KDE Commit-Digest for 8th April 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 08/Apr/2007, @17:56
from the it's-that-time-of-the-week dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Bluetooth support in Solid. 'Breadcrumb" navigation widget from Dolphin is made more modular to allow use in other KDE contexts. Support for different caret (text cursor) styles in Konsole. Various bugfixes in TagLib. Better AIM protocol file transfer support in Kopete. KWord gets the ability (through Kross scripting) to use an OpenOffice.org instance to import from supported file formats. KPackage starts to be ported to the SMART package management scheme. The beginnings of user documentation for the Bovo game application, whilst the initial draft of the Mailody handbook nears completion. KMobileTools starts to be ported to KDE 4. Great reductions in the number of external dependencies for the kdecore library. The kplot library is renamed "plotting", plasmagik is renamed "uploader". okular moves back from the playground to the kdegraphics module. Kiriki is moved to kdereview. Kremas, an experimental image viewer, is imported into KDE SVN.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 1st April 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 01/Apr/2007, @18:31
from the no-joke-a-year-of-digestion dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The beginnings of a KControl module for Decibel configuration make an appearance. Developments in the Subversion plugin for KDevelop. More optimisations in the KJS JavaScript interpreter. Further progress in the KBattleship rewrite. New country maps in KGeography. KRfb, a desktop sharing utility, starts to be ported to KDE 4. A new GStreamer backend for Phonon, and QSR, a search-and-replace utility, are imported into KDE SVN.
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LWN.net: KDE 4 Gets More Hot New Stuff

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Saturday 31/Mar/2007, @09:49
from the toasty-hot dept.
This week's LWN looks at Get New Hot Stuff in KDE 4. Improvements currently being made by lead developer Josef Spillner include new options for uninstalling content, content synchronisation, the ability to rate content directly from the application interface, a dramatically faster interface and more. Get Hot New Stuff is now a specification on freedesktop.org and used throughout KDE in apps like Amarok and KOrganizer.
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People Behind KDE: Albert Astals Cid

Posted by Danny Allen on Thursday 29/Mar/2007, @12:34
from the going-even-deeper dept.
For the next interview in the fortnightly People Behind KDE series we travel to Spain to meet a focused developer who does not go off at a tangent. Someone with flashes of brilliance you may miss if you Blinken. With plans in abundance, tonight's star of People Behind KDE is KPDF maintainer Albert Astals Cid.
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An Interview with KDE-Edu Developers

Posted by Giovanni Venturi on Wednesday 28/Mar/2007, @14:43
from the educating-about-education dept.
We are here today to talk about the developers of the KDE-Edu Project. The purpose of this interview is to feature and present their work and motivation, which is often not as well-known or regarded as other, more prominent work within the KDE project. The KDE-Edu developers are developing high-quality educational software for the K Desktop Environment. Their primary focus is on school children aged 3 to 18, and the specialised user interface needs of young users. However, they are also have programs to aid teachers in planning lessons, and others that are of interest to university students and anyone else with a desire to learn! Read on for the interview.
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Guademy 2007 Event Report

Posted by Antonio Larrosa on Tuesday 27/Mar/2007, @15:58
from the drinking-beer-together dept.
The first Guademy event finished yesterday at the university of A Coru馻, Spain. Organized by the GPUL (Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux), the Linux User Group of A Coru馻, it was an event which brought together people from the GNOME and KDE camp (thus the combination of "GUADEC" and "aKademy" that forms the name of the event). Read on for a short report of the event.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 25th March 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @17:54
from the despite-technical-difficulties dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Final stages of Freedesktop.org naming compliance performed on the Oxygen mimetype icons. IMAP-related crashes targeted in KMail. Many KFilePlugins ported to use Strigi. Better zoom and preview size interaction in Digikam. Optimisations in KSysGuard. Better integration with NEPOMUK-KDE interface elements in Dolphin, NEPOMUK-KDE components move to the kdereview module. Further Kst documentation work. Continued interface experiments and code progress towards Amarok 2.0. "Flame" window destruction effect in the KWin Composite branch. KBackup is renamed "Galmuri" due to naming conflicts.
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Report from the Decibel Hackathon

