KDE
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1].
Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix
Live image dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency
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/,[1] KDE Live Images are kept about about 30MiB smaller.
KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable
KDE 4.3.1 is now available in Fedora Updates. A full list of 4.3.1 changes can be found upstream[1]
Post 4.3.1 fixes
A number of bug fixes[1][2][3] 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.
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[1] Eike says that Konversation 1.2 Beta1 should be available very soon.
- Skrooge, a personal finance manager[2] has been added to Fedora Rawhide and Updates-testing by Thomas Janssen.