Re: KDE Applications 16.12.0 announcement

Jessica Nicholson <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:34:05 +1300

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On 14/12/16 1:32 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Avaliable at 
> 
> https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.12.0.php?iknowthisisunfinished=true
> 
> You have 1 day to suggest improvements.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 

Hi Albert,

If you are at all interested I have done a quick copy-edit for grammar.
I won't be offended at all if you choose not to use it :)

Regards,

Jes

KDE Applications.txt (text/plain, 4.8 KB)

December 15, 2016.

Today, KDE introduces KDE Applications 16.12. This release includes an impressive array of improvements to ease of access, new highly useful features and many minor bugfixes, bringing KDE Applications one step closer to offering you the perfect setup for your device.

Okular, Konqueror, KGpg, KTouch, Kalzium and more (Release Notes) have now been ported to KDE Frameworks 5. We look forward to your feedback and insight into the newest features introduced with this release.

In the continued effort to make applications easier to build standalone, we have split the kde-baseapps, kdepim and kdewebdev tarballs. You can find the newly created tarballs at the Release Notes document

We have discontinued the following packages: kdgantt2, gpgmepp and kuser. This will help us focus on the rest of the code.

Kwave Sound Editor Joins KDE Applications!

Kwave is a sound editor that can record, play back, import, and edit many formats of audio files including multi channel files. Kwave includes plugins to transform audio files in several ways and presents a graphical editor view with complete zoom and scroll capability.

The World as Your Wallpaper

Marble now includes both a Wallpaper and a Widget for Plasma that show the time on top of a satellite view of the earth, with real-time day/night display. These used to be available for KDE4; they have now been updated to work on Plasma 5.

You can find more information on Friedrich W. H. Kossebau's blog.

Emoticons Galore!

KCharSelect has gained the ability to show the Unicode Emoticons and other SMP symbol blocks. It also gained a Bookmarks menu so you can favorite all your best loved characters.

Math is Better With Julia

Cantor has a new backend for Julia, giving its users the ability to use the latest progress in scientific computing.

You can find more information about the new Julia backend on Ivan Lakhtanov's blog.

Advanced Archiving

Ark has several new features:

Files and folders can now be renamed, copied or moved within the archive.
It's now possible to select specific compression and encryption algorithms when creating archives.
Ark can now open AR files, for example Linux *.a static libraries

You can find more information about these Ark enhancements on Ragnar Thomsen's blog.

And More!

Kopete now has support for X-OAUTH2 SASL authentication in the jabber protocol and some problems have been fixed with the OTR encryption plugin.
Kdenlive has a new Rotoscoping effect, support for downloadable content, and an updated Motion Tracker. It also provides Snap and AppImage files for easier installation.
KMail and Akregator can use Google Safe Browsing to check if a link being clicked is malicious. Both have also added back printing support (needs Qt 5.8).

Aggressive Pest Control
More than 130 bugs have been resolved in applications including Dolphin, Akonadi, KAddressBook, KNotes, Akregator, Cantor, Ark, Kdenlive and more!

Full Changelog

You can find the full list of changes here.

Spread the Word

Non-technical contributors are an important part of KDE’s success. While proprietary software companies have huge advertising budgets for new software releases, KDE depends on people talking with other people. Even for those who are not software developers, there are many ways to support the KDE Applications 16.12 release. Report bugs. Encourage others to join the KDE Community. Or support the nonprofit organization behind KDE.

Please spread the word on the Social Web. Submit stories to news sites, use channels like delicious, Digg, Reddit, and Twitter. Upload screenshots of your new set-up to services like Facebook, Flickr, ipernity and Picasa, and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencasts and upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. Please tag posts and uploaded materials with 'KDE'. This makes them easy to find, and gives the KDE Promo Team a way to analyze coverage for the KDE Applications 16.12 release.

Follow what is happening on the social web at the KDE live feed, buzz.kde.org. This site aggregates real-time activity from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, PicasaWeb, blogs, and other social networking sites.

Installing KDE Applications 16.12 Binary Packages

Packages.

Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE Applications 16.12 for certain distribution versions, and in other cases community volunteers have done so.

Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, may become available over the coming weeks.

Package Locations.

For a current list of available binary packages of which the KDE Project has been informed, please visit the Community Wiki.

Compiling KDE Applications 16.12

The complete source code for KDE Applications 16.12 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Applications 16.12.0 Info Page.

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