Announcing the first beta of Bangarang 2.0 (a media player). Below is a short list of the new features since 1.0:

New Info View sidebar that provides helpful information currently selected items:
- Recently played, highest rated and frequently played
- Info Fetching support for artists, movies, actors, directors, etc.
- Integrated metadata editing.

Read the full thing at http://bangarangkde.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/bangarang-2-0-beta/

Part of the big hype over the release of KDE 4 was its new and improved eye candy, mostly due to the Plasma workspace. Those who liked the changes, loved the new KDE from the beginning. Those who did not are still complaining about it. But like any good desktop environment, you are by no means stuck with the default look. In fact, KDE offers more easily customizable features than any other. What follows are 7 ways to get the desktop look you dreamed about when you were a child.

Read the full thing at http://maketecheasier.com/7-ways-to-beautify-your-kde-4-desktop/2010/12/08

The KDE community today announces the start of the Calligra Suite project, a continuation of the KOffice project. The new name reflects the wider value of the KOffice technology platform beyond just desktop office applications. With a new name for the Suite and new names for the productivity applications, the Calligra community welcomes a new stage in the development of free productivity and creativity applications for desktop and mobile devices.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/06/kde-announces-calligra-suite

This screencast shows all the power and diversity of Konqueror the KDE file manager and web browser.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO3fIAPPZGs

In the last few hours, a press release was issued globally by Nokia. The focus of the press release was to announce that Nokia will have sole focus on Qt as the development framework for applications on the Symbian and MeeGo platforms.

At the recently held Qt Developer Days Munich, Nokia CTO Rich Green gave a keynote where he also affirmed this commitment. His words were roughly ‘Nokia is eating its own dog food with Qt’.

Read the full thing at http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/10/21/nokia-announcement-equals-even-more-momentum-for-qt/

I’ve released the first version of the UPnP MediaServer KIO slave which allows KDE applications to seamlessly browse UPnP devices on the network, and access their files. An outcome of my Google Summer of Code, this is the first step towards getting UPnP Collection support into Amarok.

Read the full thing at http://kodeclutz.blogspot.com/2010/10/upnp-mediaserver-kio-slave-is-out.html

Since I begin to use KDE, my big desire It was to contribut with code, but I would have to study different things (indeed that was what I wanted the most: a challenge), and I admit that I thought many times that I would never be able to do it. So I decided to make talks about “KDE for Beginners” (beginners like I was), It was a quickly way to promote and contribut to FOSS, more quickly than to develop.

Read the full thing at http://kders.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/on-the-fly-preview-on-quanta-also-my-first-real-code-for-kde/

The beauty of an open development platform is that anyone can take a stab at creating an application. KDE, which is built upon the Qt application and UI framework, is a shining example of this. A quick look at KDE-Apps.org reveals that new apps are added daily. I periodically browse through the latest KDE apps to see if anything stands out, and I found these five, some of which are in early development.

Read the full thing at http://maketecheasier.com/5-intriguing-kde-apps/2010/09/29

An articulate, accurate, and well paced article on KDE 4.5, marred only by a point of view that I cannot seem to reconcile - one that appears to state that Ubuntu is the only relevant distribution, and Gnome is the only desktop anyone has ever seen before.

It is quite possible that I am overreacting, or reading far too much into it, but read it for yourself, and see what you think:

http://apcmag.com/linuxs-new-look-kde.htm

(We'll just pretend that the headline of the article doesn't exist)

KDE 4.5 brings to the table plenty of useful, functional, innovative features. One of those very features is the Desktop Activity. Although many scoffed at the idea (even tried to get the feature pulled), those same naysayers are (hopefully) glad their requests were not followed. Why? The KDE Desktop Activities feature is a great new desktop metaphor that takes the Linux desktop to new levels of organization.

Read the full thing at http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/358560-kde-45-desktop-activities-brings-new-meaning-to-organization