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Arch Linux – Kde Plasma 5.3 stable is finally available for installation
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 4th of May 2015 07:55:33 AM Filed under

Great news for Arch Linux users! From a few minutes, Kde Plasma 5.3 stable packages are officially available on Arch Linux repositories.
In fact, after running the pacman -Syu command I finally noticed, listed on my terminal, the new packages of Plasma 5.3.0 with all the relative dependencies.
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Leftovers: KDE Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of May 2015 04:06:08 PM Filed under
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Wayland & Other Tasks Being Worked On For KDE Plasma 5.4
Now that KDE Plasma 5.3 was released this week, KDE developers are starting to plan out and work on the new material intended for KDE Plasma 5.4.
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Interview with Wolthera
My name is Wolthera, I am 25, studied Game Design and currently studying Humanities, because I want to become a better game designer, and I hope to make games in the future as a job. I also draw comics, though nothing has been published yet.
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After I played a lot with MyPaint, I heard from people that Krita 2.4 was the shit. When I went to the website at the time (which is the one before the one before the current) it just looked alien and strange, and worse: there was no Windows version, so I couldn’t even try it out. So I spent a few more years having fun with MyPaint alone, but eventually I got tired of its brush engine and wanted to try something more rough. When I checked Krita again, it had two things: a new, considerably more coherent website (the one before this one) and a Windows build. Around that time it was still super unstable and it didn’t work with my tablet. But MyPaint also had tablet problems, so I had no qualms about dual booting to Linux and trying it out there.
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GSoC with KDE
So, my project is titled: Better Tooling for Baloo. Let me begin by explaining what Baloo is. According to its wiki page it is "Baloo is a metadata and search framework by KDE." What exactly does it mean? Baloo is responsible for providing full text search capabilities to KDE applications. It doesn't end there it also provides searching on basis of metadata of various types of files. To acomplish this it indexes file contents and metadata using various plugins ,called extractors, to handle different types of files. It then exposes the data it has indexed with the help of various API's. So thats a very high level view of how it works. Now, my project, as the title states will provide better tools for Baloo. These tools will mainly be:
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Why you might not want to upgrade to Kubuntu 15.04 yet; stick with version 14.10 (Problems and solutions)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of May 2015 11:37:41 PM Filed under


Kubuntu 15.04 has recently been released with quite a bit of fanfare. It introduces the visually apealing Plasma 5 along with many application upgrades.
While I am a huge fan of Kubuntu, KDE, and the slick look of Plasma 5, I will give a few reasons while you might want to wait just a little longer before you decide to upgrade.
Before I begin, I just want to reiterate how much I love Kubuntu and KDE. I have been using Kubuntu for 10 years now. Sadly, this will be the first time in that span that I wait an extra 6 months before I upgrade. After using Kubuntu 15.04 for the week, last night I decided to redo my desktop and go back to version 14.10 (I will continue to use 15.04 on my laptop thought).
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Kubuntu 15.10 Will Include the KDE Plasma 5.4 Desktop Environment
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 1st of May 2015 01:21:21 AM Filed under

Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer and maintainer of the Kubuntu Linux operating system and also a KDE developer, announced today that the work on the next major release of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment has started.
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Plasma 5.4 Plans and Plasma 5.3 for Fedora
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 09:36:38 PM Filed under
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Plasma 5.4 Kicked Off
Plasma 5.4 is scheduled for August, it’ll be a great addition to Kubuntu 15.10.
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Plasma 5.3 for Fedora
Plasma 5.3, new feature release of KDE workspace, has been released on Tuesday and you can get it now on Fedora.
Plasma 5.3 brings new features, improvements and almost 400 bug fixes for basically all of its components ranging from power management to various applets.
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KDE 5_15.04 for Slackware-current: back to work
An update to my KDE 5 packages was overdue. Ever since the “big upgrade” in Slackware-current a week ago on 21 April 2015, there have been some stability issues in the Plasma 5 desktop. The instability was caused by the version bumps of various libraries that the KDE software is depending on – you can not dynamically link to a software library that’s no longer there because it has been replaced with a library bearing a new version number. I felt I had to recompile everything just to be sure there was no hidden “breakage” left, and so I took the opportunity to wait for the newest Plasna release and present you wilth all-new packages.
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Plasma 5.3
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 07:07:25 PM Filed under
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Plasma 5.3
Packages for the release of KDE's desktop suite Plasma 5.3 are available for Kubuntu 15.04. You can get it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.
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Plasma 5.3 Adds Improved Power Management and Media Center Preview
Today KDE makes a feature release of Plasma 5, versioned 5.3.
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KDE Plasma 5.3 Released, Here’s How To Upgrade in Kubuntu 15.04
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Plasma 5.3 Massive Update Is a Milestone for KDE's Desktop
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Upgrading To KDE Plasma 5.3 On Kubuntu 15.04
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KDE Plasma 5.3 Released: Expands On Widgets, Bluetooth, PM
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Debian-Based Distribution Updated With KDE 3.5 Forked Desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 27th of April 2015 09:13:51 PM Filed under

