KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform May 4, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in [...]

The Akademy 2012 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2012 Sessions. Given the broad nature of KDE, the proposals submitted contained a wealth of interesting and valuable topics. From those, 28 proposals were selected that we felt would address the most relevant topics and be deep enough in the areas of most interest [...]

The Calligra team has announcedthe first release ever of the Calligra suite. This marks the end of a long development period lasting almost one and a half year. It is the first release in a long series which is planned to make improved applications every 4 months. Take the tour to discover some of the [...]

Dr. Will Schroeder is one of the keynote speakers for Akademy 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia. Will is the CEO of Kitware Inc., a proven leader in the creation and support of open-source software. I asked him to share his background and insights from his experiences with Free and Open Source Software. People attending Akademy 2012 [...]

KDE Ships April Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform April 4, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in [...]

KDE Ships March Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform March 7, 2011. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.1 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in [...]

The 2011 Members’ Choice Awards from LinuxQuestions.org has honored the KDE Community with “Best Desktop Environment of the Year”. In addition, Tech Radar has declared that KDE Workspaces are the best desktop environment. KDE innovation, performance and stability have particular appeal for users. Tech Radar reports that KDE Workspaces have “the best mix of cutting [...]

The KDE Project has announced that the deadline for the Akademy 2012 conference Call for Papers (CFP) will be Thursday, 15 March. This year’s event will take place from 30 June to 6 July 2012 at the Estonian IT College in Tallinn, Estonia. Suggested presentation topics include maturity and innovation, embracing the Qt Project and [...]

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Check out the highlights below and read the full announcement. Dolphin gets a new display engine (click for larger) Adaptive Power [...]

We rain positivity onto the world’s most configurable desktop and pick out some of its best functions and applications… 01. Keep it configurable The best thing about KDE is that you can change it. This has been its most consistent feature since version 2, and the latest releases are just as strong as their predecessors. [...]

Today KDE released the second release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team’s focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release a rock-solid 4.8 [...]

Today KDE released the first release candidate for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team’s focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Compared to Beta2, RC1 contains hundreds of fixes. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release [...]

Announcing Amarok 2.5, our most advanced release ever and the first one to be officially supported on Windows. More info and download links at http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.5 The Amarok Team

Plasma Active Two Boosts Performance, New Features Mobile devices that adapt to who you are, reflecting what you are doing when you are doing it. This concept is at the heart of the Plasma Active user experience. Plasma Active One was released in October 2011, providing early adopters the first opportunity to experience Activities on [...]

Today, KDE makes available two new releases of its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. 4.7.4 provides bugfix updates, new translations and performance improvments on top of the stable 4.7 series, while 4.8 Beta2 gives a glimpse at what is coming in 4.8, to be released next month. As 4.7.4 is limited to low-risk fixes, it [...]

Over the weekend of 19 and 20 November, KDE contributors met in Berlin for the KDE e.V. Sprint—the first ever. KDE e.V. is the non-profit organization that represents KDE in legal and financial matters and provides funding to assist KDE development and promotion. We aimed to work on some key areas to form a strong [...]

In the weekend of November 11, more than twenty Calligra developers braved the fierce weather of Helsinki to meet up again! Well, the weather wasn’t that fierce actually, but it could have been! We met up in the office tower that houses Nokia’s research department during the weekdays for two days of hacking, presentations and [...]

Hi all, we are pleased to announce the release of Amarok 2.5 beta 1: http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.5/beta/1 Please test extensively[1] and help us making the next Amarok version rock A testing list can be found here: [1] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/TestingRegards, Myriam. – Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: [...]