KDE 4.0 Beta 3 has been released:
Rudd-O posted a visual stroll through the world of KDE 4 Beta (3.94)
KDE 3.5.8 has been released
Polishlinux.org posted a preview on KDE 4
Bruce Byfield published 12 tips for KDE users
ExtremeTech takes a look at the new KDE 4 desktop
KDE 4.0 Beta 2 has been released and can be download from the KDE mirrors.
Here the full announcement:
The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. Both KDE and KOffice have benefited from the Google Summer of Code, as most resulting code has now been merged.
Here the full announcement:
The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. Both KDE and KOffice have benefited from the Google Summer of Code, as most resulting code has now been merged.
Ars Technica takes a first look at KDE 4 beta 2
Allen Winter published an updated KDE 4.0.0 release schedule
Amarok 'Fast Forward' 1.4.7 has been released
KDE 4.0 Beta1 has been released:
KDE Project Ships First Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Cnuth"
KDE 4.0 Beta 1 marks the stabilizing of foundations for the new major relea
se of KDE.
August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications.
Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.
KDE Project Ships First Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Cnuth"
KDE 4.0 Beta 1 marks the stabilizing of foundations for the new major relea
se of KDE.
August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications.
Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.
K3b 1.0.3 has been released:
Back from my honeymoon I finally worked my work through the tons of emails which ended up in a new bugfix release for K3b. Hopefully it will be the last before the first 1.1 alpha.
* Reverted to old behaviour of reloading medium before verification. Not
enough testing had been done before introducing this and some systems fail to read the medium before reload (Bugs 147297, 147328, 147420, 147698).
* Do not crash when the currently playing audio project item is removed (Bug 147548).
* Added desktop actions to handle empty media with K3b.
* Fixed read retry when reading data tracks (Bug 147778).
* K3b's dialogs now honor the global button layout setting (Bug 147799).
* Do not crash on mp3 files without tags if compiled with taglib support (Bug 142651).
* Do not allow to copy a rewritable media to itself.
* Fixed crash on startup with devices that return bogus GET PERFORMANCE data (Bug 147676).
Get the sources from http://www.k3b.org. Mandriva Cooker packages will be up soon.
Back from my honeymoon I finally worked my work through the tons of emails which ended up in a new bugfix release for K3b. Hopefully it will be the last before the first 1.1 alpha.
* Reverted to old behaviour of reloading medium before verification. Not
enough testing had been done before introducing this and some systems fail to read the medium before reload (Bugs 147297, 147328, 147420, 147698).
* Do not crash when the currently playing audio project item is removed (Bug 147548).
* Added desktop actions to handle empty media with K3b.
* Fixed read retry when reading data tracks (Bug 147778).
* K3b's dialogs now honor the global button layout setting (Bug 147799).
* Do not crash on mp3 files without tags if compiled with taglib support (Bug 142651).
* Do not allow to copy a rewritable media to itself.
* Fixed crash on startup with devices that return bogus GET PERFORMANCE data (Bug 147676).
Get the sources from http://www.k3b.org. Mandriva Cooker packages will be up soon.
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
Screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/kushaldas/870308314/
Webpage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chotha
KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 has been released:
K3b 1.0.2 has been released
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.
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.
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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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
- 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
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.
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.
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
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
