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The KDE Community officially announces the release second bug fix release of upcoming Plasma 5 with new features and improvements. Few months ago, Plasma 5 was released with many new features and proposed upcoming features. The Plasma desktop is becoming quite popular among KDE users because of extreme advanced user interface.

According to official announcement, Plasma 5 or Plasma 5.0.2 comes with addition of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. Well the fixes are very small but much important such as fixing text which couldn't be translated, using correct icons and fixing overlapping files with KDELibs 4 software. This release also includes support for new translations which are more compatible with other languages. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of Plasma 5.2 update with several bugfixes and improvements. As you know that Plasma 5.2 was release earlier this year and now this update comes with refined features along with addition of new modules to complete desktop experience.

According to official announcement, Plasma 5.2 comes with fixed powerdevil from using full CPU, fixed crash when switching to/from Breeze widget style. It doesn't turn off the screen or suspend the computer when watching videos in a web browser. It shows correct prompt for a fingerprint reader swipe and also show correct connection name in Plasma Network Manager.

The KScreen receives fixes like fixed crash when multiple EDID requests for the same output are enqueued and fixed visual representation of output rotation. The Plasma Desktop gets improved rubber band feel and consistency with Dolphin. It also uses smooth transformation for scaling down the user picture. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Applications and Platform 4.13.3 with minor new changes. Well this updated KDE Applications and Platform is the third release under monthly stabilization updates to 4.13 series.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.13.3 comes with updated Plasma Workspaces 4.11.11. This release primarily includes only bug fixes along with minor translation updates. Under language section, Farsi (Persian) language reached at essential criteria, so that's why it is the part of this release.

The Kopete application has received minor important fixes which includes fixed formatting of both plain and html messages when OTR plugin is enabled, loaded but not used for encrypting messages in chat window and fixed generating of html messages in jabber protocol.

Apart from these changes, KDE 4.13.3 also includes more than 40 recorded bug fixes which mainly includes improvements to Personal Information Management suite Kontact, Umbrello UML Modeller, Desktop search functionality, web browser Konqueror and file manager Dolphin. You might also like to check out other Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 with new changes and improvements in KDE Apps. As you all know that this is just a maintenance release of stable KDE Frameworks 5.x version. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 comes with number of fixes for compiling with upcoming Qt 5.5 along with several fixes in KDE aaplications including fixes in KActivities, KArchive, KAuth, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDBusAddons, KDeclarative, KdedKGlobalAccel and KIO applications.

The KActivities app includes fixed starting and stopping activities and fixed activity preview showing wrong wallpaper occasionally. You can now create temporary files in the temp dir rather than in current directory in KArchive whereas KCodecs receives support for CP949 to KCharsets. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

The Plasma Framework receives fixed errorneously opening a broken context menu when middle clicking Plasma popup and fixed keyboard shortcuts. It also includes trigger button switch on mouse wheel and restore hint-apply-color-scheme support. If you wish to checkout complete list of all changes then you can review them on release notes page.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 with new addons, improvements and minor fixes in KDE applications. As you know that KDE Frameworks is the collection of 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 comes with improvements in KDE applications such as Attica, KActivities, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KCompletion, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KEmoticons, KHTML, KIO, KJobWidgets, KNewStuff, KNotifications, KRunner, KService, KTextEditor, KWidgetsAddons and KWindowSystem.

The Attica application now uses all of QT_PLUGIN_PATH paths rather than just QLibraryInfo path to look for plugin whereas KActivities received a fixed plugin loading with KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS ON. The KCodecs introduce KEmailAddress class for email validation, adds KCodecs::encodeRFC2407String() and also uses more robust implementation of MIME codecs taken from KMime library.

The KCoreAddons gets KTextToHTML class for plaintext->HTML conversion, add KPluginMetaData::metaDataFileName() and also allows you to read KPluginMetaData from .desktop files. Other changes in KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 includes fixed compilation with Qt 5.2.0, fixed platformstatus kded module and adds thumbnailAvailable property to PlasmaCore WindowThumbnail. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 with new additions and minor improvements or fixes. As you know that KDE Frameworks is basically a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE which serves as technological foundation for KDE Plasma 5 and KDA Applications 5.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 comes with new changes and fixes in KDE apps like fixed handling of uncompressed files in KArchive, fixed missing default shortcuts for standard actions in KConfigWidgets which leads to many runtime warnings. It also provides better support for QGroupBox in KConfigDialogManager.

The new classes like Kdelibs4ConfigMigrator and KPluginMetaData are also added in KCoreAddons along with addition of org.kde.kio component in KDeclarative. It disables the DDS and JPEG-2000 plugins when Qt version is 5.3 or later in KImageFormats. The KIO in this release comes with new classes like EmptyTrashJob and RestoreJob along with new functions in ClipboardDataCut and setClipboardDataCut.

