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The August 2008 edition of Linux Format, the high-profile British Linux publication, has given a positive review to version 4.4 of Qt by Graham Morrison. It notes the inclusion of WebKit, Phonon and the ability to put widgets on graphics views. It calls the toolkit "sometimes convoluted, verbose and difficult to understand", but "the best open source cross platform framework available".

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.12 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. Changes:

• Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
• Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
• More translation and documentation updates.
• Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
• Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries for various systems including Windows and OS/2) here. Requires Qt 3.

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From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.1 of cb2Bib, the application for extracting bibliographic references from online documents, has been released. Changes:

• References with \LaTeX{} syntax can now be imported.
• Sub and superscript conversions from HTML alt tags and [sub/p .] tags have been included.
• Metadata insertion has been improved, and the option 'Update Documents Metadata' has been added in BibTeX editor.
• Several bugs in context menus, reference list filter, and parsing some BibTeX nested braces has been fixed.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, various third-party Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

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Nokia Acquires Trolltech — Trolltech

Following the European Commission's unconditional acceptance of Nokia's acquisition of all the shares in Trolltech (5th June), Nokia today announced that it had officially acquired the Norwegian company, and the Oslo Stock Exchange will no longer list Trolltech ASA after today. See the above link for letters from Nokia to Trolltech customers and partners and the open-source community. Meanwhile, Lorn Potter notes that the (former) Trolltech offices where he works have received Nokia signage.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.5.3 of KAlarm, an alarm and event scheduler for KDE, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed the loss of the recurrence count when creating an alarm from a template.
• Fixed Find not working with a new search text after a failed search.
• Various minor bugs fixed (full changelog here, search for 1.5.3)

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Lenny and Slackware binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.1 of KTorrent, the BitTorrent client for KDE, has been released. Major changes include:

• Mediaplayer plugin using phonon
• HTTP webseeding
• Group policies
• Windows support
• A new set of icons
• Much improved bandwidth scheduler plugin (editing is a lot easier now)

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires KDE 4.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9.6 of Smb4K, the KDE client for Samba, which accesses Windows shares from Unix, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed crash when the search item was empty: Pressing RETURN instead of activating the search action will not start a search and Smb4KScanner::search() now just returns when the search string is empty.
• Revised synchronization.
• Fixed unquoted path in Smb4KCore::open(), so that also paths ending with '$' are opened correctly in Konsole.

Screenshots here, downloads (source only, with links to third-party binaries) here. Requires KDE/Qt 3.3 and Samba 3.

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From Qt Apps:

Version 4.1.5 of eric4, a Python IDE based on PyQt, has been released. This version contains bug fixes and compatibility fixes for Ubuntu and Mandriva. Screenshots here, downloads (plain bundles only, no packages) here. Requires Qt 4.2 (see downloads page for other requirements).

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From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.0.1 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from online documents and rendering them in BibTeX, has been released. Changes:

• Bug fix: error in v1.0.0 which resulted in not inserting the correct reference to the document when importing from PDF
• New metadata reading & writing capabilities
• Updated configure dialog
• Several minor bugs fixed

Also see release notes for v1.0.0. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries, links to binaries for several Linux distros) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

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From Qt Apps:

Version 0.6.3 of QTM, a blog entry editor and submitter, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: recent files menu in both the system tray icon and each window
• New feature: two new D-Bus signals, quickpostTemplatesUpdated and quickpostTemplateTitlesUpdated
• Bug fix: use double newlines when pasting text as Blockquotes
• Bug fix: strips out extra newlines when pasting text as lists
• Bug fix: proportions of the two sides of the quickpost template dialog set correctly
• Build system: now use a CMake configure_file command to generate qtm_version.h (had not been generating properly on Mac for some reason)
• Build system: now uses full paths for all generated files, to facilitate out-of-source builds
• Build system: all generated files included in "make clean" list
• Also, the files account_form.ui and account_form41.ui have been renamed PrefsForm.ui and PrefsForm41.ui, in preparation for separating the accounts and preferences dialogs in 0.7

Screenshots at Qt Apps above; downloads from project homepage. Requires Qt 4.1 (many features require Qt 4.2).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.9.3 of Yakuake, a drop-down terminal for KDE (based on Konsole) similar to the one in the Quake games, has been released. Changes:

• Added an option to focus individual sub-terminals as the mouse pointer is moved over them.
• Added an option to explicitly control whether the window will be shown on all (virtual) desktops. Defaults to true, as before.
• Made the error condition when Yakuake is unable to load the Konsole KPart component non-destructive, i.e. being unable to load the KPart will no longer end in an unavoidable application quit. Instead, a good-looking warning will be shown where the terminal would normally be. This also takes care of the edge case in which Konsole is uninstalled while Yakuake is already running, so that existing terminals won't be lost.
• Fixed a regression that caused the "Show title bar contents in tab labels" preference to no longer work.
• Fixed tab label not immediately being updated upon creating a new session when "Show title bar contents in tab labels" is enabled.

For screenshots and downloads (source only), see the KDE Apps page. Requires KDE 4.

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The European Commission today announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech, and Nokia will now proceed with the offer, including the compulsory acquisition of all shares in the company. The shares will be acquired by Nokia's Norwegian subsidiary, Nokia Norge AS. See this page for coverage of the takeover from Trolltech, including downloadable letters to the open-source community, to Trolltech customers and to partners.

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From KDE Dot News:

Version 4.0.5 of KDE has been released. Changes include:

• Improvements to XRender compositing in the window manager
• Fix 100% usage of CPU in Dolphin
• Various bug-fixes to Kopete including one crash
• Other bug fixes and improvements, particularly in Juk (more comprehensive changelog here)

Announcement here, info page (with source downloads and links to binaries) here.

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Trolltech has published four free "Whitepapers" which are available via email on request (see this page). The topics are Qt Embedded, XQuery, user interface styling and using Qt/WebKit.

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SpeedCrunch: SpeedCrunch 0.10.1 released

Version 0.10.1 of Speedcrunch, the scientific calculator based on Qt 4, has been released. Changes:

• The equals sign on the keypad works again
• Previous and next buttons work correctly when Hebrew language is used (or Arabic, but it seems there is no Arabic translation)
• Unmask function no longer crashes
• New Basque, Catalan and Simplified Chinese translations

Full changelog here, with closed issue list here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac installers, links to third-party Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

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Trolltech Releases Qt Jambi 4.3.5 — Trolltech

Trolltech has released the Java bindings for Qt 4.3.5, which was released last week. Qt Jambi 4.3.5_01 is a bug fix release, with among other things a fix for a crash bug in the Generator (full changelog for Jambi here and for Qt 4.3.5 here). Qt Jambi is available under the usual commercial or open-source licences; open source downloads are available here.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9.5 of Smb4K, a KDE client for Samba (i.e. for accessing Windows shares), has been released. Changes:

• Fixed authentication issue that occurred when the master browser was queried for the workgroup members.
• Added configuration entry that must be enabled when authentication information needs to be sent to the workgroup master browser when querying it for the browse list.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian and Ubuntu binaries) here. Requires KDE/Qt 3.3 and Samba 3.

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