On January 27, a year after the release of the first KDE 4 version, KDE 4.2 “The Answer” will be released. This release will feature stabalisation and feature completement and is likely to be taken up by a wide audience of users. To celebrate the important event in KDE’s history with our fans all [...]

As always, KDE will have a presence at next year’s
FOSDEM in Belgium on 7-8 February 2008.
This is earlier in the month than usual. We are looking for people to give talks in the KDE or cross-desktop devroom. FOSDEM is the European meeting of free software developers, with over 4000
visitors, 200 lectures and lots [...]

Today is the day of beta releases: Qt Software has released betas of Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator — two Qt releases just in time for the holidays!
The greater news concerns Qt Creator this time: the complete source code is publicly available under the GPL from now on. Everybody interested in the development of the [...]

Two days later than initially scheduled due to yours truly preparing for coming year’s desktop summit on Gran Canaria, KDE’s release team has made availabe KDE 4.1.85, a.k.a. KDE 4.2-Beta2 to testers and reviewers, codenamed “Canaria”. KDE 4.1.85 is not suitable for production use but meant to invite feedback and bugreports from the community. The [...]

The Beta1 of KDE 4.2 Desktop Environment has been released at 26.11.2008. So it’s been there for a while - let’s take a look at the revision 893046.
Plasma
KDE 4.2 is now officially frozen, which means that no new features are allowed to be added. Before the freeze however, Plasma got one new feature: while zooming [...]

Moving towards the 2.0 release with monthly increments of
improvement-goodness, the KOffice team has once more honoured
its promise to bring out beta releases of KOffice until the
time is right for a release-candidate release. So, before the news of the previous
beta has had a chance to scroll off the Dot news page,
we bring you this beta with [...]

The Amarok team is proud to announce the release of Amarok 2.0!
After 2 years of development Amarok 2 has become reality.
Please read the release notes at http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.0
and join us in Amarok’ing in a Free World!
Spread the word!
Cheers
Lydia and the Amarok team
–
Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
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On Saturday 29th of November 2008 LinuxDay was held for the 10th time already in Dornbirn, Austria. Organised by the LUG Vorarlberg in cooperation with HTL Dornbirn, the well-received event is a platform for open source projects to answer questions and show off their latest and greatest versions to a broad public, but also for [...]

At the start of the month the organisation committee for Camp KDE asked for talk proposals for our conference in the Caribbean. We have reviewed the excellent submissions and come to an agreement on selected presentations. Read on for the talks.
We wish to thank all those who entered submissions. In no particular order, the following [...]

The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the
GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran
Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran
Canaria. The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to
intensify momentum [...]

Today, the KDE team invites interested testers and reviewers to give KDE 4.2.0-Beta1 a go. The release announcement lists some significant improvements. The purpose of this release is to get feedback from the community, preferably in the form of bugreports on the new bugs.kde.org bugtracker.
Beta1 offers critical features like the Eyes applet (an XEyes clone), [...]

Today the Amarok project releases Narwhal, the release candidate of the upcoming Amarok 2.0.
The changes since Beta 3 focus mostly on fixing bugs, as we are in a fairly hard feature-freeze to give us time to polish the final product. However, this didn’t stop us from adding a few nice new things:
[...]

Bugsquad will be revisiting PIM bugs next Sunday, concentrating on KMail and KOrganizer.
Recently the number of people hanging out and doing bugs in our IRC channel regulary has increased considerably. As there is almost always someone hanging around (and because some people specifically requested it), we decided we could extend our events. So, if you [...]

The KOffice Team has announced the release of KOffice version 2.0 Beta 3, the third beta version of the upcoming version 2.0. The goal for the third beta is to show progress made since beta 2, as well as to gather feedback from both users and developers on the new UI and underlying infrastructure. [...]

KDE used to be a very nice desktop environment for Linux, I remember using it over the years in CentOS, Fedora Core, Kubuntu, Mandriva, and PCLinuxOS. I used KDE 3.5.x in Kubuntu and thought it was the best desktop environment available for the Linux operating system. But lately things have gone downhill.
I’ll start with Dolphin. [...]

Again it is that time of the year the Spain KDE community gathers in the Akademy-es event.
This year the event will be held in A Coruña from 21st to 23rd of November. The talks cover quite a wide range of topics, going from Python KDE development to translation workshops without forgetting more general talks about [...]

Time is up, and we are home again. KDAB has once again proved to be a great host, and so has the city Berlin. We have had a great and productive weekend. Read on to learn more details about the KOffice 2008 meeting in Berlin.
On Friday night, most of the KOffice developers went out for [...]

Some 20 KOffice developers have gathered at the KDAB offices to discuss and prepare the upcoming release of KOffice 2.0. Read on to learn about what the meeting is for and what is on the agenda to be sorted before the big release.
Saturday morning, 9 o’clock. Some 20 people have gathered at the gate before [...]

Issue 13 of Amarok Insider, the official Amarok newsletter is out. It discusses the evolution of Amarok’s interface, reveals the release plans, covers some of the biggest features of the upcoming version 2.0, and much more. Download links for Windows and OS X versions of the Amarok 2.0 beta are included.

KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.1.3 Codenamed “Change”
KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.1 Free
Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and
Translation Updates
November 5, 2008. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability
of “Change”, (a.k.a KDE 4.1.3), another bugfix and maintenance update for the
latest generation of the most advanced and powerful [...]