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The tenth bugfix release already! There are quite a few fixes, though the focus these days is really on getting Krita 3.0 ready for the first alpha release. Of particular interest to owners of a system with an AMD processor is the option to disable ... [More] vectorization support. That might improve performance, but only for users of AMD systems! We’ve also got a fix by a new contributor, Nicholas LaPointe! Here’s the full, unordered, list: Fix crash in artistic text tool selection (bug 354907) Fix saving tags: use the UTF-8 codec to save the tags instead of the locale codec (bug 356306) Do no longer allow users to save 16 bit/channel linear gamma sRGB files to PNG without a profile Do not crash when scaling down an image if the scaling factor gets too close to 0 (bug 356156) Add a basic storyboard template Fix generating the .kra and .ora thumbnail (bug 355884) Fix loading some PSD files by Photoshop after saving from Krita (bug 355110) Add an option to disable the vectorization speed up. This is for broken AMD processors. Add an option to log OpenGL calls for debugging purposes Remember the last-used profile when importing an untagged 16 bit/channel PNG image Fix a number of import/export filters that reported the wrong error code after the user pressed cancel. Patch by Nicholas LaPointe, thanks! Fix a rare crash that could happen during slow operations (bug 352918) Fix an even rarer crash that could happen when recalculating the image under some circumstances. (bug 353043) Fix a crash when switching sub-windows after removing a layer (bug 355205) Improve memory usage when saving images by now creating a big image then scaling it down for the thumbnail Make the small color selector consistent in color layout with other color selectors (bug 353505) Fix a crash that occasionally happened when working with multiple images (bug 354975) Fix a crash when using painting assistants (bug 353152) Fix a race condition that could happen during complex operations (bug 353638) Fix a crash in the shortcut system (bug 345562) Restore the window correctly after going to canvas-only and back (bug 352018) There are packages for Ubuntu Linux, Windows and OSX in the usual place! Steam users will be able to get the new packages shortly through the beta channel, and Stuart is also working on packages from the Animation branch. And speaking of animation… Later this week, we’ll probably have new animation branch packages for Ubuntu Linux and Windows! [Less]

