Hello everyone, from some time br.kde.org, the Brazilian KDE page was maintained in a slow pace, due the heavy duty that me, Maurício, Felipe ( the previous mantainer ) and other translations guys in role are into ( like real life ). Was basically pt_BR carbon copies of main website, nothing more.
As Felipe asked for a temp departure, we are in need of new fresh blood insane people to join the hard task and bring new life to the home.
So i'm proud to announce that Tomaz and Sandro, from the Live Blue project accepted take the task.

Yes, sounds strange. Why should i did it ?
Well, first is known among the distros that qt-creator in first release is not the most friendly to packaging.
Not only beacuse qmake, but because some distros rely on things like splitted packages or 32/64 bits coexistent libs and plugins.
Second, was quite a challenge for me do this, because i need to learn some new tricks ( thanks dfaure for automoc4 help ).
Third, dressing my packager hat, i would love to see qt-creator been in the main Mandriva distro, compliant with our policies, and been adopted as well i expect for kdevelop4 when be released. Qt Creator is one of the amazing IDE's around and i thought that worth the effort to give some love in buildsystem to have it in a full Mandriva way, including our flags and standard cmake build.
During the process, i could manage to fix all bugs open in our bugzilla about packaging, and at same time enable the "most wanted" feature here, the designer plugin, which for some reason was not enabled in our qmake previous compilation.

To summarize what i did:
- Write whole cmake buildsystem
- Backported icons and mime and desktop files from upstream binary Qt Software package ( as same as Kubuntu did )
- Make the plugin standard dir be the Qt plugins standard dir, which make possible have 64 and 32 bits plugins instalable
- Make qt-creator easily compliant to /usr linux install
- Splitted libraries in subpackages as usual, and installed in our standard libdir instead of a subdir
- Reenabled designer plugin.

So, now i'm totally happy with all the changes, barely minimal in code ( most moc include additions and add standard Qt plugin path ).

For who is interested, our svn repository is Qt Creator Package Repos
For who wants to try our marvelous distro, today we will be releasing RC1 from Mandriva 2009 Spring, so you will be able to see how hard we are working to make a better distro for you...

Arrived the time of year of doing another test upgrade for Mandriva users.
This time is a little bit special, since you will be using Qt 4.5.0 final, with all our efforts to make it stable with backports, annoying some KDE devels ( thanks dfaure and Thiago ), etc..
If you want to know who are the guilt ones for this release, go and see nice about tab in "KDE about" after installed
Standard urpmi repositories are available.
README for some detailed information.

* Mandriva 2009.0
KDE 4.2.0 packages now updated for both i586 and x86_64.
A standard urpmi repository is available.
README for some detailed information.
Some reference to a corrupted l10n packages will be verified and fixed this weekend, but not affects regular usage.

* Cooker
Now to the early adopters/testers, the brand new Qt 4.5.0 RC1 is available for Cooker ( future 2009 spring ) users.
The urpmi test repository is available for i586 only for now, using:
urpmi.addmedia qt45 ftp://users.mandriva.com.br/~heliocastro/qt45/i586
SRPMS can be found on same tree.
KDE users in cooker will be able to upgrade and test it. Some minor issues can be found, but should work without bumps.

Have a good weekend !!

Thanks to a good earphone playing lots and lots of loud and good trance music, i'm providing Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.0 packages.
For now only i586 packages are available, x86_64 packages will be provided after initial feedback.
A standard urpmi repository is available.
README for some detailed information.

With some delay due the heavy workload at Mandriva offices, i manage to provide some experimental packages for Mandriva 2008 Spring.
A standard urpmi repository is available.
Please refer to README for detailed information.

And of course:

Well, was a huge journey for usr this time. 2008.1 was not only an updated 2008.0, but since early design, was clearly that we would try do a big step on our development. Just to mention what arrived since 2008.0, we're integrated Manbo labs work, which means now we're have a real common core system between us and Turbo Linux, we're integrated PulseAudio on whole distro, which was a bold move and even not been so perfect yet, for me proves at all that was the right decision, and of course, we did most of possible fixes and insanities on KDE 3 !!
I can tell, we sacrificed polish a kde 4 environment, today in contrib, due our heavy tasks to make KDE 3 as best as possible. I can't measure the stress of hunt and do changes like we want, and some couldn't be solved to last moments, but i can say was one of the best KDE deployments the Mandriva KDE team did ever. From the screensaver to the kicker changes to menu changes, all small patches and fixes almost impossible to be noted, but which took hours from us to find, or even touch in monster codes like kicker one, and integrate new features.
As i promised myself, the day we gone gold, would be last day i would see KDE 3 in my personal work machine, so now i'm using in production KDE 4.0.68 over 2008.1 base and i guess you know why ...
So congrats to everyone that did a wonderful job on Mandriva Spring and we finally break the curse

