FWN/Issue194

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 for the week ending September 20, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week we welcome a brand new beat by Ryan Rix on KDE developments in Fedora!

In news from the Fedora Planet, news, views and innovations from Fedora community members. The Quality Assurance beat this week provides details from last week's various graphics tests, audio and virtualization Test Days, along with detailed summaries of the QA weekly meetings, Bugzappers and other regular activities. In Art/Design news, discussion around the desire for a "do it yourself" media sleeve, and updates on the Fedora 12 schedule for the team. In virtualization news, updates on the recent virtualization Test Day, and details of new versions of libvirt, perl-Sys-Virt, and coverage of recent discussion about guest sound over VNC. Our first KDE beat features news of KDE 4.3.1 hitting Fedora updates and some post-release fixes, news on several new KDE applications, and coverage of work of the KDE SIG team this past week. That rounds out this week's issue of Fedora Weekly News, which we hope you enjoy!

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New features:
 * Add all new APIs upto libvirt 0.7.0 APIs (listing defined network interfaces)
 * Add missing APIs for looking up storage volumes based on path and key
 * Fix lookup of network interfaces based on MAC address
 * Add missing APIs for defining network interfaces and starting defined interfaces

Guest Sound Over VNC
Dave Allan noticed "when a KVM guest created with virt-manager is running on F10, sound on the physical host stops working. When all VMs are shutdown, sound starts working again. Removing the tag from the VM XML allows sound to work while the VM is booted." and suggested disabling sound in guests by default.

Daniel Berrange explained "It is complicated :-) In Fedora &gt;= 11 we currently disable all use of sound cards, but this upsets people who want sound ;-P  I'm working on a new version of the patch which sets up audio-over-VNC, while for SDL allows the host audio backend to be used & configured. I still need to finish my GTK-VNC patches to do the client end of audio over VNC, then it'll all play correctly with desktop audio services via gstreamer/pulseaudio."

KDE
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group.

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/, 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

Post 4.3.1 fixes
A number of bug fixes  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 Eike says that Konversation 1.2 Beta1 should be available very soon.
 * Skrooge, a personal finance manager has been added to Fedora Rawhide and Updates-testing by Thomas Janssen.