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Plasma Active 3 will get a completely new file browser based on Nepomuk and QML.

The developer Marco Martin introduced the new file browser as a central element of Plasma Active 3 in front of his blog. The File Browser relies largely on the Nepomuk framework and therefore does not like ordinary file manager. Rather, the user can access files stored in the tablet as by type or by creation date or sort of multi-touch gestures to select or tag. Furthermore, the application includes a viewer.
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Today went to the torrent client Qt – KTorrent.
The main changes are:

• Added the ability to scan individual files.
• Improved work with streaming video.
• You can now hide the download and torrents are not queued in the queue.
• Now using a single-interface instead of tabs.
• The search string is now housed in the main list of torrents.

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One of the developers of KDE Aaron Seigo announced in his blog about the opening of the pre-order the tablet Spark Tablet.

Tablet spark - a new tablet that runs on OS Core Mer (based on MeeGo) and using an adapted version of the KDE Plasma Active .

Characteristics of the tablet:

• The screen is 7 inch with support for multi-touch
• 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor with a GPU Mali 400
• 512 MB DDR2 RAM

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The Linux Mint developers, the KDE edition of version 12 of the popular Ubuntu have released offspring. Linux Mint is considered to be very user friendly and is considered by the news portal to Distrowatch most popular Linux distributions.

Linux Mint 12 KDE is based on Ubuntu 11:10 and a 3.0 kernel. The Gnome edition appeared in late November last year. The system provides the December published desktop environment KDE 4.7.4 . According to the developers, it is this version of Linux Mint is the first that comes as a hybrid ISO image. Users can operate the system not only on CDs and DVDs, but also without any helper applications using the Linux tool kit dd transferred to a USB stick.
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The KDE developers Christoph Feck has image zero (“iz” spoken, “easy”) presented a lossless compression algorithm for images, in addition to a high compression rate and can still score with a high speed.

image zero should be used especially where users often open and save images, some with image editing programs. Information about the losses that occur for example in JPG images to get at, Feck evaluated in recent months, several lossless image compression algorithms. In their comparison in Lossless Compression Benchmark photo he was disappointed with PNG and JPEG-LS. On the one hand, they worked him some too slow, on the other hand, they were provided with patents. Consequently, he decided to make it better and initiated zero image, a high-performance, lossless codec for RGB pictures.
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Today, January 25, came the long-awaited version of one of the most popular DE for Unix-like systems – KDE SC 4.8.

The main innovations:

• Plasma
  • A partial translation by QML.
  • Added new features to the rooms. Now they make sense, since there was a feature of energy saving profile settings for each of the rooms. Long live the smart energy saving! Also added a handy switch rooms.
  • Added the possibility of simultaneous automatic grouping on taskbar and window title bars.
  • Added Icontasks.
  • Fixed a bug where when you press the power button, the shut down menu to appear only after 15-20 seconds.

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After several months of development the release of Amarok 2.5.0. New features – rewrite support USB Mass Storage, improved support for iPod and built-in shop Amazon MP3 Store, as well as many bug fixes and small improvements.

The KDE team today announced a new pre-release version of instant messaging, based on the framework, Telepathy.

KDE Telepathy supports multiple protocols and, in contrast to traditional programs messaging integrated with KDE in general, and Plasma in particular.

In the new version:

• Integration with KWallet to store passwords
• Plasmoid for quick access to contacts
• Ability to establish the status of the currently playing track in Amarok or other MPRIS2 -compatible player

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The KDE developers conference Akademy is on 30 June to 6 July in the Estonian capital Tallinn to take place.

The adopted proposal for the venue is from the 26-year-old network administrator Laur Motus.
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Mandriva Powerpack 2011 has been officially launched. What is Mandriva Porwerpack? This is a new strategy of Mandriva (which has suffered serious economic) aimed at business and professional audience. It’s a paid version.

It’s a fuller version of Mandriva Linux Free, which also includes proprietary software. Not limited to free software includes a wider hardware support.

Mandriva Powerpack 2011 offers a secure operating system, with good performance and incorporating all the drivers for a good performance from the start.

The desktop environment is KDE based, with some improvements and a new graphic design. One feature that caught my attention is MandrivaSync to synchronize our data with an online server. A trend that more and more systems are incorporated.

It will launch a new version annually but receive updates on a regular basis (it is estimated that every 6 months).
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