KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd June 2007

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KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd June 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @12:39
from the it's-that-time-of-the-week dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Start of the Oxygen Meeting in Milan, with a focus on the Oxygen widget style and window decoration. Continued developments in Plasma, with the addition of a second example Plasmoid, for accessing developer commit feeds. More work in Konsole, with the addition of a command-line tool to manage Konsole user profiles. Support for RockBox-based devices in Amarok. Initial work begins on a Wikipedia-based "Picture of the Day" and "This Day in History" plugins for KOrganizer. Work begins strongly on the KRDC Summer Of Code project. Marble becomes a library, with a plugin for Qt Designer created to allow application authors to include mapping functionality. Many module changes: Marble and KAlgebra move to kdeedu, KJumpingCube, KSudoku and Bovo move to kdegames, in accordance with KDE 4 development timelines.

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Blur
by EMP3ROR on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @13:13

"would be great if we had blur zack ;)"

No blur? Even Opera has blur!

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Re: Blur by Aaron Seigo on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @13:14

Re: Blur by EMP3ROR on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @13:22

form factors vid
by Aaron Seigo on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @13:13

so, the form factors screen cast got chopped at the end in the version on the commit digest. you can grab the full thing via bittorrent here:

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3703447/plasma_formfactors_hi.ogg.3703447.TPB.torrent

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Re: form factors vid by Mark Veinot on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @14:38
Re: form factors vid by André on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:11

Re: form factors vid by guh on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:20
Re: form factors vid by Sebastian Schmitt on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @07:27

Re: form factors vid by semsem on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @02:08

Oxygen
by Nye Gen on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @13:55

Am I am the only one who thinks the new folder icons look ugly inside of Konqueror or dolphin?

I mean, they look 3 dimensional but 3-dimensional towards the spectator. The angle/perspective does not fit. The icons are wonderful for the desktop but they make Dolphin look bad.

Take a flat folder icons from another icon set to get an idea.

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Re: Oxygen by Matija "hook" Suklje on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @14:47

Re: Oxygen by Daniel on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @20:34

Re: Oxygen by reihal on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @08:58

Re: Oxygen by Heller on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:06

Re: Oxygen by EMP3ROR on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:13
Re: Oxygen by Anon on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @23:52
Re: Oxygen by Cissou on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:33
Re: Oxygen by Jonathan on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @07:00

Re: Oxygen by Robert Knight on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @11:27

Re: Oxygen by cies breijs on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:44
Re: Oxygen by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:07
Re: Oxygen by Jonathan on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @07:18

Re: Oxygen by Jucato on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @00:51

Re: Oxygen by Luis on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @23:21
Re: Oxygen by Artem S. Tashkinov on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @02:33

:-)
by Beat Wolf on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @14:24

great videos, i'm looking forward to kde4 and plasma :-)

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Very informative screencasts
by Patentia A. Waite on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @14:35

Thanks to all the people who keep the KDE community informed of what is going on developmentwise. The screencasts are very interesting. Even though the only plasmoid is still the clock, Aaron explains quite a lot about the inner workings, which should really shut down those who still believed that Plasma was all talk and no code.

Things are really getting into shape, it seems. Way to go!

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Re: Very informative screencasts by mata_svada on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @22:20

Re: Very informative screencasts by Aaron Seigo on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @00:47
Re: Very informative screencasts by reihal on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @08:43

"back" and "forward" icons
by Vlad on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @14:53

I've been wondering about the "back" and "forward" oxygen icons. Are these the final set? I find that the small back triangle disappears on me and becomes hard to find. I remember seeing some updated arrows in nuno's blog, are those going to filter in eventually?

