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OK, let me admit, it has been a while since I put serious amount of work into KPhotoAlbum. Life has come in the way you see :-) However, it was life (this time my daughter now almost 3 years old) that forced me back in the game. I still don't trust her with my laptop, so a tablet version of KPhotoAlbum was needed with which she could watch all our images. Read More

Today I released the Plasma Next Beta. It's the first major user of KDE Frameworks 5 and tidies up the internal and the externals of the Plasma desktop. At the Kubuntu meeting yesterday we decided not to ship Plasma Next by default in October but to make a secondary ISO for those who want to test it out while putting the Plasma 1 version into maintenance mode - updating the version and fixing the major bugs and not much more. Read More

A new cycle and lots of interesting possibilities! Will KF5 and Plasma 5 be supreme? All welcome at the Kubuntu kickoff meeting this european evening and american afternoon at 19:00UTC. Install mumble, get a headset with headphones and microphone, adjust volumes to be sane and join us on mumble server kyofel.dyndns.org Chat in #kde-devel Read More

There's only 1 tool to deal with an unsupported Windows XP...

Trust in Me You've been waiting for it, we've been working hard on it.. it's the new Long Term Support release of Kubuntu! This means we've been working hard on removing bugs, polishing features and not adding new ones. This will probably be the last release before KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma Next gets introduced so for those who like to live life on the cautious side you'll be pleased to know the Long Term Support label means we'll have important bug fixes and security fixes for the next 5 years. It'll also get backports of important KDE software for the next couple of years. Read More

Candidate images for Kubuntu 14.04LTS are up and need you to test them. Go to the ISO tracking site to download and mark your testing status. Check out the milestoned bugs for issues we are aware of and do report any we are not.

Lydia brought a load of friends over from Germany to visit the sights of Stirling. Paul threw a party for her friends. I canoed up the Firth of Forth to visit and drank lashings of ginger beer. Read More

This week, as well as being a centrefold model in a tabloid rag, another of my life ambitions came true when I had the glory of being the release dude. Plasma 2014.6 is the first version of Plasma using KDE Frameworks 5 and the developers are hard at work coding on it. The release schedule required an Alpha so I was tasked with working out how to release some tars. Read More

With the KDE SC 4.13 release soon, a few new features made it into Konsole. There have been quite a few requests dealing with the tabs over the years. Now, Konsole can load a stylesheet .css file that will be applied the the tabbar. This can control the size, colors, and text among a few items. There's a section in the Handbook which gives a few examples. Configure Konsole->TabBar Profiles can now store the desired column and row sizes. This is for new windows only. Configure Current Profile->General Configure Konsole->General Please provide any feedback on these or any other issues with recent Konsole versions.

Scarlett has been working hard on packaging KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha 2 and the build status page shows a sea of green (the only yellow is when a framework is asking for a package which doesn't exist yet). Just in time for Plasma Next to get its Alpha release this week coming :) Grab the KF5 packages from the experimental PPA for Kubuntu Trusty.