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  KDE Commit-Digest for 27th January 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @15:55
from the it's-a-big-issue dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Heavy refactoring and work on merging translation branches in Lokalize (which is renamed from "Kaider", and moved from playground to kdesdk). Work on a question editor in KEduca. Work on real-time cloud imagery in Marble. An initial implementation of a new undo stack in KWordQuiz. The start of a KAlgebra, Rot13, KWorldClock, and Pastebin Plasma applet, with the inclusion of more functionality from KDE 3.5 (such as the multi-row taskbar panel) in Plasma. Progress in scripting support and functionality in Plasma. The "Now Playing" data engine and applet, and the fuzzy-clock Plasma applet move into kdereview. Viewports support declared "complete" on the KDE desktop. "FlipSwitch" window-switching effect in KWin. The start of a KIO slave for handling arbitrary NEPOMUK resources. Draft implementation of a KABC resource based on Akonadi. Wholesale merges from the enterprise branch of KDE-PIM back into the main KDE branch. Move to complete support for the MPRIS media player interaction standard, and support for Video CD's and Audio CD's in Dragon Player. Dragon Player moves from kdereview into kdemultimedia for KDE 4.1. Last.fm streaming radio now works in Amarok 2. Work on gradient editing in Karbon. The Kooka scanning application finds a new maintainer, with various initial improvements. KSystemLog moves from playground into kdereview. Krone, a simple expense manager for KDE 4, is added to KDE SVN. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Nice new effect Martin Graesslin
by Patcito on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @16:26
While you're at it, you could add the cube too, I think it uses 3D too :)
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\o/
by shamaz on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @16:34
Thank you Danny :)
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Plasma in Dolphin / Icon overlays
by josh on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @16:41
First off, the KDE4 K3B port looks amazing!

I was wondering about the icon overlays that were mentioned in the "KDE 4.1 Feature Plan": http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan

This means *ALL* icons will have the overlay not just the ones on the desktop? Does this mean Plasmoids are actually going to be inside Dolphin?
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Kooka
by jimB on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @18:10
"The Kooka scanning application finds a new maintainer, with various initial improvements."

What? I read it over and over again. There is a new maintainer? To bad that there is no information on the Kooka homepage. However, I'm really glad to hear this!

BTW, any news about Decibel?
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Kwin effect
by Hans on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @01:15
Personally I don't like the Vista effect, but I'm sure it'll make some happy. Great work!

While reading that part of the digest, I thought of a new window-switching effect. Just a crazy idea that popped up, I haven't given it enough thought yet; but hey, let's share it and see what you think.

I think one word is enough to describe the effect, as it has become quite known: Coverflow. Or, should I say "Windowflow"? ;)
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k4b
by burner on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @01:49
will k3b now be renamed to k4b (kde 4 burning)?
or what does k3b actually stand for?
I never got it...
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Don't get me wrong...
by mkrs on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @01:54
Don't get me wrong, but isn't fixing A LOT of bugs more important than implementing new functionality to apps? I (and many, many users) will never be able to use those new versions of apps as long as the core of KDE is not stable enough. And that's not good at all.
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K3b plugins?
by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @03:46
I'm a bit confused about the K3b plugins. Why does it use separate plugins and not Phonon for audio encoding and decoding?


PS: Thanks Danny for the Didgest
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K3b plugins?
by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @03:46
I'm a bit confused about the K3b plugins. Why does it use separate plugins and not Phonon for audio encoding and decoding?


PS: Thanks Danny for the Didgest
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Buzz
by dh on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @04:21
How is the Buzz of apps calculated? :)
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Why KDE 4.0 have two "Zion" Color schemes ?
by KDE user since 2.1 on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @05:04
in KDE 4.0 systemsettings - > appearance -> Colors

I see there are two color schemes with the name "Zion" - the other is reversed zion - so why this exact name is chosen ?

does this reflect the KDE support for Israel ?

if no , can we have a less provoking name please and keeping kde neutral ?

thanks .
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konqueror restore from crashed session
by hias on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @05:11
I like the KDE4 Konqueror very much. The only thing that prevents me from daily use is that it doesn't restore the session after a crash like firefox.
I don't mind if it crashes, no software is perfect, but I use the tab feature quite extensive and it is annoying if all the tabs are gone after a crash.

Anyway, Konqueror is really great and I like the new restore closed tab feature very much.
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K3b and solid
by SVG Crazy on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @05:50
I know it is just the beginning and first of all I want to congratulate all KDE developers for the excellent work so far.

Reading the commit news about k3b a question came to mind:

Wouln't it be interesting to have the k3b device detection code in solid? (since it is optimized for optical devices and gathers much more information than Solid does).

I think it would be great because other apps would have the ability to use it and giving the device media detection tasks to solid would make easier to have k3b running on windows and macosx.

Sorry for my english, still learning.
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Dragon Player
by DanaKil on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @09:57
I'd love to have a minimal playlist support (integred like the volume or video settings panels) in Dragon Player
I think it's a basic feature in a video player... well, at least as basic as Audio CD support in a video player ;)

I'd love to be able to control the volume with the mouse wheel over the volume button and to delete history too.
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Amarok 2.0?
by Max on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @21:53
Hi,

I haven't seen any news on Amarok 2.0 for KDE. Could someone please update me on the progress of that?
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Great job guys
by Max on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @21:54
Great job guys!!

Don't let the nitpicking discourage you. See it as a way of people showing interest and exitement about the project.

Keep up the awesome work!!!
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K3B and QProcess
by Erik on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @22:53
> since K3b directly links the stdout and stdin file descriptors of
> processes such as mkisofs and cdrecord to gain maximum performance
> when piping data during on-the-fly burning.
Doesn't http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qprocess.html#setStandardOutputProcess handle what is needed to directly link those mkisofs and cdrecord descriptors?

> since there is also no way to use QProcess synchronously in a
> multi-threaded application
Well, that's the way Qt works - asynchronously by design. This might look quite annoying at the beginning, but it really pays off.


lg
Erik
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Who many media players?
by FL on Sunday 03/Feb/2008, @02:02
Hello,
how many media players do we have in KDE 4 now? From KDE 3 I remember kaboodle and noatun. Have they been removed or do we have 3 players (kaboodla, noatun, dragon player) now? I think this is two too many. (I'm talking about the apps included in kde multimedia etc.)
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KDE-PIM
by m. on Monday 04/Feb/2008, @10:57
Amazing work Till! In shadow of KDE 4 eye candy there are great improvements to Kontact usability and feature wise.

Thanks to whole KDE-PIM team.
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APIs
by yman on Monday 04/Feb/2008, @12:31
I wonder if there are any plans for APIs with pluggable backends for the following things:

1. extracting text from images (text recognition?)
2. voice recognition.
3. automatic translation of text from one language to another.
4. screen reading.

use cases:
automatically generate subtitles for movies.
automatically generate transcripts of interviews.

compile multiple narrative nicely into a single sheet of paper for history class.
create E-Books out of the hard copies you bought.
translate documents you receive into a language you can actually read.
brows ALL the web in your language, regardless of what language it was written in (including images!).
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