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A maintainer is sought for the KDocker application, which is at present a plain Qt 3 application despite its name. The application is currently behind in development due to the developer's lack of time for maintaining it; among the first tasks is porting it to Qt 4. Anyone interested should contact Girish Ramakrishnan at girish at forwardbias dot in.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.12 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. Changes:

• Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
• Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
• More translation and documentation updates.
• Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
• Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries for various systems including Windows and OS/2) here. Requires Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.6.0 of Syntext Serna, a commercial WYSIWYG XML editing application, has been released. Changes:

• Enhanced DITA usability tools simplifying topic creation and work with references: xref, related link, topicref, and conref.
• Navigation to the target element of the conref.
• PDF publishing of DITA documents with Antenna House XSL Formatter.
• Paginated and Normal document views.
• Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. A trial download is available, but prices for the personal version start at US$89, with the professional and enterprise versions costing $199 and $395 respectively for single user licences; details here.

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From Qt Apps:

Version 1.3.3.11 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishng (DTP) application based on Qt 3, has been released. Changes:

• This stable release adds the following:
• Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
• New Arabic Translation.
• More translation and documentation updates.
• Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
• Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
• Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
• Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Screenshots here; for downloads, see the Scribus home page. Requires Qt 3; there is a requirements list but it seems to concentrate on the development version, citing Qt 4 as a requirement.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.10 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing (DTP) application, has been released. Changes:

• Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
• New Arabic Translation, and complete German translation of documentation
• More translation and documentation updates.
• Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
• Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
• Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
• Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Screenshots here; downloads (source with Mac, Windows and various Linux binaries) from Scribus home page. Requires Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

A second release candidate of version 2 of Gambas, the Visual Basic-like IDE for Unix which uses KDE, has been released. Changes include:

• The development environment toolbar icon size now follows the font size.
• You can send key events to other applications.
• The Observer class can catch events after they have been processed.
• GridView cells can display rich text.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only, with links to third-party binaries) here. Requires Qt 3.2 (full requirements list here).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.10.0 of Recoll, a text search tool for Unix based on the Xapian back-end, has been released. This version adds support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text and a GUI config tool for the main configuration file. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various distro binaries) here. Requires Xapian and Qt 3.3 or Qt 4 (the binaries require Qt 3.3 and have static Xapian compiled in).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.5.0 of Syntext Serna, a commercial WYSIWYG XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• Incorporated DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.
• PDF publishing of DITA documents with FOP.
• Enhanced Undo/Redo functionality.
• Open Recent list preserves document opening mode.
• Reduced document opening time.
• XSL stylesheet/Schema modification time check can be disabled.
• Document modification time check can be disabled.
• SpellCheck plugin can be located outside of Serna's plugins folder.
• Paths to XML Catalogs are displayed in the Document Properties Dialog.
• Splash screen can be disabled.
• Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. A free trial is available, but prices for the full version start at $89 for a single-platform "personal version" with the professional version starting at $199 per user per platform; feature comparison here.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.9.90 of Gambas, a Visual Basic-like programming environment for Unix, has been released. This is expected to be the last before the first release candidate (i.e. it's basically a beta rather than a development version). Changes include:

• An old bug was fixed in the interpreter that made the debugger display the value of global variables incorrectly.
• Class names used as functions now are cast operators, unless they have a _call special method defined.
• An old bug was fixed in the Settings class, that made the interpreter stops without printing any error message.
• The gb.ldap component was removed: apparently it does not work, and its develor does not maintain it anymore.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requries Qt 3.2 (for full requirements list, see the downloads). Stable release is 1.0.19 (same download location).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.1 of the SIP-based internet telephony app, Twinkle, has been released. Changes:

• French translation
• Presence (i.e. your first connection ending when you start a second, as on Yahoo/MSN Messengers etc)
• Instant messaging
• New CLI commands: presence, message
• Bug fixes, including 2 crashes
• Four new RFCs, two of them relating to Presence

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires Qt 3.3 (for full requirements, see the downloads page).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.4.0 of Syntext Serna, an XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML editor, has been released. Changes:

