I'd like to spotlight two new Qt4 applications recently added to Intrepid.

First is Arora, a lightweight web browser based on QtWebKit and the Qt demo browser that ships with the qt4-demos package. The build currently in Ubuntu (and Debian) uses the version of WebKit that ships with Qt 4.4, although the upstream source (which I contribute a bit to) also includes support for building against WebKit trunk snapshots.

In fact, I was so impressed with its speed that I discarded Firefox and now use Arora as my primary browser, despite its (current) shortcomings. I've filed a Hardy backport request for it.

Second is KPlayer, which was added from Christian Marillat's debian-multimedia repository. It's a KDE4 front end to MPlayer and a nice alternative to Dragon Player and SMPlayer (the latter is another MPlayer front end based on plain Qt4). I'm also planning to add it to Debian proper (like I did with SMPlayer), so Debian users won't have to resort to an unofficial repository.

I also have three packages waiting on REVU for the approval of one more MOTU. These are:

• subtitlecomposer, a video subtitle editor for KDE3.
• codeblocks, the wxWidgets IDE.
• fuse-zip, a console utility to mount ZIP archives as directories.