KDE Commit-Digest for 13th January 2008

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KDE Commit-Digest for 13th January 2008

Posted by Danny Allen on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @17:17
from the it-is-late-but-done dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: A whole set of bugfixes and feature additions in Plasma, and various optimisations across KDE. Usability improvements in Blinken. More work on the timeline tool, including fuzzy selection in Digikam. Support for XComposite translucency in the Konsole KPart. QtScript can now deal transparently with all scripting backends supported by Kross. Improvements in KWin Composite effects. Support for an old feature request, "parenthesis highlighting as an expression" in Kate. Continued interface work in the KHotNewStuff2 library. Progress in the Bonjour protocol implementation in Kopete. Support for stroke gradients, and adding and removing rows, columns and cells in the new Table Flake shape in KOffice. Initial import of kio-giobridge, a bridge interface between the KDE and GNOME I/O methods. Work is resumed on the CIA Plasma applet. A Luna Plasmoid (moon phase display) is added to KDE SVN. Dragon Player (formerly Codeine) is moved from playground/multimedia to kdereview, with a view to moving into kdemultimedia for KDE 4.1. The KDE 4 version of Yakuake, essentially a rewrite, is imported into KDE SVN. Read the rest of the Digest here.

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Cool
by Leo S on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @20:26

Thanks Danny, you're the man.

And KWin is awesome in KDE4.0. Even in this early state, it works a lot better for me than compiz ever did (even recent versions). It makes way more sense to add composite support to a window manager that is actually smart than try to put the smart into compiz.

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Re: Cool by kwilliam on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @20:42

Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:53

Re: Cool by Jorge S. de Lis on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:58

Re: Cool by Lubos Lunak on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:23
Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @04:02
Re: Cool by Diederik van der Boor on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @04:57

Re: Cool by pantsgolem on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @21:29
Re: Cool by Fred on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @23:41

Re: Cool by Esben Mose Hansen on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @00:11
Re: Cool by Lubos Lunak on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @00:59

Re: Cool by Thomas on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:19

Re: Cool by yman on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @22:11

Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:57
Re: Cool by Soap on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:49
Re: Cool by Max on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @12:13

Re: Cool by abc on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @00:42

Re: Cool by Lubos Lunak on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @01:02

Re: Cool by abc on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @01:08

Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:01

Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:15

Re: Cool by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:58

Re: Cool by Anon on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @07:10
Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @16:45

Re: Cool by Segedunum on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @07:16
Re: Cool by Odysseus on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:54
Re: Cool by Leo S on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:08

Re: Cool by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:23

Also Yakuake
by Leo S on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @20:32

Thanks for that Eike. For a few weeks I had to live without it as 2.8 crashed in KDE4.0, but now 2.9 beta is in Debian experimental and I have my Yakuake back! What a great app that is, and I haven't seen any bugs yet.

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Re: Also Yakuake by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:05

Re: Also Yakuake by Leo S on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:11

Re: Also Yakuake by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @11:07

Re: Also Yakuake by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:48
Re: Also Yakuake by Stefan on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:00

Re: Also Yakuake by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:11

Re: Also Yakuake by Vide on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @07:09

Re: Also Yakuake by Eike Hein on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @11:27

Re: Also Yakuake by Vide on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @04:10

kio-gio bridge
by ohcalcutta on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @22:51

>>Initial import of kio-giobridge, a bridge
>> interface between the KDE and GNOME I/O methods

What exactly this means? Can somebody please explain it?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: kio-gio bridge by Stefan on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @14:58
Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:05

Re: kio-gio bridge by yman on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @22:19

Re: kio-gio bridge by Morty on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @02:50

Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @04:20

Re: kio-gio bridge by Allan Sandfeld on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @00:38

Re: kio-gio bridge by Vide on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @04:40

Re: kio-gio bridge by SadEagle on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @10:21

Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @13:26

Re: kio-gio bridge by SadEagle on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @15:04

Re: kio-gio bridge by Kevin Krammer on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @15:53

Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @17:27

Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @19:03

Re: kio-gio bridge by Richard Moore on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @02:29

Re: kio-gio bridge by Norbert on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @04:37

Re: kio-gio bridge by SadEagle on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @07:57

Re: kio-gio bridge by Vide on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @06:37

Re: kio-gio bridge by Jel on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @05:29

Dragon Player...
by Apple Pie on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @00:26

Dragon Player seems OK, but my multimedia solution in KDE 3 is Kaffeine. It's an amazing app, playing CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Video, a useable Konqueror plugin, etc. Will it be ported to KDE 4?

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Re: Dragon Player... by dr on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @01:21
Re: Dragon Player... by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:12
Re: Dragon Player... by user on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @04:00
Re: Dragon Player... by Matt Williams on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:35
Re: Dragon Player... by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:57

Re: Dragon Player... by Darkelve on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:33

Re: Dragon Player... by jospoortvliet on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:21

Re: Dragon Player... by Poborskiii on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @04:36

Re: Dragon Player... by Poborskiii on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @04:59

Re: Dragon Player... by Ask on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @00:13

KDE Release Event video
by goran on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:29

Hello! Where can I find videos of the KDE Release Event (keynote,etc.)? Thanks!