Posted by Tobias Hunger on Friday 23/Mar/2007, @10:12
from the dB dept.
At the Decibel Hackathon sponsored by NLnet and basysKom GmbH in Darmstadt, Germany last weekend, hackers from the KDE community met to discuss the handling of contact data in KDE 4. Read on for a summary of the event.
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Deadline for Google's Summer of Code 2007 Approaching

Posted by Sebastian K黦ler on Friday 23/Mar/2007, @02:41
from the make-money-and-free-software dept.
As we reported last week, KDE will be taking part in Google's Summer of Code again. The deadline for student applications is approaching now, so be quick sending in your ideas before March 26th. If you are a student and would like to spend the summer on a cool Free Software project, do apply for one of the scholarships. For more information, please refer to the following pages: how to participate with KDE, KDE SOC ideas page, Google Summer of Code page.
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The Road to KDE 4: Updates and Addenda

Posted by Troy Unrau on Wednesday 21/Mar/2007, @16:10
from the the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on dept.
Well, so far I've published a dozen articles about KDE 4 over the last 12 weeks. A lot of content has been covered, but there is rapid progress still being made on those topics. So, in no particular order, this week's issue deals with addenda and updates to the last 12 articles, so that you can see some of the rapid progress happening as KDE races forward. Read on for details.
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KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

Posted by Sebastian K黦ler on Wednesday 21/Mar/2007, @05:48
from the prenatal-planning dept.
The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will be a major milestone for the Free Desktop, as it offers a new foundation and set of frameworks that will shape the desktop user experience for years to come. Users will benefit from improved speed through Qt 4, integration of hardware through Solid, multimedia performance via Phonon, usability enhancements by close collaboration with OpenUsability, new real-time communication options with Decibel, spell-checking with Sonnet, comprehensive desktop search through Strigi and Nepomuk, a new desktop metaphor through Plasma and, last but not least, a completely new artwork experience called Oxygen.
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Konsole Usage Survey

Posted by Liquidat on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @11:43
from the i-command-you dept.
Robert Knight, lead maintainer of Konsole has launched a Konsole Usage Survey. 28 questions are waiting for your answers. Use this chance to give useful feedback about a vital and often-used base application of KDE to enable Robert to make Konsole the best console application for KDE 4.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 18th March 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @17:31
from the golden-mothers dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Interface experiments in Amarok 2.0, with the aKode engine shown the door. Initial work on incremental parsing functionality in KDevelop. Further functional development in the Step educational physics simulation package. More refinement of the Oxygen-themed KDE Games artwork, revised sounds in the Oxygen sound theme and more work done on the Oxygen widget style. The Oxygen iconset is dual-licenced as Creative Commons and LGPL. Support for the Plucker document format in okular. Zoom work (ViewBar) and Coverity fixes in KOffice. Basic Phishing protection and the start of user documentation in Mailody. Optimisations in KJS (JavaScript interpreter) and KSysGuard. Import of Athec into playground/games and KBackup to playground/utils in KDE SVN. First NEPOMUK-based GUI elements appear. KSplashX displaces KSplashML as the splash screen engine for KDE 4.
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KDE at CeBIT 2007 This Week

Posted by Carsten Niehaus on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @06:31
from the germanic dept.
The KDE Project will present itself at CeBIT, the world's largest computer trade show, taking place in Hannover, Germany, from March 16th to March 21th. KDE will be presenting the latest release KDE 3.5 and give a preview of current developments for KDE 4, the next major KDE-version. You will find numerous KDE-developers and other contributors in Hall 5, booth G64/6. The KDE team would like to thank the LinuxPark for the booth and KDE e.V. and its supporting members for financial support. We would also like to thank Canonical, Fedora and Novell for providing CDs featuring the latest and greatest KDE.
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