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  KDE Commit-Digest for 6th January 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @09:59
from the the-internet-doesn't-work! dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Final commits for KDE 4.0 Final before the tagging freeze. KDE 4.0 Final tagged for release. Lots of optimisations and bugs fixed across KDE. Kickoff menu items can now be added to the Plasma desktop or panel. Improved resize and rotate for Plasma applets. Document list sorting in Kate. Various progress in KDevelop. Mailody moves towards using Akonadi for its IMAP functionality, various improvements in Akonadi. Start of a KHotNewStuff2 implementation in Kalzium for downloading molecular files. Experimental IVTV support in the Kalva video player. KGet uses more of the shared implementation of BitTorrent from KTorrent. Printing support for the DVI backend in okular. Improved text handling, support for printing multiple page sizes in a single document, and a much-anticipated Table Flake shape in KOffice (with further work on the Music Flake shape). Lots of work on colour manipulation for KOffice. Kile begins to use Kross as its scripting framework. Start of a new KDE game, KTank. GetHotNewStuff support disabled in okular, search runner disabled in Plasma for KDE 4.0. KHexEdit moved to the unmaintained module. The new Oxygen wallpapers, splashscreen, and sound theme are imported into KDE SVN for KDE 4.0. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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GOOD JOB
by zvonsully on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @10:25
I must say I was impressed with kde400! It is so cool!
I will try it on Windows too !
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KHexEdit
by Xanadu on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @10:57
"KHexEdit moved to the unmaintained module."

What exactly does that mean (besides what it says... :-) )? Does that mean there is no hex editor "built into" KDE? I'm aware that it's not like that's the only hex editor out there, but, having one just "simply there" sure has been a handy thing for a good number of years now.

Just wondering.

Thanx.
M.
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HUGE Digest...
by Emil Sedgh on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @11:14
Thanks Danny.Youre doing a great job.
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KTank
by Michel Vilain on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @11:47
First time I hear about KTank.....

Here is the development website:

http://ktank.free.fr

This (oldest post on the site) is what KTank is about:
"Ktank will be a remake of the wii tank play. For the moment being however, it’s just a project. Ktank will work with the last KDE4 gaming api. The game will be playable over the network using the latest GGZ library."

Sorry if this is already generally known....
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one more day....
by Max on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @13:15
One more day and KDE 4.0 becomes a reality!!! :)

Probably a few more days after that until there will be Kubuntu packages. :(

Any new KDE based distros coming out between now and Hardy Heron?


Hopefully somebody will fix the Compiz fusion dilemma, so I can enjoy all my compiz effects withing KDE 4.0...

Good Job on the Release guys... Now let's just crank up the publicity and the marketing!!!


-M
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We need more women!!!
by Max on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @13:20
I just looked at the statistics of the commit:

88.4% Male
5.42% Female

Seriously!! We need more female developers. The Linux world shouldn't be an ol'boys club. That's what the old computing world was for (Windows, etc.)
Open source should be about equal opportunity.

Also, I'm sure that KDE would benefit from a female touch. :) We all know that women have a better sense of style (and beauty) than us men ever will.

-M
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Thanks Danny.
by Oscar on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @15:25
I know it's not much but I put about $10 to your account as an appreciation for your work with the digest. I hope you get that new laptop you were hoping to buy.

A big thank you for your effort. I enjoy the digest every week.
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Changelog KDE 4.0 <-> 3.5.x ?
by anonymous on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @19:53
Is there any fast or small readable changelog what features are included/lost in applications?
For example, what features are included in Kmail?

Thank you!
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Hallelujah!
by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @23:25
KDE 4 is here with all it's wonderful sounds and glory! A big congratulation to the KDE Team, well done guys :)
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Thank you!
by Joost Ruis on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @23:43
I want to thank everybody involved in advance.
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Oxygen sound theme
by Diederik van der Boor on Friday 11/Jan/2008, @00:37
> so there's a rhythmic pattern that distinguishes the sounds;
> as opposed to other solutions out there, that rely on making
> the user jump off the chair every time something happens.

*grin* and this sounds really interesting! Looking forward to it!
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Future of Commit-Digests
by Hannes Hauswedell on Thursday 17/Jan/2008, @16:18
Will you continue to (ir)regularly publish commit-digests, now that kde4 ist out?

Thanks!
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