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  KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd February 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Friday 08/Feb/2008, @18:08
from the it's-that-time-of-the-week dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Custom legend entries and the beginnings of the Mercator map projection (and evidence of exciting other things to come) in Marble. Support for multiple online dictionaries and the start of a vocabulary Plasma applet in Parley. Kross scripting engines (supporting various scripting languages) in Plasma, and the much-anticipated return of the ability to resize the panel. Support for multiple "Picture of the Day" providers in the "Picture Frame" Plasma applet. More work on the redesign (code and visuals) of KWorldClock. Work on theming improvements across KDE games. Image information now displayed in fullscreen mode in Gwenview. Continued maintenance work in the Kooka scanning application. Support for HTML signatures in KMail. Continued development on the IRC Kopete plugin. Work on snap guides and a threaded tile backend in KOffice. A migration plugin for Sybase ASE in Kexi. Various efficiency improvements in KLinkStatus, KGet, and some KDE games. KDE 4.0.1 (bugfixes) is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Nepomuk use case
by Patcito on Friday 08/Feb/2008, @19:55
I guess we're not too far away from the "search all pictures received from user X and tagged funny" or "select all pdf downloaded from website Y" (that one would need some work from kget or khtml I guess) ?

Very cool anyway.
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Domino
by T. J. Brumfield on Friday 08/Feb/2008, @20:14
Forgive me for repeating this comment from another dot article, but all the replies were about QT, and I never got a reply about Domino. The original author didn't appear to update Domino, and it has been a few years.

Will some kind soul port over Domino to KDE 4? Maybe even somewhat of a cross breed between Oxygen and Domino? And these two improvements to Domino?

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Domino+menu+hack+for+Beryl+shadows?content=72631

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Domino+Mockup?content=72412
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bug or no bug?
by app browser on Friday 08/Feb/2008, @23:30
I'm not very pleased about this fix:

> Kickoff should start from the top level menu (and favorites)
> Bug 155377: Kickoff should start from the top level menu (and favorites)

actually I liked this behaviour, especially when browsing and exploring for example all the games.
This was for me the big usability improvement over the old style menu.

Probably one could make this configurable...
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Finally! HTML sigs in kmail
by Fred on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @00:33
Thanks, Edwin!!
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Mac OS style menu bar
by furanku on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @02:37
May I, with all respect for the good work and the priorities of the developers, ask if there are any plans to reintroduce the Mac OS style menu bar? I asked for that a while ago and Lubos Lunak generously offered to work on that somewhen post-4.0.

Are there any news on that?
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Thanks for the backports
by Debian User on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @05:48
Hello,

I'd like to thank those distributions who back port the KDE 4.1 changes most missed from 4.0 already, specifically Riddel and Kubuntu.

Yours,
Kay
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Remove the Taskbar
by Frank on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @11:02
Hi,

first of all, thanks for KDE 4 ;-).

Now to the subject. Why do we need a taskbar, if we have Plasma with Dashboard and/or KWin with nice 3D-Effects for switching Tasks? IMHO we don't need a "Taskbar". Remove it. Or do I oversee somethink?

bye

frank

P. S.: sorry, for the english ;-)
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Its sad.
by taurnil.oronar@hotmail.com on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @12:10
I just with all the greatness of konqueror as a file mangager was fully restorted.... dolphin is of no use to me.
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Plasma suggestion
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @13:40
- is panel a plasmoid tha contains other plasmoids or a kde4 app? if it's a plasmoid why not simply adding the buttons to scale/rotate?

- suggestion number two is related. I don't know if you did usability studies or whatever, but changing the plasmoids visual (showing border and scale, remove and rotate button) every time I pass a mouse over one plasmoid is... damn.. a nightmare! Can't you just add a small area/button that does it when I *click* on it? Current behavior is plain ugly IMHO and bad at usability - imagine a person moving the mouse and pressing the button by mistake right when the cursor was above the remove icon (I know there is a confirmation dialog, but still sucks). :)

- once it's basically a SVG border (at least the part that matters), what about adding a option to configure the background color? Sure, it won't work for SVGs themes with degrades or texture, but would be great for simpler ones as in the current version. Nothing agains black, but it would match the color theme better ;)

- least but I hope not fopr ever, I want back those little bars used to move each item in the panel. Did you noticed it's a bit hard to order them when placing in the panel from add plasmoid dialog?

Well, you can refuse all my suggestions, but remember most of them are things that are regressions from 3.x ;)
Thanks in advance!
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Great Games Website
by Dominik Huber on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @13:53
Hi,

I wanted to say that the new KDE games website is really beautiful and up-to-date! Thanks for this!

I would be great if other pages were updated (like the Plaska page).

