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May 2008

Akademy 2008 open for registration

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From KDE Dot News:

Registration for Akademy 2008, the KDE developers' summit, is now open. For anyone who wants their accommodation arranged for them, the deadline is 15th June. The event is to be held at the De Nayer Institute in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, from Friday 8th to Friday 15th June.

Qt v4.3.5 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-28 22:55
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Trolltech releases Qt 4.3.5 — Trolltech

Trolltech has released a maintenance release of Qt 4.3, containing a small number of bug fixes including some crashes and one security issue. All these fixes will also be in version 4.4.1. Downloads are available via FTP here, or through a mirror.

K3b v1.0.5 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-28 10:53
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.0.5 of K3b, the CD and DVD ripping and burning application for KDE, has been released. Changes:

  • Fix CD Copy device selection (Bug 151924)
  • Fixed HAL mounting (thanks to Ken Milmore)
  • Always wait for the drive to become ready before starting verification.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to various third-party binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.

Recoll v1.10.2 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-28 10:50
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.10.2 of Recoll, a KDE front-end for the Xapian text searching engine, has been released. Changes:

  • Created mailing-list to improve support. Check home page.
  • Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues.
  • Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64 decoding errors.
  • Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when walking the search terms.
  • Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and preview
  • Added svg filter
  • Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some error, at least the file name is indexed.
  • Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor).
  • Fix filename search to split patterns on white space, so that a "*.jpg *.jpeg" search does what's expected. Means you now need to use double-quotes if there is actual embedded white space.
  • Jump directly to the external editor choice dialog instead of opening preferences when an external viewer is not found.
  • Allow stopping indexing through menu action (only works with qt4 for now).
  • Create an "indexedmimetypes" connfiguration variable to allow explicitely restricting the file types which do get indexed.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, packages for Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu and Solaris) here. Requires Qt 3.3 or 4 and a recent version of Xapian.

KDE 4.1 Beta 1 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-28 02:44
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From KDE Dot News:

A first beta of KDE 4.1 has been released. Major changes:

  • An improved Plasma shell, featuring multiple and resizeable panels, a re-optimised Kickoff menu with a new look, and improved Run Command dialog
  • Newly ported Kontact, with new components including KJots (note-taking) and KTimeTracker
  • WebKit support in Plasma, allowing use of Mac dashboard widgets
  • Qt 4.4 support, which includes widgets on canvasses and GStreamer, DirectShow 9 and QuickTime support in Phonon
  • New lightweight media player, Dragon Player
  • New printer applet
  • Tabs in Dolphin
  • Full-screen image browsing in Gwenview
  • Zeroconf networking in a number of utilities and games

Source downloads available here; binaries are available for some systems. This is not a production release; it is intended for development purposes only.

Virtual machine for testing KDE 4.1

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-05-27 14:59
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From KDE Dot News:

A Qemu-based virtual machine containing Kubuntu 8.04 with a comprehensive set of self-compiled KDE 4.1 modules has been published, to facilitate bug fixes, localisation and documentation production. For full details, and downloads, see here.

KBarcode v2.0.7 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-05-26 17:10
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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.0.7 of KBarcode, a barcode and label printing application for KDE, has been released. This release "fixes bugs that prevent using KBarcode on recent distributions". Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE 3.3.

QtBuilder v0.6.1 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-05-25 18:37
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From Qt Apps:

Verson 0.6.1 of QtBuilder, a utility for configuring and building Qt to use Visual C++ when it is available, has been released. This version adds support for VC Express 2008 and corrects bugs from v0.6. Screenshots here, downloads (zip bundle only) here. Requires Qt 4.3.2 or later if the open-source bundle is used.

PyQt v4.4.2 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-21 23:26
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Riverbank Computing has announced the release of version 4.4.2 of PyQt, the Python bindings for Qt. This release contains bug fixes, support for the QRunnable and QThreadPool classes, and full support for Qt 4.4. Downloads (Source bundles, Windows installer) here. Requires SIP.

eric4 v4.1.4 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-05-19 14:33
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From Qt Apps:

Version 4.1.4 of eric4, the Python IDE which uses the PyQt bindings, has been released. This version includes bug fixes and compatibility fixes for Qt 4.4. Screenshots here, downloads (Python source bundles) here. Requires Qt 4.2 and PyQt 4.1 (see downloads page for other requirements).

KDE at LinuxTag 2008, Berlin

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-05-18 22:24
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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE project will be attending this year's LinuxTag in Berlin (info in English here). Speeches in English will include such topics as "Desktop interfaces in a mobile Web 2.0 world" by Aaron Seigo, what's new in KDE 4 by Sebastian Kugler, and Akonadi by Till Adam; talks in German will be on Kontact, Nepomuk, usability, KOffice 2, multimedia, Amarok and KDE 4 on OpenSUSE.

