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  KDE Commit-Digest for 17th February 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @12:17
from the the-weekend dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Configuration and layout work in Plasma. A whole load of Plasma backports from trunk to the KDE 4.0 branch (for KDE 4.0.2). Plasma applets begin to be ported to use WebKit from Qt 4.4. Color blindness simulation for KMag. Work on support for button form fields, and support for encrypted ODF documents in Okular. More developments in the porting and maintanence of Kooka. Remote KABC resource and an Akonadi to KCal bridge in Akonadi. UPnp integration in Kopete. A rewritten upload plugin for KDevPlatform (used in Quanta and KDevelop). Continued work on a new projection framework in Marble. Undo/Redo work using a "piece table" in Okteta. Optimisations in Kalzium, Amarok, and KGet. A KControl module for configuring imaplib resources in Mailody, and a module for managing emoticon themes in KDE. Start of work on Puck, a tool to convert the Plasma XML user interface format into C++ code. Experiments with a KDE 4 version of Kommander. A branch of KDEPrint to experiment with refactoring and porting to Qt 4.4 (for KDE 4.1). Decibel and the Plasma "Luna" and "Trash" applets move to kdereview. KSystemLog moves into kdeadmin. Import of Smoke and Ruby Plasma bindings. KDE 3.5.9 and KOffice 1.9.95.3 (KOffice 2 Alpha 6) are tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Frist Thnaks!
by Anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @12:41
Many thanks, Mr Allen :)
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Question
by The Troy on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @13:17
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find an answer on the commit-digest site (or anywhere else). But when this claims to be a digest of things that have been committed, does it mean in the casual/conventional sense (ex: "I commit to backport some of the Plasma changes for 4.0.2 sometime next week.") or in the version-control sense (ex: "I committed the Plasma changes through svn this morning.")?
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time to get a new digest writer
by anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @13:25
personally, I like to read the commit before I upgrade, if there is nothing there worth upgrading for I wait. This whole crappy attitude of posting it nearly a week after it is just lazy. It's time Danny, you hand the reins over to someone who can get a digest out timely.

Many home users will be thinking it doesn't matter, but for businesses it does matter to know what is in the updates before committing to them.

You work has been appreciated, but if digest continue to be a week late, I can only see us moving to another desktop environment
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Kooka Development
by Anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @14:43
Will Kooka be supporting the google supported open source OCR project "Tesseract OCR" ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr

Please!!!! We need a better OCR program for Kooka!! It'll benefit everyone, gocr is sooo bad.

Below: gocr output, from a human readable scan!


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Okular
by Anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @14:48
I visited the irc://irc.kde.org/#okular and asked if there was the same 4 sheets to 1 physical print out limitation as in kpdf. I was corrected that it is a kdeprint limitation which is apparently dead for kde4. instead there's a new limitation and okular can only print 1 page per sheet of paper, oh boy... can someone please fix this?!

(I would if i could)
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Upload plugin is for Quanta only
by Andreas Pakulat on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @16:38
Just a small correction, the upload plugin is inside Quanta's source tree and is not part of the KDevelop Platform. Its something specific for web development.
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KIO-GIObridge
by Dima on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @19:01
"KIO-GIObridge is an optional adapter for KIO to use the new GIO/GVFS (the successor of GNOME-VFS) to handle the protocols mentioned above."

I think this is really cool. There is no reason why KDE and GNOME should use different implementations of the same remote protocols.

I always wanted to make it possible for KDE and GNOME applications to share the same file dialogs, for consistency's sake. Qt's support for GLib makes it almost possible - but it probably wouldn't work when opening/saving non-local files. But the KIO-GIObridge should really help here.
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Calm in the KDE4 camp ? :D
by nikolas on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @23:41
I was wondering, things have been somewhat quiet for the last week in the planetkde and also it seems the number of commits is not what it has been lately. Is there something happening or is it just random ? This is my curiosity as a kde4 enthusiast, not me trying to start a quarrel :)
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Napoleon's Tomb
by Flitcraft on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @01:06
> Stephan Kulow committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames:
> removing calculation and napoleon's tomb - both are too much games of luck
> with too complex rules

I was wondering why Napoleon's Tomb had vanished for the last few opensuse releases.

Does that mean Tomb is gone for good? I love that game.
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NOATUN
by joe on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @05:40
Each 2nd. KDE-update breaks the file associations with Kaffeine and sets Noatun as the default player. It's something as trivial as annoying! (in opensuse).
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Thanks guys!! - I'm really impressed. :)
by Max on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @22:23
I just read this: http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-41-visual-changelog-rev-777000/

"KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be — a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop. I took a look at the revision 777000 of this desktop environment and what you get is a visual changelog describing the current progress in terms of look and feel and the features."

Nvm the above paragraph, I just included it for completeness sake.

I'm really impressed with KDE 4.1 development so far.
It seems that KDE is really on track to deliver everything Aaron Seigo promised it would in the keynote.

Thank you to everyone involved with the project. You guys are doing a great job.
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One package manager to help them all?
by Parminder Ramesh on Monday 25/Feb/2008, @04:28
As distros start rolling out KDE4, I think it would be great if there was a uniform graphical package manager that worked across the divide of packaging systems, a la KPackage. It would be great to have a manager that matched the features and clean design of Synaptic (not to detract from the competence that is found in Adept) and the only differences across distros would be the backend used. Would it be possible to have a system like Phonon is for sound engines, where each distro writes a backend (Ubuntu & Debian's deb, Fedora, opensuse, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS & a billion others' rpm, all the other exotic ones) that links up to the same interface? Or is this what PackageKit already intends to accomplish?

It would be wonderful if there was co-operation between the various KDE distros on one Oxygen-designed and HIG-compliant manager that would make app installation even easier than now. This would reduce duplication of effort and free up individual distro developer time to polish up some other features. Of course, this is all idealistic stuff that would probably hit roadblocks in the real world, but the free software movement is all about dreaming and working towards better stuff right? :)
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Okular rocks!
by jos poortvliet on Monday 25/Feb/2008, @04:43
>Optionally, read the "button" form fields from poppler.
>Enable the support for them only if the poppler version is recent enough (atm, git master of around 9 hours ago).

Cool, Okular clearly is pretty up-to-date ;-)
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Is KDE going to be at this years Google Summer of
by Max on Tuesday 26/Feb/2008, @00:12
Is KDE going to be at this years Google Summer of Code again?

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/02/26/0134235.shtml


I'm very curious. Looking forward to the results.. :)
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Rant on KIO-GIObridge
by Stefan on Tuesday 26/Feb/2008, @02:24
Who needs that? What comes next? Why not switch over to GTK and other Gnome technologies alltogether?! This would make us so unbelievably compatible and attractive for 3rd party applications, as they wouldn't have to decide between to frameworks! Just take Gnome, put a few new icons and wallpaper on top: thats the new KDE 5! Giving up identity? But we are compatible! Hell yea!

(I know, this is carried to extremes)
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