Ark 15.08 was the first Ark release after the port to KF5, so there wasn’t much room for new features. With the upcoming 15.12 release the situation is quite different, as there are a significant number of changes that are worth of a blog post. New ... [More] features First of all, the plugin loading mechanism is now much more smart: Ark can load an alternative plugin if the highest-priority one is not found. This allows us to set p7zip as the default backend for zip archives handling, in order to fix one of the biggest issues of Ark: proper support of unicode archives. So if you work often with archives whose entries have non-ASCII filenames, make sure to install p7zip on your distribution. If p7zip is not installed, Ark will fallback on using info-zip as currently does. One of the most requested feature was the ability to open an archived entry directly in the default application. This was already possible by right-clicking it and using the “Open with…” action, but now there is a dedicated “Open File” action that the user can trigger with a single click. Even better, through the settings dialog Ark lets the users choose what to do when an entry is clicked: open directly in the default app, or preview using the KParts technology. Open File action Default action when clicking an entry Another useful feature is the ability to read archive comments. Ark can now show comments in zip and rar archives. Currently, it is not possible to edit/add comments, but this will implemented in a future release. A zip archive with comment A very important feature is that Ark can now detect whether an archive is corrupt. In this case, Ark will ask the user whether to attempt to open the archive. If the user chooses yes, the archive will be opened in read-only mode (you won’t be able to add or remove entries). This makes sense because a huge archive might be corrupt in a very small portion of the file, yet the 99% of the content could still be extracted. This feature is available for zip, 7z and rar formats. A corrupt archive Thanks to Ragnar Thomsen for his awesome work on implementing these new features, and thanks also to the VDG for their feedback on the UI changes. Bugfixes Besides the new features, many bugs have been fixed with this release. The most annoying ones were the broken drag-and-drop to the desktop and the broken preview of XML files. The former has been fixed by Eike Hein on both the Ark and Plasma 5 sides (you will have to wait for Plasma 5.5.1 though). The latter has been fixed by dropping the old and deprecated KHTML framework/kpart. The Kate part is now used by default to preview XML and HTML files. Rendered previews of HTML files is no longer available, but now you can open them directly in your default browser using the new Open File action. [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of the Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active 2.9.10. It is recommended update for the 2.9 series of the applications and underlying development frameworks. Support Calligra! Bug fixes in This Release Here is an ... [More] overview of the most important fixes. There are several others that may be not mentioned here. General Fix crash in artistic text tool selection (bug 354907) Fix the outer line width of double borders increasing on round tripping. We were storing the total width, so each time to outer width would increase by the inner width+space. (bug 355318) Fix showing of comments when loading a file with comments (bug 353857) Fix saving tags: use the UTF-8 codec to save the tags instead of the locale codec (bug 356306) Kexi SQL handling: Make “BETWEEN … AND” and “NOT BETWEEN … AND” also valid for NULL arguments Krita Do no longer allow users to save 16 bit/channel linear gamma sRGB files to PNG without a profile Do not crash when scaling down an image if the scaling factor gets too close to 0 (bug 356156) Add a basic storyboard template Fix generating the .kra and .ora thumbnail (bug 355884) Fix loading some PSD files by Photoshop after saving from Krita (bug 355110) Add an option to disable the vectorization speed up. This is for broken AMD processors. Add an option to log OpenGL calls for debugging purposes Remember the last-used profile when importing an untagged 16 bit/channel PNG image Fix a number of import/export filters that reported the wrong error code after the user pressed cancel. Patch by Nicholas LaPointe, thanks! Fix a rare crash that could happen during slow operations (bug 352918) Fix an even rarer crash that could happen when recalculating the image under some circumstances. (bug 353043) Fix a crash when switching sub-windows after removing a layer (bug 355205) Improve memory usage when saving images by now creating a big image then scaling it down for the thumbnail Make the small color selector consistent in color layout with other color selectors (bug 353505) Fix a crash that occasionally happened when working with multiple images (bug 354975) Fix a crash when using painting assistants (bug 353152) Fix a race condition that could happen during complex operations (bug 353638) Fix a crash in the shortcut system (bug 345562) Restore the window correctly after going to canvas-only and back (bug 352018) Try It Out The source code of the release is available for download here: calligra-2.9.10.tar.xz. Also translations to many languages and MD5 sums. Alternatively, you can download binaries for many Linux distributions and for Windows (users: feel free to update that page). What’s Next and How to Help? The next step after the 2.9 series is Calligra 3.0 which will be based on new technologies. We expect it later in 2015. You can meet us to share your thoughts or offer your support on general Calligra forums or dedicated to Kexi or Krita. Many improvements are only possible thanks to the fact that we’re working together within the awesome community. (Some Calligra apps need new maintainers, you can become one, it’s fun!) How and Why to Support Calligra? Calligra apps may be totally free, but their development is costly. Power, hardware, office space, internet access, travelling for meetings – everything costs. Direct donation is the easiest and fastest way to efficiently support your favourite applications. Everyone, regardless of any degree of involvement can do so. You can choose to: Support entire Calligra indirectly by donating to KDE, the parent organization and community of Calligra: http://www.kde.org/community/donations. Support Krita directly by donating to the Krita Foundation, to support Krita development in general or development of a specific feature: https://krita.org/support-us/donations. Support Kexi directly by donating to its current BountySource fundraiser, supporting development of a specific feature, or the team in general: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/kexi. About the Calligra Suite Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite developed by the KDE community. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics and digital painting. For more information visit calligra.org. About KDE KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet, multimedia, entertainment, education, graphics and software development. KDE’s software available in more than 60 languages on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. [Less]

Want to give a talk at a 6,000+ guest conference with more than 6,000 guests? Do you feel you can deliver better than any other the other 250 speakers? Here is your opportunity! The FOSDEM Organization has graciously given devroom organizers a ... [More] little extension. We are therefore extending our own deadline for the Desktops DevRoom: the new deadline is December 14th. There will be no further extensions. Check the details on how to submit in the Call for Participation: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation Topics include anything related to the Desktop: desktop environments, software development for desktop/cross-platform, applications, UI, etc See you in Brussels! [Less]

