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 Krita 2.8.0 was released yesterday, and this version comes with quite a big list of changes.
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Yesterday, the Muses DVD arrived from the printers. Today, all pre-orders got stuffed in jiffy bags and sent on to the post office! Irina Rempt did all the hard work of creating address labels, stuffing the bags, pasting on the stamps, and then we bagged the bags in Official Post Office bags! So, if you had ordered one, it's on its way! 
And if you haven't ordered one yet...  Support Krita development by getting your very own copy! 
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| Hello planet! KDE India team is going to organize a KDE India conference 2014 in DAIICT, Gandhinagar. In KDE India conference there are many awesome talks. In fact every talk is interesting but I find this talks more interesting. And of course my own talk, Introduction to Plasma Next by KDE 
In this talk I will give introduction to Plasma Next, changes in Plasma Next and if there is enough time I will demostrate installation of KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma Next. I am already excited about KDE ...read more...
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| Hot on the heels of the new driver manager, we have the new touchpad management app that we introduced in Kubuntu 14.04. 
The new app replaces the old Synaptiks touchpad management app and has many more buttons and settings that you can twiddle and tweak to get the best experience. The Kubuntu team would like to thank Alexander Mezin for working on this replacement app as part of his GSoC project. The package comes complete with its own plasmoid for easy access to enable and disable touchpads! Quite useful for folks who don’t have a physical hardware button to Enable/Disable touchpads  Users of Kubuntu 14.04 can grab the new touchpad management app from the Ubuntu repos by installing the kde-touchpad package.
 
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| Marcus Hanwell is a physicist by training, but his background in science led him down a different path than most reseachers.
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| Racing close to Kate/KTextEditor on the way to Qt5/KF5 fields , the port of Okteta to Qt5/KF5 now crossed the lane and moved out of “KDE4″ terrain as well, by no longer depending on kde4support.
Of course also with zero compiler warnings during build (with build.kde.org settings) and all existing tests succeeding (to follow the environment-friendly standards set by Kate’s developers ), as can be now also nicely seen on Okteta’s framework builds on build.kde.org (Thanks to the ever-awesome Ben for settings things up). As you might remember, Alexander started the port last summer and has ever since been in the feedback cycle of KF5 and Okteta as well as other KF5 porting work (Note that the Qt5/KF5 port of Okteta has meanwhile moved to a branch named
frameworks, for consistency with the other repos). Shifting priorities I finally managed to join his efforts (jumping on the moving train, eh), just right in time to “steal” him the milestone commit “Remove KDE4Support, no ...read more...
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| New rekonq release (2.4.2) ready just 1 day after another (2.4.1). Ehi, don’t get used to this 
The motivation for this fast update is an idea came out from a bugzilla discussion for an old request: the clear urlbar button. You may know rekonq uses urlbar right corner to notify things like “bookmarks”, “rss”, “ads blocked” and so on. So basically things related to the site you are actually visiting. This completely excludes KLineEdit clear urlbar button implementation. And, in my opinion, excludes also the logic for such a button there.
The idea has been to add it as a normal action, excluded by default from the main toolbar, but easy to add just right clicking there and choosing “configure main toolbar”. So, the usual way. But… what happened in the road from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1?? There is another important report from the bug system we implemented this time: global zoom settings. You can choose a global setting for the default zoom in rekonq and just see all pages with it. Moreover, ...read more...
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| This is a follow-up to Aaron’s blog Frameworks 5: Timing is everything, put into the perspective of Kate and the KTextEditor interfaces. In short, Aaron suggests application developers the following: When Frameworks 5 has a firm release schedule, then it makes sense to start coordinating application releases targets with that and syncing up development cycles.
I agree with this entirely, provided it’s really about applications. In the context of Kate, this is not the case, since the term ‘Kate’ usually also refers to the ‘KTextEditor’ interfaces along with its implementation ‘Kate Part’. In essence, the KTextEditor interfaces together with Kate Part provide a text editor in a library that can be used by applications, or more to the point, KTextEditor+Kate Part build a framework. In fact, about a week ago, the KTextEditor interfaces and Kate Part were split out of the kate.git repository. So from now on, kate.git contains the Kate and KWrite applications. The ktexteditor.git module contains the KTextEditor interfaces and Kate Part. ktexteditor.git is is a tier3 framework and ...read more...
