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=== New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE ===
=== KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ===
[[MaryEllenFoster]] has been working on packaging the Java based Sesame2 backend for Nepomuk to replace the Redland backend. Unfortunately, Sesame2 is dependent on many other Java packages which must first be packaged for inclusion in Fedora. There are many packages that still need to be packaged for this backend to make it into Fedora<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaryEllenFoster/SopranoSesame</ref>. Mary Ellen has been working hard to package many of these dependencies, but this has recently fallen in priorities to personal business. Now that she has more time to put into this packaging,<ref http://mairi-ruadh.livejournal.com/62989.html</ref> she has realized that many of the packages on her wiki page were either unnecessary or already under review in Fedora.  
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html</ref>. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. The SC 4.5 release announcement<ref>http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta1.php</ref> gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.


After Sebastian Trueg announced<ref>http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/virtuoso-for-real/</ref> on his blog about getting Soprano and Virtuoso to work together, [[User:Rdieter|Rex Dieter]] began work on packaging the virtuoso backend as virtuoso-opensource. The Soprano plugins will not be stable until the release of KDE4.4 however, Dieter has packaged snapshots with working virtuoso support in the kde-redhat unstable repository<ref>http://kde-redhat.sf.net/</ref> as virtuoso-opensource 5.0.12-1 and soprano 2.3.67-0.1.20091102. After installing these pacakages, follow steps 5-7 outline on Trueg's blog post<ref>http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/virtuoso-once-more-with-feeling/<ref> and you should be up and running. Please report any issues to the Fedora-KDE mailing list<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde</ref>. This is, however, extrememly early software, and may have many bugs blocking regular use.
If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.


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=== gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk ===
=== New VLC-based phonon backend available ===
[[Rex Dieter|User:Rdieter]] has decided to orphan the gtk-qt-engine package in favor of replacing it with the kcm-gtk package. The packages are for all intents and purposes identical except kcm-gtk doesn't ship the Qt style for gtk.
Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with<ref>http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.html</ref> the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing Phonon backends.
 
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.
 
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Latest revision as of 19:25, 26 May 2010

KDE

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1].

Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix

KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable

Rex Dieter has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13[1]. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. The SC 4.5 release announcement[2] gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.

If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[3]. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.

New VLC-based phonon backend available

Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with[1] the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing Phonon backends.

Rex Dieter has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[2]. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.