KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Chotha Beta 1 is released. Chotha is a blog client written in PyQt4. This is mainly for wordpress, will add support for others later. It is having basic HTML tag editing capabilities with saving blog entries locally in the system. You can also save it as draft in the server. You can preview your entry either in Firefox or in Konqueror. Or else you can click and go to visual mode to see quick preview (without images).

Screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/kushaldas/870308314/

Webpage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chotha

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Announcing version 1.4.6 of the Amarok 'Fast Forward' series

Your very own Amarok team announces the immediate availability of the latest 1.4 series release, 1.4.6.

So, what's new?

* Funky new icon set, featuring KDE4 Oxygen colors by Landy DeField.
* Default database backend is a lot faster due to a new SQLite version.
* A gigantic load of bug fixes, the main focus of this release.
* Introducing rockbox support for iPod.
* Performance tuning.
* More wockas per square inch.
* Packaged with FUKITOL.

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The digiKam team is happy to announce a new release of the advanced digital photo management application for linux.

In addition to various bug-fixes and improvements, several new features have been added. Some important improvements/changes are:

- a light-table to quickly compare similar images side by side
- Thumbnail size in the album view can be adjusted continuously
- Image Editor: reorganized menu structure
- Image Editor: new pan tool
- Image Editor: new Sharpness Editor (replacing Unsharp Mask, Refocus, Sharpen)
- DigikamImagePlugins have been merged into digiKam
- Image Plugins: completely rewritten Red Eyes Correction
- Image Plugins: Color Effects pack: solarize, velvia (new!), neon, edge
- Image Plugins: improved Black & White converter
- Image Plugins : Speed improvements for Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup (update of the CImg library to 1.1.9)
- several keyboard shortcuts have changed to comply with KDE guidelines
- New dependency to libkdcraw to decode RAW file (uses dcraw 8.60 inside)

For more information and resolved issues please consult NEWS.0.9.2 and the Changelog.

The digiKam developer team would like to thank everyone who has helped by testing, bug reports, bug fixes, and suggestions for improvements.

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KTorrent is approaching a full 2.2 release, this is the final step towards this release. Most of the changes are bug fixes, but we added some new features :
- Maximum seed time feature
- Cool new list of plugins (a lot better then the old boring listview)

We hope you all enjoy this release, packages can be found on the KT website
http://ktorrent.org/

Joris

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

kdebluetooth 1.0 Beta 3 is ready

kdebluetooth got mostly rewritten to make use of the BlueZ D-BUS API and ll of their services. libkbluetooth wraps the BlueZ D-BUS API and makes it quite easy to write some Bluetooth related application.

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The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6.3, the second maintenance release of KOffice 1.6.

Highlights
This is the last maintenance release of the 1.6 series, containing mainly bug fixes.

Improvements For Most Components
There are bug fixes for almost all of the components. See the complete changelog for the complete information.

Three New Translations
This release introduces three new translations: Low Saxon, Nepali and Bulgarian, making KOffice available in 39 languages.

About KOffice
KOffice is an integrated office suite, today mostly for KDE, which utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.

This release includes:

a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord);
a spreadsheet application (KSpread);
a presentation application (KPresenter);
a flowchart application (Kivio);
an integrated database application (Kexi);
a new project management application (KPlato).
a pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita);
a vector-drawing application (Karbon14).

Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable objects:
business quality reporting software (Kugar)
full-featured charting engine (KChart)
mathematical formula handling (KFormula)
as well as a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and support for many different file formats.

KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE http and ftp mirrors.

You can find more information about it here :
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.6.3-release.php

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The success story continues with the 0.9.2-beta2 release including a new light table (compare feature). This beta2 version is rock-solid, don't hesitate to use it for production.

The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing.

This is a source code tarball release. In order to compile it you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta1 already).

The library tarballs can be downloaded from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149779

The digiKam tarball + documentation can be downloaded from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

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Kst 1.4.0 has been released

The Kst development team is happy to announce the immediate
availability of Kst 1.4.0, a major update of the real-time data viewing and plotting tool with data analysis functionality. Kst 1.4.0 consists of a KDE 3.4 based application and a set of data analysis and manipulation plugins. Kst ships complete with documentation, and is translated to over 25 languages.
Kst, including all its plugins and documentation, is available for free
under Open Source licenses. Kst can be obtained in source and numerous binary formats from http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/ .

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KPlayer 0.6.2 has been released:

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards.

The new 0.6.2 version brings an updated user manual with details on all the new features in the 0.6.x series, many bug fixes and improvements in playlists, multimedia library and throughout KPlayer, and several new and updated translations.

KPlayer is licensed under GPL.

KPlayer 0.6.2 is available for download at http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/#downloads

Source tarball
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer-0.6.2.tar.bz2

Read me
http://kplayer.cvs.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer/README?rev=HEAD

Installation
http://kplayer.cvs.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer/INSTALL?rev=HEAD

Online manual
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/manual/

IRC
#kplayer on FreeNode

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KDE 3.5.7 has been released:

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bugfixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.

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KDE 4.0-alpha1 Released: "Knut" has been released:

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0. This release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4. Read on for more details.

KDE 1683 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will likely contain initial versions of all the major subsystems that have been described in recent Dot articles. These 'Pillars' of KDE set the stage for desktop and application growth and maturity over the life of the KDE 4 series.

KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

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OpenWengo 2.1 rc1 has been released:

It is with great pleasure that I announce that OpenWengo 2.1 rc1 is available for download at:

http://download.wengo.com/releases/WengoPhone-2.1/RC1/

OpenWengo is a project aimed toward providing the best possible communication over IP program, both easy to use and conforming to industry standards.