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| KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd July 2007 |
 Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 22/Jul/2007, @17:39
from the return-to-videos-galore dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Plasma progress, with new Plasmoids: Browser, Notes, 3D Earth Model, Twitter, Desktop, and Tiger (scripting example), and the development of a mouse cursor data engine. Bug fixing spree in TagLib, K3b, and the Kopete Cryptography plugin. Support for encrypted storage devices in Solid, with better integration of device support in Amarok. Further integration of Plasma in Amarok. Work on making Konsole follow KDE settings more strictly. Much work on revamping Ark for KDE 4. Various functionality improvements in Umbrello. The start of a new version of the Smoke bindings access mechanism, Smoke2. Continued work in kdegames, with the import of KBlocks, a Tetris-like replacement for KSirtet. Rewrite of search-and-replace in Kate. Import of the Kubelka-Munk mixing algorithm, with a restoration of the MetaData framework in Krita. Work to enable networked document collaboration imported in KOffice. GetHotNewStuff experimentally reactivated in okular. A rewrite of the global shortcuts system added to KDE SVN. Pixmap Cache Summer of Code project merged into kdelibs, in time for KDE 4.0. KBoard, renamed Tagua, is removed from KDE SVN to continue in an external code repository.
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Plasma Galore video Not working
by Ant on Sunday 22/Jul/2007, @18:08
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Danny the plasma galore video is not playing.
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trolls commit mass suicide after Plasma video
by skierpage on Sunday 22/Jul/2007, @22:46
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I miss the golden days of 2006 and all the "Plasma seems still to exist only in /dev/imagination", "Most of KDE 4 is just vaporware", "Is nothing but a copy of Apple's dash board with some variations", "I'm just saying that it isn't *innovative*" posts.
Time to pre-announce KDE5 features for them to snipe at. :-)
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Ark
by Patcito on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @00:07
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so we will have iso, zip and tar only for KDE4? I guess tar also means bzip2 and gzip right? that would be enough for me though, I don't care about rar et al though it would be nice to have 7z too :-).
Anyway, good work, I love the new UI.
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Plasma Video ?
by PlasmaBeliever on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @02:55
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Which plasma video? What is everybody talking about? I see no links to a video :(
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besides whats obviously cool...
by eMPee584 on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @02:56
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...my most hated UI glitch is still in there - gross that's UGLY:
please please please someone fix the columns to automatically fit into the damn windows, *please* .. it was annoying in the KDE3 file dialogs and is still so, even if some windows have to be made a bit wider- please make it all go awaaaaayyyy.... maybe the twitching will stop with that, too.
Also, I hope someone is supervising the usability of Oxygen on small resolutions (icon borders)..
What would be awesome aswell is if Plasma could not only support SVGs with animation, but also MNGs, for example for icons - much less resource intensive and still kewl.
And what you said about the media notifier stuff is right Aaron - but I hope people will be able to put those Plasma blobs in a container of their choice, i.e. in a boring old style window f.e., or on the desktop, or in those slicker expanders..
well anyways good work keep on it.
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Bravo!
by winter on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @05:35
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Nice work! Thank you all so much. I am happy for anything that keeps a commercial OS out of my life. Thank you!
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Mouse gesture recognition rewrite?
by Phase II on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @05:42
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Does the global shortcut system also involve mouse gestures? Its rewrite reminded me of the mouse gesture recognition, and if I remember correctly, it was seen as being needed to rewrite that, too because being limited and/or messy(?). Is there anything planned? Will the old system have to stay if there's no rewrite?
Some more advanced systems: a freehand system on kde-apps and a recognition system from a Trolltech employee:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Freehand+Gestures?content=30108
http://www.thelins.se/index.php?title=Mouse_Gesture_Recognizer
(which was also being featured here: http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq18-mousegestures.html )
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Plasma Speed
by LordBernhard on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @11:03
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The vid is absolutely great and cause of that: plasma is absolutely stunning ^^ the only 2 things i worry about are those:
1.) the widgets are really fast, but when you resize them they get really slow.. is this just a work in progress and in the future it won't make any differnece or isn't that an avoidable problem?
2.) the alpha 1 and before had a zoom function on the desktop... it wasn't really fast (problem mentione above) but it worked.. where has it's functionality gone.. i havn't seen any blog entry that this features had been canceled (has it? the button are still there and it has also been mentioned in the vid (3 zoom steps???))
but all in all you've all done really great work... i hope i'll have enough time in the near future to help you coding
friendly greetings
bernhard
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No more gray?
by Denise Burton on Tuesday 24/Jul/2007, @22:34
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Well, I can truly say I'm blown away by all the fantastic work going on - getting better every day! One thing I'd like to discuss is the colors of the menu bar, arrows and window decoration in KDE applications like Konqueror, Dolphin, digikam and KOffice suite for example. Currently it's a monotonous sort of gray/white, reminiscent of windows 95 (no offence meant!). I was very impressed by the soft blue colors in (gasp!) Office 2003, which had options highlighted in orange - a combo better on the eye than the previous white/gray/blue. I was thinking maybe we could have a soft green gradient default color for our menu bars and arrows (though all customizable in true KDE fashion), perhaps with soft red?/yellow? highlight of options. I showed an example of what I mean in the attachment. It's Firefox with the Office2003 skin. Please note that by no means am I suggesting we copy what others do, but simply draw inspiration and make our own better alternative.
I realize there's still plenty of time til KDE 4 is released, but what do our gui gurus have planned? Will we depart from the old-school colors and forge something better? If this post sounds annoying or rude, then it was not meant in that way. I hope the community can have a friendly and frank discussion over these areas.
Good luck with all your projects!
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