Marble has undergone many improvements during Google Code-in 2012. These range from extended KML support to plugin improvements. Following are the new features implemented in Marble : Sun Control Dialog: Marble shows the subsolar point on the globe which changes according to the time of the day. It is indicated by an icon. Previously the “Sun Control” dialog had only one option to “Show the Zenith”. This worked quite well but what happened was that with one checkbox, two operations were being handled, namely - showing the icon at the subsolar point and locking the view to the subsolar point.

Hello, I am Mohammed Nafees. I have been introduced to the KDE development platform during Google Code-in 2012 and as I become one of the many KDE developers, here is my first blogpost on the new Navigation FloatItem that I have implemented. The first thing to implement was the arrow disc. I made a new class - ArrowDiscWidget - for it which inherits QWidget. The float item paints different pixmaps for different events - namely, enterEvent, leaveEvent, mousePressEvent and mouseReleaseEvent.

Hello! I am Mohammed Nafees - a 9th grader who hails from India. I’m a tech enthusiast and I am very passionate about programming. I have been working on projects based on Qt and C++. My participation in Google Code-in 2011 had set the ball rolling - as it was then that I had been introduced to the K Desktop Environment, better known as KDE. Something which I feel is worth mentioning at this point is the fact that KDE has myriad sets of projects aimed at people from all stages of life.