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KDE Commit-Digest for 16th January 2011
Submitted by dannya on Sun, 2011/02/13 - 10:33amKDE Commit-Digest for 9th January 2011
Submitted by dannya on Fri, 2011/02/11 - 10:11pmKDE Commit-Digest for 2nd January 2011
Submitted by dannya on Fri, 2011/02/04 - 5:09pmBring Your KDE Application to the Masses with Bretzn
Submitted by leinir on Mon, 2011/01/31 - 9:44pmApart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is the code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for a very long time: How do you get your applications to your users?
This is particularly a question for the many developers of KDE applications that are not part of KDE's six monthly Software Compilation releases. These developers must either provide binaries for a range of distributions themselves or hope that distribution volunteers will do the packaging for them.
KDE Commit-Digest for 26th December 2010
Submitted by dannya on Fri, 2011/01/28 - 1:08pmIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- New features in Marble, including support for imperial units when generating driving instructions, new earthquake and OpenDesktop community online service plugins, a map creation wizard
- Massive work in Skrooge on budgets and better integration with Mac OS X
- Work on dynamic playlists and podcasts in Amarok
- Bugfixing in Marble, Digikam, Krita, KWin, throughout Plasma and its Addons, and KDE-Telepathy
- And much more...
Read on for the rest of the summary and to post comments or read the complete Digest here.
Amarok Insider, Written By Google Code-In Students
Submitted by jriddell on Wed, 2011/01/26 - 11:31amThe latest Amarok Insider features the writing of seven Google Code-In students, writing nine different articles. They range from an interview with developer Bart Cerneels to "How To install a new script in Amarok". Besides the mentors, students were able to get assistance and encouragement in their tasks and research from Amarok developers and users in the #amarok IRC channel on Freenode, which is what makes these articles of such high quality.
KDE Commit-Digest for 19th December 2010
Submitted by dannya on Wed, 2011/01/19 - 5:12pmIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- The intense work throughout KDE-PIM and Akonadi continues
- Nuno Pinheiro continues his massive updating of the Oxygen icon set, this time with 32x32 icons
- Many bugs fixed in Phonon due to the extension of a hardware database
- Simon Edwards introduces the "first big PyKDE4 update for the coming KDE SC 4.6."
- And much more...
Read the rest of the summary and leave your comments or read the complete Digest here.
KDE Commit-Digest for 12th December 2010
Submitted by dannya on Sun, 2011/01/16 - 11:34amIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Bug fixing efforts throughout the KDE development platform and applications after the release of KDE SC 4.6 Beta 2
- New features and many bug fixes in the development branch of the Akonadi-fied KDE-PIM applications, with continued work on porting to Windows CE
- Various features and bug squashing in KOffice since the release of the first release candidate of version 2.3
- Ganesh Paramasivam has been working on implementing the new ODF change-tracking specification. Lots of work also in the koffice-essen branch, which is to become the master (or trunk) branch of Calligra once the project moves to Git.
- After the KOffice / Calligra split, Krita is removed from KOffice, and Kivio is renamed to (Calligra) Flow
- And much more...