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  KDE Commit-Digest for 16th March 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 23/Mar/2008, @19:24
from the i'm-a-busy-bunny dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The beginnings of a network management applet in Plasma, work on containments, and improvements in the "RSS" data engine and "Devices" applet. Initial support for saving changes to documents in Okular. A Kross-based scripting plungin in KLinkStatus. "Tip-of-the-day" and "Qt methods to avoid" checkers for the Krazy code quality reporting system. First steps towards a C++ parser in Umbrello. Work on projection independence in Marble. More maintenance and bux fixing in Kooka. Continued work in KHTML. Expanded support for subtitles and audio channel selection in Phonon (prompted by the requirements of Dragon Player). A rewritten "Todo" view in KOrganizer. Further work towards Amarok 2.0. "HTTP webseeding" in KTorrent. Kross-based scripting in KPlato, with support for "find in multiple documents" in KOffice. Caching support extended to all KDE card games. Improvements in KTurtle, KNetwalk, and Kubrick. Initial imports and work on the "Killbots" and "Astrododge" games. Import of "RSSNOW", an alternate RSS feed reader Plasmoid. The Step physics package moves from playground/edu to kdereview so that it can move to the kdeedu module for KDE 4.1. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Sleep, anyway?
by Antonio on Sunday 23/Mar/2008, @19:37
Good grief, do any of you sleep? ;) `you', in this case, includes Danny. Thanks for the Digest, and thanks to all the developers for the ridiculously inhuman amount of work you put in!
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New to-do view
by The Troy on Sunday 23/Mar/2008, @19:53
Would someone be willing to post a screenshot of the new to-do view in KOrganizer?
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Are plasmoids expected to be good citizens
by Mark on Sunday 23/Mar/2008, @23:52
I follow the new builds from time to time. I not that some of the plasma apps will kill the window manager, well the screen goes black, and all I can do is a ctrl+alt+delete.

I know this is not production code, but was wondering what the design philosophy of Plasma is.

Will Plasma be engineered to handle bad plasmoids and not seg fault or go into never land. Or does it expect all plasmoids to be good citizens and not crash.


KDE really looks great. by the way
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Nice work
by T on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @01:57
The amount of work going into Akonadi & friends was really impressive. The API review will produce great long-term results, I'm sure, even if such cleanups require quite a lot of tedious work. A very exciting read, thanks to all devs.
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Well done KHTML developers
by Zayed on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @02:00
It seem we will get fast and rich features web browser in kde 4.1. Does any one have the score of KHTML (development version) in Acid test version 3 ? what about the javascript benchmark in compare with firefox 3 beta 4?
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network manager
by Thomas on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @03:14
I'm especially interested in the network manager thingy. Is this going to replace knetworkmanager as a kind of "reincarnation" as a Plasma-applet? Will it be based on Solid? Does it provide a Plasma engine which can be used by other applets? Or is it directly based on natworkmanager/dbus/HAL ?
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Plasmoids in apps
by Emil Sedgh on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @03:41
Hi
as time goes, we are getting more and more stanalone plasmoids.i dont think that having 3 (and counting!) rss reader plasmoids or a standalone 'todo list' plasmoid is good idea.
I think plasmoids should be provided by apps, like KGet that includes a plasmoid.
so rss readers should go into Akregator.with a datanengine that gets data from Akregator...

this way 3 rss readers should go into akregator and notes applet should go into knotes.TODO list viewer should be provided by KOrganizer and...

(btw, the RSSNOW applet is so cool)
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Another C++ Parser?
by Anon on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @03:44
Generally I'm in favour of making competing implementations of a thing, but a CPP parser (a proper, full one) is a very large and difficult task, and KDevelop's one seems to be quite far along and sounds like it will be top-notch, from what I hear. May I ask what is the rationale for the Umbrello devs to write their own one from scratch?
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KNetworkManager
by User on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @05:49
Does anyone know the status of KNetworkManager in KDE4 ?

I see work is being done on knetworkmanager in the work branch, but afaik this has nothing to do with KDE4(trunk).

I depend on this program every day with lots of different wlans and vpn connections, so if it is going to TRUNK I'm more than willing to contribute with some fixes where needed.
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the constant
by Francesco R. on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @06:21
the velocity of development in kde 4.{0,1} make me wonder if there is something like the C constant 10^8 m/sec for speed, 10^8 LOCs per release or whatever ...

keep going the good works heroes
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Wow
by Jakob Petsovits on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @07:17
The commit digest on Easter Sunday. Now if anyone complains once more about delayed publication and alleges Danny of lazyness, I'll hunt them down and break their legs.

That's just awesome Danny! Major coolness.
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What about KDE Linux MCE?
by Poldark on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @16:04
First of all, congratulations for the good job done with KDE. KDE4 has a huge potential, as we can see with every release and every commit-digest!

On the other hand... Does anyone know anything about Linux MCE integrated into KDE? The last news I can find about it are from at least 6 months ago, and they tell us that Linux MCE will be integrated into KDE4.

Thanks in advance for your reply and thanks for this great desktop!

Poldark
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digikam and raw 16 bits color depth auto gamma...
by Gandalf on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @03:57
In commit log we can see:

"RAW image loader : backport 8 bits color depth auto-gamma and auto-white balance adjustements from dcraw with 16 bits color depth.
These auto adjustments are performed only if Color Management is not used with image editor.
The color rendering in 16 bits is exactly the same than in 8 bits.
This is want mean than you can process speedly your RAW exactly as JPEG. Just set your usual settings in RAW dedoding and open your RAW pictures as well in editor.
This is the same way used by LightZone pro software to process RAW file without color management!
This way simplify the task in Raw workflow... and will be suitable in 90% of case. Color Management must be used in others cases..."

Anybody has tried this feature? There is a comparison somewhere between LightZone and digikam about raw files import ? Sound like a major improvement because current raw file import always give a black image with 16 bits color depth.
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Bennefit of Plasmoids ?
by Mark on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @08:39
So Plasmoids can kill the whole window system, at least from the user's perspective. Is this a step forward in desktop computing ? I mean the beauty of X applications and the X desktop was that applications were isolated and the window manager was king. And very very stable.

So we have more eye candy, but how functional is this. Is it even necessary. For instance I can launch knotes application or a note plasmoid, very little difference in how they look. Granted I can rotate the plasmoid, but what value is that. Who really even cares about eye candy. I mean Vista and Mac have their own plasmoids but who ever uses them, except for maybe a clock placed on the corner of the screen.

Please somebody explain the value of Plasmoids. Maybe they are easier to write via a scripting language.

I know KDE has spent a lot of resources on doing usability studies, and it has paid off as things are are more consistent and better laid out. Has there been a need's study for Plasma, if not maybe there should be one. And if found to be important it stays in as is, if not the KDE Window manager gets redesigned and Plasma gets taken out. Sounds like heresy I know,as a lot of hard work went into it. but what is best for KDE, and the KDE users

How about putting a simple poll on the KDE website. One question "How do you value the use of Plasma (1 no vaule, 10, grat value)

I give it a 3
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Boring news?
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @06:54
It is just me or the exiting news in KDE4 are diminishing?
I would love to see news about k3b, panel (lots and lots of missing features there), kmail, kopete, etc. To me, this looks actually like a good thing, probally things are starting to get more mature in kde4 code.

Anyway, in this edition I found good news about amarok, ktorrent, phonon supporting subtitles and multiple audio/text/video tracks is very good, I hope they do support font rendering options (font face, size and color).

Meanwhile until KDE 4.1 arrives I wait for 4.0.3 that will come with fixes for my most hated bugs (gray desktop instead of wallpaper and no double click).
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