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December 2006

Qalculate v0.9.5 released

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9.5 of Qalculate!, a desktop calculator for KDE (which can also use GTK) has been released. Changes include:

  • A French translation (incomplete)
  • Integer factorisation
  • Engineering display mode
  • Fixes to display of units and prefixes
  • New functions: cross(), heaviside(), rectangular(), triangular(), ramp() kronecker(), sigmoid(), and logit()
  • Several other fixes and minor new features

Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to binaries) here. Requires KDE 3 (or GTK 2.4); other requirements listed on download page.

KLatexFormula v1.2.1 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-12-17 22:04
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2.1 of KLatexFormula, an application to produce an image from a LaTeX formula, has been released. This version adds a command-line mode (use the --help option for details). Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.1.

KPoGre v1.5.2 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-12-15 05:10
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.5.2 of KPoGre, a PostgreSQL administration tool for KDE, has been released. Changes include:

  • Code completion in the SQL editor now contains main user database objects (tables, views, functions)
  • "Find" action for database and for result tables in query/result, executor and SQL query editor
  • Updated SQL keywords for syntax highlighter and code completion, as per Postgres v8.2

Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE RPMs) here. Requires KDE 3.5.

digiKam v0.9 RC2 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-12-08 03:21
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From KDE Apps:

A second release candidate of version 0.9 of digiKam, the KDE digital photo importer and manager, has been released. Changes include:

  • Exiv 0.12 dependency fixed
  • Compilation with "./configure -enable-final" fixed
  • ImageEditor : Fixed and improved Color Management View workflow
  • Ten other bug fixes from the bug manager

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here (instructions here). Requires KDE 3.3.

Tellico v1.2.7 released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-12-08 03:17
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2.7 of Tellico, the personal collections manager for KDE, has been released. Changes:

  • Fixed bug that could cause images to be lost when loading from data file.
  • Fixed bug with saving URL values without the protocol.
  • Fixed bug with editing ISBN-13 values.
  • Updated sorting to take title articles into account.
  • Updated Amazon.com search to allow ISBN-13 values.
  • Changed file listing import to match on URL only.
  • Improved performance when copying or deleting multiple entries at once.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to third-party binaries) with requirements on the home page. Requires KDE 3.3.

Scribus v1.3.3.6 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-12-05 12:23
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.6 of Scribus, the open-source multi-platform desktop publishing (DTP) application, has been released. Changes include CMake build support, some bugs (including crashes) fixed and updated translations. Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries for Windows, Mac OS X and several Linux distributions) from the Scribus home page. Uses Qt 3 (it does not say which minor/patch version).

KRename v3.0.13 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-12-03 21:29
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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.0.13 of KRename, a mass renaming utility that plugs into the Konqueror or Krusader file managers, has been released. Changes:

  • New Turkish translation
  • Encoding plug-in now working
  • Plug-in performance improved
  • Command-line option to specify the number of preview items to show

Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10 and FC6 RPMs) here. Requires KDE 3.1 or later.

Linux User & Developer released (UK)

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-12-03 16:15
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The latest edition of Linux User & Developer magazine (issue 68, Dec 2006) has been released in the UK. Its main Qt-interest feature is a write-up of the aKademy event in Dublin earlier this year; there are also features on Blender and PyGTK, the usual columns from Pamela Jones and Jeremy Allison, and Ubuntu Edgy on the cover DVD. It costs £5.99 (US $12.99).

KAlarm v1.4.6 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-12-03 16:13
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.4.6 of KAlarm, the alarm and event scheduler for KDE, has been released. Changes include:

  • Fixing a bug affecting leap years
  • Farsi and Belarusian translations added, others updated
  • Fixed various bugs (including crashes) and various user interface improvements
  • Add user talkback facility

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Etch binary, link to Slackware 10.2 binary) here. Requires KDE 3.

Linux.com reviews Greenphone

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-12-02 17:32
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Linux.com | Trolltech's Greenphone: A reasonable first effort

Linux.com reviews the Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone, a mobile phone produced by Trolltech for Qtopia Phone Edition developers. There is a Flickr library of screenshots of the development software and photos of the device itself. The reviewer emphasises that this is a developer's device and is not really a useful mobile phone (especially at the price); there are "annoying quirks" such as a badly-designed rocker button and the device requires recharging every other day, which takes 12 hours and makes the device gets hot. Then again, Trolltech never marketed this device as a consumer mobile phone; the intention was obviously to facilitate application development. (See also some OSNews discussion.)

Qt and Qtopia v4.2.2 released (updated)

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-12-02 17:06
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Trolltech yesterday announced that it had released a second update of Qt and Qtopia 4.2. The substantial list of bug fixes can be found here; downloads for all platforms available here and GPL releases of Qtopia can be downloaded here. OpenSUSE have already released binaries which can be found at the usual downloads site.

Note that Trolltech has omitted to update the page for Mac downloads; you can, however, grab them from the mirrors here: Athens [http] [ftp], Chemnitz [http] [ftp], Iasi, Romania [http] [ftp], [rsync]. Each FTP site (Athens, [Chemnitz, Iasi) offers a 54Mb disk image with a binary of the Qt library, development tools and examples; it requires OS X Tiger to develop applications and 10.3.9 to run the tools (and, presumably, anything developed with the binary). I recommend not installing the examples (click the "Customise" button when it appears at the "Installation type" stage, and then de-select the examples package) because the installer hung when installing the examples on my machine.