Q4OS 1.2 "Orion" is the new release that is re-based on Debian Jessie, focused on shipping its own desktop utilities and customizations, and designed to run on both old and new hardware.
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Kubuntu 15.04 With Plasma 5.3 - A Totally Different Kubuntu
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 27th of April 2015 07:50:56 PM Filed under

The latest version of Kubuntu, 15.04, aka Vivid Vervet was released last week and it's available for free download. With this release it has become the first major distro to ship Plasma 5 as the default desktop environment.
There are chances that some users may still have bad memories of Kubuntu. It's true. Back in 2011 when Ubuntu made a switch to Unity, I started looking for alternatives as their desktop environment was not suited for me. I started trying KDE-based distros and Kubuntu was among the top choices. However my experience with the distro was mixed. It was buggy, bloated and GTK apps would look ugly in it. That's when I found openSUSE and settled down with it.
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KActivities powered recent media in Plasma Media Center
As you may have already read the blog post from Eike Hein about Building on new pillars: Activities and KPeople in Plasma 5.3, activities can provide the useful information about the recent applications and resources used by them.
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kreenshot-editor is incubating
Now, kreenshot-editor is a new Qt-based project that was inspired by Greenshot’s image editor. It is hosted on KDE playground. It focuses on the image editing task, can be invoked from command line and should also provide a resuable editor component which could be integrated into other screencapture tools. The current code is already separated into an image editor widget and the main application.
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Spring break for the KDE system monitor
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Leftovers: KDE Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 26th of April 2015 08:37:21 AM Filed under
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Let’s take a look to Kde Plasma 5.3 beta
A couple of days ago I spoke about the new release of the Kde Applications 15.04 which represents a great and important step towards the completion of the passage from the old Kde 4 to the new Plasma 5 environment.
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Dusting KMouth
Besides gardening lately (more on that next time) lately I've been looking into what needs and used to use KSpeech/KTTS/Jovie. As QtSpeech will replace the functionality Jovie provided I thought I'd look at what needs doing to get stuff using QtSpeech.
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My experiences at conf.kde.in 2015
Last year I really wanted to attend conf.kde.in but couldn’t because my train tickets were not confirmed by the time it started. So, I had made up my mind right then, that I will definitely attend it the next year by all means. So, this year I applied and was accepted as a speaker too. But tragedy struck again, when some college issues clashed with the date of my flight, so I had to reschedule it once, and then one more time due to one more clash, after which I could finally reach Amritapuri in the evening of Day 1 of conference when it was already over. So, yes I was sad as I had missed the first day, but that also meant that I should make the best of the second day for sure.
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conf.kde.in ’15 – My views
This year’s conf.kde.in – KDE India’s annual conference on KDE/Qt technologies, was hosted in Amrita University’s Amritapuri campus and it still feels kinda surreal indeed. Thankfully, it all unfolded well enough. It was the first time a KDE conference was being hosted in Southern India or at least in Kerala to the best of my knowledge. I think one of the main reasons for this to happen was my experience with the previous edition of the same conference, which was held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Back then, I had just started to contribute to KDE and was very keen on attending the conference. However, it’d take me at least 5 days to travel back and forth and attend the conference – something which seemed improbable, if not possible given the schedule of classes any engineering student would have. It was also back then that I’d met Pradeepto Bhattacharya, Founder of KDE-India and had an informal chat and it motivated me to try contributing to KDE. He also wanted to see me attend the conference in Gujarat. However, I was unable to, despite wanting to.
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Use Geofix to Geotag Photos in digiKam
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Cross Platformity
Several years ago we started porting Calligra to Windows. Supported by NLNet. Some time later, Intel also supported KO to create two Windows versions of Krita, one for tablets, one for convertible ultrabooks and later still, a new version of Calligra Words, Stage and Sheets for convertible ultrabooks. Meanwhile, the Krita Foundation has been publishing Krita on Windows and OSX for some time now. That's a fair amount of experience in puslishing software originally written on Linux on other platforms.
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Building on new pillars: Activities and KPeople in Plasma 5.3
With the release of Plasma 5.3 only days away, it's time to start talking about some of the new features users of Plasma Desktop will get their hands on in the new version.
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Qt Creator 3.4.0 released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of April 2015 10:13:09 PM Filed under
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 3.4.0 today. I’m highlighting some of the many new features below. Please take a look at our change log for a more complete list of features and fixes.
The C++ support in Qt Creator now has a new refactoring action that moves all function definitions out of a class declaration. We also added auto-completion for signals and slots in Qt 5 style connects. Just type the “&” and let auto-completion figure out the type of the object. Also new is a locator filter, All Included C/C++ Files, which finds all files that are used in your project by including them, even if they are not explicitly mentioned in your project. The filter is part of the default that is used when you just type in the Locator input field, and shares the shortcut string with Files in Any Project.
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