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  KDE Commit-Digest for 20th January 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Friday 25/Jan/2008, @21:34
from the technical-issues dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Taskbar and KMenu functionality from KDE 3.5 returns to the Plasma panel, and work on clocks in Plasma, with the move of the binary-clock Plasmoid to kdereview. Improvements in annotation handling in Okular (which has been officially capitalised). Essential support for viewing bug contents in the rewrite of KBugBuster. More data export options (CSV, HTML, etc) in Kalzium. The CVS implementation in KDevelop moves to the Model/View framework. The start of JavaScript functionality in Kst plugins. Usability refinements in Konsole. Mailody begins to be ported to the Akonadi service. A "mirror search" plugin for KGet. IPv6 work in KTorrent. Colour docker improvements across KOffice. Optimisations in KDevelop and NEPOMUK. Various work in KJS and KHTML. Support for the MPRIS multimedia player interaction specification in Dragon Player, with Dragon Player moving from playground/multimedia into kdemultimedia for KDE 4.1. The Kopete Bonjour protocol moves to kdereview. The copy of Qt within KDE SVN is updated to be GPL version 3 compatible. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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4.1
by winter on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @00:23
It's fantastic to read news already talking about KDE 4.1. Gotta love it.
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IRC Client
by Emil Sedgh on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @01:02
is there any plan to reactive the IRC plugin for Kopete?
or porting konversation?

im just runing Kopete from KDE 3.Amarok pre-2 'plays' music, KMail is almost usable and stable (but its not using Akonadi, right?)

KDE 4 is becoming more and more usable...
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Naysayers proven wrong
by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @04:10
"The post-KDE 4.0 commit surge continues this week, with 3043 commits. (...) . There is a real buzz to KDE development right now, an extra edge to what is already a vibrant atmosphere, and it is evident everywhere, from IRC to SVN."

This proves the naysayers (especially the idiotic OSNews.com crew) wrong who complain that the 4.0 release should have been delayed. If 4.0 wasn't released like this, the commit surge wouldn't have happened.
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Pluto is a dwarf planet
by Rubén Moreno Montolíu on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @05:16
"We have already been deriving Pluto from the KSAsteroid class for practical reasons. With this change, Pluto is now labeled an "asteroid" in the details dialog."

But Pluto is not an asteroid, is a dwarf planet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet
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thanks
by mactalla on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @08:56
A great read as usual. Thanks Danny!
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Akondi now?
by Soap on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @09:43
So, is Akondi working in 4.0.x now, or is it going to be in 4.1? I seem to remember it and PIM being scheduled for 4.1.

Also, I love all these backends. It should be great for developers and users alike.
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Sigh...
by GiacomoL on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @09:49
Uhm. Over the years people developed a plethora of KDE-based media players (KPlayer, KMPlayer, Kaffeine, Noatun, and soon even Amarok will have video support), but in KDE 4.1 the "official" video player (as it's the only one on kdemultimedia, everything else is in extragear or elsewhere) is going to be a ultra-basic thing that (I quote from the homepage) "has not yet made a stable release, but it is getting there"...? What a curious decision :/

(Note: this is not a flame. I just think is curious, there's probably a technical reason for this but I can't see it and I'd like that somebody would tell me).
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K3B anyone?
by Jeremy on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @23:21
What happened to K3B? Does it get ported to QT4 and get a sexy new oxygen look or is there something different?
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MVC Framework
by Marc Driftmeyer on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @03:12
Pardon my observation but I keep seeing this MVC embrace and have to rant:

I just love how the C++ world and Java world has "embraced" this Smalltalk/ObjC/Cocoa MVC world.

You abhorred it when NeXTStep/Openstep had it as the center of it's entire development paradigm.

Suddenly we see this grand renaissance as if it never happened but within the Java/C++ world.

end of rant.
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kopete
by RJ on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @12:16
On KDE 4 I was having problems with kopete last night, it wouldn't connect to msn. So I updated KDE then went to bed, this morning Kopete wont even open. shows up on the task manager for about 10 seconds then closes. How do I find what is happening so that I can report it?
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Kget finally starting to catch up?
by Yeah Right on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @00:51
Finally, mirror search functionality. But will it also:

- automatically split downloads into multiple parts
- download several parts simultaneously from different mirrors
- measure mirror response time and dynamically adjust which mirrors
it uses?
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NOKIA aquires Trolltech ! ? ! ? ! ?
by Thomas on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @00:52
What's going on here? First I read this I was quite shocked, but as the dust is settling, I wonder what are the positive effects?
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Nokia & Trolltech
by anonymous coward on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @02:23
Ouch, I really don't like this. Trolltech will now be part of a slow-moving, corrupt, pro-software-patent company that is against open standards like ogg.

What currently bothers me most (and I haven't even seen anyone asking) is that probably QTopia is going to die. Because I don't see Nokia switching to an opensourced phone architecture. And why would a company that openly rips subsidies and fires people making a plus invest in a second phone framework?

IMO, Nokia sucks both morally and technologically, and it's sad to see Trolltech going there.
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