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=== KDE SC 4.4 in kde-redhat and rawhide ===
=== KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ===
[http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ KDE-redhat] maintainer [[user:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] lets us know that KDE SC 4.4 is currently in the kde-redhat/unstable and rawhide repositories for testing. The new iteration of the KDE desktop boasts many new features including a reworked plasma desktop shell designed specifically for netbook devices. The full list of new features, along with the full text of the release announcement can be found [http://kde.org/announcements/4.4 here]. The KDE SC 4.4.0 release may only be released in the unofficial kde-redhat repositories, and the KDE SIG may elect to ship KDE SC 4.4 in the main Fedora repositories when KDE 4.4.1 is released along with Qt 4.6.2.
[[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.


=== Upcoming virtuoso changes in kde-redhat ===
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.
Those KDE users who have been running KDE releases from KDE-RedHat had the option of configuring the Nepomuk social semantic desktop to use the Virtuoso5 database engine. With the upcoming release of KDE SC 4.4, the Virtuoso5 database is being depreciated in favor of a newer version 6.1 of the Virtuoso database.<ref>http://trueg.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/just-in-time-for-kde-sc-4-4-virtuoso-6-1-0/</ref> While this database has performance improvements, it is incompatible with the Virtuoso5 database. Sebastian Trüg has created a converter for the nepomuk data that, when virtuoso is updated, will need to be ran before KDE's nepomuk server will start, which is currently in review for inclusion in Fedora<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562297</ref><ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562296</ref>, and in kde-redhat/unstable. Dieter lays out the details of how you can convert the existing Nepomuk storage database.
# qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver org.kde.NepomukServer.quit
# yum update virtuoso-opensource to get the latest version of the database
# yum install virtuosoconverter to get the converter tool. This will also install compat-virtuoso-opensource, the Virtuoso v5 database engine
# run virtuosoconverter
# start nepomukserver


This will update the data, and restart the nepomuk server to use the latest version of Nepomuk. Note that virtuoso-opensource has not yet been updated, and will be receiving updates when the converter tool is in Rawhide. Until then, Nepomuk will happily run with the virtuoso5-based nepomuk server. Future versions of the server may not, however, hence the requirement for this update. Sebastian Trüg has stated that he had never planned to support Virtuoso 5 and that this tool was written for early adopters and developers and may not work.<ref>http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=119661#c349843</ref> Indeed Dieter has had mixed results with this tool.
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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.


=== KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images available for testing ===
[[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.
[[user:rrix|Ryan Rix]] writes on his blog<ref>http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/kde-sc-4-4rc2-fedora-kde-preview/</ref> that Rex Dieter has composed KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images that are suitable for testing the new desktop without negatively affecting your current setup. These images are available via torrent<ref>http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/f12-kde-4.3.95-remix1.torrent</ref> and are installable to a flash drive using either the liveusb-creator application or the command line livecd-iso-to-disk tool available in the livecd-tools package. Major issues should be reported either on the Fedora-KDE mailing list<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde</ref> or the #Fedora-KDE IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Please note that the images are now slightly out of date, with the release of KDE SC 4.4.


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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

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE

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.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html
  2. ↑ http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta1.php
  3. ↑ http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.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.

  1. ↑ http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.html
  2. ↑ http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
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