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  KDE Commit Digest for July 1, 2005
Developer Posted by Derek Kite on Friday 01/Jul/2005, @23:50
from the 8-new-svn-accounts dept.
Some highlights from this week's KDE Commit-Digest (all in one page): Kopete supports MSN http protocol. amaroK adds support for media:/ urls. Speedups in Krita and aKregator. Work continues on Quanta plugin for KDevelop.


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kdereview?
by Ryan on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @00:08
Still no listings about kdereview. I see kdenonbeta and playground, but no kdereview. I'm pretty sure it was listed in the CVS Digest before things moved over to Commit Digest.
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system:/
by James Richard Tyrer on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @00:57
Regarding "home:/" JRT commented:

One thing which the user doesn't need is: "Home". It should be replaced with: "Documents" although I think that it could use a better name (I call mine "USR Home"). There is nothing in the $HOME directory that a user needs to access except when doing administration tasks.
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amaroK & streams
by charles on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @02:35
> amaroK adds support for media:/ urls.

Does this mean that amaroK will now be able to play streaming media? The las time I checked, I was being asked to do some kind of upgrade (I've forgotten which)!

When will the play/pause button be "fixed?"
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media:/ kioslave?
by anonymous on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @03:24
Isn't media:/ a kioslave ? Shouldn't Amarok support this through KDE libs?
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The Evil Plan!!!
by Fast_Rizwaan on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @03:46
I with you... :)
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fd.o to the rescue
by bangert on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @03:53
hhm, guess it'd be easy enough to talk to the gnome folks and come up with a solution which works for both desktops...
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New KDE 4 Applications... and their naming!
by Fast_Rizwaan on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @04:07
Chinchilla - a linear movie editor :) shouldn't it be name "KMovieEdit" or "kme" or "KVideoEdit"?

My Wishlist:

1. KRichEdit - A Richtext editor.
2. KSoundEdit - A sound editor.
3. KSoundRecord - A sound recorder.
4. KVideoRecord - A video recorder.
5. KVideoEdit - A linear movie editor. (chinchilla :()
6. KUserSettings - A KDE settings (bookmark, app. settings, fonts, etc.) save/restore application.
7. KScreenKeyboard - A Screen Keyboard for users to type unicode text.


I really confused by "weird" names for applications. I would better appreciate symbolic names which makes sense.

KVideoEdit more describes about the application than chinchilla.

ln -sf chinchilla kvideoedit.
ln -sf noatun kdemediaplayer
ln -sf gwenview kviewimage
ln -sf kopete kmessenger
ln -sf guarddog kfirewall
ln -sf kdehelpcenter khelp
ln -sf kolourpaint kpaint
ln -sf k3b knero
ln -sf k3b kcdburn
ln -sf k3b kdvdburn
ln -sf amarok ksongs
ln -sf apollon kp2p

just my thoughts for KDesktopUsers ;)...
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Desktop Users!!!
by fast_rizwaan on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @04:22
and newbies they just know these words: "song(s)", "video", "mail", "letter", "picture", "cartoon", "document", "internet", and more human names.

Yesterday, I saw my one of my friends wishing to hear a song on My KDE 3.4.1 desktop. I had my konsole opened. just went out for a min. And here's what he typed:

1. songs - he wants to listen to songs
2. video - he wants to view some videos
3. picture - to see some family photos
4. internet - to browse internet.

But unfortunately, KDE is not HUMAN Desktop Environment. KDE/Unix can't understand humans.

I thought why not have a script+kommander application which will show a Wizard/Dialog with options like when he typed "songs" and pressed enter:

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Hi there, it seems that you want to listen songs

What would you like to do (click on it or press
respective number)

1. Play a song... // again a dialog / application (amarok?)appears
2. Search for a song...
3. Record a Song... (from radio, tv, microphone, etc.)
4. Edit a song...

5. Good Bye

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Here Amarok is a good application which can find, filter a song. If such a dialog appears, even a computer illiterate HUMAN could use KDE.

a bash script + kommander script will work wonder for newbies. just my 2 cents for Human users.
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can anybody see full page at
by KDEBlogUser on Saturday 02/Jul/2005, @08:15
kommander documentation:
http://kommander.kdewebdev.org/docs/kmdr-basics.html
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