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Maintainer sought for KDocker

A maintainer is sought for the KDocker application, which is at present a plain Qt 3 application despite its name. The application is currently behind in development due to the developer's lack of time for maintaining it; among the first tasks is porting it to Qt 4. Anyone interested should contact Girish Ramakrishnan at girish at forwardbias dot in.

Scribus v1.3.3.12 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.12 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. Changes:

  • Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
  • Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
  • More translation and documentation updates.
  • Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
  • Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries for various systems including Windows and OS/2) here. Requires Qt 3.

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Syntext Serna v3.6.0 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 3.6.0 of Syntext Serna, a commercial WYSIWYG XML editing application, has been released. Changes:

  • Enhanced DITA usability tools simplifying topic creation and work with references: xref, related link, topicref, and conref.
  • Navigation to the target element of the conref.
  • PDF publishing of DITA documents with Antenna House XSL Formatter.
  • Paginated and Normal document views.
  • Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. A trial download is available, but prices for the personal version start at US$89, with the professional and enterprise versions costing $199 and $395 respectively for single user licences; details here.

Scribus v1.3.3.11 released

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.3.3.11 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishng (DTP) application based on Qt 3, has been released. Changes:

  • This stable release adds the following:
  • Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
  • New Arabic Translation.
  • More translation and documentation updates.
  • Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
  • Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
  • Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
  • Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Screenshots here; for downloads, see the Scribus home page. Requires Qt 3; there is a requirements list but it seems to concentrate on the development version, citing Qt 4 as a requirement.

Scribus v1.3.3.10 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.10 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing (DTP) application, has been released. Changes:

  • Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
  • New Arabic Translation, and complete German translation of documentation
  • More translation and documentation updates.
  • Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
  • Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
  • Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
  • Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Screenshots here; downloads (source with Mac, Windows and various Linux binaries) from Scribus home page. Requires Qt 3.

Gambas 2: second release candidate

From KDE Apps:

A second release candidate of version 2 of Gambas, the Visual Basic-like IDE for Unix which uses KDE, has been released. Changes include:

  • The development environment toolbar icon size now follows the font size.
  • You can send key events to other applications.
  • The Observer class can catch events after they have been processed.
  • GridView cells can display rich text.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only, with links to third-party binaries) here. Requires Qt 3.2 (full requirements list here).

Recoll v1.10.0 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.10.0 of Recoll, a text search tool for Unix based on the Xapian back-end, has been released. This version adds support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text and a GUI config tool for the main configuration file. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various distro binaries) here. Requires Xapian and Qt 3.3 or Qt 4 (the binaries require Qt 3.3 and have static Xapian compiled in).

Syntext Serna v3.5.0 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 3.5.0 of Syntext Serna, a commercial WYSIWYG XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

  • Incorporated DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.
  • PDF publishing of DITA documents with FOP.
  • Enhanced Undo/Redo functionality.
  • Open Recent list preserves document opening mode.
  • Reduced document opening time.
  • XSL stylesheet/Schema modification time check can be disabled.
  • Document modification time check can be disabled.
  • SpellCheck plugin can be located outside of Serna's plugins folder.
  • Paths to XML Catalogs are displayed in the Document Properties Dialog.
  • Splash screen can be disabled.
  • Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. A free trial is available, but prices for the full version start at $89 for a single-platform "personal version" with the professional version starting at $199 per user per platform; feature comparison here.

Gambas v1.9.90 released

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.9.90 of Gambas, a Visual Basic-like programming environment for Unix, has been released. This is expected to be the last before the first release candidate (i.e. it's basically a beta rather than a development version). Changes include:

  • An old bug was fixed in the interpreter that made the debugger display the value of global variables incorrectly.
  • Class names used as functions now are cast operators, unless they have a _call special method defined.
  • An old bug was fixed in the Settings class, that made the interpreter stops without printing any error message.
  • The gb.ldap component was removed: apparently it does not work, and its develor does not maintain it anymore.

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requries Qt 3.2 (for full requirements list, see the downloads). Stable release is 1.0.19 (same download location).

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