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=== Live images dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency ===
=== KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ===
This week the KDE SIG team worked to remove libcanberra-gtk2 from the live images because it forces the inclusion of many GNOME dependencies due to a requirement for GDM. Kevin Kofler discovered that libcanberra-gtk2 requires GDM for ownership of a single file, /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/libcanberra-ready-sound.desktop. A bug<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522998</ref> has been filed on the package and when this is resolved, the KDE Live Spins will have about 30MiB fewer dependencies.
[[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.
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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.


=== KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable ===
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KDE 4.3.1 is now available in Fedora Updates. A full list of 4.3.1 changes can be found upstream<ref>http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_3_0to4_3_1.php</ref>


=== Post 4.3.1 fixes ===
=== New VLC-based phonon backend available ===
A number of bug fixes<ref>http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206024</ref><ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523131</ref><ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-kde/2009-September/004028.html</ref> will be pushed as separate updates. 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.
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.  
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=== The Future of Phonon in KDE ===
[[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.
''TODO: Need to talk to Kevin Kofler about this, to get the entire story.'' Qt 4.6 is going to include a new namespace to handle Multimedia, which will supersede Phonon, the KDE sound system which was pulled into Qt for the 4.4 release.<ref>http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qt4-4-intro.html#multimedia-api</ref>. A few members of the SIG believe that this will have negative effects on the state of KDE and Qt applications and, because the API will become stale and bitrot will eventually render the Qt fork of Phonon useless. The SIG's leaders will be meeting with upstream KDE this week to discuss the future of Phonon in KDE.


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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

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE

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.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html
  2. ↑ http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta1.php
  3. ↑ http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.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.

  1. ↑ http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.html
  2. ↑ http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
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