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Re: KDE Release Event video by Danny Allen on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:10

KWIN is such a WIN!!
by an user on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:50

How great KWin is!! The integration of compositing and window management is a huge improvement, it makes you think why in the beginning there were 2. I can't stop showing my friends how cool is to toggle compositing in KWin, often without even noticing a flicker!

I was skeptical when I first heard about that, but now I foresight a successfull future (an present!) for KWin. Thanks Lubos !!!

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Feature Request for 4.1
by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:55

I'd like to see a start-up wizard for the first time you use KDE 4 with a new profile. I believe SUSE had one for a while. There was an older version of SUSE I installed, that when I first used it, it prompted me to configure KDE through a wizard.

It asked me if I want to use single clicks or double-clicks to launch apps. It asked me if I wanted to mimic OS X, XP, or use KDE defaults, etc. With QT including a Clearlooks engine, you could even configure KDE to mimic Gnome to a certain extent. I sure wouldn't want to, but there are plenty of people (for whatever reason) that like Gnome. It might help people consider trying it out, and eventually switching.

A start-up wizard helping you configure KDE might go a long way to help ease some of the complaints of people not being able to configure KDE 4, not to mention help ease the transition of potential new users we might get from the Mac, Windows and Gnome crowds. KDE 4 is new and shiny, and we have to expect that new users are going to want to try it out.

This no doubt would require that KDE bundle some themes that mimic the above systems, but I'm sure there will be plenty of them on kde-look.org

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Re: Feature Request for 4.1 by Emil Sedgh on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @07:41

Re: Feature Request for 4.1 by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @09:20

Next Release ?
by KubuntuUser on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:40

Hi

Could someone please point me to the release schedules for 4.1 ? Next Kubuntu will offer KDE 4. I wonder if it will be the KDE 4.0 or KDE 4.1 branch, and whether there is a chance of one more KDE release before April.

Thanks a lot, and THANK YOU for the awsome work !

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Re: Next Release ? by Odysseus on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:59
Re: Next Release ? by Ian Monroe on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:10

Re: Next Release ? by KubuntuUser on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:26

Re: Next Release ? by KubuntuUser on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:34

Re: Next Release ? by Anon on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:55

Re: Next Release ? by KubuntuUser on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @11:28

Re: Next Release ? by KubuntuUser on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @16:32

Re: Next Release ? by Max on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @12:20

Re: Next Release ? by Kevin Kofler on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @00:31

Poor nvidia drivers
by michaell on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @08:46

> Note that current XRender implementations (in X/drivers) often perform rather poorly and therefore the OpenGL mode should usually have much better performance.

How poorly they are can be for example seen here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=106338

At the moment, buying a new nvidia card will only decrease your performance. If a new one is needed, you will go best with an used AGP card.

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New Release?
by Ramon Antonio on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @12:41

That mean we will see a new release soon? I thought there won't be any untill beginning February (4.0.1).

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Re: New Release? by Danny Allen on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @18:57

Kioslaves documentation?
by Oscar on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @01:33

Hi.
Is there a kioslave documentation page somewhere? A howto or something that will get me started writing one, or perhaps discourage me from trying. I've googled for it but can't seem to find anything appropriate.

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Re: Kioslaves documentation? by Kevin Krammer on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @06:59

Samba kio slave broken?
by pinda on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @07:30

I really like KDE 4, and I use it as my main desktop now. However, one little bug frustrates me a lot. I can't really copy files over samba. I already created a bugreport for it (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154929), but so far, nobody confirmed this bug, which lends me to believe it might have something to do with my configuration / the kubuntu packages. I'm wondering if anybody here can confirm this bug. I'm stuck using the command line smbget to download stuff over samba, which ain't that convenient.

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Re: Samba kio slave broken? by pinda on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @09:31
Re: Samba kio slave broken? by pinda on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @10:07
Re: Samba kio slave broken? by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @03:53

Re: Samba kio slave broken? by pinda on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @07:07

Re: Samba kio slave broken? by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @09:23

nize.. niiizzzzzeeee...
by eMPee584 on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @08:45

..and funny too: they made the M$N butterfly more evelish:
http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-01-13/moreinfo/758135/#visual

And good to see the pace of improvement everyone is putting up.. KDE rules! My panel is back too! Watching svn up never has been so much fun ;)

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Plasmoids in javascript?
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @14:49

Maybe slightly irrelevant and the wrong place to ask, but heck, I'll do it anyway. : )

I've just installed KDE 4.0 and it has been, despite its flaws, been fun using it.

However, I'm somewhat disappointed by the lack of documentation for Plasma. I know there's a how-to-build-your-first-plasmoid-in-c++ tutorial at Techbase, but there aren't any that show you how to make one in e.g. JavaScript. That's something I've been looking forward to do. Apparently, there's support for scripting Plasmoids in JavaScript, but I can't find any documentation for it, nor any good examples (there are some JavaScript examples in playground, I know, but they wouldn't run here). Can anyone tell if there are any plans of doing this in the near future?

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Re: Plasmoids in javascript? by Aaron J. Seigo on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @20:23

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