http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22564/Krita_Team_Seeking_Sponsorship_to_Take_Krita_to_Next_Level/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22564/Krita_Team_Seeking_Sponsorship_to_Take_Krita_to_Next_Level/ The Krita team is seeking sponsorship to allow one of the core team members to work on Krita full-time, focusing on performance and usability, with a goal of releasing the results in Krita 2.2 and 2.3, in 2010. See kde.dot.org for an interview, or the Krita site for more information about this effort. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:02:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Boudewijn Rempt http://www.osnews.com/story/22556/KDE_4_4_What_s_New_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22556/KDE_4_4_What_s_New_/ "I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article." Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:03:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 81 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News michuk http://www.osnews.com/story/22542/Repositioning_the_KDE_Brand/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22542/Repositioning_the_KDE_Brand/ We all know what KDE stands for, right? Unless you're new here, you'll know that it stands for the K Desktop Environment. While this certainly covers a large chunk of what KDE stands for, it has increasingly lost its meaning over the past few years. Consequently, the KDE team has decided to 'reposition' the KDE brand. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:05:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News elsewhere http://www.osnews.com/story/22534/KOffice_2_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22534/KOffice_2_1_Released/ KOffice 2.1 has been released. "This release is a marked improvement of almost all parts of KOffice compared to 2.0. Version 2.0 was labeled a 'platform release', which was meant as a first preview of the framework and new UI paradigm. In version 2.1, most applications and components have improved significantly but should still only be used by early adopters and probably not as the primary worktool." Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:46:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22435/KDE_4_3_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22435/KDE_4_3_3_Released/ KDE 4.3.3 has been released. "KDE 4.3.3 has a number of improvements that will make your life just a little bit better. Some of KWin's effects have been smoothed and freed of visual glitches, JuK should now be more stable, KDE PIM has seen its share of improvements while in the back-rooms of KDE, the developers are working hard on porting all applications to the new Akonadi storage and cache." Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:48:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22298/KDE_4_3_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22298/KDE_4_3_2_Released/ The KDE team has released version 4.3.2 of their Free software desktop environment. It's a minor release which comes with a number bugfixes and enhancements, with the focus being KMail and KWin. It'll find its way to your distribution soon enough. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:48:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22183/KOffice_2_1_Beta_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22183/KOffice_2_1_Beta_2_Released/ "The KOffice team is happy to announce the second Beta of the upcoming 2.1 release that implement the KOffice 2 vision. The KOffice community has now switched from adding new features to fixing the remaining bugs. As can be seen in the full changelog the bugfixing is very active in all parts of the suite. Something that is not obvious from the changelog is that there has been much activity in the MS office import filters, especially for MS Word and Powerpoint. Many new formatting features have been implemented in both these filters." Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:05:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) KDE 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22097/KDE_4_3_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22097/KDE_4_3_1_Released/ In sync with its release schedule, the KDE team has released KDE 4.3.1, the latest and greatest in the KDE line. This monthly release includes fixes for many outstanding bugs, including several crash fixes, and support for transferring files over ssh via KIO::Fish. Those who use KDE can wait for it to be updated on its own or can always download it themselves. On a sadder note, a family member of one of the developers on the team recently passed away; this release is dedicated to her. "KDE 4.3.1 is dedicated to Emma Hope Pyne, the daughter of Michael Pyne. Emma Hope suddenly passed away last week. The KDE community feels incredibly sad about this loss and wishes Michael and the family and friends all the strength needed to cope with the loss of Emma Hope." Our best wishes go out to Michael and his family. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:10:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) KDE 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News rexstuff http://www.osnews.com/story/22051/Voice_Recognition_in_KDE_with_simon/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22051/Voice_Recognition_in_KDE_with_simon/ Over at the dot, they interview Peter Grasch, lead coder of simon. simon provides a unique way of interacting with your computer using voice recognition (not dictation, yet) which integrates well with KDE. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:07:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News troy.unrau http://www.osnews.com/story/21946/KDE_4_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21946/KDE_4_3_Released/ The KDE team has released KDE 4.3. This release comes packed with improvements and bug fixes - in fact, over the last six months, 10000 bugs were squashed, 2000 feature requests handled, and 63000 changes were checked in by 700 people. We've already talked about this new release in quite some detail last week, but let's take a look at the most important new features anyway. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:12:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 158 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News rexstuff http://www.osnews.com/story/21899/KDE_4_3_Shaping_Up_Nicely_KWin_Needs_Work/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21899/KDE_4_3_Shaping_Up_Nicely_KWin_Needs_Work/ For a very long time now, I've been on the hunt for a distribution that really put a lot of effort into their KDE4 implementation. This has been a frustrating search, full of broken installations, incredibly slow performance, and so many visual artifacts they made my eyes explode. Since KDE 4.3 is nearing release, I had to pick up this quest in order to take a look at where 4.3 stands - and I found a home in the KDE version of Fedora 11. Read on for a look as to where KDE 4.3 currently stands. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:10:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 70 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21883/KDE_4_3_RC3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21883/KDE_4_3_RC3_Released/ The KDE project has announced the third release candidate of KDE 4.3, set to be released August 4. "While 4.3 already feels very stable, there still have been quite some changes to the code-base since the second release candidate. In order to have the 4.3.0 release well-tested, the release team decided to put out another release candidate and postpone the final 4.3.0 release by one week. The most notable change is probably a fix for a performance problem in Plasma, where applets would shortly freeze after being resized. This bug has been resolved by delaying the caching of rendered SVG images until after the resizing has finished." Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:32:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21876/KDE_Reaches_1000000_Commits/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21876/KDE_Reaches_1000000_Commits/ The KDE project has announced that it has reached its one millionth commit to its Subversion repository, indicating that the KDE project is very healthy indeed. "This is a wonderful milestone for KDE," said Cornelius Schumacher, President of the KDE e.V. Board of Directors, "It is the result of years of hard work by a large, diverse, and talented team that has come together from all over the globe to develop one of the largest and most comprehensive software products in the world." Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:29:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/21765/_QtWebKit_KPart_Is_Not_the_Answer_for_Konqueror_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21765/_QtWebKit_KPart_Is_Not_the_Answer_for_Konqueror_/ Whenever I use KDE, the part I dislike the most is the rendering engine used by Konqueror, called KHTML. KHTML just doesn't render pages as smooth and as well as Gecko and the KHTML fork WebKit, up to a point where I find Konqueror unusable as a web browser. However, work is underway to replace KHTML in Konqueror with WebKit, but according to KDE developer Adam Treat, this is a futile effort: Konqueror is too KHTML API specific. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:19:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21671/Writing_Applets_for_KDE4_s_Plasma/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21671/Writing_Applets_for_KDE4_s_Plasma/ KDE, the K Desktop Environment, is a free software project based on a desktop environment for UNIX-like systems. Learn how to build small but extremely useful applets for Plasma - the new shell for the K Desktop Environment - starting with a handy memory monitor applet. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:09:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News