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| Hm... I've been weeding out my linguistics library to donate everything that has to do with Indo-European, Greek or Celtic to Menna, and everything that has to do with the history of the English to Rebecca. There's still about a forty feet of bookshelves left. And then I found my old Classical Chinese readers and Pulleyblank's. Now I've forgotten most of the characters, and I learned those by writing them down on index cards and manually shuffling them (I threw those out ten years ago). Back then, you'd need special ISA board plugged into your PC to show Chinese characters on the monitor... But in this day and age, something better should be available. So... Is there a open source, preferably KDE, application that assists learning hanzi, preferably integrated with a tablet for dealing with writing characters in strokes? I know of commercial websites that do that, some open source java applications that are not that nice to use -- and a KDE app for learning Japanese characters and phrases, which are just too different to be useful. Bonus points ...read more...
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| KDE Community writes "The KDE Community is proud to announce a Tech Preview of KDE Frameworks 5 .
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| With KDE Applications 4.12 about to be released, it's time to look at the changes which went in Gwenview during this cycle. Unfortunately, I am afraid the answer is : not much. I just went through the revision log and despite the usual bug fixes, I could only find two relatively significant changes. Nicer meta information sidebar I have never been happy with the way the sidebar displayed meta information about the image. I finally took some time to work on it. Here is a before / after: 
As you can see, I went for a stacked design with wrapping text. It makes better use of the space, providing more room for the content. Nicer meta information window Related to the meta information sidebar, I worked a bit on the window which opens when you click the "More..." link in the meta information sidebar. The properties listed in the window were not sorted, making it difficult to find what one is looking for. They are now sorted ...read more...
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| Qt 5.2 has just been released! Coming only five months after 5.1, the new release brings in a huge number of new features, as well as many bug fixes. For the first time ever, Qt is officially supported on two major mobile platforms: Android and iOS. KDAB contributed over 300 commits to Qt 5.2, both in terms of new features and bug fixes, making it the second largest company contributing to Qt (after Digia itself). The commit stream has been constant, as you can see in this graph showing the last 16 weeks:  Contributions to Qt by employer (excluding Digia), from here In this blog post I’ll show some of the notable features developed by KDAB engineers that you are going to find in Qt 5.2. Official Android support For more information about what you will find in Qt 5.2, check out the ...read more...
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| Since I took over Dolphin’s maintainership almost a year and a half ago, we have not only fixed lots of bugs and improved many details which make Dolphin more pleasant to use, but also made quite a few changes under the hood to make Dolphin faster and less memory-hungry. The other day, I compiled a few different Dolphin versions and ran some benchmarks to see how much has changed during the past 18 months. The most straightforward way to get an idea of an application’s performance is to see how it can handle a large amount of data, so I created 100,000 empty files in a new directory using touch a{1..100000}.txt I then built the tags v4.9.0, v.4.10.0, v.4.11.0, and the KDE/4.12 branch (to be precise, commit f863968b7) of the kde-baseapps repository in release mode, and checked how long it takes to open the directory with my rather old computer (Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CPU) in all view modes: Icons, Compact, and Details. For all my tests, I used the same recent KDE/4.12 checkout of kdelibs (commit ...read more...
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| Juergen Bocklage-Ryannel and myself are writing a book! As we’ve reached the point where we want to share our work with the workd, we are happy to open the doors to the book Qt 5 Cadaques – A Book about Qt 5! It all started a couple of years back, when two developers saw a need: there where no books approaching Qt from the QML side. We decided to solve the problem by writing a book. During these years, lots has happened in the land of Qt. The ecosystem around the Qt Project has stabilized after the whole Microsoft-Nokia thing. Jolla has released a phone with Qt 5, as has Blackberry. Ubuntu Phone will be based on Qt 5. The Raspberry Pi has taken on the whole world with a great hardware that runs great with Qt 5. It is now possible to target both Android and iOS using Qt 5. Looking at these changes, one can see that Qt really has grown towards mobile. Towards device user interfaces. User interfaces where the look and feel has ...read more...
