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  KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd March 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @02:15
from the yeah dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for "undo closed windows" in Konqueror. GetHotNewStuff support for Plasma themes. Konsole, Konqueror, and Kate session selection added in Plasma applet form. New Plasmoids: "Generic Folder View", "System Command", KNotify-based "Popups", "Quick Launch", and to display data from Kalzium. Digikam now uses Phonon for video and audio previews, with improved use of Phonon in Dragon Player. Start of NEPOMUK support in Gwenview. A NEPOMUK "Social Query Daemon" for viewing storages across a network, and work on tagging GUI's for NEPOMUK using Dolphin. Work on services and queries, with the removal of the engine system (now using Phonon only) in Amarok 2. Continued development in Konsole. Various functional improvements in KTurtle. Support for synonyms in Parley. Support for custom themes in KNetWalk. A system tray application for Akonadi. Initial implementation of a remote desktops dock widget for KRDC. Work on the "reports" functionality of Kexi. Several long-awaited improvements in KCron. KDiamond moves from kdereview to kdegames. KAgenda moves to playground. Initial import of Palapeli, a jigsaw puzzle game. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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by Danny Allen on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @02:25

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Finally: Process Monitoring, Thanks! :)
by Chaoswind on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @03:00
Now the only thing missing, is a button for the window-Decoration, to reach this function faster. And of cource, an option for kwins window-specific settings, to enable an automatic logging *hinthint*
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Nice review!
by m. on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:26
Thanks Danny :)

Few highlights for me:

- Looks like To-Do module of Kontact will be usable after all, at the moment (3.5.9) it is :/ especially in contrast with the rest of it
- Gilles again on top with work on digiKam (and it feels testing new features)
- Konsole and catching of key events - more refinement is :)
- as always KHTML developers shine :)
- and final proof we need more mini-kdevelopers: and also the youtube miniature thingy because my daughter says so ;)
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Looks great!
by Beat Wolf on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:39
kde 4.1 looks very good indeed. The ONLY things that bothers me at the moment is the taskbar, or better, the rendering of the tasks in the taskbar. I think currently it looks a little bit ugly. i would also like a option that the tasks are listed on two rows not only when the panel is full, but from the beginning. In short, i would like to have a taskbar that can be configured that it more or less looks exactly like in kde 3.5.9.

For the rest, great work!
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Quick Launch
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:44
Is this the same as the good and old kicker applet that placed small (instead of big) application icons in the panel?

If not, can someone pelase provide a screenshot? :D
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Excitement !
by User on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @05:26
KSysguard with process monitor support is great. Sysinternals' Process Monitor is always with me when debugging Windows applications.


I'm having a feeling drawing is a bit slower with QT 4 on my 1.4Ghz laptop with Intel 855GM video chipset. It's like every move/redraw has slightly more latency than KDE 3.5.9.
Is that most because of debug-enabled binaries, or the fact that Intel 855GM has bad X.Org driver/performance?

I dont know, but maybe someone else does (?)
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Thoughts on World Clock
by Jared on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @06:42
Perhaps there could be a level of Akonadi integration in World Clock, each contact managed by Akonadi could be given a GPS coordinate (or city location) which would make the contact show up as a dot on World Clock. When the dot is clicked on that persons information pops up and provides a drop down of methods to contact them via Email, voip, IRC etc (through the default application).

You could then extend this to groups of people (potentially filtered by time) so you can contact them on mass e.g. confrence call amongst developers.

Maybe this is outside the scope of a plasma applet or a world clock but I believe that it might be a useful way to contact people.
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The weather plasmoid...
by Sebastian on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @07:06
Looks awesome. Though, do you think, that green on blue is a wise idea?
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KDE on Windows
by T. J. Brumfield on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @07:28
I don't believe I've ever seen much report in any of the digests about the KDE 4 ports to Mac and Windows.

I tried the KDE 4 Installer for Windows, and the very first time I ran it, it allowed me to download Amarok, except that version of Amarok was quite broken and I couldn't get it to play a single song. I was hoping there might be a newer version, but the installer can't find any download for Amarok at all anymore.

The other games and apps I've tried so far seem to work reasonably well, except one thing that is sorely lacking is integration into the Start menu.

I'm curious how the porting is going.
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playground plasma
by hias on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @07:32
Does anybody else have problems building playground/base/plasma from trunk?

I use kdesvn-build and cannot build it because of the webapplet and the worldclock
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forking konqueror !
by mimoune djouallah on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @08:01
i know it is a taboo here, but am i the only who thinks that konqueror is too much, i want from my kde web browser to (hint) browse the web, i am very satisfied with dolphin as file manager, don't you think there is a need for a simple web browser for kde.

thanks

ps: unfortunately konqueror under windows still crash when i try to configure proxy,
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Amarok 2 transition from 1.x
by NabLa on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @08:02
Amarok is my favorite audio app ever. IMO much better than iTunes, not only in features, but also in performance, specially with large music libraries.

There is one thing that for me has been flaky through all these years (and I've been using Amarok since 0.x), and that's the collection management, specifically safeguarding this data.

Sometimes when updating from 1.x to 1.x+1 the collections got wiped out. Or certain scripts can bugger up your collection (mp3fixer does this for me). If you change the partition where you store your music files, they won't appear anymore on the collection, unless you rescan (which sometimes loses all your playcounts and ratings) or hack into the database to modify UUIDs in a few places. There is no easy way of backupping this data (I manually run a script to backup the relevant mysql database and the config file).

So I'm concerned about the migration from 1.x to 2.x. Will it respect all my ratings? What about the album covers (many of them added manually, being copyleft music you won't find them in Amazon)? Playlists, iPod configuration, Last.fm settings... ? In short, has this process been thought of and fixed already?
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Konqueror and proxies
by Kanwar on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @17:35
When is this issue slated to be resolved? I say issue because its not a 'bug'. I am forced to use firefox (not that its a bad thing) at work because of proxy servers. Otherwise, I am very happy with KDE4 desktop (4.0.2) with a bit of help from KDE3 Apps.

Please get konqueror talking to proxies asap.

Thanks.
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Will phonon support OSS?
by rockmen1 on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @20:24
I have a Creatvie X-FI in use, so far only oss drivers support this sound card, but can not use it in KDE 4, it is not seen it systemsettings. I am using Kubuntu Hardy, I don't know if it is something related to phonon or solid....
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Middle click in Konq is already there
by Koko on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @23:44
From last weaks digest:
"David Faure committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konqueror/settings/konqhtml:
GUI: checkbox for the "Middle click on a tab closes it" option (which has existed for a long time, but didn't have a GUI)."

woot!
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Compositioning effects?
by Max on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @09:03
Are we getting more compositioning effects before KDE 4.1 is released?

We don't even have feature parity for the most popular features with Compiz fusion yet. I'd also be exited about more unique effects that Compiz fusion doesn't have yet.

C'mon it's only a few more months before KDE 4.1 is ready to be released. We need to have these effects ready to create buzz around KDE..

-M
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Time to vote for Kubuntu (again) :)
by Max on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @09:18
It's time to bump this to the most recent digest again. :)

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/478/

If you haven't done so, please vote to give KDE equal representation in Kubuntu. It deserves it!!! Many people work hard on KDE.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/478/image/1/
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Timezone separators
by Marc Driftmeyer on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @21:46
Could it be shown equivalent to these?

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.php
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