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November 2008

CA$500 bounty on tabbed KWin windows

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-11-28 00:20
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A KDE user has posted on the KWin mailing list offering $500 (Canadian; that's €315, $407 US and £264, at current exchange rates to the nearest major unit) to implement a tab feature in KWin, i.e. two or more windows in one, similar to the multiple desktops offered by KDE and GNOME, as already implemented by Fluxbox. Details of the offer, including a demonstration and terms and conditions, can be found here:

$500 KWin bounty

KDE 4.2: first beta released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-11-27 05:41
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K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Release Announcement

A first beta of KDE 4.2 has been released. Major new features in this release include:

  • New desktop effects including "magic lamp", the cube and sphere desktop switchers, with improved motion
  • Improvements to taskbar and system tray, and other central desktop elements
  • Support for Google gadgets and for Plasma applets written in Python and Ruby, and improved JavaScript and Mac dashboard applets
  • Theme improvements in the taskbar and other Plasma components
  • Improvement to multi-screen through new Kephal library
  • Improved file previews and zooming in Dolphin file manager
  • Files load faster in Konqueror
  • New message header list in KMail
  • Vi mode in Kate and KWrite
  • New power management infrastructure "PowerDevil"
  • Print configuration system restores features missing in earlier KDE 4 releases
  • KRDC improves Microsoft Active Directory support
  • KDE on Windows now supports FISH and SFTP (secure file transfer)

Downloads and compile instructions available here, with links to binaries (currently for OpenSUSE only).

Fedora 10 released with KDE 4.1

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-11-25 22:55
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Version 10 of Fedora, the operating system with its roots in Red Hat Linux, has been released. This features KDE 4.1.2 and, while it includes libraries from KDE 3.5 to support kdewebdev and KDevelop, it does not include KDE 3 itself. It also includes kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.4 / XServer 1.5.2, updated PyQt and Qt 4/GTK style support, GNOME 2.24.1, GCC 4.3.2, RPM updated to version 4.6, GIMP v2.6, OpenOffice.org v3.0, extended live USB support as introduced in F9, support for Network Manager connection sharing, a new graphical boot system called Plymouth (albeit one which only supports ATI cards to its fullest), and SecTool, a new security auditing and intrusion detection system. A download mirror list can be found here, and there is a KDE-based live CD available.

New PyQt 3, SIP and QScintilla releases

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-11-18 05:21
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Riverbank Computing has announced bug-fix releases to PyQt 3, PyKDE 3, QScintilla 2 and SIP. The new releases are PyQt 3.16.2, PyKDE 3.17.6, SIP 4.4.4 (necessary to build PyQt 3.16.2) and QScintilla v2.3.2.

PyQt v4.4.4 released (and 3 other Riverbank releases)

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-11-09 05:27
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Riverbank Computing has announced that version 4.4.4 of PyQt, its Qt bindings for Python, has been released. Changes:

  • Windows version now built against Python v2.6 and includes Phonon
  • QVariant.toPyObject() will now handle any Python object. The way in which QVariant wraps objects has subtlely changed in that the name returned by typeName() may now be different, but is now more consistent.
  • Added the data() method to the QPolygon, QPolygonF and QXmlAttributes classes.
  • Added the --no-designer-plugin option to configure.py to disable the building of the Python plugin for Qt Designer.
  • Added the missing Windows and Mac versions to QSysInfo.

Downloads (source, Windows installer) here.

Other new releases:

KDE 4.1.3 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-11-07 17:22
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K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.1.3 Release Announcement

Version 4.1.3 of KDE, the Qt-based desktop environment for Unix, has been released. This is a monthly service update; another is expected in December before KDE 4.2 is released in January. Major changes:

  • Two crash bugs fixed in Dolphin (file manager)
  • Many optimisations and bugfixes in KHTML
  • Bug fixes to Kopete (instant messenger), Okular, KAlarm and KMail
  • Many enhancements to translations

Full changelog here. Downloads (source, binaries for Debian, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu) here. Requires Qt 4.4.