KOffice Summer of Code Ends

Posted by Boudewijn Rempt on Monday 25/Aug/2008, @04:22
from the who-needs-fresh-air-or-sunshine dept.
This year's Google Summer of Code is drawing inexorably to its close: the first indication that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is indeed upon us. The KOffice students are busy tying up the last threads, adding the last flourish of polish that makes all the difference before they will slake the satisfied sigh that goes with work well-done. So - what did we achieve this year? In our very best tradition, read on for an overview!
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FSFE Welcomes KDE's Adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement

Posted by Sebastian Kuegler on Friday 22/Aug/2008, @04:40
from the freedom-task-force dept.
Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement by the KDE project. The FLA is a copyright assignment that allows Free Software projects to assign their copyright to a single organisation or person. This enables projects to ensure their legal maintainability, including important issues such as preserving the ability to re-license and certainty to have sufficient rights to enforce licences in court. Read on for more details.
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Beta 1 of Amarok 2 "Nerrivik" Released

Posted by Lydia Pintscher on Friday 22/Aug/2008, @04:33
from the sorry-not-at-Akademy dept.
The Amarok team is proud to announce the first beta version of Amarok 2, codenamed Nerrivik. It contains a considerable amount of improvements over the previous alpha versions, bringing Amarok one step closer to the 2.0 release. The highlights of this first beta version are the scripting interface, file tracking (so you keep your statistics if you move your files around), gorgeous new artwork as well as lots of bugfixes. Read more about it in the release announcement.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 10th August 2008

Posted by Danny Allen on Thursday 21/Aug/2008, @04:52
from the I-said-I-would dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Plasma support for Google Gadgets moves into kdebase. "Places" engine gets service support, and a new "Leave Message" Plasmoid for use with the Plasmoids-on-Screensaver project. More work on the "Weather" Plasmoid and "grouping taskbar", and an initial version of a menu applet for small form-factors, and a new applet to visualise the size of an IceCream compilation cluster. Work on the URL and breadcrumb navigator, and the "capacity bar" in Dolphin. A new "Sphere" effect in kwin-composite. More work on biased playlists, AFT, and a toolbox menu as a replacement for the applet browser in Amarok 2.0. A "fully working" Twitter plugin in Marble. Synonym and antonym modes working in Parley. More work on handling RAW images in Digikam. Various developments in KPilot, and keyboard shortcuts, colour scheme, and "export to HTML" work in the MessageListView project in KMail. Beginnings of master pages support in KWord. Initial import of KDisplay and kio_bookmarks. Kreative3d renamed to SolidKreator. Konversation 1.1 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.
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KDE at FrOSCon this Weekend

Posted by Alexandra Leisse on Wednesday 20/Aug/2008, @12:41
from the meet-the-crew dept.
KDE will be present at this years FrOSCon. The Free and Open Source Conference will take place this weekend on 23rd and 24th of August at the University of Applied Sciences St. Augustin. Besides the usual booth where one can meet active members of the community, there will be a developers room where we will give talks on certain KDE related topics. On Saturday at 15:15 Sebastian Kügler will appear in the main track talking about the new concepts and techniques in KDE 4. Talks programme is below.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd August 2008

Posted by Danny Allen on Tuesday 19/Aug/2008, @05:36
from the hello dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The Plasma "extenders" project is merged into kdebase, with initial integration into the kuiserver applet. Continued work on the systray-refactor, and more work on the "Weather" Plasmoid. A whole load of bugfixes for Kicker 3.5.10. A new "Magic Lamp" minimize effect, and a rework of the "Grid" effect in kwin-composite. Support for extracting artwork from iPod's, tag editing and removing files from MTP devices, and scriptable services (including a "web control" script), and lots of other developments in Amarok 2.0. An automatic image fetching script/plugin added to Parley. Basic XLIFF support in Lokalize. Support for regular expressions in KSysGuard graphing. Improved support for password protected archives in Ark. Support for saving file fonts embedded into a PDF file in Okular. A new, enhanced Strigi service (using KDE technologies) for interfacing with NEPOMUK. KJots and KTimeTracker can now be deactivated (while KMail, KOrganizer and KAddressbook cannot) in Kontact. Beginnings of "master pages" support in KWord. Rocs, a graph algorithm tool, added to playground/edu. "Google Gadgets for Plasma" moved to kdereview, "Timer" Plasmoid moved to kdeplasma-addons. Read the rest of the Digest here.
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KDE 4.1 in Slackware Testing