Greetings from Switzerland
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Plasma config
by Vitaly Shishakov on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @17:41
While the nice GUI for configuring the plasma panel is still absent,
where could one find a description of plasma_appletsrc config file?
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Mercator map projection
by JRT on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @21:45
Why do we want Mercator projection. IIUC, it has been deprecated.

We already have equal angle, which is probably the best. It would probably be a good idea to add equal area as well.

Orthographic and equal-angle hemisphere projections would be nice. Would it be possible have the user choose the center point?
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KDE 4.0 on slow PC's? - challenge
by Steve on a Sony on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @23:36
I have a project I started a few hours ago, just to see if I can do it (and to rescue my old Vaio from the depth of a storage closet)

I'm trying to run a distro of Linux on a
Sony Vaio PCG505-Sr7k
600 mhz Pentium III
192 megs of Pc-133 SDRAM (I can put in 256 total, but I could not find a vendor that sells SDRAM Micro-DIMMs, but that's another story)
10" screen 1024x768 max resolution.
Netgear 54g wireless cardbus card (atheros chipset, IIRC)
12 gig hd.
external DVD-ROM drive (plugs in through cardbus)

I could probably do XFCE, but that would be to easy (and unfamiliar) Besides this could finally lay proof to the claim that KDE 4.0 uses less resources than KDE 3.5.X

The computer was built for Windows 2000, I managed to run WinXP on it. As well as Suse 10 (before openSUSE). Never could get the wireless to work under the Linux partition.

Now will KDE 4.0 run on it? (kinda like "will it blend?", but less destructive. :) )

I'm going to bed now, but based on you guy's prediction, and helpful tips, I will attempt it tomorow morning. Some tips as to the installer would help too, as most live CD's I can think of atm, want at least 384mb ram.
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Krone
by Erwin on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @06:59
I currently use Eqonomize (http://eqonomize.sourceforge.net) a lot.
Is a cooperation between these two projects possible?
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I thought NOKIA was going to donate money to KDE?
by Max on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @10:14
I just noticed something. I thought Nokia was going to donate money to the KDE project? Something about becoming a Patron?

I've yet to see their name on that list:
(speaking of which, where did the "Patron of KDE, Supporter of KDE" image go. Wasn't it always on the homepage?)

Also isn't E$ 10,000 nothing more than chump change for a big company like that?
I think they should donate MUCH MORE MONEY THAN THAT. They bought Trolltech after all. They should at least have a SIGNIFICANT amount of money vested in KDE as a gurantee towards the project, and to show goodwill, IMHO.

Could anybody involved with Trolltech please clear this up?

Also "What have they done for me lately" - Eddie Murphy
Could anybody give us an update of what Nokia has done for Trolltech,KDE,OpenSource in general in the last few weeks since the aquisition? I'm curious and interested.
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I know this isn't the place, but
by D Kite on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @17:38
This is a feeling sort of thing, and I wouldn't know where to start fixing it.

The desktop feels heavy. Mousing around, using the menu, opening and closing things, it feels like you are dragging a weight around. I suspect it has to do with fine tuning the timings. It isn't lag caused by a slow machine or loading libraries, which gives a stutter feeling. It is consistent.

This is one of those things that will get sorted out by use. I'm impressed how KDE 4 is coming along, and I don't think any developer can help but be excited by the available technologies.

Derek
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Websites....
by Jeremy on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @19:33
Is it really reasonable to put every application or technologies on a different site?

Its freaking annoying, whats wrong with the regular kde.org site?

You got gwenview on this website, kross on this site, and then you got amarok on the kde website? Wtf!

Sorry, I'm kinda picky.
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whey hey!
by Intrepid Ungulate on Wednesday 13/Feb/2008, @15:15
kde 4 is delicious but somehow i can't help feeling there isn't enough cheese in it. i'm thinking camembert, i'm thinking halloumi, i'm thinking stilton. exciting cheese with lots of flavour, makes you tingle just thinking about it. not like that gnome stuff which is just foot cheese, or the mac cheese which is fun with those apple chunks in it but is too prissy. good solid cheese.

i used to like windows cheese but it went mouldy.

remember folks, more cheese = better!
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Is KDE 4.1 going to run on Haiku?
by Max on Thursday 14/Feb/2008, @12:13
Will KDE 4.1 be able to run on Haiku?
Or will the applications run on it?

From the little I know about it, it seems to have great potential. It's just missing an up to date window environments --> KDE to the rescue.. :)

It also seems to be a speed demon on slower computers. Maybe it is one on faster computers as well?
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Any new updates?
by Hi on Saturday 16/Feb/2008, @12:21
Any new updates coming soon?

It's been pretty quiet around KDE and Windows KDE this week.

You guys are doing a great job!!

Just please update us. :)
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