We are proud to announce the immediate release of Kdenlive 0.8.2. We encourage all users to upgrade.

For this release, we did put a lot of energy into bug fixing and stability (more than 140 issues solved) to bring you a better editing experience. We have solved a lot of project corruption issues, and the introduction of the automatic backup feature means you should hopefully enjoy Kdenlive better than ever!

Among the features improvements, the proxy clips (clips replacing the original ones when editing a format that is too slow to edit, for example AVCHD) should work fine now, HDMI capture should also be improved (feedback welcome) and some GUI multi threading should make operations a bit smoother.

Read the full thing at http://kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released

Before anything, this article is for those using KDE and GNOME and start feeling the need for more, or something else. This is not a trolling article (we hate that), nor is a rant against the two DEs. We respect the freedom of choice, and the Open Source world is all about freedom of choice. With this article we only want to show you what other options you have, the pluses and the minuses, with no bias whatsoever. We'll go less than technical with this article, and we hope we'll widen your perspective and help you use something that's really fit for your needs.

Read the full thing at http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/alternatives-to-kde-and-gnome-on-linux-systems

I want to thank all users who tested our beta version and release candidates and ensured by that a regression free update. I am very glad on how smooth this major transition of the compositor seems to work according to the very low number of bug reports in this cycle.

On Mesa enabled desktop systems there is also the possibility to go a step further and leave GLX completely behind by compiling KWin for OpenGL ES/EGL only.

Read the full thing at http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/07/running-kwin-with-opengl-es-2-0/

Well, done at last! After some time gathering opinions from readers and quite some more time testing each one of the contenders, I have finished my comparison of the best of the best in KDE distros.

...Want to know the winner?? Read on!!!

Read the full thing at http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2011/09/king-of-kdistros.html

As Thomas does not blog and this is quite impressive, I had just to do a video and provide it here. Without further ado I present smooth window resizing with KDE Plasma 4.8:

Watch the full thing at http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/08/smooth-window-resizing/

This weekend at the Desktop Summit in Berlin, plans were presented by Martin Gräßlin, the maintainer of the KWin compositing window manager, for supporting the Wayland Display Server as an alternative to KDE being limited to X11. For early adopters and those using Plasma Active, KDE on Wayland should become a reality in the 2012 calendar year.

Read the full thing at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wayland_kde_2012&num=1

Good news for all users that don’t use Linux but still want to run Krita. In the last week lots of progress has been made towards getting Krita to run on Windows and Mac OS X. The Windows work was work was done by stuartmd who is working for KO GmbH. The screenshot below shows current git master running on Windows. The native windows look is a bit ugly, but can of course be changed to Oxygen.

Read the full thing at http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/krita-windows-and-mac-os-progress/

It’s not easy to put up a list of “best” applications which do something, however there are some highlights in each category which really deserve to be mentioned. In this article I will overview 20 KDE applications which I believe are best in their niche, one application from each important category, in no particular order.

Read the full thing at http://www.tuxarena.com/?p=966

Yesterday Apple announced their new internet service called iCloud. They finally have features which are essential for people who live in a connected world and have more than one device. I can't help myself but to compare this features with the stuff we are doing in KDE with the ownCloud project since last year.

Read the full thing at http://blog.karlitschek.de/2011/06/yesterday-apple-announced-their-new.html

KDE has released a first beta of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality.

Read the full thing at http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.7-beta1.php