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November 2006

QScintilla v1.7.1 released

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Riverbank Computing has released version 1.7.1 of QScintilla, the Qt port of the C++ editor class Scintilla. This is a minor bug-fix release which fixes a problem affecting older versions of GCC. Source download here.

KOffice v1.6.1 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-11-30 17:10
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Version 1.6.1 of the KDE office suite KOffice has been released. This includes three important new features, namely a colour filter in the image editor Krita, combo boxes in Forms in the database Kexi to take advantage of database relations (see screenshots here and paramater queries, also in Kexi. A security issue affecting MS Powerpoint imports is also fixed, and there are a number of bug fixes (see full changelog). Release notes here, with source and locale downloads, installation instructions, and links to binaries (currently for Kubuntu and SUSE).

KPorts v0.6.1 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-11-29 04:43
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.6.1 of KPorts, a KDE front-end to the FreeBSD (and PC-BSD) ports system, has been released. The sole change is that a bug which was preventing building on newer versions of GCC has been fixed. Screenshots here, downloads (source, i386 binary package) here. Requires KDE 3.5.

Gwenview v1.4.1 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-11-27 16:43
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.4.1 of Gwenview, the image viewer for KDE, has been released. Changes include:

  • Loading of rotated JPEG images directly, rather than first loading the image and then rotating it
  • Previews of images shown when dragging
  • Added back, forwards, reload and save-as options to the KPart context menu
  • Use of Exiv2 library rather than libexif for metadata, to fix various JPEG problems
  • Numerous bug fixes

For full changelog see home page. Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to distro and third-party binaries, dependency library sources) here. Requires KDE 3.4.

Smb4K v0.7.5 released (security)

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-11-25 15:24
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.7.5 of Smb4K, the Samba (SMB/CIFS) browser for KDE, has been released. This is a security update, fixing one serious bug "that could cause a corrupted /etc/sudoers file if debug or error output was received via stderr while reading the file for subsequent processing". Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to third-party binaries) here. Requires Qt/KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.

QtiPlot v0.8.9-rc2 released

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-11-25 15:20
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From KDE Apps:

A second release candidate of version 0.8.9 of QtiPlot, an Origin-like scientific analysis and plotting application, has been released. This release contains "a lot of bugfixes and improvements". Screenshots linked off main page, downloads (source, binaries in return for donation) here. Stable version is 0.8.8 (same download location). Requires Qt 3.2.1 up to 3.3.7.

Kubuntu derivative deployed in Canary islands

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-11-24 19:04
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From KDE Dot News:

A new Kubuntu derivative, mEDUXa v1.0, has been released by the Canary Islands' Education, Culture and Sports department and will be deployed in the islands' schools. A major feature is its various Kiosk profiles, including one for four- to eight-year-olds.

MonkeyStudio v1.6.0-d-1.0.1 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-11-24 19:00
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From KDE Apps:

A new beta of the Qt4 IDE Monkey Studio has been released. New features include being able to view contents of QString and QListView objects (while debugging, I presume) and "now you can view your personnel struct in a tree watch". (The developers are French). Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires Qt 4.1.

Mark Summerfield "writing PyQt book"

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-11-22 21:53
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Riverbank Computing has announced that Mark Summerfield, of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 fame, is writing a new book entitled Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt, to be published in the summer of 2007. The book is to have five parts, the first covering Python for programmers familiar with object-oriented languages, the next three covering GUI programming with Qt but from a Python perspective, and the fifth containing longer examples: a custom widget, dialog, model/view example and "a more substantial application".

digiKam v0.9 RC released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-11-22 17:14
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From KDE Apps:

A first release candidate of version 0.9 of digiKam, the digital photo management app for KDE, has been released. Changes since the last beta include:

  • 20 bug fixes, including several crash bugs
  • Internal dcraw implementation updated to version 8.41

A parallel release candidate of digiKam Image Plugins has also been released; this is also a bug fix release, with one crash bug fixed. Screenshots here, downloads for both packages (source only) available here. Requires KDE 3.3.

