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KDE Community and Apliki Cooperate on Understandable Icons

Posted 1 day ago by jospoortvliet

The KDE Artist team and Apliki, a German psychological IT consultancy company, cooperate on creating easy and understandable icons for KDE software. Read on for more.

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KOffice 2.1 Released

Posted 5 days ago by ingwa

The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.

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Repositioning the KDE Brand

Posted 5 days ago by Stuart Jarvis

KDE has changed over the past 13 years. The application framework has grown, matured and gone cross-platform, as have the applications. Strong growth in our community has created an increasingly diverse and large set of high-quality ... [More] applications.

In the process, KDE's identity has shifted from being simply a desktop environment to representing a global community that creates a remarkably rich body of free software targeted for use by people everywhere.

KDE is no longer software created by people, but people who create software.

To be able to communicate this clearly in our messaging, it is necessary to reposition the KDE brand so that it reflects the reality. We therefore also need distinct brands for the products we produce. Read on for details of our repositioning of the KDE brand.

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Konqueror Icon Setting TVs Ablaze

Posted 5 days ago by Eike Hein

CBS' geektastic sitcom sensation "The Big Bang Theory" has joined a long list of KDE television outings with main character Leonard Hofstadter wearing Konqueror on his chest in last night's episode, "The Vengeance Formulation". View pictures inside!

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KDE-Edu Education Survey

Posted 6 days ago by coles

The KDE-Edu team is looking for feedback from their users, to help drive development in directions that best suit their needs. All users are welcome to have their say. A short five-minute questionnaire has been created, asking for three key points ... [More] where you think the KDE-Edu applications could be improved, as well as to gather general feedback. We look forwards to hearing your responses.

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digiKam and Kipi sprint

Posted 7 days ago by Marcel Wiesweg

The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed ... [More] and work began already in feature branches for the following release. A lot of work was put into polishing Windows support, with collaborative testing and bug fixing.

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Booth, Web and Marketing Sprint

Posted 9 days ago by swjarvis

If you read PlanetKDE, you may have noticed that there was a combined Booth, Web and Marketing Sprint in Stuttgart last weekend. While those blog posts discussed the fun to be had in getting a load of KDE contributors together in one place, the event ... [More] was really about having some important discussions and getting a lot of serious work done so that our presentation of KDE matches the quality of our products. Read on for details of the many things we got up to.

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Camp KDE "Be Free" Contest Now Open

Posted 10 days ago by troy

Do you have a special story about how you or your organization has used KDE to break free from proprietary software? If so, enter the Camp KDE "Be Free" Contest and tell us your story!

Camp KDE, in conjunction with the KDE e.V., will be ... [More] flying one lucky individual to Camp KDE 2010 in San Diego. Camp KDE attendees can meet the KDE community, participate in KDE talks, take free Qt developer training (normally not free), and join our hacking and planning sessions.

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Amarok 2.2.1 "Weightless" released

Posted 11 days ago by nightrose

Amarok version 2.2.1 has been the released by the Amarok team. It includes a lot of improvements to podcast handling, much faster collection scanning as well as the ability to automatically update scripts.

Head over to the release announcement, download it and enjoy rediscovering music.

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openSUSE 11.2 Released With Polished KDE Desktop

Posted 13 days ago by Bille

If you haven't heard yet, you've probably been under a rock since Thursday, but openSUSE 11.2 was released with KDE 4.3.1 as the default desktop.

openSUSE 11.2 KDE on a Intel 945GM netbook
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