Hi guys! Today I will share with you a little bit more about the changes that Br-Print3D suffered these days… After I learned more about the VTK features, I was able to make the prism to visualize the 3D models. I also made the function to render ... [More] the prism in conformation to the volume size given to the insert box… And was quite good discover the class Vtk Axes(yes, is Axes instead of Axis), that made the XYZ axis automatically. This changes is already set to the KDE git. Now the challenge is learn about the LibUdev, to improve the function to get the connection of Arduino’s or other boards derived from Arduino Project. I’m just waiting for a new release of KI version, to improve and implement others actions to Pandora. About the 3D Enviroment, if you work with VTK and have more experience with the VTK assets, I would like a little help about the lighting on the visualization, ’cause the light is too strong and doesn’t allow see the details of the loaded models. Well… Another warnings: We recently discovered that VTK doesn’t allow to compile the source code if you have a Nvidia GPU with Cuda. I’m already in touch with VTK communitty to know more about this error and find the solution. Also I found a bug on load STL files at ASCII format. But, as for now we won’t release a slicer inside the environment, I don’t think that is a big problem, but soon enough I will release this function. I just need to discover whats is causing this bug, and how to set the STL model to the ‘base’ of the prism… Any tips on this part will help too. =) That’s all folks! See ya!   [Less]

A new version of Danbooru Client is now available! What is Danbooru Client? Danbooru Client is an application to access Danbooru-based image boards (Wikipedia definition). It offers a convenient, KF5 and Qt5-based GUI coupled with a QML image view ... [More] to browse, view, and download images hosted in two of the most famous Danbooru boards (konachan.com and yande.re). Highglights of the new version The image window is shown again with recent Qt and KF5 versions; Remember the last directory saved when saving images; Remove (hopefully) hang when saving images. Coming up next I’ve been told there are issues with HiDPI screens, so I’ll try to fix them up next (no guarantees on ETA… also I don’t own any HiDPI screens). Adding support for copying links to images would also be nicec. Release details Currently, there is only a source tarball. For security, I have signed it with my public GPG key (A29D259B) and I have also provided a SHA-512 hash of the release. Source tarball (XZ compressed) GPG signature SHA-512 checksum [Less]

I wrote about how to run Rails with PostgreSQL on openSUSE 12.3 before. Things have changed since then. While Rails, PostgreSQL, and openSUSE are still excellent choices, new versions have been released. This warrants an update. So here is how to get ... [More] a development environment of Rails with PostgreSQL running on the latest and greatest openSUSE Leap 42.1.Install PostgreSQL:    sudo zypper install postgresql-server postgresql-develStart the database server:    sudo systemctl start postgresqlEnable server to be started on boot:    sudo systemctl enable postgresqlSwitch to the postgres user to set up the database:    sudo su -l postgresCreate database user:   createuser -d USERNAMEReturn to your normal user, exchange the database driver in the Gemfile from sqlite3 to pg and run   bundle installChange the configuration of the database driver to something like: default: &default adapter: postgresql username: cs development: <<: *default database: APPNAME_development test: <<: *default database: APPNAME_test production: <<: *default database: APPNAME_production Create the databases:    rake db:create    rake db:migrate    rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=testThat's it. [Less]

We would like to try something new for the Kdenlive community: Kdenlive Cafés. These are one to two hour informal meetings on irc.freenode.net in channel #kdenlive. We might select certain topics for these Cafés but normally you can just chat about ... [More] recent things in Kdenlive development, ask questions to developers and other users and talk about the progress of this great and free non-linear video editor. So to select the dates and times for the first two Cafés please add yourself to this date selection tool. On Sunday, the 13th of December 2015 we will close the date selection and announce the first Café here, in the forum and on the Kdenlive mailing list. UPDATE: The timezone would be Central European Timezone - UTC+1. Tag: planetkde [Less]

Hello folks, it’s Season of KDE! Who’s talking is Fernando. I’m a newcomer on the brazilian KDE community and in this year I’m participating of SoK – Season of KDE. SoK is the outreach program from KDE community to encourage people who wants ... [More] contribute with free software projects. For me, its a great opportunity be part of a program which evolves a great free software community like KDE. As a Computer Science student, it is like to be a intern in a great company and helps on development of quality software with global reach. I’m working on Cantor project, a mathematics applications software for statistical and scientific analysis. My work will be to fix existing bugs on the backends used by Cantor, as well as to support and maintain these backends working on it’s current version. This work will be supervised by Filipe Saraiva who will be my mentor during SoK. Until February, month of finish of this season, I hope to contribute a lot to Cantor. Until then, i will make more posts talking about my progress. [Less]

Dear digiKam fans and users, digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 5.0.0 beta2. This version is the second public release of the new main digiKam version and is a result of the long development process by the team. read more