KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

kdesvn is a native subversion client for KDE. It tries to give subversion users a view like on a normal filesystem to a repository and a working copy. Instead of simple parsing the output of the standard subversion commandline it uses the c-api and wants to get a real subversion client with all of the goodies KDE has.

Changes in 0.4:
* Lock/Unlock items
* Ignore/Unignore files
* fix buildproblems with gcc 4
* some basic settings implemented
* fixed some wrong actions activating/deactivating
* SSL dialogs

homepage: http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn.

You may download the sources from here
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/kdesvn-0.4.tar.gz

Comments, bugrepors and feature wishes are welcome. You may use the bugtracker at http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/mantis/

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

amaroK 1.3-beta2 has been released:

HIGHLIGHTS
* 17 Equalizer Presets
* Cover image shadows for extra drooling
* Crash persistent settings
* Podcast support
* Revamped xine engine, including crossfading!

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Kalva 0.7.0 has been released

What's new in Version 0.7.0:
You can store your hardware profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. By providing your hardware profile you can help others who are new to recording with MEncoder. You can store your quality profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. This allows apart from other benefits to have more than one profile and per recording choose which MEncoder options will give the best results (f.i. if you want to record a 16/9 movie you need other options than for a 4/3 five minute toon for children). What was said about the hardware profile about sharing via www.kde-files.org applies even more on quality profiles. You can allready find some at www.kde-files.org You can configure if the preview window shall start in fullscreen or not. The play button now gives some valuable information on using the preview window which in fact is an external MPlayer. Apart from these outstanding changes there have been a lot of improvements and bugfixes concerning tooltips and geometry flaws.

The scantv plugin was redesigned to make sure that a failing scantv does not freeze Kalva anymore. The save dialog for the channellist was fixed to fill in the values of the active channellist and to make sure that the channellist is set in the preferences when it gets a new name.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

kdesvn 0.3 has been released

kdesvn is a native subversion client for KDE. It tries to give subversion users a view like on a normal filesystem to a repository and a working copy. Instead of simple parsing the output of the standard subversion commandline it uses the c-api and wants to get a real subversion client with all of the goodies KDE has.

Changes in 0.3:
* most of subversion operations are implemented, some in a more basic form.
* interacting with konqueror eg. importing/adding stuff via drag and drop works
* gui mostly finished as wanted and some fixes and other stuff.

homepage is
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn/

You may download the sources from here
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/kdesvn-0.3.tar.gz

Comments, bugrepors and feature wishes are welcome. You may use the bugtracker at http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/mantis/

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The KOffice team today announced the first bugfix release of the 1.4 series. Among various bugfixes and translation improvements, the KOffice 1.4.1 release further improves support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format. Binary packages for Kubuntu, Mandriva and SUSE have been contributed and the KOffice Live-CD has been updated.

Announcement:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.4.1.php

Dot article:
http://dot.kde.org/1122323356

Release notes:
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.4.1-release.php

Complete list of changes:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.4.1.php

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KDE Security Advisory: Kate backup file permission leak
Original Release Date: 2005-07-18
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt

0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1920
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103331


1. Systems affected:

All maintained versions of Kate and Kwrite as shipped with
KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0. KDE 3.1.x and older and
KDE 3.4.1 and newer are not affected.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KDE Security Advisory: Kate backup file permission leak
Original Release Date: 2005-07-18
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt

0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1920
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103331


1. Systems affected:

All maintained versions of Kate and Kwrite as shipped with
KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0. KDE 3.1.x and older and
KDE 3.4.1 and newer are not affected.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KDE Security Advisory: libgadu vulnerabilities
Original Release Date: 2005-07-21
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt

0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1852


1. Systems affected:

All versions of Kopete as included in KDE 3.3.x up to including 3.4.1. KDE 3.2.x and older are not affected.


