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  KDE Commit-Digest for 25th November 2007
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @16:21
from the boo dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: A Trash applet, various general improvements, and support for sharing configuration layouts in Plasma. "Undo close tab" feature in Konqueror. Development continues towards Amarok 2.0, with services becoming plugins and support for the Amapche music server. Continued progress in KDevelop and KEduca. More work on album display and improved thumbnails (with RAW format support) in Digikam. A BitTorrent plugin for KGet, based on the recently created libktorrent. Directory monitoring-and-update support in NEPOMUK. Work returns to Okteta, a hex editing utility. "Connection Status" plugin removed from Kopete. Kile begins to be ported to KDE 4, whilst work begins on KGPG2. Goya, a GUI widget framework, is imported into playground.


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KDE4 really nice
by zvonsully on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @16:28
we wait for the big day :)
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Happy Birthday KDE e.V.!
by zvonsully on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @16:33
(27th November) is the day on which the KDE e.V. was founded, ten years ago.
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Video previews
by Robert Knight on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @16:57
> fix the layout of the preview widget. Have fun watching videos
> in the file dialog :-)

Neat, it works very nicely. Thanks for that Matthias :)
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Nothing That Made Me Go Wow -- Good!
by Inge Wallin on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @17:21
I think this is the first commit digest in a long time that contained no item that made me go 'wow!'. I suppose that's a sign that we're nearing release time, which is a very good thing.
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Enough of plasma applets
by Dan on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @17:36
Is it really neccessary to have feature stories about every silly plasma applet that gets added? Its fairly clear what plasma is going to be in 4.0, I don't think that stories are all that important. It would be nice to see a focus each week on a different module that will be released in 4.0 as we get closer to the release, maybe written by the release coordinator for that module, with the focus being on what to expect in kde4.0, what not to expect in kde4.0, and what might be coming later.
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KDE4daily dosn't work here
by Patcito on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @17:38
I use a del inspiron 6400 with dual core and 2048 RAM.
See the screenshot for the error message.
Click to download attachment kdedaily.png
13KB (14286 bytes)
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Non-Compositing Support
by Level 1 on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @18:13
I have an ati r500 card in my laptop, and I can't use fglrx, its worthless. Composite will run, but is nearly unusable; also, composite does not have shadows for me even though the option is checked. I simply cannot get shadows. Oxygen is not very usuable if there is no compositing support; everything blends into eachother and it just isn't very pretty. There are no shadows where there need to be shadows.

Please kde devs, don't force me to use kde3! provide at least basic compatability with non-compositing systems!

http://www.alweb.dk/gallery/engelsk/oxygen_menu
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kwin4 effects
by Rudolhp on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @19:23
what about kwin effects ???

i dont see a update about the effects availables or the hotkey to use it.
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ktorrent
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 27/Nov/2007, @20:59
I know we can just use KDE 3 apps in KDE 4, but is there any news of a KDE 4 port of ktorrent? It is my favorite torrent app on any platform, and basic torrent support in kget is nice, but I'd rather still use ktorrent, especially for the built in search support.
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Goya into Qt
by André on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @00:24
I am very interested in Goya. To me, it really looks like a patch to the Qt framework, that I think really belongs there. Not to say that it should not be worked on, on the contrary, but I really think this should have been taken up by Trolltech. It would not suprise me if they integrated the functionality in a later release, as they seem to be doing now in other areas as well (phonon, Network Access vs. KIO, Qt Concurrent vs. ThreadWeaver, QtWebkit...).
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speed improvement
by Richard on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @00:51
Can we expect any improvement to the speed of KDE 4 when it is released. It seems very sluggish as a release candidate
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Kopete connection status
by Ben on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @12:02
Would I be right in assuming a solid based replacement is lined up, or already implemented to replace the now removed plugin?
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Digikam
by jospoortvliet on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @12:39
> We use now a dedicaced Multithreaded Thumbnail Loader instance from digiKam core for all kipi-plugins we need thumb. We never use default KDE thumbnails loader with all kipi-plugins running under digiKam.

Lovely, wouldn't it be cool to have this digikam thumbnail loader be default in KDE?

Another thing, I wonder how the digikam developers think about usability... for me, Digikam is horrible. Some features and things are great, but I would love a cleaner interface (eg get rid of the vertical sidebars, they make the app unusable). I'd say target an UI more like F-Spot or Picassa.. Better to steal properly and have something good than to develop something horrible yourself, right?

Don't get me wrong, I love much of what Digikam can do and the work being done on it, but I simply don't use it because the UI scares me away. And I think I can be considered a poweruser so it really must be (and is) bad.

So I wonder - do you guys need help from usability experts? If there are none with time to help, I would suggest just copying stuff from other UI's like F-spot...
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promoting the digest itself
by richlv on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @12:39
a quick note, i hope somebody still notices this :)
i might be dumb or ignorant (or both), but until last week i was reading only these introductions to digests - because i thought that's all there is. really, i never noticed that first link which... surprise, takes you to the actual digest !

i just thought it's a quick summary on commit and development stats.

maybe there is some way to promote actual digest link more, in case there's somebody other as silly as me ;)
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nice?! depends ...
by mat69 on Wednesday 28/Nov/2007, @15:49
Hmm what's nice?
Seeing 4.0 approaching fast is very nice.
I just (*really*) realised that we are close to December, meaning 4.0 gets closer each day.

And all these nice news "steal" time which I should spend on studying - especially now. So in that apsect you suck guys! :p

Cheers!
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It's just a demo of the progress
by Shawn Starr on Thursday 29/Nov/2007, @07:49
While I find it wildly amusing to see some of the comments about the weather applet/engine, the point of the demo was to show the progress not the final result. To those who think this is 'overengineered' you don't understand the goals.

There has already been interest from some other KDE developers to reuse the API to display weather in other applications such as Kontact (we'll see if this can be done).

If you didn't read what Aaron posted you wouldn't understand why this has been designed this way.

Now that I'm done discussing this issue, I can get back to coding, thanks :-)
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Decibel+Kopete
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 29/Nov/2007, @10:35
Does someone knows of the currents status of the integration of Decibel and Kopete?
As Decibel is based on Tapioca/Telepahty, it should allow Kopete to make voice and video calls for gtalk and msn, what would be a very, very welcome feature to KDE4.X.
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Question about Graphics Hardware / kwin+composite
by Marc O. on Thursday 29/Nov/2007, @23:22
Hi you guys,

i'm not the hardware expert, so please don't mind my OT question:

i'm about to upgrade my older office-pC one last time in anticipation of KDE4, at the moment i'm at AthlonXP-M 2800, 1GB DDR and a Geforce4MX...

so i have to decide: will a cheap Geforce 6200 AGP suffice for kwin + full composite effects, or should i choose a geforce 6600GT?

I hope some of you can give advice :)
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