• DITA V1.1 support, including Bookmap and Glossary support.
• A number of DITA-related enhancements, including enhanced publishing with DITA Open Toolkit, enhanced stylesheets and ContentMap, improved rendering of "xref"s.
• Templates in the New Document Dialog can be hidden.
• Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. This is a commercial package; costs start at $89 for a single-user, single-platform licence for the Personal edition. Details here; see the home page for the free trial version.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.4 of the open-source desktop publishing application Scribus has been released. Changes include:

• A rewritten preview mode, allowing designers and artists to view documents as those with colour deficiencies would view a document, allowing artists to avoid colour combinations which affect legibility.
• Major improvements to TIFF and PSD support, allowing Desktop Color Separations import
• New styles and text capabilities include style inheritance for paragraphs, character styles and line styles. This is now managed by a new style manager palette.
• New text layout engine, offering more appealing justification
• New pre-press capabilities including, registration marks, crop marks, calibration bars and document meta info. These are all easily managed within the print and PDF export dialogs.

Detailed release notes in this PDF. Screenshots here; see this page for download information (source and Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora binaries). Requires Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.9 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. This release contains bug fixes, translation updates and updates to the SVG importer and to PDF forms. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer) from front page. Uses Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.3.0 of Syntext Serna, a WYSIWYG XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed a number of stability issues
• Optimized GUI: much faster switching between documents
• Simplified, transparent Save View/Restore View functionality
• When browsing from dialogs, paths to images and resources are relative wherever possible
• DITA enhancements, including localization identical to DITA OT, "metadata" element shown in editing window, "xref" displaying the title of the referred element

Screenshots here, downloads, pricing and licence information here. This is a commercial application; prices start from $89 for a single-user licence for the personal/home version.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.9.4 3.9.5 of eric3, the Python IDE written with PyQt, has been released. This version contains bug fixes and improved Subversion v1.4 and PyLint compatibility. Screenshots here, downloads (source packages only; it's all Python) here. Requires Qt v3.1 and Python v2.3 (for other requirements, see downloads page).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2 of CrossVC XXL, the proprietary version of the CrossVC client for CVS and Subversion (version control software) formerly called LinCVS, has been released. Changes are listed here. Note that this version appears not to support Subversion v1.4. Screenshots here, downloads (no source as it's proprietary; binaries for Win32, Mac OS X Tiger, Solaris on Sparc and x86, Linux and FreeBSD) here. Downloads are free for non-commercial use. Latest open-source version (CrossVC) is v1.5.1, released last December (same download location). Both versions use Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

A release candidate of version 3.3 of Syntext Serna, a WYSIWYG XSLT-driven XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• A number of stability issues fixed
• Optimised GUI, providing for faster document switching
• Simplified, transparent Save View/Restore View functionality
• When browsing from dialogs, paths to images and resources are relative wherever possible
• DITA enhancements, including localization identical to DITA OT, "metadata" element shown in editing window, "xref" displaying the title of the referred element

Screenshots here. This is a commercial application, although a time-limited free trial is available. Which Qt version is used is not stated.

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 New Websites for Qt Software KDE-Apps.org

The people behind KDE Apps have established two new websites, Qt Apps and Qt Prop (corrected), for open-source and proprietary applications using Qt but not KDE. Developers of Qt-based apps featured on KDE Apps are advised to contact the webmasters, with the contact form linked off the news page above, to ask them to move the page over to the new site.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.8.1 of Recoll, a "personal full text search tool" based on the Xapian back-end, has been released. Changes include "a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title, etc.), and wildcard handling: the standard *, ?, [ ]", as well as minor UI improvements and bug-fixes. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various Linux distro binaries) here. Requires Qt 3.3 or Qt 4.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.8 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. Changes:

• Translation updates
• Improvements to SVG and Open Document Draw import
• Improvements to PDF forms
• Bug fixes

Screenshots here, for downloads (source, Windows, Mac and OS/2 installers, SUSE RPMs) here. Requires Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

A release candidate of version 3.2 of Syntext Serna, a WYSIWYG XML editor, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed a number of stability issues, especially DITA-related ones
• DITA enhancements, including support of and metadata elements, ability to switch localization on-the-fly
• Docbook enhancements, including Docbook V4.5 support, element support, numbering figures & tables as in publishing stylesheet
• Functional enhancements, including extensions for redlining handling and for document() function, support of and extension-element-prefixes