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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.7.1 of KSquirrel, an image viewer for KDE which uses OpenGL, and its associated libraries have been released. Changes to the application include:

• Context menu in file manager has proper content (bug affected KDE 3.5)
• KIO-Slaves support (SMB, tar etc), adding the ability to search several new archive types
• Thumbnails on non-local filesystems
• Status bar improvements
• Hotkeys in image window do not depend on keyboard layout
• History combo-box shows MIME types
• Bug-fixes in slideshow
• New thumbnails cache directory (remove old thumbnails from ~/.ksquirrel/thumbnails)
• Image rotation with EXIF
• KIPI plugins can be loaded on demand
• F2 to rename files
• Thumbnail loader now Freedesktop.org spec compliant
• Other small bug-fixes

Changes to the libraries:

• Added XFIG (transfig package is required)
• Added Degas PI3
• TTF codec is designed for Freetype 2.2.1 (it should work at least in Debian Etch)
• CAMERA codec now uses dcraw v8.77 without modifications, which doesn't violate dcraw license
• Bug-fixes in scripts

Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE 3.3 and OpenGL.

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From KDE Dot News:

Gartner Webdev has published an interview with KDE's very own marketing renegade Wade Olson. Wade talks about KDE 4, what makes it special and what KDE's role in the software market is. He sheds some light on the user's point of view and discusses his vision about the way the computer and software industry is moving.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.2 of KTorrent, the BitTorrent client for KDE, has been released. This is the second bug-fix release of the 2.2 series (I can't find a specific changelog for the changes since v2.2.1). Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires KDE 3 (not sure which minor version).

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Trolltech Developer Days 2007 — Trolltech

Trolltech has extended the deadline for the "early bird" registration scheme for its Developer Days in October. Anyone who registers before 14th Sept will save $200 off the price of the Redwood City, CA, event, or E200 for the Munich event (reducing them to $399 or E399 respectively). The events themselves are to take place in California on 3rd and 4th of October and in Munich on the 16th and 17th.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.4.14 of KAlarm, an event scheduler for KDE (i.e. a sort of graphical cron), has been released. Changes:

• Fixed handling of exception dates in recurrences, including erroneous suppression of valid recurrence dates.
• Show a Stop button in sound file dialog while playing a file.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Lenny and Slackware binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.

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From Qt Apps:

Version 0.5.4 of QTM, a blogging client for Movable Type, Wordpress and similar systems, has been released. Changes since the last beta:

• Security: no longer outputs passwords to the console when displaying XML-RPC listings
• New feature: now stores titles and targets for auto links
• New feature: ability to clear the console
• Improvement: now does base 64 conversions internally, with progress dialog, rather than the old method of using Qt's built-in converter which blocked the GUI.
• Bug fix: no longer outputs entire encoded file to console when uploading a file (caused crash)
• Bug fix: now detects faults in file upload responses accurately and displays "406" errors on console as HTML code, not as "displayed" HTML

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Ubuntu and Fedora 7 binaries with probable Mac disc image to follow) at Qt Apps as above. Requires Qt 4.1 (4.2 strongly recommended; binaries built with 4.3).

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From Qt Apps:

Version 2.1 of qOrganizer, a general personal organiser with particular features useful for students, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed that ugly bug that occures the first time when you run qOrganizer, the bug that causes the main window to not appear until you quit (this was Windows only)
• Enforced UTF8 on the config file too, so now if you have an UTF8 character in your path, it won't cause problems.
• Updated Portuguese translation.
• Made the to-do list and the timetable a lot bigger in size, so now the progress bar in the Completed column is more detailed even on Windows.
• Added saving, and jumping to the current date even when the window is hidden by clicking the systray icon.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, RPM and DEB binaries) here. Requires Qt v4.2.

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A research study on failure sampling in KDE is scheduled for September. We are now looking for skilled C++ developers to test one or several C++ classes. The developers at KDAB have already provided some code for the occasion from kdepim. Discussions have been held with the SQO-OSS project on adding the sampling method's basics to Alitheia, the successor to the English Breakfast Network, if the outcome of the study is promising. Volunteers will need to answer a questionnaire on their experience of C++, and then download a package containing the classes they need to test; tests last 4 or 8 hours. The questionnaire can be downloaded here and should be sent to the email address mentioned in the file.

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FrOSCon is due to start this weekend, and the KDE people will have their own room and give several talks. The KDE room will be shared with developers from Amarok and Kubuntu DE. There will be talks on Marble, Amarok 2, Kubuntu in Germany and in the main track one on KDE 4. If you are in the Bonn area, drop by Sankt Augustin this weekend and meet the developers and community.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.1 of kAnyRemote, a Bluetooth and InfraRed connectivity application for KDE, has been released. Changes:

• New command Get(screen_size|model) was introduced. Set(image...) command was enhanced.
• In AT-mode nothing will be sent to phone after RemoteOff command.
• Java client was corrected to work properly with Nokia-E70.
• Configuration file for Mplayer, Quodlibet, VLC and Nokia-E70 were added.
• A lot of bugfixes.