First of all, on behalf of all Mandriva KDE team ( me, Gustavo Boiko, Danilo César and our main contributor Nicolas Lecureuil ), we want to to say a big thanks for the enourmous efforts and the present result named KDE 4.0.0 !
Been for some time in the last years actively involved in KDE development in many ways considering distributions and even the amount of rants and talks on conferences, i'm proud to be the small part of this huge project that prove in many ways that we can deploy desktop on opensource with quality.
If users are looking for Mandriva packages, we have it at http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.0.0/Mandriva/

Now, on behalf of Brazilian KDE team, i can say we did it !! Let's get out tonight and celebrate because is all deserved, mainly the translation team who did a fantastic last hour work !
Thanks to Nuno Pinheiro from Oxygen that provided the nice portuguese image.

So happy KDE 4.0.0 day for everyone !!

Troy was a little too much polite for me. Really.
Is easy to understand when we saw critics. Most easy when are from the people that can't or couldn't help the subject but want express their own feeling about this.
But NOT when came from the people that CAN HELP and MAKE PART OF THE SUBJECT.

I have little or almost no time last 6 months to help KDE 4 in many ways. Why ? because in a matter of keep things working, we're dealing with several projects on KDE 3 for company, and now are doing a triage of Mandriva KDE 3 bugs for next release at SAME TIME trying to make KDE 4 desktop been best on our side. As OpenSuse guys. And as many other people that is making KDE a living organism that works for more than 10 years. At distros we're keeping the heartbeat of our beloved KDE 3 until the new breed arrives.

We're not working on KDE 3 because KDE 4 sucks, as Ruurd implies. We're working on KDE 3 because someone need to do the dirt work to allow people create our future, which IS KDE 4.

Ruurd and others complainers probably not lived the sensation of changing from KDE 1.x to KDE 2 and how huge, and painfull, and difficult, and sometimes amazing chnage was ! ( someone remember some guy that sent patches for KDE 1 which was rejected and then started some other desktop ? )

If KDE 4 is crap now, first release of KDE 2 is the big trashcan ever developed, based on this stupid concepts. So anyone can say to me what KDE 2 became ? I can, because is that thing that make my work today, and i love it.

More, people are doing a grat job, hugely, massive great job. It's not perfect yet ? I don't care. Is expected, we're just a bunch of great programmers doing more than a billionaire company with thousands and thousands of programmers are doing.

So if you think you can do BETTER, DO IT. If you think is CRAP, give reason and show your wonderfull world to help us, otherwise your complains will hurt not only us, but evryone that is reading and probably this wil hit you after.

So Ruurd, i think this image speaks for me and for others that are busting their asses for make it happens, and sorry again, but people need deserve the respect to talk cheap !

First of all, i'm working in a Linux company, i use Linux for almost everything in my life except gaming.
Second, my company sold like hundred thousand of linux machines all over the world.
Third, it's obvious for any smart person that actually read regular information about computer world see that linux is growing A LOT.
Then, suddenly, the bank that i use ( and many of my fellows co-workers ) decide the very smart move to include an security applet that simply makes mandatory the use of Microsoft Windows. And they tell this explicitely.
They provide a telephone to users of "other operational systems" to inform then that they're not using MS ( maybe to tell then to use telephone operations ). Ok, would be barely ok if..
..i'm outside my country. The only way i have to pay my accounts is by internet banking, as my family lives away from my city. And will not back until the terminal date od back change, 19 October. So, if some issue happens during my stay out my home, like pay the credit card debts, that i'm using here, to avoid lock, i'll be helpless, or use some non-personal computer with Microsoft Windows to deal with my money.
Nice, huh ? To have security, i just need abandon my current security in favor of a use unsecure computer that i can't assure if is reliable.
Maybe can i ask ABN to give me R$ 500,00 in my account to buy a copy of some non portuguese Microsoft Windows here to solve my issue

Of course, who cares about Linux users ? Not ABN Amro. Should we include Santander in this too ?