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| November has been very hectic for most, let's have a look at what we've achieved
Network management (plasma-nm | libnm-qt | libmm-qt) : jgrulich, ltinkl
Fixed bugs:
kdebz#326274 - Newly created shared wireless network cannot be seen if disconnected once
kdebz#327160 - No warning when trying to connect to VPN withouth plasma-nm-vpnc installed
kdebz#326991 - Connection editor bug reporting refers to non-existing component
kdebz#327386 - Can't enable AP mode if there are other saved wireless networks
kdebz#327758 - Report bug freature does not work
kdebz#327759 - Edit connections dialog looks bad on high DPI screens
kdebz#328138 - Plasma widget network manager uses wrong (bold) font
Display management (sddm, kdm) : mbriza
Change tracking bug: rhbz#998542
- First, on November 26th on the KDE SIG meeting we decided to push the feature forward to the next Fedora release because ...read more...
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| New submitter KDE Community writes that the KDE project has released KDevelop 4.6.0 as the latest version of the free and open source integrated development environment.
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| When building Phonon 5 demo applications I always get a feeling of a deja vu. Not sure why…  (codeine now also available in Neon5 as project-neon5-phonon5-examples)
 
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| For a long time we have been missing diagrams for KDE Frameworks, to make it easier to grasp the dependencies of the various frameworks. Since I like working with images I decided to tackle on this. I did some research and found out CMake comes with a --graphviz option to generate .dot files, which can then be fed to the dot tool from Graphviz to generate pngs, svgs or other formats. Armed with this, I put together two scripts : -
kf5dot-prepare runs cmake --graphviz on all frameworks, generating .dot files,
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kf5dot-generate then massage the .dot files, aggregate them and generate new .dot files which can then be piped to dot for final rendering.
My initial goal was to generate one diagram showing all the frameworks, but this is way too messy, so I ended up extending kf5dot-generate to be more versatile. Right now the output can be customized to generate a diagram of all the dependencies of one framework, to include or not Qt libraries, and to show or hide targets ...read more...
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| Project Neon5 - the most awesome daily builds of KDE Frameworks 5 – is moving the distribution targets forward one release, making Kubuntu 13.10 and upcoming 14.04 the supported versions. Support for Kubuntu 13.04 will be discontinued shortly. If you want to continue following the development of KDE Frameworks 5 we highly recommend upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10. Alternatively you can also use our all-new Live ISO images.
 
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| I am very happy to share the news that after huge success in 2011, conf.kde.in is going to happen again from 21st - 23rd February, 2014. This year, the conference will be in the splendid campus of DA-IICT which was also venue for KDE-meetup, 2013.
 I have submitted a talk on my favourite KDE project which I work on - Plasma Media Center. It is exciting to share what the project is, and welcome new contributors. I am sure that there are many more people who would be interested in giving talks and share their stories about KDE projects and community. If you are one of them, submit your awesome talk before the CFP deadline which is 16th December, ...read more...
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| I don’t know if you are aware of that, but Docker 0.7.0 has been released a couple of days ago. You can read the full announcement here, but let me talk about the biggest change introduced by this release: storage drivers! Docker has always used AUFS, a ”unionfs-like” file system, to power its containers. Unfortunately AUFS is neither part of the official kernel nor of the openSUSE/SLE one. In the past I had to build a custom patched kernel to run Docker on openSUSE. That proved to be a real pain both for me and for the end users. Now with storage drivers Docker can still use AUFS, but can also opt for something different. In our case Docker is going to use thin provisioning, a consolidated technology which is part of the mainstream kernel since quite some time. Moreover Docker’s community is working on experimental drivers for BTRFS, ZFS, Gluster and Ceph. What changes now for openSUSE? Running Docker is incredibly simple now: just use the ...read more...
