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May 2009

KDE 4.3: first beta released

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K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Release Announcement

A first beta of version 4.3 of KDE, the desktop environment for Unix based on Qt 4, has been released. Major new features include:

  • Integration of new technologies, such as PolicyKit and geolocation services
  • New Window animation effects, a more usable Run Command popup and many new and improved addons in Plasma
  • Many bugfixes and improvements across all applications and more integration of features coming with the KDE 4 platform

For full changelog, see the announcement. For source downloads, and links to binaries, see the info page. The final release is expected in late July.

Qt Git repositories opened; Jambi v4.5 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-05-11 21:09
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Qt now open for community contributions — Qt -- A cross-platform application and UI framework

Qt Software has published a community repository for Qt at Gitorious: qt.gitorious.org. The repository model is explained on this page; contributions of code, translations, examples and "other related material" are welcome, although they are still subject to Qt Software's technical and legal review before being included in the actual library. Anyone who has been using Gitorious should notice that there have been changes to Gitorious itself, including a new owner and new SSH keys, and their version of Git has been updated to v1.6.1 (see the change notice and FAQ). Some of the updates to Gitorious have been assisted by funding from, and collaboration with, Qt Software (see Qt Labs report).

Also, a final feature release of Qt Jambi has been released; Jambi is being "outsourced" to the community while Qt Software will focus on Qt itself. Qt Jambi v4.5.0_01 can be downloaded from Qt's downloads page and is released under the LGPL.

Yakuake v2.9.5 released

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-05-11 14:37
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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.9.5 of Yakuake, a drop-down terminal (based on Konsole) similar to the console in the Quake games, has been released. Changes include:

  • Added a new framework, referred to as the visual event overlay, to display notifications (and potentially other information) on top of the terminals. It's used for a number of new features found in this release, as described in their separate entries.
  • Added an option to visually indicate the newly-focussed terminal when moving focus in a session with multiple terminals (i.e. via splits), or the currently focussed terminal when switching to a session with multiple terminals.
  • Added a feature to disable keyboard input for all or individual terminals in a session
  • Added a feature to lock a session to prevent it from being closed accidentally
  • Added various new D-Bus interfaces
  • Bug fixes, including 2 crashes
  • Fixed linking with the new gold linker in binutils

For full changelog, screenshots and downloads, see the KDE Apps page. Requires KDE 4.

KDE v4.2.3 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2009-05-07 01:22
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From KDE Dot News:

Version 4.2.3 of KDE, the Qt4-based desktop environment for Unix, has been released (see official announcement). Major changes in this release, codenamed Cugamire (after a character in Family Guy), include:

  • Fix to IMAP filtering in KMail
  • KMail's system tray icon now reacts to changes to folder properties and updates the number of emails shown there automatically
  • Bugfixes and performance improvements in KHTML, including painting and web standards interoperability

Full changelog here; downloads and links to binaries and build instructions here.

CMake v2.6.4 released

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2009-05-02 03:04
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Version 2.6.4 of CMake, the build configuration tool used in KDE 4, Scribus and many other Qt-based projects, has been released. This is a bug-fix release; for changes see the announcement or the changelog.