Screenshots at KDE Apps (above); downloads (source, FC7 RPM, also console and GNOME versions) here. No KDE requirement info is available.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.1 of kAnyRemote, a Bluetooth and InfraRed connectivity application for KDE, has been released. Changes:

• New command Get(screen_size|model) was introduced. Set(image...) command was enhanced.
• In AT-mode nothing will be sent to phone after RemoteOff command.
• Java client was corrected to work properly with Nokia-E70.
• Configuration file for Mplayer, Quodlibet, VLC and Nokia-E70 were added.
• A lot of bugfixes.

Screenshots at KDE Apps (above); downloads (source, FC7 RPM, also console and GNOME versions) here. No KDE requirement info is available.

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The LugRadio people have released Ogg Theora videos of presentations recently given at their LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. Among them is one by Ben Lamb, entitled Konquering the Desktop with KDE 4. (38Mb download, runtime 33:15.) Alan Cox (Red Hat), Chris DiBona (Google), Nat Friedman (Novell), and many others, also have talks among those videos.

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From the Amarok website:

Version 1.4.7 of Amarok, the KDE-based media player and music collection manager (a bit like iTunes), has been released. Changes:

• Updated the Cool Streams.
• Improved application icon. Thanks go to Pasi Lallinaho.
• Upgraded SQLite to 3.4.1
• SQL improvements providing optimisations on intensive queries. Patch by Gosta
• Several bug fixes

For full changelog see page linked above. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various Linux distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.3 (full requirements list here).

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From Qt Apps:

Version 2.0.0 of QGRUBEditor, a bootloader configuration program using Qt 4, has been released. Changes include:

• Complete rewrite, from scratch
• Reads /etc/mtab and /boot/grub/device.map and detects mounted partitions
• Various GUI improvements, including new icons
• Improved backup/restore dialog

Two screenshots, and source download, are available at Qt Apps above. Requires Qt 4 (not sure which minor version).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.80.0 of Krusader, a twin-panel file manager for KDE, has been released. Changes:

• Updates to French and Hungarian translations, fixes to the Spanish and to untranslatable strings
• Fixes to five specific bugs

For full changelog, see home page. Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries for Debian Sarge & Etch, Ubuntu Feisty and Slackware) here. Requires KDE 3.4.

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From Trolltech announcements:

Trolltech has issued a first maintenance release of Qt Jambi, its Java bindings for Qt. This release contains various bug fixes and optimisations, particularly to Juic, the generator and Designer; among the changes that stuck out were that emit, connect and disconnect (signal/slot-related functions) are now thread-safe. Full changelog is here; open-source downloads are available here along with downloads of the Eclipse integration package for Windows and Linux.

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From Trolltech announcements:

Version 4.3.1 of Qt and its embedded version, Qtopia Core, have been released. Among the changes in this version are:

• Updated German translation, now covering all of Qt
• Intel C++ v10 supported
• Numerous bug fixes to numerous classes on all platforms; full list here.

Open source (GPL v2) and evaluation downloads available here.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9.1 of the desktop client for WebIssues, "a system supporting team collaboration across the Internet" which can be used for bug tracking and the like, has been released. Changes:

• Start page, with list of recent connections
• Attachments can be opened directly using the default application
• Order of attributes in the details view can be changed
• Qt v4.3 now supported

Screenshots here; downloads (source, Windows installer) here. Requires Qt v4.2.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.13.0 of kdesvn, the KDE client for the Subversion version control system, has been released. Changes:

• fixed some build problems within freebsd or systems with more restrictive Qt
• feature wish: integrated "Recent files" into kdesvn application
• feature wish: integrated diff options for ignoring white space changes when using subversion built-in diff.
• feature wish: list of recent opened URLs
• diff two items/paths from within GUI via context menu
• some other small improvements and feature requests

Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC7 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.4 and Subversion 1.2.

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From OSNews:

A first beta of KDE version 4 has been released. Changes since the last alpha:

• Icon/pixmap cache, speeding up loading of icons when starting apps
• Improved Dolphin/Konqueror integration
• New features and usability work in Gwenview, the image viewer
• Improvements to the window manager KWin
• New remote desktop tool, KRDC
• Various improvements to Konsole (terminal) and the document viewer Okular
• Marble, an application showing a rotable and zoomable earth globe, based on Wikipedia data

Source downloads, with build instructions, here. Packages are available for Ubuntu (Feisty backports and Gutsy), OpenSUSE and Mandriva.

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