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There was this blog entry about the state of packaging for the Mac. Containing "Then you think to yourself, if only those nice boys and girls in KDE-land had a native solution for installing their software," Read More

As you might have noticed, KDE 4.1.3 has been released, codename "Change" (in line with other C- codenames recently, as a kind of a joke on all those people who fail to see that still writing comments with overuse of K after 10 years of KDE's existence can only be a sign of brain damage). Not many changes in KWin there though, the changelog part for KWin has just one change worth mentioning. But that is not the case for users of the openSUSE KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop packages, which are the packages that will be also used for openSUSE 11.1. This is because they include a special KWin branch, which contains both backports of various new features from other KWin developers from SVN trunk (Lucas' blog keeps track of many of those) that cannot be backported to the 4.1 branch by KDE rules but should be stable and safe enough, and new features developed specially for the needs of openSUSE11.1/SLED11. Read More

openSUSE 11.1 will include (besides the to be expected plasmoids from kdebase4-workspace and kde4-plasma-addons) three more plasmoids to be closer to KDE 3.5 functionality: Quick Access, Quick Launcher and Keyboard Status Applet: And many more plasmoids are available from the KDE:KDE4:Community openSUSE Build Service repository thanks to the openSUSE KDE Team. :-)

KDE 4.2 is approaching its first Beta release and it has been a while so here is a new KDE Four Live release with KDE 4.1.72 snapshot SUSE packages from the KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop repository. Read More

                             

Szymon Stefanek's KMail GSoC project was merged into trunk today. Stunning. You've got to try it. KMail has been re-launched! r881321 To quote the commit message: "... New features include grouping, multiline items and the ability to customize just about everything of the look of the message list. Also, we have a tabbed interface for opening more than one folder at once now..." Read More

The KDE BugSquash team is holding another testing and bug triaging day tomorrow, Sunday 9th of November, to help maintain and improve the quality of KDE PIM applications. Especially versatile applications like KMail and KOrganizer can potentially be tested numerous times by its developers without finding any issues because it requires a certain workflow or data set to trigger them. Therefore help by as many volunteers as possible is hugely improving the situation, because every person will have different goals, preferences on how to do things (e.g. mouse v.s. keyboard), data sources, amount of data, etc. Read More

The hard-working Danny Allen put out a new Commit Digest, and the resulting discussion on the Dot raised a few comments about Microsoft Exchange support in kdepim. The short version is that it isn't going to make it for KDE 4.2. Maybe 4.3. Maybe not for 4.3 either. Sorry. Read More

Ubuntu Open Week talks are happening all week on IRC. Today includes Kubuntu man Jonathan Thomas on "reinventing QA the resource-limited way" at 18:00UTC.

Here we are on the steps at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. From left to right: Igor Trindade Oliveira, Bertjan Broeksema, Stephen Kelly, Ingo Klöcker, Kevin Krammer, Thomas McGuire, Volker Krause, Will Stephenson and Tom Albers. We had a very intense and productive couple of days filled with presentations, knowledge sharing and of course dawn till dusk hacking. As usual Volker, as the Akonadi visionary and lead, was mobbed by the rest of us with questions, which he answered with his trademark infinite patience and good explanations. Read More