KDE Commit-Digest for 5th May 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 28th April 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 21st April 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 14th April 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 7th April 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 31st March 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 24th March 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 17th March 2013

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See What`s New In Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

Kubuntu 13.04, the KDE-based Ubuntu flavor, has been released yesterday. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new.Kubuntu 13.04 videoA usual, we’ll start with a video – below you can watch a quick Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) overview:(direct video link; for more videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel)KDE Plasma and Applications – 4.10Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring [...]

Fast, Mobile, Accessible-Akademy 2013 Sessions

Dot Categories: Community and EventsThe Akademy 2013 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2013 Presentation Schedule. Reflecting the scope of KDE, the schedule includes a wealth of interesting, timely and valuable topics. From the proposal…

Krita Support Services Now Available

Dot Categories: Graphics and ArtKO GmbH announces extensive support services for Krita, the award-winning graphics application. Krita is an advanced paint application with a complete set of professional paint tools that can handle extremely large image…

Plasma Pow-wow Produces Detailed Plans for Workspace Convergence

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Code review during the Plasma sprint

Last week, members of the Plasma team met in Nürnberg, Germany to discuss open questions on the road to Plasma Workspaces 2. The meeting was kindly hosted by SUSE and supported by the KDE e.V.. For the Plasma team, the meeting came at a perfect point in time: porting of Plasma to a new graphics has commenced, is in fact well under way, and has raised some questions that are best discussed in a high-bandwidth setting in person.

Graphics Stack Options

The developers laid out the plans for an eventual release of Plasma Workspaces 2, based on KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt5. Wayland is also part of this plan. Starting with Plasma Worskpaces 2, Wayland will join X11 as a supported windowing environment, and all new development is taking this into consideration. Wayland is a replacement for most of the functionality which is today offered by Xorg. Wayland simplifies the graphics stack significantly with the goal of making every frame shown on screen perfect, something that is hard to achieve reliably with X11. Wayland’s leaner graphics stack and improved security model also make it more appropriate for use on modern devices. As such, it is widely seen as the successor to X11 in the Free software ecosystem. Most of the gruntwork needed for this transition is already offered in Qt, however, there are still quite some X11-dependent code pathes in the KDE Frameworks, especially in KWin and the Oxygen widget style. While KWin is making excellent progress towards being able to be used as Wayland compositor, the future of the Oxygen widget style is still an unsolved problem.

KDE Commit-Digest for 10th March 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd March 2013

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Report from the freedesktop summit

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During the week of 8 April 2013, developers from the KDE, GNOME, Unity and Razor-qt projects met at the SUSE offices in Nürnberg to improve collaboration between the projects by discussing specifications. A wide range of topics was covered.

KDE Commit-Digest for 24th February 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 17th February 2013

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KDE Outreach Program for Women

Dot Categories: Community and EventsWe are pleased to announce that KDE will take part in the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) this year. OPW started in 2006 with an intention to reach talented women who are passionate about technology, but who may be …

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2013

We’re delighted to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC), for the ninth consecutive year. GSoC has been valuable in bringing new developers into the KDE Community and other free and open so…

KDE PIM Sprint Berlin 2013 – With Cuter Pictures

Dot Categories: Community and EventsThe Pimsters (names here)
A few weeks ago, the KDE PIM team had a sprint in Berlin, and this is the report of it.
Once most people had arrived at the KDAB offices in Berlin, the KDE PIM sprint started around 4 in the…