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| KDE's office and productivity suite Calligra has made a new bugfix release. Packages for the release of the Calligra Suite 2.7.5 are available for Kubuntu 13.10 and 12.04 LTS. You can get it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. They are also in our development release. Bugs in the packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE.
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| It’s been a long, long while since I don’t blog here, and most of my old blogposts were about Rocs, well.. not anyomore. I joined the Subsurface team about six months ago. It was a program written in Gtk mostly by Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel, and they were opened to switch to Qt, why… why shouldn’t we jump ahead and help the transition to be smooth as it could? So Thiago Macieira and Myself jumped in to help, And it’s been a lot of learning from all sides. It’s been quite a while – but we have been hard at work. We have migrated Subsurface from Gtk to Qt over the past 6 months. And given the magnitude of this change, we decided to go with a public beta (or two, or three, depending on how things go) before releasing Subsurface 4. New in version 3.9.1 (compared to Subsurface 3.1): I don’t even know where to begin. This is a complete rewrite of the UI. The basic concepts are the same, most of the basic features ...read more...
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| The Calligra team has released version 2.7.5, the fourth of the bugfix releases of the Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active in the 2.7 series. This release contains a few important bug fixes to 2.7.4 and we recommend everybody to update. Bugfixes in This Release Here is an overview of the most important fixes. There are several others that are not mentioned here. Common - Fix bug 326158: the text color in the modebox tab icons were not drawn accoring to style.
- Make spellchinking work with more dictionaries.
- Fix bug 290999: make sure we erase an old selection in another textshape whenever we make a new selection.
- Fix crash 326243 and 325547.
- Fix a crash while saving embedded documents like charts.
Kexi - Fix bug 327995: Make changes to query design reflected in reports after saving
- Fix bug 327993: Make records in reports sorted according to the sorting of the query
- If –driver is missing but connection options specified, display a note and exit
- Fix bug 319432: Fixed crash when using command line ...read more...
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| When I announced the Improv ARM computer on Monday, I did it on my blog which is also syndicated to Planet KDE. That's because there is a very significant link between Improv and KDE.
People are shifting their computing time from traditional large laptops and workstation desktop systems across a breadth of devices. Not only are people using tablets and phones more, they are also using online services more and more.
For that least several years this trend has weighed on my mind in relation to desktop oriented Free software and, in particular, KDE software. How can we ensure KDE software can be where people are using computers today and tomorrow? I'll call this the Big Question.
The answer is not an easy one, in that it's actually a set of answers and it implies work for all of us. Some project teams within KDE, such as Plasma, Calligra, Marble and Kontact (among others) have been starting on addressing the Big Question. We've been creating software that can ...read more...
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| Followed by the Munich city Kubuntu rollout viewing, amazing how they have saved so much money but they did it for Freedom.
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| When layouts in a UI are not behaving as expected or performance is poor, it can be helpful to have a mental model of the layout process in order to know where to start debugging. For web browsers there are some good resources which provide a description of the process at different levels. The layout documentation for Qt describes the various layout facilities that are available but I haven't found a detailed description of the flow, so this is my attempt to explain what happens when a layout is triggered that ultimately ends up with the widgets being resized and repositioned appropriately.
- A widget's contents are modified in some way that require a layout update. Such changes can include:
- Changes to the content of the widget (eg. the text in a label, content margins being altered)
- Changes to the sizePolicy() of the widget
- Changes to the layout() of the widget, such as new child widgets being added or removed
- The widget calls QWidget::updateGeometry() which then performs several steps to trigger a layout:
- It invalidates any cached size information for the QWidgetItem ...read more...
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| KaOS 2013.11 x86_64 [Rolling Release] http://kaosx.us/download/ The November version comes with: - an installer - non-free nvidia driver - all language packs - KDE 4.11.3 - linux kernel 3.11.7 ... Download URL: http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/kaosx/ISO/KaOS-2013.11-x86_64.iso Message Digests, using the MD5Deep suite MD5Sum [using md5deep ... (more)
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