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January 2006

Knoda test release

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From KDE Apps:

A first test release of version 0.8.1 of the KDE database front-end Knoda has been released (announcement here). The changelog lists an improved report generator, dynamically-resizing fields, improved encoding handling, and many bug fixes. Source downloads here at Sourceforge; screenshots here. Supports a number of open-source and commercial databases and ODBC; requires kh-classes which is developed by the same main developer as Knoda, Horst Knorr.

PiKdev 0.8.4 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-31 03:34
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Version 0.8.4 of PiKdev, a KDE-based IDE for PICMicro applications, has been released. PikMicro features a Kate-based multi-view editor for assembly and C code, with syntax highlighting. The new version features support for new devices and a revamp in the underlying "pkp" programmer, which does not require Qt or KDE, and other important changes. Screenshots available on the homepage; source and RPM downloads here.

KPowersave 0.5.5 out

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-01-30 19:55
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Version 0.5.5 of KPowersave, the KDE front-end for the powersave daemon, has been released. This version features a reworked network dialog, a new help menu, updated German translations, and bug-fixes. Screenshots and links to download locations can be found at the KDE Apps page (including SUSE RPM files).

Skim v1.4.4 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-01-30 19:51
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Version 1.4.4 of Skim (originally SCIM, Smart Common Input Method), "an input method platform based upon scim-lib under *NIX systems (including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD) systems optimized for KDE", has been released. This version contains a number of bug fixes (including one concerning KDE 3.3 compatibility) and adds Punjabi support. A few screenshots and links to documentation and downloads are on the KDE Apps page link above (the homepage is taking a long time to load at the time being).

K9Copy v1.0.3 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-01-29 15:17
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Version 1.0.3 of K9Copy, a "small utility" that allows copying from DVD9 to DVD5, has been released. The latest edition allows the compression of menus, selection by title set, and entering of the size of the DVD; it also "improves compatibility" and fixes "IFO update bugs". Downloads here (source and links to binaries), screenshots at the home page and at the KDE Apps link.

Scythia v0.7 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-01-27 06:18
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Version 0.7 of Scythia (or here in English), a Qt-based FTP client, has been released. The main feature is a port to Qt 4; the rest of the changelog is in French which I don't understand. Some screenshots of old versions can be found here (lovely icons); downloads (Windows, Ubuntu 5.10, source) are to be found on the KDE Apps page.

KIM v0.8.3 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-01-26 01:47
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Version 0.8.3 of Kim (KDE Image Menu), a KDE service menu which uses ImageMagick and Mpegtools as back-ends, has been released. The new release, which requires KDE 3.3, fixes some security issues (by using temporary files), UTF-8 encoding issues regarding temporary files, and copyrights and licensing issues. A download and a few screenshots are available at the KDE Apps link above (homepage had not been updated as I wrote this).

QtiPlot update

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-01-25 05:21
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Version 0.7.7 of QtiPlot, an Origin-like scientific plotting and data analysis application, has been released. The new version features improved main menu behaviour, "improved data analysis by adding: convolution/deconvolution, correlation, FFT from tables", and several bug fixes for 2D plots. Downloads here (sources free, binaries require a 15-euro donation). A few screenshots are on the KDE Apps page.

VariCAD update

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 19:27
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VariCAD have released an updated version of their CAD package. Version 2.01 includes a new tutorial and "some minor improvements". VariCAD has a commercial licence and requires Qt 2.3 (minimum) and hardware OpenGL support. Downloads for Windows and various Linux distributions are available (with a user account) here.

New PyKDE snapshot

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 16:27
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Riverbank Computing announces that it has released a new snapshot of its Python-KDE bindings, downloadable here. They give no indication as to its stability. The changelog in the bundle (there is none on the website) refers to updated docs, particularly fixed tables of contents, "added X11 include", a DCOP-related fix and "removed kkeyserver.sip references from all .diff files". (The last release was only last week, and when one release follows on the heels of another, it usually means a major bug fix.)

