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=== Live image dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency ===
=== KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ===
This week the KDE SIG team worked to remove a dependency in libcanberra-gtk2 that pulled in GDM and various GNOME utilities. The dependency was introduced this week and was not included on any KDE live images, but by fixing this by having both GDM and libcanberra-gtk2 own /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/,<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522998</ref> KDE Live Images are kept about about 30MiB smaller.
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html</ref>. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. The SC 4.5 release announcement<ref>http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta1.php</ref> gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.


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If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.


=== KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable ===
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KDE 4.3.1 is now available in Fedora Updates. A full list of 4.3.1 changes can be found upstream<ref>http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_3_0to4_3_1.php</ref>


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=== New VLC-based phonon backend available ===
Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with<ref>http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.html</ref> the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing Phonon backends.


=== Post 4.3.1 fixes ===
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.
A number of bug fixes<ref>http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206024</ref><ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523131</ref><ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-kde/2009-September/004028.html</ref> will be pushed as separate updates some time after KDE 4.3.1. These bugs address issues in a fix in Kopete's Bonjour plugin, a crash in Kmail's LDAP autocompletion and a fix in Krfb and have are awaiting testing.
 
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=== New KDE Applications ===
This week a few new applications have been put into review and testing stages.
* Eike Hein and the Konversation team have been working to put out a new, unofficial build of Konversation, working to make it feature complete as compared to the KDE 3 version. Rex Dieter has built an SVN build containing markerline support and various bug fixes and it is in kde-redhat/unstable<ref>http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/network/konversation/ChangeLog?view=markup,</ref> Eike says that Konversation 1.2 Beta1 should be available very soon.
* Skrooge, a personal finance manager<ref>http://extragear.kde.org/apps/skrooge/</ref> has been added to Fedora Rawhide and Updates-testing by Thomas Janssen.


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Latest revision as of 19:25, 26 May 2010

KDE

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1].

Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix

KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable

Rex Dieter has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13[1]. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. The SC 4.5 release announcement[2] gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.

If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[3]. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.

New VLC-based phonon backend available

Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with[1] the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing Phonon backends.

Rex Dieter has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[2]. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.