  • The KOffice "change tracking" feature sees more improvements
  • Much work is done on Calligra’s Colour Management System (CMS), Pigment
  • Bug fixes to KDE’s basic software (such as Dolphin and Solid), the KDE libraries, Nepomuk, KDE-PIM, Skrooge, Calligra and Amarok
  • BlueDevil’s user interface for sending files is simplified so that it fits in one page
  • Improvements to tagging functionality in Amarok
  • A lot of work is done on ownCloud
  • Knights can now support a match between two chess engines
  • KTorrent’s performance is improved in situations with many torrents open
    •             <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-01-23/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

    KDE Commit-Digest for 16th January 2011

    Sunday, 13 February 2011  |  Dannya

    In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

    Read More

    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.

    Read the rest of the Digest here.

    Read More

    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.

    Read More

    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.

    Read More