KDE Commit-Digest for 1st July 2007

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KDE Commit-Digest for 1st July 2007

Posted by Danny Allen on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @11:14
from the a-little-late-but-worth-the-wait dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Akademy 2007 kicks off in Glasgow, Scotland. Continued work in Plasma, with improvements in the Photoframe and Dictionary Plasmoids, and the addition of ChemicalData, Akonadi and Battery Plasmoids. Support for Solid-based network status support in Mailody. Support for multiple blogs in KBlogger. Automatic downloading of map tiles in Marble. Theming support added to KBounce. Load and Save support in Kollagame, a game development IDE. More work in the Kaider translation utility. Support for the PEF raw format for Pentax cameras in KPhotoAlbum. KPhotoAlbum begins to be ported to KDE 4, with more progress in porting Digikam to KDE 4. Initial work in the OpenPrinting and Context Sensitive Help Summer of Code projects, with continued work in the KRDC project. Initial steps toward high-precision computing support in KSpread. Attempts made to ensure Sonnet is ready for inclusion in KDE 4. Systemsettings moves to kdebase for KDE 4.

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opera, firefox sucks !!!
by djouallah mimoune on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @11:47

it seems to be the most hated bug i have in kde is still alive even with second alpha 2 release, either in doplin or konqueror when you have local files in html ( especially with a long name) you can't open them in opera or firefox.
please i am not a hacker, don't tell me that they don't support kde, all i know is that it works perdectly well in nautilus under gnome.

apart from that you rock guys, and happy hacking in glasgow !!!

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Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Bernhard Rode on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @11:51

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by djouallah mimoune on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:25

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by boo on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @12:06

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by djouallah mimoune on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:27

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Makosol on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @12:25

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Heja AIK on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:04
Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by djouallah mimoune on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:22

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by panzi on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:38
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Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Soap on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @08:48

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Sutoka on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:47

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by djouallah mimoune on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @12:55

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Joe on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @18:43

Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by Debian User on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @22:44
Re: opera, firefox sucks !!! by djouallah mimoune on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @12:27

The Iconcache.
by }('-'){ on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:03

Will it be included in 4.0 or not?

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Re: The Iconcache. by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @05:22

Re: The Iconcache. by Debian User on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @22:49
Re: The Iconcache. by a.c. on Thursday 05/Jul/2007, @07:56

Re: The Iconcache. by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @07:35
Re: The Iconcache. by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @07:36

Oxygen
by EMP3ROR on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @13:38

Is there stil work being done on the oxygen widget style? Are there any screenshots of the new scrollbar?

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Re: Oxygen by Troy Unrau on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @06:58

Re: Oxygen by EMP3ROR on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @08:06
Re: Oxygen by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @12:19

Re: Oxygen by Joe on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @18:45

Re: Oxygen by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 05/Jul/2007, @07:23

Re: Oxygen by jospoortvliet on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @01:54
Re: Oxygen by illissius on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @02:53

Re: Oxygen by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 05/Jul/2007, @07:26

the award-winning KDE Commit-Digest
by rikrd on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @14:31

Congratulations!!! You totally deserve it.

Thanks for all these great commit digests.

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Re: the award-winning KDE Commit-Digest by infopipe on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @22:33

Sonnet
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @01:20

I for one am really glad to see that Sonnet is being worked on again. The project showed great progress. One thing I particularly enjoy about open-source software is the ability to write a great library or function and allow all the other apps to use it.

Unless such a feature was port of the core Windows API, you're not likely to see someone independently write a feature like this in the Windows world, and see various commercial apps pick it up or utilize it.

Keep up the good work (including on putting out these digests).

I can't wait for KDE 4, Amarok 2, and KOffice 2!

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Crazy Question
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @01:32

As the core features of KDE 4 approach freeze, what have the KDE developers taken away from this whole process?

Rumor has it that after Longhorn Server, the next version of Windows will be rewritten from the group up and deliver more on the promise of this huge revolution in the way that Vista failed to (IMHO). Windows 3.1 changed the way so many used their computers. Windows 95 was a huge leap up again, and the 2000/XP/Vista family to a lesser extent.

As far as I understand it, somewhat the technology of QT 4 dictated some of the planning and design for KDE 4.

As soon as KDE 4 rolls out the door in October, there will be praise and complaints, and while people will need to bugfix and get ready for KDE 4.1, should there be an eye towards a distant KDE 5?

If you were designing a new system from the ground up tomorrow, how would you design it? Don't many any assumptions on existing technology, or the framework it is built upon. How should it operate at the core level, and the usability level? I think KDE 4 addresses many of the core level issues, but if you really wanted to rethink things, there is no reason why the KDE hackers couldn't make suggestions for what they'd like to see out the kernel, user land tools, QT, etc. to enable them to make KDE 5 everything it could be.

In fact, I think it would be neat to have a chat with developers from GNU, Linux kernel, BSD kernel, Gnome and KDE sit and discuss what works and doesn't from all the systems out there (free and commercial) and how a dream system would be designed from the ground up.

The Linux kernel (though it adds impressive new features all the time) seems to be growing immensely in code size, complexity, and regressions. I love new features, but there is perceived bloat about KDE (though from the benchmarks I've seen, it uses less memory and runs faster than Gnome). This reminds me of a small tangent, but I've always loved that Linux/Gnu seems to push new technology, while at the same time providing great legacy support. KDE is very modular, and extremely customizable. I hope future iterations keep old hardware and scaling very much in mind.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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Re: Crazy Question by Yves on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @02:40
Re: Crazy Question by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @04:48

Re: Crazy Question by RichiH on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @06:34

Re: Crazy Question by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @12:14

Re: Crazy Question by Joe on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @18:46

Re: Crazy Question by BATONAC on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @07:21

Re: Crazy Question by Jimmy on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @11:05
Re: Crazy Question by Sutoka on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @12:13

I did not know this. by BATONAC on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @18:21
Re: Crazy Question by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @07:39

Can't We All Get Along? by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @20:14

Re: Can't We All Get Along? by BATONAC on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @06:32

Re: Can't We All Get Along? by Debian User on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @09:32

Re: Can't We All Get Along? by Sutoka on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @09:25

Confused about RAW file format support
by James Richard Tyrer on Tuesday 03/Jul/2007, @20:35

I read that KPhotoAlbum has "support" for Pentax PEF raw format and I must admit that I do not know what is meant by this. Perhaps all this means is that it is possible to display RAW format files without converting them to JP2 with some standard coversion. This would be a useful feature, but I think that some term other than 'support" would be more appropriate.

As a serious photographer, I would like to see a KDE application that could convert from the various camera RAW formats to the Adobe CFA format (DNG), and an application that could (interactively) make a 24 bit bitmapped format from it. Actually, it would be more efficient to convert various RAW formats to DNG and then have the ability to display DNG in KPhotoAlbum.

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