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Re: "back" and "forward" icons by EMP3ROR on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:08

Re: "back" and "forward" icons by Lans on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:37

Re: "back" and "forward" icons by Lans on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @12:45

Re: "back" and "forward" icons by superstoned on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @02:24
Re: "back" and "forward" icons by Benoit Jacob on Thursday 07/Jun/2007, @01:00

Re: "back" and "forward" icons by Luis on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @23:26
Re: "back" and "forward" icons by Vlad on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @17:28

Re: "back" and "forward" icons by superstoned on Saturday 09/Jun/2007, @03:15

korganzier
by me on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:09

I'm really happy to see work being put into KOrganizer. Its quite a useful piece of software, the calendar-presentation has just been very very ugly for a long time. Just look at how iCal or Outlook draw a calendars, its much clearer and visually more appealing.

Finally some great dude starts to hack on this, and what does he come up with? "Picture of the Day" and "This Day in History" plugins. I personally find that to be utterly useless. I can already see my mom and our company's secretary asking "why is there a taiwanese aborigine on top of my monday?". I would be unable to explain.

Now I see that I'm complaining about the work someone else does for free. And that sucks. So, I hereby rephrase this comment to:

I am surprised by the way you set your priorities, but hey, have fun!

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Re: korganzier by zonk on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @16:51
Re: korganzier by Joergen Ramskov on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @02:49
Re: korganzier by André on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @03:55
Re: korganzier by Ian on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:19
Re: korganzier by Jonathan on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @07:06
Re: korganzier by Loïc Corbasson on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @11:06

Re: korganzier by superstoned on Saturday 09/Jun/2007, @03:18

close icon in kwite
by pascal on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @16:00

In the video you see kwrite, and there is a close button. But it looks like a "at" char on a piece of paper, and the first thing I thought was this is "email the file".

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Icon (and visuals) Inconsistencies
by LJ on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @23:08

Hey, just something I noticed when watching Aaron's videos. The centre of the clock has shine on the top, while the outside of the clock has shine on the top left. For consistency I think the Icons and visuals should be checked so that all shadows, and light sources are presented standard (from the same direction). Example, if the light source is in the top left, then the shiny part should be on the top left and the shadows on the bottom right. This should be preserved in all icons/visuals (all icons should have the light source from the same direction and present shadows accordingly).

Just a suggestion. Cheers.

LJ

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Re: Icon (and visuals) Inconsistencies by eMPee on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:28
Re: Icon (and visuals) Inconsistencies by Aaron Seigo on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @11:41

Re: Icon (and visuals) Inconsistencies by LJ on Tuesday 12/Jun/2007, @17:48

Thank you!
by Meo on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @01:52

Only to say a big THANKS to all the developers for their great work! I've been using KDE for 4 years and I'll stick with it!
Cheers,
Meo

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Re: Thank you! by noone on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @05:15

Very Nice
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:05

The Plasma video was a good "shut your mouth up" for me, I'm totally sold now :)
The Plasma idea is very good indeed, and I was really worried when I saw a clock, because I tought it would be just a replacement for Karamba, but looks like I was wrong.
But I still don't see how apps will integrate Plasma, at least not for a long time.

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Re: Very Nice by Aaron Seigo on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @11:45

Re: Very Nice by NamShub on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @15:05

how do u pronouce kde !!
by djouallah mimoune on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @09:44

i just saw the screencast made by seigo, but i get confused do u pronouce kde like he did, or it is a canadian accent.

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Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by logixoul on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @11:32
Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by Aaron Seigo on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @11:44

Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by djouallah mimoune on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @12:28

Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by RockMan on Wednesday 06/Jun/2007, @05:47

Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by djouallah mimoune on Wednesday 06/Jun/2007, @10:47

Re: how do u pronouce kde !! by Vide on Wednesday 06/Jun/2007, @12:03

Klickety
by Xanadu on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @10:24

Hey!

Is Klickety still on the "Not Gonna Be In KDE4" list? Just wondering if it's still hanging from the Gallows Pole or not.

Thanx!
M.

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Yay Rockbox!
by Matt on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @08:15

Small suggestion for the Rockbox portion of Amarok: would it be possible to include some sort of feature that could automatically update your copy of Rockbox? They have daily snapshots, and it's in constant development, so that would be useful to have.

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