The Spotlight intends to be the category where we point to interesting things that have been going on in the recent time, preferably in the week the Digest covers. Since this is the first of its kind, we break the rules and point to developments and events which have happened earlier and we think are worth of your attention:
Anne-Marie Mahfouf shared that Akademy-Fr took place in Toulouse on the 24th and 25th of November as part of Capitole du Libre. KDE was represented by a booth on Saturday. Kevin Ottens, Lambert Clara, Sébastien Renard and David Faure were present at the event. You can read Anne-Marie's report of the event at her blog.
The KDE e.V. turned 15 on November 27, 2012. Congratulations, and thanks to the founders and members for creating and supporting such a helpful organisation for the KDE community! In celebration of this event, you can read up about how it came to life, how the organisation grew and where it is today.
The successor of Plasma, Plasma2 made its debut painting with Qt5 without using QGraphicsView , and Marco Martin also allows us to take a look at the upcoming 'Air' theme for Plasma.
To support the development of Krita, Calligra-Suite's sophisticated painting and sketching application, the Krita foundation has been formed. Also, Krita Sketch, a version of Krita for touch interfaces (think tablets and alike) has been released. Additionally, there is a Krita competition going on, involving KDE's mascot, Konqi.
The filemanager Dolphin is on its way to version 2.2, Frank Reininghaus lets us take a glimpse of what to expect of next incarnation of Dolphin. Aurelian Gateau reports on the development of Gwenview. Both applications are going to be released with the upcoming KDE SC 4.10.
The first release candidate for KDE SC 4.10 has been announced, a little earlier this was the case for first RC of the office applications Calligra Suite of the upcoming Calligra Suite 2.6. While the final release of Calligra Suite may be with us this year, the stable KDE SC 4.10 is planned to be released by the end of January.