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I am going away on holiday to Wales this week, which will mean I won't have internet access most days, which means no updates except, perhaps, for the middle of next week. I will be back next Saturday.
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I am going away on holiday to Wales this week, which will mean I won't have internet access most days, which means no updates except, perhaps, for the middle of next week. I will be back next Saturday.
Trolltech Labs Blogs: We're porting Qt 4 to Windows CE and Windows Mobile
Espen Riskedal at Trolltech Labs has announced that Trolltech is porting Qt to Windows Mobile and Windows CE, the versions of Windows used on embedded devices like Pocket PCs and smartphones. A technology preview is planned for later this year, with Qt 4.4, "sometime next year", to be the first version to include support for the OS. So far, Core, GUI and ActiveQt have been ported with the build system adapted; among other things, the Qt menus have been integrated into WinCE's. There are a few screenshots at the link above.
Version 0.11.2 of kdesvn, a KDE front-end for the version control software Subversion, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC6 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.4.
Version 3.0.14 of KRename, a program for renaming several files in one go which integrates into Konqueror or Krusader, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10 and FC6 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.1.
Version 0.5 of QTM, the blogging application written by the author of this blog, has been released. Changes since version 0.4:
Screenshots at Sourceforge here; downloads (source, SUSE RPM, Mac OS X disc image to follow) at KDE Apps here. Requires Qt 4.1 (system-tray icon, which provides Quickpost and templates, requires Qt 4.2).
Trolltech today announced that it had released betas of version 4.3 of Qt, its cross-platform C++ toolkit, and Qtopia Core, the version for embedded Linux devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. New features include:
There is a What's New page with more details, including screenshots, and another in the Qt 4.3 documentation. Downloads are available, under a special evaluation licence, here. A release candidate is expected at the end of April, the final version in early June.
The release schedule for KDE 4.0 has been finalised (see above link for full details). In short, a freeze on major changes to kdelibs is expected on 1st April, an alpha on 1st May, a first beta on 25th June, a first release candidate on 25th September (with more as the autumn progresses), and the targeted release date for the final version is 23rd October.
A first release candidate of version 0.5 of QTM, the CMS client (suitable for Movable Type, Wordpress and similar systems) written by the author of this blog, has been released. Changes since the beta:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10.2 RPM with more to follow) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (4.2 to use the system tray icon, which facilitates Quickpost and templates).
Version 1.0.1 of BasKet Note Pads, an application for storing notes and other items such as images, URLs, sounds etc in drag-droppable "baskets", has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE 3.
Version 1.0 of K3b, the KDE CD and DVD ripping and burning application, has been released. Changes (long, but incomplete, list here) include:
Also see the announcement with some screenshots. More shots here (from the old 0.12 version, though I'm sure they'll be updated); downloads (source, links to several distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.
Trolltech today announced the release of version 3.3.8 of Qt, its cross-platform application toolkit. This is a bug-fix release, with fixes to several classes and to support for all three desktop platforms, security improvements regarding Freetype and PNG support, and a new Catalan translation (full changelog here). Open-source downloads of the X11 and Mac versions are to be found at the Trolltech FTP site. Qt 3 is to reach the end of its supported life on 1st July this year.
Version 0.8.0 of cb2Bib, an application for extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages and PDFs and formatting them in BibTeX standard, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer) here. Requires Qt 4.2. (Version 4.2.3 not recommended due to bug in file dialog.)
Version 1.8.1 of Recoll, a "personal full text search tool" based on the Xapian back-end, has been released. Changes include "a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title, etc.), and wildcard handling: the standard *, ?, [ ]", as well as minor UI improvements and bug-fixes. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various Linux distro binaries) here. Requires Qt 3.3 or Qt 4.
The KDE team have advised that anyone with a KDE 4 development system to upgrade their version of CMake to upgrade it to version 2.4.5 or newer, as this will be required from next Monday (the 19th). The new version offers, among other things, faster dependency scanning and automoc during build, rather then during configuration. Source downloads are available here.
Trolltech has released version 4.2.3 of Qt, its cross-platform C++ development toolkit (the release was issued on the 6th, but no announcement was made). This is a bug-fix release; the changelog is here. Principal changes:
Downloads of Qt are to be found here; Qtopia downloads are here (version 4.2.1; updated 27th Feb).
Please note the progress of this Qt Centre forum discussion before upgrading.
A first beta of version 0.5.0 of QTM, a desktop blogging client for Movable Type and similar blogging systems written by the author of this blog, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries to follow) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (4.2 to use the system tray icon, including Quickpost and templates).
Version 0.9.1 of digiKam, the digital photo download and management app for KDE, has been released. Since the last release candidate, 8 bugs have been fixed including errors in the German translation and one labelled "Camera GUI new items selection doesn't work". Among the outright new features are a native JPEG2000 image loader and support for drag & drop in the sidebar. (For full changelog, see the KDE Apps page.) Screenshots here, downloads (source, third-party binaries may be available) here. You also need to install a separate set of plugins. Requires KDE 3.4.
Riverbank Computing has announced that the mailing list for its bindings, PyQt and PyKDE, has been relocated and renamed. The new address is pyqt[at]riverbankcomputing.com. The list's home page (with archives) is here.
Version 2.1.1 of KTorrent, the KDE client for the peer-to-peer file-sharing system BitTorrent, has been released. This is described as a bug-fix release for v2.1; "it mostly contains bug fixes, but also some significant improvements in networking and webserver code". Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE 3 (which minor version isn't specified).
Version 0.14 of Piklab, an IDE for applications based on PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers, has been released. Changes include:
Full changelog here, screenshots here, downloads (source, Mandriva binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.3 (for other dependencies, see here).
Version 0.11.1 of kdesvn, the KDE client for the version control software Subversion, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC5 and FC6 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.4 (binaries require 3.5).
Version 1.4.10 of KAlarm, the alarm clock and event scheduler for KDE, has been released. Changelog is identical to that of version 1.9.5 released yesterday. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Etch binary) here. Requires KDE 3.
Version 1.2.9 of Tellico, the personal collection manager for KDE, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots and downloads (source, links to various binaries) on the home page. Requires KDE 3.3 (for other dependencies, see home page).
A new development version of KAlarm, the alarm clock and event scheduler for KDE, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Etch binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.
Issue 71 (March 2007) of Linux User & Developer has been released in the UK, and it features the first part of a tutorial on Qt by Ruediger Berlich. This month it has a couple of basic "Hello world" type programs and an explanation of signals and slots.
It also has a brief history of Qt which gives the wrong information that Qt ever stood for Quasar Toolkit, which is wrong. The Q stands for Q, which according to the Blanchette & Summerfield Qt book, looked beautiful in an Emacs font in the opinion of one of the original developers; the "t" stands for toolkit. Trolltech originally called themselves Quasar Technologies, but this is likely to have come from Qt, not the other way round.
Other features include a review of OpenSUSE 10.2 and articles on Oracle, open-source software blogs (not including this one, unfortunately), corporate desktop deployment of Linux and how "the UK's new off-the-shelf tendering system for public IT contracts is systematically excluding smaller suppliers offering open-source solutions". It is available at some of the larger branches of WH Smith as well as Borders.
A second release candidate of version 0.9.1 of digiKam, the KDE image download and collection application, has been released. Changes:
Screenshots here, downloads (source tarball only, although there is a repository for Ubuntu) here. Stable version is 0.9.0. Requires KDE 3.4 and some additional plugins.