KDE Apps

From KDE Dot News:

There is a survey being done to test icons for the KDE 4 port of K3b, the CD/DVD burning app which currently uses the KDE 3 libraries. The survey consists of asking you which icons best suit the stated purpose. You can take the survey here.

From KDE Apps:

Version 2.9.5 of Yakuake, a drop-down terminal (based on Konsole) similar to the console in the Quake games, has been released. Changes include:

• Added a new framework, referred to as the visual event overlay, to display notifications (and potentially other information) on top of the terminals. It's used for a number of new features found in this release, as described in their separate entries.
• Added an option to visually indicate the newly-focussed terminal when moving focus in a session with multiple terminals (i.e. via splits), or the currently focussed terminal when switching to a session with multiple terminals.
• Added a feature to disable keyboard input for all or individual terminals in a session
• Added a feature to lock a session to prevent it from being closed accidentally
• Added various new D-Bus interfaces
• Bug fixes, including 2 crashes
• Fixed linking with the new gold linker in binutils

For full changelog, screenshots and downloads, see the KDE Apps page. Requires KDE 4.

From digiKam website:

Version 0.9.5 of digiKam, a digital photo download and collection manager for KDE, has been released. Major changes:

• General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6.
• General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18).
• General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0.
• Image Editor : All image plugin tool settings provide default buttons to reset values.
• Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings.
• Image Editor : All image plugin dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.
• Image Editor : New composition guide based on Diagonal Rules.
• 60 bug fixes, including 8 crashes

For full changelog, see the announcement. Screenshots here, source download here. Requires KDE 3.5.

From KDE Apps:

Version 0.31 of TorK, an anonymity manager for KDE (basically a client for the Tor network run by the EFF), has been released. Changes:

• Major update to German Translation from Hans-J. Ullrich
• Boilerplate Greek Translation
• Boilerplate Spanish Translation
• Allow proxy ports up to 99999. Bug reported by anonym.
• Allow MapAddress configurations to apply properly.
• Modify 18x12 icons to 16x16 and so prevent packaging violations in Debian and Suse. Thanks to Marek Stopka and Patrick Matthai for pointing this out.
• Fix so that downloading of experimental vs stable tor works properly again.
• Don't crash if /dev/*/statistics/read does not exist.
• Always update new server info
• Fallback to default ORPort and Dirport if UPNP configured but unavailable
• Prevent Tor from reloading torrc on sighup.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, various Linux binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.5.