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Hi, KDE users. I think it is time we had an adult conversation about KMix and usability.

You see, in my last post, there was an awful lot of vitriol spewed about my heavy handed decision to use horizontal sliders. …

Howdy, all!

I know I’ve been quite a bit scarce in KDE lately, but that doesn’t stop me from writing a release post

The Phonominals are super excited to release Phonon-GStreamer 4.6.3: the GStreamer backend for Phonon, the Qt multimedia …

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to attend Ohio Linux Fest 2012 in nearby Columbus, Ohio.

I had also attended the year prior, where I had a very strange experience. Up ’till then, I had only ever been surrounded …

Hello again, from Randa!

Today is Day 6, the last day of Randa 2012. Its been a fun adventure, with lots of productivity!

Tons of bugs fixed in Amarok, Phonon, and others
Initial development for a fresher, more maintainable KMix
KMix sound menu
Sustainable …

Its been a busy week thus far, here at Randa.

First, a quick rundown of what’s been done in phonon-gstreamer:

Audio channel selection
Displaying the audio codec in the channel selection
That annoying bug of the video popup is fixed
Work for improved pulseaudio …

Hello, again from the village of Randa, Switzerland!

Yesterday’s work was focused around getting our week organized and scheduled, but nothing exciting to report on.

Today is currently focused on the Amarok 3 vision, scope, and requirements. Since I’m not much …

Hello from Randa, Switzerland!

The KDE Multimedia team is here for Randa 2012, where we plan to Get Stuff Done.

There’s a couple of big topics we’re planning on discussing this week:

KMix
Phonon 5
Building a new KDEMM website
Defining our target audience
Dragon 3
Other …

Howdy, Planet!

KDE Multimedia is planning on making an appearance at this year’s Randa meetings!

For the past four years, Randa has given us a wonderful environment to Get Things Done. Situated in the village of Randa, Switzerland, the meetings are …

Howdy, all!

Coinciding with the new Amarok release, the Phonominals are proud to announce the 4.6.2 release of Phonon-GStreamer.

It is available from the KDE infrastructure, as usual:

http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-gstreamer/4.6.2/src/phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2.tar.xz

Phonon-GStreamer is the GStreamer backend to Phonon, the Qt multimedia library. This is a …