Posted by Jimmy Collins on Tuesday 19/Aug/2008, @03:42
from the a-bit-slack-but-it's-there! dept.
Official Slackware packages of KDE 4.1 (and dependencies) are now in the "Testing" directory of Slackware-current. See the changelog for more information, and read on for a quote from Slackware founder, Patrick Volkerding!
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People Behind KDE: Michael Pyne

Posted by A. L. Spehr on Sunday 17/Aug/2008, @11:24
from the my-submarine-isn't-yellow dept.
In the next People Behind KDE interview, we stay in the United States of America (but leave in an underwater craft!) to meet a KDE developer who could be a JuKebox in another life, someone who helps you build development versions of KDE (staying on the bleeding edge without the pain!) - tonight's star of People Behind KDE is Michael Pyne.
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KDE 4.1 in the Press

Posted by Alexandra Leisse on Saturday 16/Aug/2008, @08:44
from the copy-and-paste dept.
Our latest release, KDE 4.1, has had a great reception in the media so far. The KDE Promotion team has been collecting articles and blog entries, and put them together. Very interesting reviews have been published, and we thought you might want to read some. There are reviews in English, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Brazilian Portuguese. If we missed one, feel free to add them to the comments below.
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Video Comes to KDE://Radio from the Akademy Boat Trip

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Friday 15/Aug/2008, @17:28
from the good-looking-bunch dept.
After a hard week's discussion and hacking the Akademy attendees took a relaxing trip along the river Dijle towards Antwerp. The KDE discussion continued of course but most of the KDE contributors took the chance to rest from hacking and enjoy the countryside of Flanders. KDE://Radio has been updated with some short video interviews which will introduce you to your friendly KDE contributors.
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Mobile and Embedded Day at Akademy

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Friday 15/Aug/2008, @05:06
from the weeny-computers dept.
This year Akademy held a dedicated day for mobile and embedded talks. With Trolltech being owned by Nokia, mobile is suddenly a hot topic for KDE and several variants of Qt and KDE on mobiles were in progress at Akademy. Read on for an overview of the talks.
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KDE 4.1 Included in FreeBSD Ports Tree

Posted by Ronald Klop on Thursday 14/Aug/2008, @15:30
from the unix-is-a-file dept.
KDE 4 is now also available for FreeBSD starting with the marvelous KDE 4.1. The original commit from the FreeBSD/KDE team says 'The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.1.0 for FreeBSD'. KDE 4 will be installed into a custom prefix ${LOCALBASE}/kde4 so KDE 4 and KDE 3 can co-exist. For sound to work, it is necessary to have dbus and hal enabled in your system. Please see the respective documentation on how to enable these. For more Information see the HEADS UP at ports@ and kde-freebsd@ or our wiki page. See the Commit message and port info. Have fun!
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Integration at Akademy

Posted by Jos Poortvliet on Wednesday 13/Aug/2008, @09:31
from the mashing-it-all-together dept.
An important topic at Akademy 2008 is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk, but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many developers here. Read on for more of what is discussed here.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 27th July 2008

Posted by Danny Allen on Wednesday 13/Aug/2008, @02:12
from the i'm-on-a-rampage! dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for hiding/showing system icons in Plasma, support for using the native Windows start menu where appropriate, with more work in the "Previewer" applet and "TabBar". Better filtering support in the "FolderView" applet. Various work toward Amarok 2, including visual changes, work on playlists, and initial support for MTP devices. Work on a welcome screen in Parley. Initial commit of a "Sky Calendar" tool in KStars. A Twitter plugin in Marble. Trials with network games in KTank. Keyboard actions for switching tabs in Konsole. OpenSoundSystem (version 4) support in KMix. Quick extract and batch extract interfaces in Ark. "Automatic computer shutdown after downloading" functionality in KGet. Experimental mouse pressure and rotation for sumi-e painting in Krita. Text support for the WMF import filter in KOffice. KGo is added to playground/games. KDE 4.1.0 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.
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