Valgrind takes Qt Open Source Development Award

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-14 21:34
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Trolltech has announced that Valgrind, "a programming tool suite for memory debugging, thread debugging, time profiling and space profiling", has won its first Qt Open Source Development Award. Valgrind got 28% of the votes cast and its developers win $3,000 (US); runners-up, with $1,000 each, are the keyboard-sharing tool Synergy and text editor Vim. There is a post about the award at the Trolltech Labs blog.

QtiPlot v0.9.6 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-14 17:25
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From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.6 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application, similar to Origin, based on Qt4, has been released. Changes:

  • Implemented autocompletion for script editors and the possibility to display line numbers.
  • Implemented confidence and prediction bands for fits. Improved the goodness of fit statistics.
  • Improved the Fit Wizard.
  • Improved the preferences dialog: added the possibility to customize the background of 2D plots.
  • Added integration and linear regression from multiple table column selection.
  • Fixed opening of Origin 7.5 files.
  • Improved Python scripting engine.
  • Fixed bugs concerning error bars.
  • Fixed a few other minor bugs.

Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (source, binaries for various platforms in return for a maintenance contract) here. Requires Qt v4.3.2 or later (full requirements list here).

Fedora 9 released with "well integrated" KDE 4

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-05-13 20:06
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The ninth release of Fedora, the successor to Red Hat Linux on which RH Enterprise Linux (and CentOS etc) is based, has been released. This release, codenamed Sulphur, (summary here) contains a "well-integrated" KDE 4.0.3 as the default KDE, and upgrades to KDE 4.1 will be provided when released (the actual default desktop is GNOME 2.22). The release also contains Linux (kernel) v2.6.25, experimental ext4 file-system support, new versions of the DejaVu and Liberation fonts, support for re-sizing partitions in the installer and for installing to encrypted file-systems, and X.org v1.4. Release notes here, a 'tour' here, and downloads (BitTorrent and direct ISOs with full, GNOME-oriented and KDE-oriented package sets) here.

Gambas v2.6 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-05-11 14:17
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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.6 of Gambas, a Visual Basic-like development environment for X11 with a KDE-based IDE, has been released. Major changes:

  • Evaluating expressions in the IDE output console works again.
  • Symbol polymorphism is now correctly handled when the inheritance depth is greater than two!
  • The evaluation of Eval() expressions is handled the same way as any other code now, to prevent stack leaks.
  • Reading floating point values from a SQLite database does not depend on the locale anymore.
  • Clipboard.Copy() from gb.qt component now correctly sends UTF-8 strings to the clipboard.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only, links to third-party binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.5 (full requirements list here).

KDE v4.0.4 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-07 21:18
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From KDE Dot News:

Version 4.0.4 of KDE, the desktop environment for the X11 window system used on Linux and other Unix-type workstations, has been released. This is mostly a bug-fix release; see the changelogfor details. Downloads, and compilation instructions, available here. Requires Qt 4.3 (use of Qt 4.4 features will come in version 4.1, which is at alpha stage now).

CMake v2.6.0 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-07 11:25
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Version 2.6.0 of CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build tool from Kitware used by KDE 4 and by many other Qt-based projects, has been released. This includes support for the new modules in Qt 4.4 which was released yesterday; it also includes a new Qt-based GUI front-end and support for Mac framework generation; full changelog here. Downloads (source, Mac and Windows installers, various Unix binaries) available here.

Qt v4.4 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-07 00:19
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Qt 4.4 Framework Broadens Rich Application Development with Integration of Web Content and Portability to Mobile Devices — Trolltech

Trolltech has released version 4.4 of Qt, its cross-platform application development toolkit. Major new features include:

  • The new WebKit web page rendering module (the same technology used in Safari and Konqueror)
  • Qt for Windows CE (Qtopia Core has been renamed Qt for Embedded Linux)
  • Multimedia framework based on Phonon (from KDE)
  • Ability to draw widgets on graphics views
  • A new concurrency framework, allowing easier multi-threaded application development
  • Support for XQuery in a separate Xml Patterns module
  • A redesign for Qt Assistant, with a self-contained help format
  • Improvements to the printing system, with a new QPrinterInfo class allowing encapsulation of printer specs and a print preview class

For full details, see What's New in Qt 4.4 (or this page) with a comprehensive changelog here. Open-source downloads (source for X11, source and binaries for Windows and Mac) here. Available under GPL v2 and v3. Also see this feature at Ars Technica.

eric4 v4.1.3 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-05-05 14:48
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From Qt Apps:

Version 4.1.3 of eric4, the integrated development environment for Python written using PyQt, has been released. This is a bug fix release. Screenshots here, downloads with requirements (no packages, just tarballs) here. Requires Qt 4.2 and Python 2.4.

Third BugDay this Sunday

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-05-01 16:42
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blauzahl: BugSquad's BugDay #3!

The KDE BugSquad are putting on a third Bug Day this coming Sunday (4th May). It will be co-ordinated on the IRC channel #kde-bugs (on irc.freenode.net) and the subject will be Konqueror. Participants should be using KDE 4.0.3 or newer, or SVN trunk. For full details, see here.