2. Overview:

Kopete contains a copy of libgadu that is used if no compatible version is installed in the system. Several input validation errors have been reported in libgadu that can lead to integer overflows and remote DoS or arbitrary code execution.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KDE Security Advisory: Kate backup file permission leak
Original Release Date: 2005-07-18
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt

0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1920
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103331

1. Systems affected:

All maintained versions of Kate and Kwrite as shipped with
KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0. KDE 3.1.x and older and
KDE 3.4.1 and newer are not affected.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Kalva is a Lightweight Video Application

It provides a simple to use videorecorder using MEncoder to do the real work. You can schedule movies or serials. Kalva can import channellists from e.g. xawtv or xawtv4 and generate a knew one using scantv. You can edit and store that list. You might as well download a channellist from www.kde-files.org (KHotNewStuff). Kalva has a DCOP interface. This is meant as a convinient way to support recording for external apps like xmltv browsers (f.i. KTvSchedule). If You want to use the DCOP interface You can push Kalva into KDE's systemtray (works just like with JuK or amaroK). ktvapp is a simple to use and simple to setup videorecorder for the KDE. It is using MEncoder from the MPlayer package to do the real work. You can schedule a movierecording by choosing the date from a calender (will be passed to at) and a serial recording by choosing the days of the week (feeds your crontab). Save and download option for hardware profiles and quality profiles (KNewstuff) are planned for later releases.

The sources of Kalva have recently moved to kde-svn (trunc/playground/multimedia/kalva).

Kalva Homepage
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp

What's new in 0.6.1
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp/#v0_6_1

Download of released versions
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp/#download

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

kdesvn-build version 0.97 was just released.

What is it?
----------

kdesvn-build is a Perl script that can download and build KDE for you from
theKDE Subversion source repository. It includes many features to make the experience as easy as possible. It is also highly customizable, although all of the options have a sane default f or those that don't like twiddling knobs. :wink:

Some of the features of kdesvn-build include:
* Automatically checks out or updates modules from Subversion as appropriate.
* Supports "global" options that apply to every module, but can be overridd
en on a per module basis.
* Has support for checking out specific branches of a module.
* Shows the estimated progress of the build when possible, and shows the amount of time taken for a module.
* kdesvn-build tries very hard to build a module successfully. It will eve
n go so far as to automatically re-run the process starting from make -f Makefile.cvs.
* Can resume from a previous failed run.
* kdesvn-build has excellent support for Unsermake, the improved automake replacement. It will even automatically download if for you if necessary.
* The configuration file will expand tilde (~) to your home directory where appropriate, so you can use shell-style paths.
* Automatically sets up a so-called srcdir != builddir arrangement to kee
p the source directory clean.
* Command logging. Logs are dated and numbered so that you always have a log of a script run. A special symlink called latest is created in the log directory that points to the logs from the last run.
* You can checkout only a portion of a module if you'd like. For example,
you could checkout only taglib from kdesupport. The admin directory from kde-common is imported automatically if necessary.
* "Pretend" mode. You can see what steps kdesvn-build would perform without actually changing anything.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The second beta release of amaroK 1.3 has been released

No, the amaroK devs are not off enjoying the summer. They have put on thei
r silly hats to shield them from the sun (or the winter cold as is currently necessary for team members located in the southern hemisphere) and are hard at work creating the next version of amaroK.

Highlights

* The new Helix engine now has support for visualizations
* A queue manager has been added
* Enhancements to the Smart Playlist functionality
* Scripts can now add menu items to the playlist context menu
* The playlist filter has advanced search capability using Google-like search syntax
* Optimization to the default block analyzer, greatly reducing cpu usage
* Lot's of bugfixes

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KNODA is a database-frontend for Dbase, Firebird, Mdb (MS Access), Mysql, Paradox, Postgresql, SQLite and ODBC. Besides tables, views and queries KNODA comprises forms and reports, which are scriptable via Python.

Main new features:
===========
* Firebird driver added
* mdb driver (MS Access) added (read only)
* xbase driver (DBase) added
* paradox driver (Corel Paradox) added (read only)
* Forms improved a lot:
* new data-aware image field may store its data in external files or in
binary columns, is scaleable and can also act as a non-data-aware widget
* Buttons may contain icons
* date widget has been added
* store and load connection information, so login can be much easier
* export/import between databases is possible now
* many scripting API improvements (e.g. show_directorydialog(),
get_pyvisible() etc.). get_pyvisible is a replacement for the former
combination of get_visible() and cast_xxx() functions.
* the full documentation (tutorials, references etc.) added is available via
<F1>-key
* The GUI improved in details

Also many bugs are fixed. Example databases can be found at:
http://hk-classes.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=ExampleDatabases

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KOffice 1.4 has been released:

The KOffice Team is pleased to announce the next version of the lightweight, integrated and complete office suite. With exciting highlights like two new components - Krita and Kexi - and support for the OpenDocument file format, the KOffice 1.4 release is a large step forward.

Announcement:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.4.php

DOT article:
http://dot.kde.org/1119375704

Release notes:
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.4-release.php

Complete list of changes:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.4.php