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December 2008

KDE v4.2: second beta released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-12-19 04:06
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From KDE Dot News:

A second beta of version 4.2 of KDE, the Qt4-based desktop environment for the X Window system, has been released (official announcement here). This contains only bug fixes over the last beta; a changelog (apparently a running changelog) is here. Source downloads, with links to some binaries, at the usual info page.

Qt Creator: open-source beta released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-12-19 03:45
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From Qt Software website:

A beta of Qt Creator, Qt Software's own IDE, has been released, this time under the GPL rather than as just a binary-only preview. This is currently a C++-only tool which relies on the usual external tools such as GDB and GNU Make; it also only supports qmake (i.e. not CMake). Download it here (Windows and Mac binaries, source for all platforms or a Git repository).

KOffice v2.0 beta 4 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-12-11 23:29
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From KDE Dot News:

A fourth beta of KOffice version 2.0 has been released. This adds the ability to translate script messages; other changes are bug fixes (Krita has the biggest single number). Full changelog here. KOffice is an office applications suite for KDE, which includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, project management software, and vector and raster graphics editors (a chart editor is available as a plugin). Downloads here (source, links to various binaries).

Amarok v2.0 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-12-11 03:59
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From Amarok homepage:

Version 2.0 of Amarok, the music playing and collection software for KDE, has been released. Changes:

  • Ported to KDE 4
  • Redesigned user interface
  • Tighter integration with online music services like Magnatune and last.fm
  • Overhauled scripting API and plugin support

Screenshots here, source downloads here, links to various binaries (including for Windows and Mac OS X) here. Requires KDE 4 (presumably 4.1). There is a requirements list here, but it pertains to the old version although it may be updated shortly.

Call for help on KWin ATi issues

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-12-05 18:20

Undefined Fire :: Last call for help

KDE developer Lucas Murray is calling for developers (C++ with OpenGL) to help debug issues affecting the performance of KWin on ATi graphics cards. Nobody on the KWin team has such a card, and if the bugs are not fixed soon, they will be present on the KDE 4.2 final release:

Currently KWin window shadows work absolutely fine on nVidia and Intel machines but as soon as someone starts it up when using an ATI driver (No idea which one exactly) all hell breaks loose: Textures are stretched, clamping doesn't work correctly and polygons are offset by 1 pixel in seemingly random directions.

He has a screenshot of one of the bugs.

Winners of QtCentre programming contest announced

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-12-02 02:41
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Qt Centre has announced the winners of their second programmers' competition. They are:

  • Lancelot, an alternative menu with a clickless interface, with an icon list that can be dragged to the desktop, developed by Ivan Čukić; reward: Asus Eee 2G Surf 7
  • QtWui, allowing AJAX-enabled web applications in C++, including a built-in web server, developed by Eric Alber; reward: Neo FreeRunner
  • Quartica, a plugin based communications application which allows rich media sharing with a beautiful user interface, developed by Matteo Bertozzi; reward: FreeRunner
  • Inter-Proc-Sig-Prop, which "frees the signal and slot mechanism from both the process and the actual computer", developed by Bhooshan Ashok Supe; reward: Greenphone
  • WebIssues Client, a Qt-based client for a PHP-based issues tracker, developed by Michał Męciński; reward: iPod
  • xVidSerTh, an application for downloading Flash movies from YouTube and similar sites and for converting them to other, more usable formats, developed by Xesc; reward: MacBook

Camp KDE 2009 presentations announced; Kitware joined sponsors

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-12-02 02:24
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From KDE Dot News:

Details of the presentations to be given at the Camp KDE event in Jamaica (17-18th Jan 2009) have been announced, following the request for proposals at the start of November. The talks, in no order, are:

  • Pradeepto Bhattacharya: KDE and Global Culuture
  • Kenneth Christiansen: Declarative user interfaces, using Qt and QEdje
  • Marcus Hanwell and Gökmen Göksel: KDE and distros
  • Eugene Trounev: KDE Games and graphics
  • Holger Schroeder: KDE and Windows
  • Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas: KDE and Business Software
  • Jeff Mitchell: Why Enterprises Should Hire Open-Source Programmers
  • Soren Howard: Amarok 2 and automatic playlist generation
  • Sebastian Kugler: Plasma and small formfactor devices
  • Till Adam: Akonadi
  • Orville Bennett: KDE and Mac
  • Bill Hoffman: CMake
  • Zack Rusin: Accelerating Graphics
  • Leo Franchi: Amarok 2 and use of libplasma in applications

Schedule will be published on the Camp KDE website; there will be BOF (birds of a feather) sessions on the 19th and 20th.

Also, it has been announced that Kitware, best known as the developers of CMake, has co-sponsored the event, joining Google, iXsystems and KDE e.V.