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…

New KDE Telepathy brings Better Text Editing and Improved Notifications

Dot Categories: ApplicationsGood news, everyone! The KDE Telepathy team has just released version 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy (KTp), KDE’s instant messaging suite. This version brings a number of new features as well as a large amount of bug fixes.

KDE Ships April Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Devlopment Platform

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsKDE has released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. 4.10.2 updates bring many bugfixes and tr…

KDE Commit-Digest for 10th February 2013

Dot Categories: DeveloperKDE Telepathy fixes having a notification “a new contact has added you” even when you are offline, adds .desktop-based tubes channel approver
Nepomuk changed DBus interface to the FileIndexer for status messages
Improvements in…

Digia to sponsor Akademy and Qt Contributors Summit

Dot Categories: Community and EventsDigia, the largest Qt contributor, is the 2013 Platinum Sponsor for the co-hosted Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit in Bilbao. Digia is responsible for all Qt activities including product development and commercial l…

Plasma Media Center – Release One

Dot Categories: ApplicationsWe are proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts.

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report for Q4 2012

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsThe KDE e.V. report for the fourth quarter of 2012 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported during that period, including reports of various sprints, conferences and projects.

KDE Meetup 2013 – India

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On the 23rd of February, a crowd of about 330 enthusiastic people gathered to be a part of the first major open source event in the State of Gujarat, India. Some people traveled hundreds of kilometers to attend, coming from places such as Delhi, Durgapur (more than 1800 km), Nainital, Bardoli and Mumbai. Students from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in Gandhinagar organized the event—KDE Meetup 2013.

Plasmate 1.0: A Plasma Workspaces SDK

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsThe Plasma Workspaces team is excited to announce the first stable release of Plasmate: an add-ons SDK that focuses on ease of use.

KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd February 2013

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KDE Commit-Digest for 27th January 2013

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Akademy and Qt Contributors Summit Join Forces

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In July 2013, Akademy — the KDE community summit — will host the Qt Contributors Summit (QtCS) in Bilbao, Spain. QtCS is THE gathering of the Qt Project contributor community. It will take place July 15th and 16th in the middle of the KDE Akademy week (13-19 July). By co-hosting, KDE and the Qt Project will increase their existing collaboration even further. Holding their annual conferences at the same time and the same place will foster interaction, knowledge transfer and technical progress.

KDE Meetup 2013 in India

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE Meetup will be the largest KDE event in India since conf.kde.in in 2011. It will be held February 23rd and 24th at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in Gandhinag…

How To Enable The New KDE 4.10 Appmenu (Title Bar Button Or Top Screen Menubar)

With the latest 4.10 version, KDE can now use an appmenu instead of the classic menu, and two styles are available: a menu bar at the top of the screen that’s hidden by default and revealed on mouse over or a menu button on the window decoration:Appmenu as a titlebar buttonTop screen menubarThe appmenu works [...]

Akademy 2013 Call for Presentations and Registration

Dot Categories: Community and EventsThe Call for Presentations for Akademy 2013 is now open. Akademy is the KDE community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, don’t miss your chance to present your work and ideas at the confe…

Install KDE 4.10 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 14/13

Install KDE 4.10 in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13 (New Release) KDE is an international team co-operating on development and distribution of Free, Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing. Our community has developed a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment. We have a strong focus on finding [...]

Upgrade To KDE SC 4.10 In Kubuntu 12.10 Or 12.04

KDE SC 4.10 has been released today with many improvements and additions, including a new QML-based screen locker, additional KWin effects and scripts thanks to GHNS (Get Hot New Stuff) integration, a new print manager, a new Air theme and wallpaper and many improvements to Kate, Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Gwenview, Kontact, re-written typing tutor and [...]

4.10 Release of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsThe KDE Community is proud to announce the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the pre…

Calligra 2.6: Features, Usability, Bugfixes

Dot Categories: ApplicationsThe Calligra team has announced the release of version 2.6 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. This version provides new features, substantial usability polishing, and bugfixes. Calligra is…

KDE Commit-Digest for 20th January 2013

In this week’s KDE Commit-Digest: