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errors!
by Dima on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @00:11
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No introduction or content - only PHP errors about missing files...
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Thanks ... but
by Flitcraft on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @00:14
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Thanks a lot, but apart from the statistics I see only this:
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KWin4 is renamed KFourInLive
by AC on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @02:32
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Finally! Thank you very much for this, it was due for a long time.
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System Settings Idea
by Darryl Wheatley on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @02:35
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Thanks Danny for an other interesting digest. I managed to read most of it in the morning before the errors happened :)
I've been thinking about System Settings and how some have complained that it's annoying to navigate to Overview every time you want to go somewhere else, lacking the hierarchical structure that KControl offered. I also looked at Phoronix's cool gallery of Kubuntu + KDE4 images (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=941&num=1)
As I looked at Dolphin, I thought "why can't we also implement a breadcrumb navigation system into System Settings?" I hacked up an example which could show how it might work (though you can tell I'm not a graphic artist :D). In this example, you want to go from Desktop to Accessibility. You first navigate from Look & Feel to Personal, and then choose Accessibility. Or maybe we omit the top-level categories such as "Personal" and "Look & Feel" from the path (leaving them in Overview) so you could go straight from Desktop to Accessibility in the same drop-down (there would be 15 options from the General tab). To switch between General and Advanced, you'd still use Overview.
I realize that the KDE developers are busy and probably won't have time to implement such an idea in time for 4.0 even if there was support, but it's something to keep in mind for the future. What do other people think? Any comments or improvements?
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The Phonon website really needs updating!
by Kevin Kofler on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @02:36
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That Phonon website is linked over and over in announcements, but it is very out of date, the roadmap appears not to have been updated since 2006!
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This week we have better news...
by christoph on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @04:08
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Until the digest database problem is resolved, we have better news this week to read and play with:
Trolltech is working hard on Qt 4.4 and released a first technology preview! While this will not be finished in time for the KDE 4.0.x release, we can have a sneak preview of what the future of KDE 4 will offer.
Merry Christmas to all!
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Kwin composite getting faster
by Josep on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @04:47
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This week with the introduction of libkwinnvidiahack.so.4 I noticed a noticeable speed improvement in Kwin's composite mode using the propietary nvidia drivers.
Keep up the good work!
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Sonnet
by Emil Sedgh on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @10:57
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Its nice to see something about Sonnet.just...currently Spell Checking doesnt works, so is there any plan to provide a working spell checking for 4.0?
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Icons on the desktop in Plasma
by JRT on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @11:07
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IIUC, the entire desktop is now Plasma. :-(
IMHO, Plasma is all hype and very little substance. Perhaps it just turned out to be a bigger job than anticipated (Murphy's Law will always apply). However, we have 3 weeks to release and much of the functionality in the KDE3 DeskTop is still missing.
Icons the DeskTop don't work yet. Perhaps it would be better to report a feature after it is finished rather than when is is barely started.
If you place files in the Desktop folder, they do appear on the desktop.
The size setting in SystemSettings doesn't work.
The text under them is too large and is not the font selected in SystemSettings for 'Desktop'.
NOTE: these aren't the only instance where Plasma doesn't use system settings.
If I drag a file icon to the DeskTop, I get a message box which says: "This object could not be created"
Dragging a URL to the DeskTop has the same result.
I don't know how I would try to create an icon to start an application on the DeskTop. Creating an icon using the Add Widget function doesn't seem to be ready to use yet -- is simply doesn't work. I can't drag a menu item to the DeskTop -- actually can't drag a menu item period.
I don't want this to be taken negatively. I am just reporting what I found. I hope that it is finished in time for the release. For now, all I can say is that I am very disappointed and would rather have KDeskTop and Kicker.
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thanks
by kollum on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @11:55
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Hy.
Thanks everybody involved in the digest for yet another interesting issue. Last week was realy gread, but this week shows a lot of little interesting things.
And thanks danny for fixing the web page fast enought for me to read it before going to work.
It's especialy nice to see, in the whole lot of KDE4 commits, that some KDE3 stuff still happen. And every week, to see a few KDE4 rought edges be smoothed.
Good work everybody
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WebKit
by Grósz Dániel on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @13:20
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In KDE 4.0 RC2+ (at least in openSUSE) Konqueror uses WebKit by default for web browsing. Is this intentional? It still has several issues (no cursor in text fields, not redrawing scrollbar, not reacting to submit button).
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OpenGL and QT4 Widgets
by SVG Crazy on Thursday 20/Dec/2007, @15:30
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Just a question ...
Completely out of topic but I will ask it anyway...
Today I read and article at
http://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=150
which shows the possibility to use OpenGL to actually enrich the user interface using GTK+.
It seems that GTK+ people are a little reluctant about these changes:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071028-making-linux-application-user-interfaces-richer-with-opengl.html
Is it possible to make such things with QT Toolkit (and , of course, make these cool things work on KDE)?
I know plasma applets are OpenGL and ARGB compatible (plasma rocks). But I don't know if we could do it in the Qt4 widgets themselves (tabs, buttons, etc).
An example:
Make the Dolphin window translucent and its control widgets (buttons, comboboxes etc) animated by OpenGL.
Sorry for my English, still learning...
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KFourInLine??
by Apple Pie on Friday 21/Dec/2007, @12:57
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Why not call it Konnect4?
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Gdesklets
by gerd on Saturday 22/Dec/2007, @14:03
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What is the diff between
gdesklets
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Plasma?
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