Among other new changes and fixes, KDE Frameworks 5.2 includes new class KColumnResizer in KWidgetAddons, new method KWindowSystem::setOnActivities in KWindowSystem, support for relative libexec dir in Buildsystem changes and file dialog remembers its size correctly and works better with remote URLs in Frameworkintegration. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of first beta of KDE 4.14 Applications and Platform. As you know that KDE team already fixes API dependencies and now they are focusing on bug fixing and polishing the user interface. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.14 Beta 1 comes with large number of new changes and now available for testing purposes. The developers are waiting for the feedbacks which will be given by the KDE users as they would know what's difficult for them.

You can easily install this latest KDE Software Compilation 4.14 Beta 1 either with the help of binary package or with the help of source tarball. Some of the Linux derivatives already released the binary package for KDE 4.14 Beta 1 but in case if your Linux Distro haven't released KDE 4.14 Beta 1 yet then you must download the source tarball of KDE 4.14 Beta 1 for your Linux Distro.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 with new changes and minor bugfixes. As you all know that KDE frameworks is the collection of 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 comes with new ModemManagerQt module which is also known as Qt wrapper for ModemManager API along with upgrade to Plasma-NM 5.3 Beta when upgrading to ModemManagerQt 5.9.0. Apart from this, the Plasma-NM 5.2.x needs a patch in order to build and work with this version of ModernManagerQt.

The KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 comes with updated KDE Apps such as KActivities, KArchive, KBookmarks, KCMUtils, KConfig, KI18n, KIconThemes, KIO, KItemModels, KJobWidgets, KNotifications, KPeople, KPty, KTextEditor, KWidgetAddons, KWindowSystem, KXmlGui, KXmlRpcClient, Plasma Framework and Buildsystem changes. Also, review recent Software News to know what's new in them ?

KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE 4.14.3 for both applications and development platform. Well as you know that this is the third release in the series of monthly stabilization updates to KDE 4.14.x series. This might be the last release under 4.14 series because the project has been decoupled into KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma and KDE Applications.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.14.3 Applications and Platform comes with minor bugfixes and few translation updates which together provides a safe and pleasant update for its users. This release includes more than 50 recorded bugfixes which primarily includes improvements to E-Mail client KMail, Umbrello UML Modeller, the document viewer Okular, RSS application Akregator and file manager Dolphin. You can download and install KDE 4.14.3 on your KDE based Linux Distro by referring to installation guide.

Some of the fixes which are made in KDE 4.14.3 includes add option to open-with and also disable preview, automount of new devices does not work, automount of removable media fails, cursor disappears when black background color is selected, dolphin view always follows console CWD, untranslatable strings in titrationCalculator.cpp and video preview in information panel don't work. If you wish to check out complete list of all bugfixes then you can visit their official changelog page.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of second release of KDE Frameworks 5 which is also known as KDE Frameworks 5.1 version. This release is out as per schedule and contains new features and bug fixes of previous KDE Frameworks release.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.1 comes with some of the translation fixes along with few Windows compilation fixes. The major refractories and improvements of vi-mode are made in KTextEditor. The KAuth application is now based on PolkitQt5-1 and new migration agent is added for KWallet application. This release also includes new install dir for KXmlGui files and Appstream metainfo.

The main highlighted feature of KDE Frameworks 5.1 is that the Plasma desktop takes an advantage of OpenGL. David Edmundson, who worked on Plasma with OpenGL, state that " I have been working hard the last weeks. It’s not that we don’t usually work hard, but this time I’m really excited about it". The complete info about Plasma with OpenGL is given here.

As we know that in Plasma, the most important part of system drawing is painting frames. Those are in general elements which are specified in Plasma themes. These will be buttons, dialog backgrounds and line edit decorations. To paint those we were assembling the full image in the CPU and then sending it over to OpenGL as a full texture, then we would do the composing of all the different frames, according to the information provided by QtQuick, through the Qt Scene Graph. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE community officially announces the release of KDE Plasma 5.1.0 which is the first release after Plasma 5.0. This release might disappoint its users as it brings some of the popular feature which already exist in previously release Plasma 5.0 version. The KDE developers give their best efforts to fix large number of issues along with other enhancements.

According to official announcement, KDE Plasma 5.1.0 comes with wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. The popular feature which you are going to face in this release includes Icon Tasks taskswitcher along with improved stability and performance.

This release also includes better support for time zones for those who travel a lot whereas for all home users, a revamped clipboard manager is added which allows its users to get their past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1.

The main highlighted feature of this release is the visual improvements and the work on features. The main objective of this release rely on stability and performance improvements with over 180 bugfixes. To run Plasma 5.1, you need KDE Frameworks 5.3 as it brings lot of fixes and improvements which allows Plasma 5.1 work smoothly. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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