KNetStats v1.5 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 16:26
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Version 1.5 of KNetStats, a "simple KDE network monitor that show rx/tx LEDs of any network interface on a system tray icon", has been released. New features include a chart view, a new statistics dialog, the use of bksys as the building tool, and a Romanian translation (and more). Downloads available at SourceForge; screenshots on the home page. Requires KDE 3.3 and the Linux kernel - it's not BSD-compatible.

KDbg v2.0.3 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 16:21
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Version 2.0.3 of KDbg, the KDE front-end for the GNU debugger, has been released. Two changes are listed, both affecting the parsing of overloaded operators <<, <, > and >>. Screenshots here, download at the KDE Apps link above (homepage has not been updated as I write).

Tellico: third pre-release

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 16:17
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A third pre-release (1.1pre3) of the KDE collections manager Tellico has been released. This fixes one bug from 1.1pre2, namely one that caused data loss when changing configuration options for writing images to data files, and in the "Save As..." routine. They urge everyone to back up their data before using the pre-release. A source download is available at the KDE Apps link above.

Lintouch v1.8.1 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-01-24 02:59
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Version 1.8.1 of Lintouch, a Qt-based open-source application for designing human-to-machine interfaces (HMIs), has been released. This is the first GPL release of Lintouch, with some components under the LGPL; new binary builds for SUSE 10, Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu 5.04 and Debian Sarge are also available; one bug fix to its editor is also mentioned. Screenshots here, downloads here (includes Windows installer; requires MinGW).

Scribus: new development release

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-01-23 17:43
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Version 1.3.2 of Scribus, the Qt-based open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. New in this release is a cleaner, restructured codebase, a new Windows installer (by dispensation from Trolltech), EXIF support, improved TIFF and PSD file support, PDF export with viewer export options, updated documentation (including 1.3-specific documentation), and more (full details here). Downloads are to be found here with screenshots of 1.3.0 here. Stable version is 1.2.4.1.

Tellico: second pre-release

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-01-23 17:42
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A second pre-release version of Tellico, the collections database for KDE, has been released. Changes include updated documentation, a Russian translation, support for drag and drop from Mozilla and Firefox, and images being saved inside data files rather than in the Tellico data directory (the reverse, a change applied in 1.1pre1 is now an option, not the default). Full details on Tellico news page, downloads of source here, screenshots (stable version) here.

cb2Bib v0.5.2 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-01-23 06:11
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Version 0.5.2 of cb2Bib, "a tool for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal Web pages, and PDF files" aimed at scientists and students, has been released. Changes include the default colour being taken from the window manager rather than hard-coded to black, and context and highlight colours being customisable. There are various bug fixes also (full changelog here). Single screenshot on homepage, source and binary downloads here. Requires Qt 3.2 or higher (but less than 4).

VisiScript v0.4.3 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-01-22 23:47
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VisiScript 0.4.3 has been released. VisiScript is a Qt-based editor for scripting languages like Python, Perl and Tcl. Among the changes listed is that all images are compiled into the binary, so no extra files are required. Requires Qt 3 and QScintilla, and is available for embedded as well as desktop Qt platforms. Downloads and screenshots to be found at the home page.

digiKam v0.8.1 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-01-22 23:42
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Version 0.8.1 of digital photo management app digiKam has been released. The new version includes 8-bit RAW support (16-bit RAW is planned for 0.9), star ratings for images, copy-paste support (also allowing copy-paste from Konqueror), new icons, memory leak fixes, and restored printing functions. Detailed changelog at the KDE Apps link above. Screenshots here, links to binary downloads (possibly out of date) here, source downloads here. Requires KDE 3.

PC-BSD: second release candidate

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-01-22 23:36
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Via OSNews, PC-BSD have released a second release candidate of their FreeBSD-based desktop operating system which uses KDE as its main desktop. New features include an updated core FreeBSD (version 6.0), KDE 3.5, a fix for the loading of the "kcm fileshare" KDE module, many package updates, the use of portsnap to update ports, and the online update checker now running at startup (changelog here). A "tour" is available here, downloads here, and patch updates here.