CMake v2.4.4 available for download

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-11-22 16:06
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Version 2.4.4 of CMake, the cross-platform build tool used for KDE 4 and widely used in Qt projects such as Scribus, has been released. Changes affecting Qt developers include:

  • Finding both Qt 3 and 4 better, including using qmake and qmake-qt4 (as qmake is commonly called on Linux distro versions of Qt 4) on the same machine
  • Many fixes for finding KDE 3
  • UseQt4 works with static Qt 4 and other files
  • Add depends from files inside qrc files in qt

Other changes include support for Python 2.5 and QNX, better finding for Java and Ruby and CPack bundled as standard; full changelog here. Downloads (Windows installer, Mac OS X universal binary, varous Unix and Linux binaries and source in Windows and Unix linefeed forms) here.

RegDeveloper feature on Qt

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-11-21 05:50
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RegDeveloper, the Register's page of news and analysis for developers, has a three-page feature on Qt. The article focuses on the MOC (meta-object compiler), signals and slots, Qt Designer and integration with Visual Studio .NET. Clearly the focus is on the commercial developer, as the article is called "Cross platform development for Windows and Mac OS X", although the toolkit as the basis for KDE is mentioned.

Kaffeine v0.8.2 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-11-21 04:39
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.2 of Kaffeine, the embeddable multimedia player for KDE, has been released. The new release has a substantial number of bug fixes and minor improvements (see changelog). See screenshots here; downloads (source, links to various distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.

Kile v1.9.3 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-11-19 06:49
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.9.3 of Kile, the TeX/LaTeX editor for KDE, has been released. Changes include:

  • Prepared the LaTeX syntax file for beamer commands
  • Use of embedded KPDF for previewing
  • Numerous bug fixes

Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE/Qt 3.2 or later.

kAnyRemote v2.0 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-11-17 03:21
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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.0 of kAnyRemote, a multi-protocol remote-control application for KDE, has been released. New features include the beginnings of "Bemused-like functionality", a new configuration file format, and a Java client for JSR82-compatible phones. Screenshots here, source downloads of anyremote (for the console) and kAnyRemote here with instructions and package links here. What version of KDE is required the homepage does not say.

Trolltech issues "bleeding edge" Qt snapshots

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-11-14 22:24
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Trolltech has decided to issue bleeding-edge snapshots of the development version of Qt, according to Lars Knoll on QDevBlog. These can be downloaded from FTP at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/snapshots or via rsync (see the blog entry linked above for the addresses). The snapshots are unsupported but contain a number of new features which are expected to appear in Qt 4.3.

Qt Jambi focus group in Munich

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-11-14 02:46
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Trolltech has announced that it is to hold a focus group in Munich on 21st November this year at which developers can give feedback on the Qt Jambi software (Java bindings for Qt). The meeting is to be held in German at 1600 and/or 1830 with a technology presentation in English.

Intending participants should download Qt Jambi and have to answer some preparatory questions; actual participants will receive Euro 150 compensation and rail transport and accommodation can be provided. Email eivind@trolltech.com if you want to participate.

SIR v1.2 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-11-13 22:05
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2 of SIR (Simple Image Resizer), which can resize and rotate images of various formats, has been released. New features:

  • A Qt 4 version with support for smooth resizing
  • A context menu added.

Screenshots and downloads (source, link to Slackware package) on KDE Apps.

D-Bus v1.0 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-11-13 16:39
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From KDE Apps:

The first official release of D-Bus, Freedesktop.org's inter-process messaging system, is out. The system is being adopted in KDE 4 as a replacement for KDE 3's DCOP, and a D-Bus module is also present in Qt 4.2 styled in a way to make it familiar to KDE programmers familiar with DCOP. The source for D-Bus itself can be downloaded here; bindings are available for GLib (GTK), Python, Java, Qt 4 (bundled with 4.2), Perl, C++, Pascal, Qt 3 and .NET. The system presently works on all Unix platforms including Mac OS X; there is a Windows port here which is expected to be merged with the official D-Bus.

Gambas: new development version

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-11-12 23:28
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From KDE Apps:

A new development version of the Visual Basic-like development environment Gambas has been released. Changes in version 1.9.46 include:

  • Subversion (but not CVS) support in the IDE
  • A redesigned debugger
  • Controls have a Name property (as in Visual Basic)
  • Changes to bytecode and to LINK and LOCK instructions, necessitating recompilation of all projects
  • Various bug fixes and new features in the IDE, Wiki CGI script, documentation, interpreter, compiler and the debugging, Qt, form, SDL, web and settings components.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, source downloads here. Stable version (recommended for production work) is 1.0.17 (same download location). Requires KDE 3, PostgreSQL and MySQL development packages to compile.